Coronavirus

Good news! I had my 3rd tetanus jab on Monday and spent Tues/Weds feeling mildly ill with cold-like symptoms such as runny nose, headache and general feebleness, the health centre here has taken the opportunity of covid to remind everyone to get their course of jabs (we have a lot of outside nasties) and apparently its quite common to feel a bit rubbish after the final dose. They must have used a years supply of plasters - you get one after every conceivable shot!
 
bigyetiman said:
Tested negative this morning :-)08 :-)08 :-)08 :-)08. Only symptoms I had was woke up with the headache and a slight sore throat, rest of the time felt A1. So I guess I was quite lucky. A friends niece is just on her 3rd dose of Omicron since November and feels really awful and still positive on day 7
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That's great news! Back to work then ? :(
 
So glad you’re OK, BYM. Pretty amazing, that you got safely through nearly two years of being breathed, sneezed and coughed over by unmasked people in the largely enclosed space of a bus. And it sounds as if you made the most of your well-earned isolation!
 
Thanks for all the good wishes, back at work today. Thankfully I got it after being fully vaccinated.

Got home and the NHS had sent me an early 60th birthday present bowel cancer screening kit :lol:
 
bigyetiman said:
Thanks for all the good wishes, back at work today. Thankfully I got it after being fully vaccinated.

Got home and the NHS had sent me an early 60th birthday present bowel cancer screening kit :lol:
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The new version is a lot easier to use!

Happy Birthday for whenever it is!
 
That's what OH said, having done 3 of the old type, she then added welcome to the age when the NHS finds you endlessly fascinating, although it does depend on your GP, we get sent a reminder for a yearly MOT and various screenings for things yet other people never hear anything from theirs. OH got offered the pneumonia vaccine as she was 65, no one else of that age she knows has been offered one.
 
Pleased to hear of your recovery, BYM. Don't forget to do the test, really easy now as said. Look for the use-by date - I didn't and the one I sent in was rejected and I had to do another. I had the pneumonia vaccine before I was 60 but I'm asthmatic and the asthma nurse did it..
 
Already done and posted, what a good boy, better than being nagged daily to do it
I had double pneumonia in my 30's and had my vaccine in my 40's. Next one is shingles vaccine when we get to 70. Think I will get a dartboard or RAF roundel on my arm for all these vaccines
 
I always thought shingles was one of those minor, inconvenient things until I had it. Now I know how painful it is I was happy to get the jab about a year ago. No I’ll effects. Nevertheless it took a bit of badgering/nagging to get it. I don’t know whether it’s expensive for the practise to buy or what.
 
I have seen people suffering for years after shingles.

Don't know how expensive it is, our surgeries have a big chart on the wall about shingles and telling you when can book it. So they are very pro the vaccine

When I had the flu vaccine this year which was at Boots they asked me if I would like the pneumonia vaccine £70. Lloyds pharmacy were charging the same as well, so I guess that's the going rate for that
 
bigyetiman said:
When I had the flu vaccine this year which was at Boots they asked me if I would like the pneumonia vaccine £70. Lloyds pharmacy were charging the same as well, so I guess that's the going rate for that
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I misread this and thought "BYM isn't 70 !!!!" The pneumonia vaccine is free (as is the shingles vaccine) in England when you're 70. I had shingles mildly about 18 years ago; no lasting effects fortunately but I felt someone had driven a knife through my rib-cage from front to back. I don't want that again so will have the vaccination at my next blood test in two months time.
 
Hen-Gen said:
Ah well. It was bound to happen. Postie came this morning and tells me we have six cases of COVID on the island. A big thing among a community of 66.
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This variant is apparently much more airborne and with the loosening of restrictions it's harder to protect yourself. Fingers crossed you don't get it!
 
My husband's company had 23 people off with it the other week, out of (I think) 45 of them. No prizes for guessing where he caught it...
 
We know lots of people who have gone down with it this week, all couples. Several over 70. Two, the only place they had been all week was to a hospital appointment

OH had her hair appointment cancelled as everyone at the hairdressers has it

6 cases out of 66 people is a high number Hen-Gen, stay safe.

Definitely not 70 Margaid, just a proud recipient of my 60+ London Oyster card this year.
 
I’d noticed that Shetland was shown in the highest infection bracket relative to the number of population for some time now, HenGen, on the official coronavirus site. After a very long time at the start when numbers were too low to register.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/#main-content
Numbers are very high here in Whitchurch, Hants as well, fuelled by people going back to work on the train to London and two large local schools with lots of infected children and teachers.

With the current free-for-all on restrictions, at least in England, and actual financial barriers being put in the way ofpeople who have to go to work and can’t afford to buy lateral flow tests, I don’t see how the official numbers of infections can be relied on at all.
 
I’m really sorry your op. was cancelled, Diane. My cataract ops. made such a difference to how I saw colour, that I’ve been quite evangelical about the procedure ever since! it wasn’t painful, and although it was a nuisance for six months afterwards whilst my vision settled down enough for me to get new lenses to accommodate to the changes, it was SO worthwhile and I was SO grateful to have it done. So I hope you get another chance soon.
 
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