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sb_73 said:
I was the last plague free in my family. I tested negative on the day before flying here, as did everyone else on the half empty plane to Boston. I’m sure I caught it on the internal flight. Seems like a big new wave happening here, so get over the pond if you want to join the infected club.

The bastard about this virus is how it affects people differently. With me it’s mild, an irritation at most (probably due to vaccinations) for others it’s deadly.
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We follow similar patterns.
I too was last in the family last week and still active, supposedly.
Being that l feel like sh1t most the time, l haven't felt much difference but l did lose my sense of smell completely, which is not such a bad thing.
A small cough and that was about it. The smell has just started coming back to me.
The dog farted which is what made me realise l'm ok again.
 
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Is monkey pox going to be the new covid
Australia has just bought half a million vaccines
Half a million
What are they expecting
 
Rather amusingly, Laurence Fox dismissed Monkey Pox on GB News last night as nothing more than Schlong Covid
 
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Wasn't sure where to put this, but felt the need to air it.

One of my closest friends, and a fellow QPR ST holder, was diagnosed on Monday with stage 4 liver cancer. He'd had stomach issues for a few months which were finally found to have been due to cancer, but by the time this was diagnosed, the cancer had spread. He's due to see an oncologist (a two-week wait) for a full prognosis, but has been told by a Macmillan nurse that the cancer is incurable and that he may only have months to live. Meanwhile, his wife has been in hospital for three weeks after dislocating the hip that she'd just had replaced. They can't tell her when a surgeon will be available.

The NHS is ****ed.
 
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Stroller said:
Wasn't sure where to put this, but felt the need to air it.

One of my closest friends, and a fellow QPR ST holder, was diagnosed on Monday with stage 4 liver cancer. He'd had stomach issues for a few months which were finally found to have been due to cancer, but by the time this was diagnosed, the cancer had spread. He's due to see an oncologist (a two-week wait) for a full prognosis, but has been told by a Macmillan nurse that the cancer is uncurable and that he may only have months to live. Meanwhile, his wife has been in hospital for three weeks after disclocating the hip that she'd just had replaced. They can't tell her when a surgeon will be available.

The NHS is ****ed.
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Christ such sad news Stroller, best wishes family & you
 
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Sorry to bang on about this, but I spoke to my friend again today. He still hasn't been given an appointment with an oncologist and his wife still hasn't been given a date for her surgery. A man dying of cancer, who can't even begin to plan for his own death, whilst his wife lies strapped to a hospital bed waiting for a date for her surgery. It's a ****ing disgrace.
 
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Stroller said:
Sorry to bang on about this, but I spoke to my friend again today. He still hasn't been given an appointment with an oncologist and his wife still hasn't been given a date for her surgery. A man dying of cancer, who can't even begin to plan for his own death, whilst his wife lies strapped to a bed waiting for a date for her surgery. It's a ****ing disgrace.
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It's bad in places. I've used Royal Surrey, Guildford recently and I can't fault it. Maybe the London hospitals are under a lot of pressure.
 
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Goldhawk-Road said:
It's bad in places. I've used Royal Surrey, Guildford recently and I can't fault it. Maybe the London hospitals are under a lot of pressure.
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I don't care where in the country it may be Goldie, how can someone who's been told he has terminal cancer be made to wait weeks to see a specialist who can give him a definitive opinion as to how long he may have to live, or what treatment may be available to potentially prolong his life? A mutual friend of ours was diagnosed with liver cancer last year and died within six weeks. My stricken friend, whilst trying desperately to get his wife treated so that she can come home, is very matter-of-fact about his own situation, but I'm raging about it.
 
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Stroller said:
I don't care where in the country it may be Goldie, how can someone who's been told he has terminal cancer be made to wait weeks to see a specialist who can give him a definitive opinion as to how long he may have to live, or what treatment may be available to potentially prolong his life? A mutual friend of ours was diagnosed with liver cancer last year and died within six weeks. My stricken friend, whilst trying desperately to get his wife treated so that she can come home, is very matter-of-fact about his own situation, but I'm raging about it.
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I share your rage, Strolls. Something has happened, particularly during the pandemic, where the contract between the state - in this case in the form of the NHS - and the public has changed. Frankly, my experience of the NHS has been **** every time I’ve needed to access it over the past decade or so, but the ‘service’ vanished during lockdown and hasn’t come back. Those working in the sector that I’ve had to deal with are so bloated by their own importance, inflated by a perception of being over-worked and having been made special by being protected during Covid, that they give me the impression that they don’t give much of a ****.
 
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Uber_Hoop said:
I share your rage, Strolls. Something has happened, particularly during the pandemic, where the contract between the state - in this case in the form of the NHS - and the public has changed. Frankly, my experience of the NHS has been **** every time I’ve needed to access it over the past decade or so, but the ‘service’ vanished during lockdown and hasn’t come back. Those working in the sector that I’ve had to deal with are so bloated by their own importance, inflated by a perception of being over-worked and having been made special by being protected during Covid, that they give me the impression that they don’t give much of a ****.
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I come at it from a different perspective, Ubes. I had my own brush with cancer last year and consider myself incredibly lucky to have been treated as quickly and as well as I was. I have little doubt that the NHS is now in a tailspin of decline, but I wouldn't put the blame on those that work in the sector. It's a question of staffing levels and available resources. Money, in short.
 
Stroller said:
I come at it from a different perspective, Ubes. I had my own brush with cancer last year and consider myself incredibly lucky to have been treated as quickly and as well as I was. I have little doubt that the NHS is now in a tailspin of decline, but I wouldn't put the blame on those that work in the sector. It's a question of staffing levels and available resources. Money, in short.
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I can only speak as I find, Strolls. Not everyone working on the front line in the NHS is an angel. They have their fair share of useless bods like everywhere else.
 
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