Off Topic Coronavirus
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He isn't going to help!
Thanks to all for your wishes.
She's been feeling really **** lately, and yesterday after only hanging out a washing her heart rate was at 158 and in atrial fibrilation - not a good thing, so we rushed her up to A&E. She was there for six hours, ran loads of tests, checked her bloods, chest xrays and other stuff and now suspect that she has developed blood clots on her lungs. A&E staff say they are seeing more and more of this presentation, especially in younger previously healthy people who have had COVID months ago (it's been five months since we had it). They were going to keep her in overnight, as they are now injecting her with blood thinners to break down any clots, but as she's a nurse they let her home and she can self-administer the injections. We're going back on Monday so she can have a CT scan of her lungs to pinpoint the clots and come up with a treatment plan.
This virus has devastated a healthy young woman who now has no quality of life. She was constantly on the go, full of energy and the life and soul of a night out. She's now traumatised by the whole thing, afraid to step out of the house as her heart rate sky-rockets under any sort of exertion, and it's heart-breaking to see the sparkle disappear from her eyes.
I hope for everyone single one of you that this ****ty virus spares you. When we caught it, I was floored, but she was hardly affected - it's only months down the line that these after-affects have kicked in. We're only a small area (just under 80,000) but the staff in A&E and our GP have both said they are seeing multiple cases with the same symptoms.
SM I am saddened reading this. I feel so sorry for you both.. I Hope your wife gets through all this @@@@.
Really sorry to hear this Steels and can fully appreciate your situation. My Mrs was diagnosed 15 years ago with MS. 2 years ago we were informed this may have been misdiagnosed and she actually has a blood thickening neurological disease that mimics the symptoms of MS (a form of Lupus). She is on blood thinners daily and often bruises just appear on her legs randomly. This also effects the blood flow around the body causing lesions to appear on her brain. Her symptoms are everything you describe of your wife's. Enquire about an MRI scan of the head and neck mate. I have a sneaky feeling that the post effects of this disease are way too similar to ignore.
That's awful mate.
Hope she gets better a.s.a.p. and you can both get back to a normal life
Appreciate that mate, and she has discussed MS with both GP and A&E, but they are seeing a multitude of cases of this in our area alone, all patients who have "recovered" from COVID, and it seems to be similar in other hospitals across the country.
Frome put up a post a couple of days ago regarding a Prof who stated that one of the side effects of post-COVID is an issue with blood clotting, along with heart, lung and liver problems. One can only hope it's medium term and they come up with a cure/vaccine/treatment as it's totally debilitating.
In March Randox Labs of Northern Ireland won a £133m contract to analyse COVID swabs, without any competition.
The company has multiple links with various high ups in the Conservative Party, including paying Owen Paterson £100,000 a year to ‘consult’. Paterson used to be NI Secretary. A former NI Minister, Jonathan Pentland, the husband of Baroness Dido Harding, is also a racehorse owner with a particular interest in the Grand National - the late wife of Paterson, Ruth Paterson, used to chair Aintree Racecourse. Randox sponsors the Grand National.
Questions were asked when the company was awarded the contract, but it got it anyway. It is responsible for analysing about 25% of all the community swabs taken. It turns around less than 50% of these in the target time - 24 hours. On 10 September it only managed 10%. It also throws away more swabs than any other lab as ‘void’ due to human error.
However, good news if you are involved in in Premiership Rugby as a player or coach, or flying to Dubai - separate contracts for these are treated as priority, going to the head of the queue. The longer a swab sits around untested the more the DNA degrades, but that’s apparently ok for a public sector contract.
Many of the staff at Randox doing the testing work are temporary workers/students who like the weekly pay and overtime. They are paid £8.20 an hour.
Source: Sunday Times.
The company has multiple links with various high ups in the Conservative Party, including paying Owen Paterson £100,000 a year to ‘consult’. Paterson used to be NI Secretary. A former NI Minister, Jonathan Pentland, the husband of Baroness Dido Harding, is also a racehorse owner with a particular interest in the Grand National - the late wife of Paterson, Ruth Paterson, used to chair Aintree Racecourse. Randox sponsors the Grand National.
Questions were asked when the company was awarded the contract, but it got it anyway. It is responsible for analysing about 25% of all the community swabs taken. It turns around less than 50% of these in the target time - 24 hours. On 10 September it only managed 10%. It also throws away more swabs than any other lab as ‘void’ due to human error.
However, good news if you are involved in in Premiership Rugby as a player or coach, or flying to Dubai - separate contracts for these are treated as priority, going to the head of the queue. The longer a swab sits around untested the more the DNA degrades, but that’s apparently ok for a public sector contract.
Many of the staff at Randox doing the testing work are temporary workers/students who like the weekly pay and overtime. They are paid £8.20 an hour.
Source: Sunday Times.
Good luck to you both Steels. Realty hope they can get her well again.
Now the government and it’s supporters are blaming the parents of children who are getting them tested unnecessarily when they get a cough as it’s not what they should do.....errr yes it is as that’s exactly what I was to do to do last weekend when twin 2 developed a cough and I needed to get back to work and not have to self isolate for 14 days.
Same government (and others) who were a month ago setting up schemes like ‘eat out to help out’ and now blaming the public for spreading the virus.
Same government (and others) who a few months ago were saying that we should have our holidays and that ‘summer is not cancelled’ but now blames the public for going abroad and imposing draconian measures at a few hours notice.
Hypocrisy at its best from those ****s.....all of them
Same government (and others) who were a month ago setting up schemes like ‘eat out to help out’ and now blaming the public for spreading the virus.
Same government (and others) who a few months ago were saying that we should have our holidays and that ‘summer is not cancelled’ but now blames the public for going abroad and imposing draconian measures at a few hours notice.
Hypocrisy at its best from those ****s.....all of them
Wasn’t the advice to get yourself a test in that situation so you didn’t have to do the full two weeks and could get back to work?
Anyway you get £500 now if you have to isolate but were on JSA, born on a Thursday and can do a rubix cube in twenty seconds so at least it’s not Corbyn or something.
The advice was to get the person in your household tested, so once negative, then all other members of the household wouldn’t have to self isolate for the 14 days.
Or sit on the iPad all day refreshing the page and after finally getting a slot in an empty test centre 13 hours later.
As I said earlier, the testing situation is a shameful mess. Completely agree.
However, the government had to try to get the economy going, hence the eating out offers and getting people back to work etc.
I do blame any people who don't obey social distancing rules etc, which I believe, can be adhered to in the main whilst trying to get the economy going.
Squaring a circle.