Updates over The New Year period

 

As some of you may be aware I'm rather pawley sneezing, coughing with aching bones this thing having started around Catmas aka Christmastime  and it is taking some time to clear up unfortunately so I haven't been able to do an awful lot.

It's also that again unfortunately Mommy had been poorly with breathing problems to the point having almost stopped breathing needed taking to hospital  as an top emergency where she was found to had a kidney and lung infection that she had antibiotics for and being low on some trace elements.

This is  a huge concern for me as we wait on to see when she can return home doing various tests and monitoring stuff given she has CEOP so I'm afraid there's nothing of the usual sorts of posts you would of expected on this blog in its long history.

Until next week, Bye.

Working with how things are

 

I am not unfortunately feeling too well this week so we will side step the loud noise coming from the groan up world (allegedly) of politics simply because I'm not remotely up to it.

Instead I've been propped up in bed surrounded by plushies and teddy bears trying to get through this period where I'm feeling rather dizzy listening to so music from some of collection, most single discs and a few box sets to relax and take my mind away from that and ideally more on the things I love when this is all over.

Equally I have been reading comics and especially reprints of stories from them from the past because they do take me back to places with better memories so it's like a stroll in a meadow, soothing and yet engaging so I focus on other things and ideas, thinking about what might of been at a cliffhanger ending.

Sometimes the stories are of and about adventure and courage in trying situations, making the most of it, learning from your experiences.

It's a time where for me to engaging more with your younger more Pollyannish self really is more use than more adult cynicism and looking for "why me, why now" dealing with what is rather than any notions of being cheated of.

 

A testing time

 

This week started with the end of the pills for my infection which all had to be taken in order following the new fangled email the surgery approach as it's harder thanks to Covid to get a face to face appointment first without going through everything first.

I've been out and about mainly in the sun to get some fresh air clearing up my system as I wasn't well and needed to take active steps to aid my recovery and sort a few things out for a charity collection at the start of next week ready for anything I may get at Christmas which certainly isn't being cancelled here even if like everything else in 2020 might well be different.

To say we're having a testing time  isn't just a play on words that my pennant for punnery is famed for but is an indication of a problem of not just getting tests to people where there has been unprecedented demand but also in the processing of such tests.

Most countries face similar challenges but because Covid shares some symptoms with such seasonal visitors as the Common Cold and Flu it is vital that within the health service, care homes, schools, colleges and universities are able to run them to separate out Covid which needs 10-14 days isolation from everyday colds that require less not just for clients, children and young people but also those who care for people and educators such as teachers.

While there is talk of extra facilities coming on stream in a months time we certainly do not wish to return to the point of postponing operations and shutting down whole schools because of severe staff shortages as people are in effect forced to isolate not knowing if they really have to due to not test results being available.