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Post by Pinwig on Jul 29, 2020 12:28:29 GMT
Fail! Look again.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 29, 2020 16:39:34 GMT
I will have access to a Smyths when I move whenever my lovely other half is free to drive me there or in the future when buses are safer. I won't at work anymore when back due to a location change.
Exercises from physio pinged through just before 5 and by golly not as easy as they look. One in particular I'm just not sure how to do. Will ask when I get the 1-1 tomorrow. Please send kind thoughts that the diagnosis is confirmed and isn't more serious and that I can start the programme to get back to mobility.
Starting to get anxious about going back to work but if I can get my head into the right state for the 5 months left of my contract that would help. There's no jobs going and I am currently literally hobbled. At least the expensive flat costs are dealt with by early September so I can put some money aside if I can't get a job by January. From professional experience I can clearly say that Universal Credit is something to be avoided if at all possible.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 29, 2020 22:17:03 GMT
Went for a 15k run today (aiming for Marathon in October, and possibly Opal Fruits), once showered I felt as nauseous and had to go for a lie down. Nearly didn't get a Daily Straxus done and another thing that needed finished today.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 29, 2020 22:22:52 GMT
Had a tinsy tiny bit of a problem here tonight. We're all fine physically but in the course of dealing with it lots of things got moved including things that ideally shouldn't have been touched cos they were in quarantine. So my head has gone to pieces.
Liz is struggling to as the problem was related to something she has a phobia, hence me being cagey about what happened, of so is rather shaken.
Prayer for all of us please, pray we've identified the source of the problem and dealt with it. Pray it doesn't reoccur. Pray that both Liz and I get our heads straight and can sleep OK tonight. Pray we stay protected from any accidental exposure to the virus through contaminated items being touched.
And well done to Jonathan who coped brilliantly with what we needed him to do.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 29, 2020 22:32:19 GMT
Will be praying, but keep your focus on your risk of exposure being extremely minimal thanks to the multiple layers of control you have.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 30, 2020 4:31:47 GMT
Oh dear, Phil. I hope today goes better for all of you.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 30, 2020 6:45:23 GMT
Morning All! It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays Yesterday: 90% good. Had to retire hurt from homegroup at 9 cos of the pain and jump in the tub. All ready for a quiet end to the day and bed. Then A THING happened and the entire house of cards in my head came tumbling down which also rocked Liz's head too. We're fine physically and think we've sorted the problem but... Today: Thursday looking a bit full: Need to get some furnitre moved today, which will be interesting. Neither Liz nor I physically up to it so it'll be a J job. Food due to be collected this morning too. Bins out tonight. A late night which was then disturbed by me waking at 5 hasn't helped. Pray Liz and I do OK today with our heads and the thing that threw us doesn't reoccur. Pray Sinuses & CMT improve for me - especially the sinuses which are slightly playing up and had to miss a late night steam yesterday. Pray we stay protected from the virus. Have a good day, stay safe & well Oh dear, Phil. I hope today goes better for all of you. Martin Ta.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 30, 2020 9:13:49 GMT
Person number 6 confirmed what person 5 said though was the very definition of disinterested. So tendonitis it is. To do the exercises and start (short) walks again. Takes about 6 weeks to sort. No advice on knee. I brought up my on/off chest muscle pull and was ignored.
Will speak to my usual physio on Monday for a 2nd opinion as sports-type injuries are his speciality.
In no uncertain terms will I be telling work next week what I can and cannot do physically.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 30, 2020 14:58:10 GMT
Was advised can start walking again but to take it easy and do short trips. Been mostly stuck inside last fortnight. Asdaland is usually 7 mins away. Took me 30 mins going very slowly and lots of stopping. 45 mins to get back. Now to lie down rest of the day with ice packs and feet up. Will stay inside tomorrow and will keep taking it easy.
Felt great to be under my own steam again, albeit at much reduced capacity. For context, I usually do around 3 hours walking a day. Rarely less than 2 hours.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 30, 2020 17:57:56 GMT
So glad you managed to get out for a bit, Ralph - keep working on it a bit at a time!
First day back in the office today, which meant today was the first day in 4 and a half months that I've had the pleasure of returning home from work. Plan is to work from home Mondays and Fridays, work from the office Tuesday-Thursday, for at least the next six weeks.
Building limit is 20% capacity for now (which is apparently about 600 people max. compared to its pre-lockdown capacity of 3,000). Focus is on strict social distancing and lots of hand sanitiser. Desks you're allowed to use have a green tick on them, the majority have red crosses meaning not for use. Office coffee shops and canteen are open with one-way systems and socially distanced tables. All felt safe and welcoming.
Feels so good to be out of the house during the day, and to start to separate work and home life.
Martin
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Post by Bogatan on Jul 30, 2020 19:14:39 GMT
I can understand how your feeling Ralph (at least a little) Any time I get a bad cold or flu it tends to linger well beyond the normal. On the occasions I feel I need to see a doctor just to confirm its nothing else, a few of them immediately jump to depression. Based, I assume, on my personality and the fact they think any affect of the cold would long since have cleared up. Of course Im coming over a little depressed Ive been in a constant state of exhaustion for 2 months. Its really unhelpful as they wont consider anything else and leaves me feeling more concerned than I was.
Also my foot pain a year or two ago turned out to be something similar. The good news is it healed up with no long term problems once I was finally able to see someone about it.
Im the exact opposite of Martin right now. Im desperate to be able to stay at home for a while. I was way more comfortable going to work during the lockdown. As everyone is now acting like its all over Im way more concerned about the people I work with potentially being more of a risk to me than I was 2 months ago. In part people going back to work now are in the cautious phase and are taking extra care. We did that 4 months agos and are now to used to it to be on our toes in the same way.
Holiday in a week. Cant wait. Saving the rest for use during the peak of the second wave.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 30, 2020 19:29:47 GMT
Holiday in a week. Cant wait. Saving the rest for use during the peak of the second wave. I haven't taken a day off in 5 and a half months because I felt it would be a waste of annual leave to spend it stuck inside the same place I'm working from (my house) - weekends are enough to do everything I want to do at home. So I've got a lot of leave accumulated. Tomorrow will be my first proper day off since February, and that's specifically in order to go somewhere. If there is a second wave and second lockdown, this brief respite period will have recharged my batteries enough to help me face it. But to be honest now they've got the office set up so well for social distancing, I doubt they'd make me go back to full-time home working. Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 30, 2020 19:36:31 GMT
I have no idea what leave I am entitled to. The leave year started April 1st but as I have been furloughed I haven't taken away and my contract ends in December and I don't see either side extending it. I'd like to use a few days late August due to house move and to take at least an extra day a month until the job goes away.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Jul 30, 2020 20:22:29 GMT
I've been off my feet for over a month with something similar, and the best advice I can give is rest as much as you can and take it super easy when you start to feel like things are getting back to normal. I've pushed my knee a bit too much these last couple days and I can feel it now.
Luckily (I guess) being one of the great unwashed and unemployed, I've not had to worry about being furloughed. Silver lining?
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 30, 2020 21:13:30 GMT
Cripes. Lockdown back in GM area (where I live and work as well as other Hub chums). Less than 3 hours notice. Bit shocked.
Er, guess I'm not back at work on the 10th then.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Jul 30, 2020 21:30:08 GMT
I've been expecting it here (there is a direct bus route from Leicester to Derby) but it's not happened yet. It's a confusing time.
At least being away from work will let you have more time to recover.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 30, 2020 21:34:48 GMT
It's certainly put the shitters up me and my partner is currently out at what was previously a safe socially distanced family gathering so my anxiety has spiked. When she left just a few hours ago this was a safe thing to do.
I do hope there is clear communication tomorrow regarding what the new rules are.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 30, 2020 21:39:10 GMT
You'd hope, wouldn't you...
BBC are saying it's about different households meeting indoors.
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Post by Benn on Jul 30, 2020 21:39:18 GMT
Yeah... Fingers crossed, man.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 30, 2020 21:41:02 GMT
Apparently the meeting to decide this was earlier today. So Hancock waited until 9.30pm to announce new restrictions coming in at midnight. Many local MPs are complaining this was their notice to and they haven't seen the data to justify it.
'Shambolic' doesn't begin to describe it.
That Eid is tomorrow is probably a driver for this which makes it all the more bizarre they haven't notified people in plenty of time.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 30, 2020 21:49:31 GMT
GAVISCON.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Jul 30, 2020 21:50:10 GMT
POUR MORE
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 31, 2020 1:32:40 GMT
More info now here... not that it clarifies much. Garden and indoor visits out but pub and park visits fine... as long as you don't sit with anyone else and eat out to help out.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 31, 2020 5:47:05 GMT
Morning All!
It's Friday!!!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday: Far FAR better than it should have done after Wednesday night's madness! Thank You Lord and thanks to all who prayed. Shopping came in OK and without stress, bins similarly went out, save for Liz's new whiteboard showing up in the middle of operations! Very pleasant hour spent in garden afterwards.
Today: busy - I'm leading the 8am prayer meeting, which is a stretch for me, not good at leading meetings. J has recorder, Liz has a meeting, then they have a walk and collecting a sausage supper for lunch. Then bins in.... J has youth group in evening on Zoom.
Pray all goes smoothly, head copes ok, CMT and Sinuses behave.
Have a good day, stay safe & well.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 31, 2020 6:26:57 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 31, 2020 8:56:56 GMT
More info now here... not that it clarifies much. Garden and indoor visits out but pub and park visits fine... as long as you don't sit with anyone else and eat out to help out. It still remains unclear so I looked at gov.uk and the new rules are...unclear. Full of holes and confusing. I expect full lockdown to therefore resume shortly. If people are told not to meet indoors but can still go to work, pubs, etc the transmission of the virus is unlikely to go down, though I will be utterly delighted if I am wrong and am ready to eat humble pie. I don't resist restrictions being reimposed nor in doing so quickly but announcing major policy affecting 4 million people at 9:16pm with one (!) Twitter post for rules coming in at midnight...is not how to do it. Where was the press conference either yesterday or this morning? I wouldn't have known about it unless alerted in a group chat. My partner went to a carefully and safely organised small family gathering. It was legal and safe when she left, it was illegal and unsafe by the time she got back! I was shitting bullets with worry. On the positive, this is much swifter action than "wear masks...in ten days time" but come on, do it properly! GAVISCON. -Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 31, 2020 9:24:58 GMT
Hmmm. Went to change my address details on digital banking which is usually quick and easy but that function as well as online chat appears to have been disabled even though the site says I can do it. I now must travel 12 miles to a branch, while not being very mobile on my feet at the moment and Jen mostly at work. This presents a Big Problem.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 31, 2020 12:41:29 GMT
You have plenty of time still. Might be a temporary glitch on website. Send them a quick message to ask before worrying.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 31, 2020 12:48:41 GMT
It is ok. I imagine some features are paused due to the Current Situation. Jen can give me a lift on Tuesday to a branch and will sort it then.
In other news some of you know that a Certain Thing has caused me great distress so I reached out for mental health support to learn how to cope with it until this Thing goes away at the end of the year. Was told there was a computer system to do first before I could have some phone chats circa July/August. The computer system was not helpful for me (I needed to physically speak to someone) but I did it anyway as refusal meant your case was closed! Getting to the phone chat stage was conditional on doing the computer stage.
Got a letter to say that as The Computer says I Am Better (yes, really) I have been discharged and that is that. No human chats as promised at point of referral. As a former mental health support worker I am...Deeply Unimpressed.
Was going to start boxing things up for moving today but foot is agony so back to bed!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 31, 2020 14:03:43 GMT
An update from the Mayor and Borough leaders of Manchester strongly suggests they haven't seen the evidence or methodology backing up the increased lockdown claims here.
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