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catmag last won the day on December 29 2020
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Oh and Iāve discovered that when things are as shit as you can imagine they could possibly be, something or someone will come along and pile more shit on top of it. And you learn ways of dealing with it, whether your mates drag you through by the ankles, someone brings cake just in time or you have a tantrum and then have to apologise to everyone afterwards. Iāve surprised myself. Turns out Iām nails.
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I was thinking of doing something with Maltesers and Nutella just to cover the full range It has been, and remains an absolute shitshow. Iāve teetered on the brink of several mini-breakdowns but a couple of weeks ago finally had my first full week of annual leave since February. Got my first dose of the vaccine on Boxing Day and feel lucky that Iāve managed to avoid the virus itself so far, although the anxiety about bringing it home to the bairn remains. Getting increasingly annoyed with people who think that once the clock strikes midnight and itās 2021 that it will allllll
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Oi, you absolute knobhead, Iāve just seen this! That was my first and only attempt thanks to the absolute rinsing I got on here
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We have in our trust.
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š Iāll be at work, mate. His dad is a teacher so heāll be off too and can do the job at home (Plus, my kid is weird. Heās 11 and itās like living with a more sensible adult)
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Itās. Not. A. Lockdown. If. The. Schools. Are. Open!! Fuckās sake.
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Weāve had lots of lovely bits and pieces sent in by the general public (hand cream/lip balm to help with PPE burns) but I really hope management arenāt wildly naive enough to offer us either of the above.. š
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I had my first Saturday night off for weeks last night. Woke up about 2am, had a bit cackle to myself thinking about how Iāve ruined all your days and went back to sleep š
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Probably standing in the empty Nightingale hospitals (which we canāt use without staff btw - good luck finding more nurses) None of us have been routinely tested. Only eligible if we have Covid symptoms. When I left work yesterday morning our ITU was full. Not all the patients were ventilated, some were on high flow oxygen but are extremely sick. I took a patient from theatre to a Covid ward and took up their last bed, although we still have some capacity on other wards. I donāt ever want to have to work up there - it was absolutely grim š I donāt really have the emotiona
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Yes weāve learned a lot from the first wave and it seems to be showing given current patient outcomes. No, we donāt have any more ventilators. The first time around we stopped all routine surgery and used the vents that wouldāve been in those theatres but weāre currently still running routine surgery so theyāre in use. And the elderly are still by far making up the greatest number of admissions although we are seeing younger patients presenting in greater numbers than last time. Weāre still run into the ground and have large numbers of medical and nursing staff either testing positive themselv
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Iām absolutely not school-bashing - theyāre doing absolutely everything they can. Positive cases are inevitable and we just have to accept that. The alternative of going back to home-schooling would genuinely tip me over the edge and Iāve got a child who would get himself up in the morning and crack on with schoolwork without being hassled.
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The bairn started secondary school a couple of weeks ago. Within 3 days we were notified that 3 6th formers had tested positive and the whole of 6th form had to isolate whilst they waited on guidance from PHE which they couldnāt get because it was the weekend. A few days later one of the kids in Jās year tested positive. The guidance was for kids that had been in his immediate contact to isolate for 2 weeks but the rest of the year could come in. Siblings of the isolating kids were still instructed to come in as normal. Itās a shitshow. Icing on the cake was when the bairn came back
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We shouldāve still gone for that coffee on Monday. Youāre definitely not on your own.
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Iām on nightshift number 4 tonight. Weāve spent every night helping out in Covid ITU as thereās not enough staff overnight given theyāre proning the ventilated patients and they need fully turning onto their fronts every few hours. I woke up at teatime today and had 3 messages on my phone which all basically said āPlease donāt listen to todayās government briefingā Now I know why. Sanctimonious bitch.