AndyBontheRadio @Berrybunchfamily@dingdash.com
@Olamide plan B for the UK Is, apparently, vaccine passports
From what I'm seeing/reading, people are less than likely to comply with more controls on their life
@tanjaostman yes. First time, I tried scratching my skin off.......it was pretty unpleasant.
Spanish doctor said it was pretty common. Gave me tablets, cream and an injection (and it was a shock to have to pay him for his time...something of a cultureshock for this Englishman)
My British doctor, when I got home, had heard of it, thankfully - just means I need to cover, especially, my upper back and shoulders and I've not had a problem since then
@tanjaostman you can keep your beach. I'll have the snow 🙂
I have an allergy to the sun (discovered while in southern Spain, known as the sunny coast......it was suggested I should try and stay out the sun while the various medicine I was given had time to work!)
Lol - Jo bought me a card to cheer me up as I was limited to our room during the day
We had it translated (it was all Spanish) when we got home
It was a picture of a lovely dog, with a rose in its mouth
The words actually said "with sympathy on the death" (didn't trandalte very well)
We still chuckle about it
@tanjaostman looks very pretty with the snow though. Peter would be over the moon with joy if he woke up to that!!
I went on a school exchange in France. And my pen pal's family just happened to live in a home on the Pyrenees. I woke up to more snow than I've ever experienced and it was amazing - we were snowed in, so went mountain biking in the snow, which I still rememmby fondly, 30 years on!
All my school peers were miserable with snow and cold. I was cock a hoop 🙂 and totally in my element
@tanjaostman Manchester (pronounced Manchestoh lol)
A happy place for me - and somewhere you can buy pudding, chips and gravy (suet pastry steak and kidney pie 🙂 and gravy that adds to the experience)
Yes houses aren't kverly well built for the cold
We run out home at 17-18 degrees. Some people have asked for us to put the heating up....it's a healthy Temperature :-) so we suggest a cup of tea, of to keep their coats on lol
@tanjaostman us British have houses designed for mediocre weather... they have to cope with lots of conditions, that are generally mild...
We like cold weather, as a family, but houses over here just aren't designed for lots of very cold weather, or very hot weather either
Morning DingDash family
Sitting in a hotel room - our first night away from our home, for 2 years! Although our reason for being here is all business (not actual business, but this also isnt all pleasure either) a change is as good as a rest !
Am feeling less groggy each morning, and its only day 3 since I started the regiment of pills I'm now on
I do, actually, think I'm beginning to adjust to what they're doing and how they make me feel
I've got another 11 days doing as little as physically possible, and ensuring l do all I can not to raise my heart rate
I also never thought when I saw my grand parents with their pill dispensers trays, that id be looking at getting one, in my mid 40s
But, as my lovely wife keeps reminding me, let's keep hoping this is just temporary as thrbeictors hope it to be - until I can be seen by a specialist for heart arythmia
I'm hoping... anyway, morning family
@daniel I'm so sorry for your loss
@daniel ok. Yes, I know that it is now - just didnt recognise the acronym
Yes they are simple to use - I actually got trained by paramedics when they installed one in our village, a few years back
Too expensive for us to buy. But they're everywhere here in the UK now.
We had lots of red phone boxes. When the phones got taken out of many, they just painted many of them bright yellow, added a defibrillator - when you call for an ambulance, they give you the code to get in
Most pubs and churches and shopping centres have them for people to easily access
I was actually hooked up to one when I was in the resuscitation ward. supposedly so they could see my heart function instead of using an ECG
I'm told it could only work with my heart condition, if it was synchronised to my heart rhythm, and shock me at the exact moment between the top half and bottom half my heart beat
Made me wonder how good the basic ones are...I know they're very clever: I have atrial fibrillation
@daniel what is an AED?
Taken my evening meds. Never thought I'd be on so many
Meanwhile, I was contacted by track and trace (who I do NOT have an account with, & who I will not be urgently contacting & downloading the app for) to say I had had a positive PCR test and must self isolate for 10 days
But before I was discharged a nurse told me of that, and asked if I'd had Covid. When he heard I'd had it a month ago, he said to ignore it as PCR tests give false positives for 90 days
So I called the ward back (Holy spirit answer to prayer, as I got stressed about it, & we have a super important journey tomorrow - can't mention where, but is is super important)
He told me to ignore the multuple texts, emails & phone calls as I could NOT have covid; that he'd un-confuse the hospital team responsible on Monday morning when he was back at work
Am grateful to God that I got the same nurse who told me about this exact thing, and just before he finished for the week
God is good
"Go get in with your life" ok then
@tanjaostman guy on the right is Steven Uppal who is the pastor at All Nations in Wolverhampton - a very large Pentecostal church
he's a lovely chap - went to school with him (I led worship in the Christian Union he was running at the time).
He is what he comes across as - an authentic lover of Jesus
New rules for new Covid Variant in the UK
One comment that summed it up for me:
"Party all night at a big rave with no masks, and all good. but can't post a letter at the village shop without a mask?"
Another one "you can fly in to the UK from abroad, and yet you don't need to test for Covid for 2 days? If this was as serious as they say, why not test on arrival, and before people leave the airport?"
And one more "yes I'm sure the self employed people will happily not work or earn money for 10 days at a time"
And that sums up the new steps being taken ahead
Meanwhile the triple vaccinated are cross because the new rules will apply to them too
We'll see what the final rules are since this is clearly more of a testing the water thing with todays briefing, with confirmation coming next week
When I started issuing covid updates on my family health, I didn't think i'd have to continue with updates on my heart
So I went to A&E (ER) on Thursday @ 15:30 because I had, I thought, the same symptoms - when they said my heart was fine & found a lung infection instead (2 weeks ago)
They tried medication into my heart to reduce it's speed
When that failed it revealed beta blockers were needed instead. If they failed they'd have shocked my heart into normal rhythm come the AM. Praise God the beta blockers did their job, by 0730
I got almost 1-2 hrs broken sleep in hospital. At home last night I got 11 hours 🙂
I'm on 3 meds, until I can be seen at an arythmia clinic:
1 slows my heart rate (& should stop another attack of atrial fibrillation)
1 reduces my BP
1 thins my blood
I'm 20 years too young for the meds, but this is, God willing, only until I see that specialist - probably next spring
Andy B
@Kruselady He did last night - 11 hours. Jo woke me up at 10am for the first of my 12 hourly medication.
Home and tired. Early night for Jo and I
Got my meds to thin my blood, reduce my blood pressure and slow my heart
Have to take it very easy for 2 weeks.
Hopefully, these meds could be stopped as and when I get to an arythmia clinic, which is likely the spring at this point
Thansk for your prayers and kind messages
I'm off to bed! 48 hrs, and mess than 2 hrs sleep doesn't really work for me!!
Andy B
So my heart switched to a normal rhythm this morning...didn't know that until 2 hours later when the consultant met with me and told me it had
Heart rate was down
Blood pressure was up
Waiting on an ultrasound of my heart to check that out
So I'm probably gonna be on blood thinners, until I can be processed through an arythmia clinic to make sure I don't have a stroke in the meantime. Beta blockers to prevent my heart from going off on one again by keeping its pace lower. And blood pressure meds to bring that down
It spiked yesterday but didn't want to come down
With the heart rate reducing, it seems to be coming down on its own though...
They're hoping I should be discharged later today
It hinges on a slot happening for the ultrasound of my heart, which they've been waiting for for a while
They still hope I'll be discharged this afternoon/evening
@tanjaostman just waiting to see the cardiologist to see whats going on
