I’ve been feeling I’ll this weekend. Slight increase in temperature, aches, coughing. I’m used to these symptoms having COPD & Asthma.
However the Baroness insisted I take a COVID test. Bloody POSITIVE.
My wife caught COVID early in the first lockdown, she’s a prison councillor and she now has Long-COVID. A horrible thing which really f€%@s you up.
I didn’t catch COVID from her and have had the mandatory 3 jabs. Whenever the lockdowns ended I have been out and about, pubs, concerts, record stores. Yes I thought I was invulnerable until now.
I know where and when I contacted it. It was St Patrick’s Night at the local Irish club. It was the only time I’d been out socialising in two weeks.
Am I bothered? Too bloody right I am, this is the last thing I need on top of my Asthma & COPD. I’m not going to be checking my temperature and having C19 tests every 3 hours but I am going to relax and keep my fingers crossed (in my head).
Just be careful out there my friends, Peace & love Richie.
Gatz says
Wishing you the mildest of symptoms and speediest of recoveries. I’m seeing a lot of this on social media, and a mate of mine and his son have tested positive today too (they think the West HAm match at the Olympic Stadium last week is most likely to blame).
Jaygee says
Hang in there! Hope you’re lucky and don’t get too bad a dose
I’m gradually easing my way back into real life – first pint in a pub for two years last night and first gigs next month,
Bound to get it at some point. Just hope and pray it’s a mild one
Jim Cain says
Get well soon Baron!
mikethep says
Good luck Baron and hope it’s not too bad. Keep us posted. As a fellow COPD/asthma lad I’m naturally interested in how you get on – if that doesn’t sound too self-centred…
Vulpes Vulpes says
Have you tried dosing yourself up with Spice?
Baron Harkonnen says
Ha ha, I like it Foxie. I did have a very spicy curry last night.
Gary says
I think he meant “dousing yourself with Old Spice”.
Enormously inspired by this I looked up Old Spice on the computer. Its past slogans include:
“The original. If your grandfather hadn’t worn it, you wouldn’t exist.”
“When your man smells like Old Spice, you can go anywhere.”
“The Mark Of A Man.”
“The Man Your Man Could Smell Like.”
“Smellcome to Manhood.”
“Make a smellitment.”
and most recently, and perhaps most tragically, “Smell Like a Man, Man”.
Baron Harkonnen says
Foxie meant the spice found on Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune.’
Moose the Mooche says
….well I’d assumed you meant the first Spice Girls album….
Vulpes Vulpes says
stevieblunder says
Spice up the world.
Baron Harkonnen says
Thanks for your thoughts @Jim-Cain, @Gatz, @Jaygee and @mikethep.
No way you’re being self-centred Mike. I will keep you updated every couple of days. The Chemist is sending a testing kit pack out. At the moment it’s like a heavy cold. My GP is phoning later advising use of my ‘Emergency Pack’ (steroids and antibiotics) which I have for worsening Asthma/COPD conditions.
A mate who I was with on St Patrick’s Night phoned just now and told all 4 of the guys I was with that night have tested positive.
Apologies to anyone who has suffered COVID and kept quiet about it but I really did think I had natural antibodies and with 3 Jabs I was invulnerable.
I am positive about this, I’ve just ordered 3 LPs inspired by @retropath2’s Folk Rock thread.
BFG says
It’s this new Omicron variant. Very contagious. I’m an HT of a school & avoided it pretty well during previous waves (thankfully as my wife was going through chemo) so mixed thoughts fluctuating between thinking I’m going to get it, then not getting it. My school is suffering more than at any time in the pandemic so it was only a matter of time I suppose.
Lousy first 3 days but felt fine since Friday but still testing positive FFS!
fentonsteve says
Best wishes, Baron.
My neighbours went to a HM festival a couple of weekends ago, Mr has COPD and was given the emergency steroids & antibiotics. They’re both pretty much fine now.
I’m still not yet venturing out to anywhere indoors. The test of my resolve will be in 4 weeks, when A Certain Ratio play in Cambridge.
pencilsqueezer says
Get betterer Richie.
Moose the Mooche says
Poor lad. Get well soon feller.
Mike_H says
Hope you get betterer quickerley.
A 48% increase in recorded cases in my area a couple of weeks ago. Hospital admissions with Covid slightly up here but no increase in deaths as yet.
I’m triple-jabbed and I’ve avoided the lurgy so far (touches wooden desk). I do lateral flow self tests at least once a week and occasional blood samples for a UCL project I signed up to ages ago. If I get infected, I want to know about it ASAP and then I’ll self-isolate.
I mask up in shops and I try to avoid crowds, but I take the occasional risk at gigs now because otherwise I’d be hermiting, like my mate with COPD who’s terrified of getting infected. He hasn’t been out of his flat except for a weekly shop for over two years.
There’s only so much reading and solitary TV-watching I can tolerate.
I will be out on Thursday (twice-monthly pub jazz jam) Friday (Levitation Orchestra at the Jazz Café)and Saturday (church jumble sale & possibly an evening jazz gig in Northampton) and then the following Thursday (local pub gig).
Cozzer says
Doing the Covid two-step as I type. Came down with it last weekend. Felt roundly rubbish for four days. Last couple of days has seen an improvement although the rest of the family are now stricken with the damned thing!
Back to work today and the brain fog as descended again. Very little energy and huge portions of my cerebral cortex not working as designed. So MS Teams meetings are interesting. I’m about as coherent as our current PM at the Despatch Box when having to fend off questions about Christmas parties. Have resorted to muting myself and looking glum. If only Johnson would do the same.
Tiggerlion says
It’s not that bad a time to catch it. The three jabs will protect you from serious harm (most of the time) and the variant going round spreads like wildfire but isn’t so nasty. Even with your bad lungs, you should be alright, fingers crossed.
My first day back at work after a dose. Am feeling a bit wobbly and I cough when I talk but otherwise OK. It was the isolation waiting for the LFTs to turn negative that drove me mad.
Baron Harkonnen says
Thanks to everyone who I haven’t thanked for your best wishes. The Baroness is looking after me, it’s good that she’s having a bit of respite from long-covid.
retropath2 says
GWS, buddy! Sadly, it is almost inevitable and for those like me, currently free of any known dose thus far, only a matter of time. Thank God it’s over, eh………
Mike_H says
Quite possibly only a matter of time for those uninfected thus far. Finally getting infected doesn’t necessarily mean it’s over.
As a mutating virus, it’s possible a sufficiently different strain could come along in time and bypass the antibodies from a first infection.
Happy, happy, happy, happy talk.
Moose the Mooche says
I don’t know what I’m doing right. Two years, not being especially careful, dealing with the great extremely unwashed and often very unvaccinated, and yet still only the one red line twice a week.
I’m offensively lucky with my health. I had blood test for lipids etc. immediately after Christmas – normal. No further action fromt’ GP. And I take overindulgence very seriously indeed. I think I may actually be indestructible.
More realistically, I’m so ugly even covid doesn’t want me.
fentonsteve says
I haven’t had it yet, either. Have we finally found the benefit of being Gingers?
Moose the Mooche says
Yes. This, and all the poontang.
Gatz says
Likewise; despite The Light doing regular rounds of Covid wards as part of her job neither of us has succumbed. We haven’t been particularly gung-ho (triple jabbed, masks whenever mandated and so on) but possibly because our prime risk is unavoidable due to her work we have been a lot less cautious going out and about than others we know.
Boneshaker says
All good wishes Baron. Keep taking the tablets.
Moose the Mooche says
… is the second sentence just addressed to the rest of us generally?
Lunaman says
Best wishes for a speedy and full recovery.
Uncle Wheaty says
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
I caught it last week following a business trip to London and having spent 45 minutes each way on a packed train with only 10% of people wearing masks. My first contact with strangers this year!
I am now recovering but have passed it on to Aunty Wheaty and my son!
Barry Blue says
Be well, Baron. Just last week I was gloating about never having contracted the Covids, and saying how this indicated what a tip top immune system I clearly had, and then late last night one of my index fingers swelled up and started hurting like hell. And then it hurt a hell of a lot more, so much so that I couldn’t lie down, let alone sleep at all, nor even sit for more than a couple of minutes at a time. I’ve never experienced sustained pain like this before, and I’m not ashamed to say that I wept during the 2 hour wait at the walk-in ‘minor injury clinic’ this morning (A&E being out of the question because of even longer waiting times, and no appointments with anyone at my usual surgery being available). The first iterations of the antibiotics and hefty painkillers seem to have had a soupçon of an effect, but it’s still throbbing unpleasantly (and as for the finger..), so I’ll be queuing at my surgery at 8am tomorrow for an emergency GP appointment (I’m not convinced the analysis at the walk-in place was sufficiently thorough). Flesh and blood, eh?
Bingo Little says
Hope all those currently grappling with Covid get through it quickly and painlessly.
I’m having slightly the opposite experience; I have quite a bit of travel coming up in the next couple of months, including at least one trip which it would be an absolute disaster to miss (overseas festival with a mate, quite a lot of money stuck down and we’ve been waiting a very, very long time for this).
That being the case, and – given that we are clearly all getting Covid at some stage, that I’m triple jabbed and have no underlying conditions – I have concluded that now is the moment for me to finally catch the bastard thing.
Both kids had it on successive weeks last month. Made no attempt to avoid them, but didn’t catch it. My wife then had it last week – again, I made no attempt to avoid her, and in fact I went out of my way to attempt to catch it off her. Again: no dice. Negative test after negative test. Thankfully, no one at home has had any symptoms.
I can feel where this is headed – the rug being suddenly and savagely pulled on the eve of travel. It also lead to a truly bizarre situation last week where I stayed away from the office (doesn’t seem right to go in when there’s Covid in the household), while aggressively attempting to catch the illness I’m carefully trying not to spread.
What a strange old pandemic this has been.
Moose the Mooche says
Do parents still talk about measles parties? Genuine question.
Bingo Little says
I’ve heard of them happening, but I still can’t really imagine sending a kid to pick up an illness like that. In the unlikely event it were to go wrong/make them seriously ill in a way you weren’t expecting you’d never be able to forgive yourself.
GCU Grey Area says
I had measles in the 60s, about two months before the vaccine was available in our area. Even at this remove, I can remember it being extremely unpleasant, and my parents were really concerned. I’ve had ’em all; mumps, rubella, chickenpox, shingles. All yeuch.
davebigpicture says
I would hope they wouldn’t do that with Measles because it is still very dangerous. When we had our first baby, one of our friends gave birth a year or so afterwards and became obsessed with natural parenting. We used to call her the Breastfeeding Nazi and she later refused to have her kids vaccinated. We don’t see her any more and she’s divorced. These things may be connected.
dai says
Those who are sick I send best wishes. Those still wary I understand it, but it’s never going away and for 99.9% of us not really dangerous.
As of today masks no longer needed here in most situations, inevitably cases will rise a bit but I expect them them to come down sharply in a couple of months before rising again when we are all driven indoors. Repeat every year, it will be with us forever probably, just have to grin and bear it
Rigid Digit says
Oh, big F.
All the best to a speedy recovery Baron.
Yes, those lifting all restrictions were a good move. Is it a spike or a now-expected constant?
It needed to be done at some point to get some return to the feeling of normality. But maybe it was just too soon – as the rising numbers suggest.
I’m still a lucky so-and-so that has avoided it – but I’m off to that London in a week. Will I remain so lucky?
Mask on a hope for the best – tis all I can do
(apart from maybe not go to London)
dai says
Like I said above rising numbers are inevitable for a while, as soon as restrictions are generally lifted then it will happen, plus the even more widely transmissable Omicron variant doing the rounds, fortunately bringing mild(ish) cases for the vast majority.
hubert rawlinson says
Speedy recovery to those that have caught it.
Just back from a week in London (one part of which was the family Christmas meet up cancelled at Christmas as one of the hosts tested positive).
Masked on the buses ( because of access I avoid the tube) ate out a few times., went to the theatre. Walked round Alexandra Palace unmasked.
Tested and still clear (luckily).
I’ve had lots of friends who’ve been careful and somehow recently caught it.
fortuneight says
Another set best wishes for a mild dose and speedy recovery.
I’ve dodged it so far (unless what seemed to be flu at Xmas was in fact covid – LFTs suggested not), and as a fat 62 year old albeit triple jabbed I’m wondering if when the inevitable happens, just how lightly I’ll get off (o not).
My first work trip to the USA beckons next month – it would seem an ideal opportunity to catch it given the presumption there seems to be “it’s gone”. Have to say I’m really not looking forward to going although I guess it couldn’t stay on pause forever.
Baron Harkonnen says
Once again thank you to everyone wishing me well, it is appreciated.
I reckon if the true figures for COVID were revealed it would br frightening.
For example, the place I contracted COVID last week was packed. Everyone around me also contracted it, I wouldn’t be surprised if everyone in the place contracted it. Then it goes on and on and………
Hopefully this is the lesser Omicron strain. I don’t feel any worse than I felt this morning, very bad cold symptoms.
I have discussed with friends the affects of COVID and we all agree that we have to learn to live with it. Although that is easily said when it’s a mild strain. As I have said, I have asthma/COPD and when covid first came on the scene I was very worried. Then my wife caught it but I didn’t and I have lived normally when lockdowns were lifted and have been in packed pubs/clubs/theatres/shops many times without getting it. Just shows you cannot take anything for granted. Best wishes to all fellow sufferers, I hope you make a swift recovery.
fentonsteve says
I can’t remember where I heard it – R4’s More Or Less, perhaps – but the general feeling amongst clever statisticians is the real numbers are about 3 times the official figure.
And it won’t be easy to work out the full global impact for years, decades even.
Blue Boy says
Sorry to hear this Baron, hope you recover quickly. Like several others, clearly, I also finally got it three weeks ago. Felt a bit rubbish for a couple of days but otherwise nothing more than a slight cough which has lingered, so I was lucky. But yes, lots of it around, for the vast majority hopefully not serious. But it ain’t going away.
Diddley Farquar says
Here in Sweden covid is rife. Whereas before it was a bit of a shock to hear that a work colleague had it, now it’s more like a shrug and no big deal. It’s common and mild. They are off work for a bit then back to normal. It probably goes through the family. But thete are those who are exposed who show no symptoms. Some clearly don’t get it despite exposure. Tests are no longer required. We’ve not had a requirement for face masks or a stringent lockdown. Maybe that makes us less worried. Despite that the death rate over what is normal has been low. Should you shut things down for a bad cold? Even those I know with weak immune response have fared OK when they’ve had it in it’s current form with all the vaccines available.
Twang says
Me too. Me and the Mrs met some old pals in London a few weeks ago. Gallery, coffee in cafe, pint in London pub (their wish…) Meal in Chinatown. Three days later…felt like crap. Didn’t test positive for a few days, then 4 days feeling like really bad flu. I’ve been negative since Thursday but still feel crap, utterly exhausted, though it comes in waves – I can feel ok for most of a day then crash to earth and be barely able to move. Mrs T got it (more or less the same story as me) then Twang Jr who had one rough day and has been perfectly happy dodging school/A levels and lying on the sofa in front of YouTube.
We have barely done anything for 2 years and in a way I’m glad I’ve had it to get it out of the way, assuming I get over these lingering symptoms.
Kid Dynamite says
Hope everyone currently suffering has mild symptoms and recovers in good order. I’ve just got over my first dose myself (goes to show how in step with contemporary mores the AW is now we’re all getting it two years after everybody else). I’m 90% sure I caught it at a recent Hold Steady gig in That London, as a few other people I knew there also came down with it at a similar time. Everyone else in my immediate family had already had it, and I didn’t catch it then, or from the multitudes I’ve shared air with on public transport and working in retail, but you try and enjoy yourself for one night….
SteveT says
Sorry to hear this @Baron-Harkonnen. It seems fairly mild judging by several of my colleagues at work who had it recently. 7 of them in space of a week – all mild bar one. My wife had it too and reckons she was proper poorly but I reckon that she was milking it so that I could be nurse for a week.
Pity the Horslips box not out yet – that would have kept you busy. Get well soon mate.
Baron Harkonnen says
I’ve plenty of new music to keep me busy Stevie. @retropath2’s folk rock thread has taken a lump out of the music reserve fund.
I wouldn’t say the strain I have is mild, if it is I wouldn’t like to get a severe dose. However my glass is always full and as we used to say when we were ‘The Enemy Within’; “Don’t let the bastards grind you down”
The worst thing that could happen at Harkonnen Towers is the Baroness tested positive this morning. The second time she’s had the first left her with Long Covid.
I now have to go and get my own coffee and fruit juice!
napaj says
I truly wish everyone who has caught it all the very best and that they do not become ill.
But while we are here. When I was in the UK in November, I got the distinct impression that almost everyone thought they were invulnerable and almost everyone didn’t care much to do anything about it.
I feel I learnt such a lot about my home country over those two weeks.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
It’s the Covid Dilemma. The World simply could not carry on with lockdowns, isolations etc both financially and mentally. Here in the West most of us are triple-jabbed and relatively safe.
We seem to be saying “We’ll all catch it eventually, the majority will be ok and if some aren’t then that’s the price we have to pay for Freedom”.
As of yesterday, mask-wearing here in France has tumbled to around, I guess, 20% and as the summer progresses and the tourists arrive that will drop even further.
A month ago virtually none of our (elderly and careful) friends had caught it. In the past week we’ve had three guests who a few days later said “Oops”. We’re still testing negative but surely only a matter of time? Let’s hope we get the “No worse than flu” version…
napaj says
There were no “lockdowns” here.
The general population just did (are doing) the right thing for the community and society as a whole, and doing it without moaning about it all the time like big babies.
There was, of course, the odious Olympics episode in which the Five Ring Overlords came in, took over the country and hugely disrupted things for their own corrupt profit. And I’m certainly not saying the government response has perfect either. It wasn’t. In fact, they didn’t seem to do much other than ponder and mull (a speciality of large Japanese groups/organisations).
It was everyday folk pulling together that pulled this country though.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Did everyone in Japan limit socialising, work from home etc etc or was/is wearing masks, washing hands etc etc enough? In other words what did Japan, compared to us, do right?
napaj says
I have no idea what is the right answer is to all of this, but here’s my thoughts on the Japan situation.
“Did everyone in Japan limit socialising”
Pretty much, yes.
“work from home”
Some did, but seemingly for many Japanese companies this is rather difficult. Probably much less than some other countries.
“Was/is wearing masks, washing hands, enough?”
Pre-covid, many Japanese people wore masks when they felt they had a cold. That was as much to do with preventing spreading it to other people as protecting yourself. So resistance towards masks did not exist. People are still wearing masks pretty much everywhere now – and I can’t see that changing quickly. They don’t do it because they love it. At the same time, they don’t moan about it and get all stressed up about it.
A general ‘it’s good for the group’ (ie. in this case, everyone) behaviour was also in place. This is deeply ingrained in Japanese society.
Japanese are, generally, very clean and hygienic anyway. (I think my wife washes her hands about 600 times a day and she spends an hour in the bath every day. Japanese baths are amazing by the way, and very different to what UK people know — but that’s a totally different subject!)
I’m pretty sure those things helped keep it under control here, without any strict lockdowns like other countries had to endure.
I think my point before was just that my impression of modern UK society when I visited in November was ‘every man for himself, sod everyone else’, which I found quite ugly compared with a much more co-operative ‘doing-it-for-everyone’ vibe that goes on here. The group thing can certainly be taken too far here, but in situations like this….. it’s nice.
I am guessing that the population of Japan being overwhelmingly Japanese people also helps with things like this – it’s not a complicated mix of races, cultures and wildly varying values.
For the record, I think the official death toll in Japan has been 27000. Population is about 125 million.
PS
Many people inviting Ukrainians to their homes has given me a glimpse of the ‘nice UK’ which I am happy to see.
SteveT says
I think the version we are seeing now is considerably milder than Flu.
Many people who say they have had flu have had no such thing.
Flu is a particularly nasty bug and a potential killer.
dai says
I had a severe flu case ca 2009, I thought it might be H1N1 at the time. Wiped me out completely, I didn’t eat for several days, couldn’t keep anything down including water. if I needed to get up off the sofa it took me about 15 minutes to summon up the strength to do so, ended up in Emergency department where they put me on a drip which helped a lot. Very very nasty
Jaygee says
Flu is fucking awful.
The best definition of flu I ever read was that if you found you had a winning lottery ticket and only 24 hours to claim your large prize, you wouldn’t get out of bed to cash it
Baron Harkonnen says
Speaking of illness @SteveT (AKA – BlaCUNTry Boy) you are correct about flu. I think I’ve only ever had it once and as you say and@dai it’s a very nasty infection. When I had it I suffered similar symptoms to Dai, once you’ve had flu you don’t forget it.
Otherwise you continue to make ill informed guesses when talking about Covid. At the start of the first outbreak you stated that no more than 7,000 deaths due to Covid would occur in the U.K. We all know haw well informed you were on that one.
You now state that the current strain is “fairly mid” this despite not having contracted the infection. The strain I have is nowhere near “fairly mild” but it is also nowhere near as bad(up to now) as I thought it could be due to other conditions I have.
Stop making wild proclamations or I will not let you go to the pub ever again. As we say oop north, “thaar a nob eeend” c==3
Tiggerlion says
The approach in the UK is definitely herd immunity. The majority are vaccinated and, the hope is, many of the undervaccinated have had a version of covid already. Those who get really sick have some treatments available.
The problem is that the subvariant of Omicron doing the rounds at the moment (BA.2) is almost as infectious as measles, one of the most infectious viruses known to man. Without mitigations, a person with measles will infect twelve others.
The R number is above one in the UK, with infections increasing. It may burn out quickly with a steep peak and a similarly steep drop. The powers that be are crossing their fingers and hoping it doesn’t inflict too much damage with regard to admissions and deaths.
dai says
As I said masks no longer obligatory here. Went to “Shoppers Drug Mart” yesterday (kind of like Boots) and I wore one. Guessing there were around 10 other people in the store (it was after 9pm) scores on the doors – about 7 with masks, 3 without (all the staff still wearing them)
H.P. Saucecraft says
Effectively, it still hasn’t reached us here to any measurable degree. There’s been a few non-serious positives, but after isolation they’re walking about again. Restaurants and bars have never shut (unlike Bangkok) although schools have shut with every scare, and opened again after a few weeks. People seem to be living with it, rather than dying from it, although the figures are not good for Bangkok – a loooongway away – and surrounding towns. Covid’s effect is felt in other ways – the continuing downturn in the economy, rising prices, and no parades and festivals (a big part of Thai life, and much missed). But Thai people seem to be as busy and cheerful – or very nearly so – as ever. They’re an incredibly stoic bunch, not given to panic or drama or anger.
“Get Well Soon” Richie, and all you other poor buggers.
Baron Harkonnen says
Thanks H.P.S. and the same goes to you all for your kind thoughts.
I seem to have gotten over the worst but due a shortage of Lateral Flow Tests around these parts, we have 4 left in the house,I’ll not be testing myself again until Monday (a week after my first positive test).
I’ve been very concerned about the Baroness who recorded 38.1 C two days ago but thankfully is now back down to normal. This has been a nasty infection for her along with having Long Covid. My fears of complications due to my other conditions were thankfully unfounded.
What struck me although it has been well reported is how easy this Omicron version spreads.
Stay safe everyone and keep on keeping on!
Black Celebration says
I tested positive on Wednesday morning after very quickly developing symptoms on Tuesday night. It’s Saturday afternoon now and today I am having sporadic feelings of OK-ness, which is better than my last three days, so I must be recovering. I hope so.
Thursday and Friday in particular were truly awful.
Yes it’s like a heavy cold but much, much worse than that. Mainly because it affected my mood. The headachey, constant feeling of fatigue and low self-esteem. Not even having the energy to watch things on Netflix etc because I just can’t be bothered. I am heartily sick of bed rest. I always thought that at some level I’d enjoy it but I don’t. This is why you haven’t had much in the way of top-notch, hamper-attractin’ comedy content from me this week.
The “chart music” podcast (which involves people nattering for hours about pop music) has been a godsend because it’s trivial, funny and above all, long. I drifted in and out of it during my regular fitful naps, sometimes for half an hour at a time – and I liked that when I rejoin, they’re still forensically dissecting a Tight Fit video from 1982. This is perfect for someone in my condition.
I am very fortunate because Mrs BC has looked after me. She has quite rightly moved out of the bedroom where I now spend absolutely all my time – we have an ensuite bathroom so I don’t need to be covidding around the house. Her tests have all been negative. Two of the children have had it before me and they are fine and dandy now.
I had a phone call from the local GP practice yesterday. She asked me dozens of questions – suggested ways to get through it and reassured me that I am displaying normal symptoms. My body’s systems are doing all the right things. I mentioned the low mood and she said this is also good – she said my body is making sure that I rest in bed by using any means necessary. I hope she’s right.
I was really heartened by that conversation because I felt that society, not just my family, was looking after me too. She even asked if I was OK for money! This is the NZ public system doing its thing and I really am thankful for this structure being in place.
pawsforthought says
Glad that you are on the mend. Could I recommend the three bean salad podcast? Three blokes talking nonsense, might make bed rest a little more enjoyable.
Black Celebration says
Thanks – looks good, I will give it a go.