According to the BBC, “GPs urged patients to stock up on cold and flu remedies”
That would be nice. But we can’t. So we’ll continue to waste your time until you fix this.
Currently Cheryl and I are both ill. She has a cold and I have Eblia with a slight touch of Bird Flu. Ok, so we’ve both got flu, but I’m a bigger baby about it. We’d very much like to stock up on remedies and stay home in the warm, but when I tried the other day I failed miserably.
The pharmacy can only sell me enough medication to keep 1 person functional for 3 days. Because Cheryl was at home resting, that meant that I could only buy enough medication to last us both 1.5 days. And we’d have to fight over the night-time capsules.
To actually get enough medication for both of us for three days, here is what we would have to do if we used pubic transport like the gubmit wants us to:
- Dress up warm and take the 5 minute walk to the bus stop.
- Wait up to 20 minutes in almost freezing temperatures for the bus
- Board the bus and infect everyone else present for our 20 minute ride to the pharmacy
- Go into the nice warm shop and buy 3 days worth of meds
- Go back out into the cold and wait up to 20 minutes more for the bus
- Ride home, once again sharing our germs with all and sundry
- Walk home
So we’ve got cold, physical exertion and massive temperature swings from outdoors to indoors. And we both have to go – we can’t take it in shifts. Do we think this will make us better or worse?
Cheryl’s been ill for pushing 9 days now, so we would have repeated this journey 3 times.
So GPs – expect me back in your surgery looking for a prescription for 7 days meds early in the new year so that I can get better. And expect me to do this every. single. fucking. time. I get ill until you change these stupid laws so that I can get the rest I need and self-medicate.
Until then, stop whinging!