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!
Unless of course you were watching GMTV the other morning when that stupid twat was on telling the blonde bimbo that the “NHS KNOWS THAT FLU IS ABOUT”…”antibiotics do not work, so DON’T go to A&E, DON’t go to your GP.There is nothing they can do, you will only be infecting other people, so stay home drink water and look after yourself” (WTF)
So thats why I found a “baba from Zambia” who practices from an office two blocks away from home-he even gives me repeats coz he thinks “these people think you dont have brains to the think for yourself”-oh and he’ll see me later in the evening so that I dont have to sit in a room full of other sick people. There are good ones out there…its just a bitch finding them.
And as a result of not being able to stay inside and warm for a nice long stretch, I am still ill and feeling like death warmed up and having to drag myself into the office as we are short staffed in the office
I’d love to be at home getting some rest and getting better seeing as I have been ill since before Christmas, but unfortunately I am one of those people who would feel bad leaving just one person in the office to cover. Yes, it’s my own fault but feeling bad about letting your colleagues down does not help the recovery either! Ba Humbug! 