Evenin’ All,
Interesting Day.
@10.05 I got a text msg from my doc’s surgery saying you have an appt with Nurse X at 10.20
Which kind of put the wind up my sails, since I had zero recollection of making the appt, had no face on, was expecting Mr Floorboards round to finish the landing, was neck deep in work spread sheets, Mr B was out with dogs so had to phone to get him home asap, plus it takes 7 mins to walk round to the doc’s.
made it with 2 mins to spare.
at which point my phone pinged again.
New text msg:
Do NOT come to surgery. Your appt will be by phone with Nurse X.
so I turned around and walked home again.
She eventually rang at around 11.30
Turns out it was an asthma review, because of Corona. They were arranging it.
I was stunned. I mean, I have had asthma for around 30 years, but for the last 15 I have only ever had an ‘asthma cough’ after a virus, and it must be 8 years (?) since I last had an inhaler. I just accept that viruses => mild asthma => several weeks of irritatingly boring coughing. I have never had a serious attack.
anyway, tomorrow I go and pick up a ‘just in case’ inhaler.
Also, I think this may be pretty unusual circs. Turns out the nurse who is doing this has asthma herself, and cannot, therefore, be involved in the Corona mobilisation or see any patient who may have it (all surgery staff now gowned and gloved and masked, defending the automatic door on the building like an airlock). So poor Asthma Nurse is doomed to back office telephone work for the duration, and is conducting Reviews in her specialist subject. Needless to say, they seem to be taking the Asthma comorbity/vulnerability exceedingly seriously. I was told to ring 111 immediately if I saw any signs of fever and/or new sustained coughing, nearing the point of being sick.
I actually spent the whole phonecall saying ‘but I hardly get Asthma now’. And ‘I haven’t needed an inhaler in years!’
But bless her, she really wanted me protected. And I certainly feel that they went above and beyond to contact me. Thank you NHS!
anyway:
B: 3 sausages
L: bone broth and lindt 70% (last squares of last bar)
D: chicken in chilli lime and cream
of course, it suddenly marked me as MORE ‘vulnerable’, since I usually conveniently forget that I have been asthmatic. It just seems like past history. But no. Chalk it up to just one more tick on the Reasons To Socially Distance list.