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gennepher said:

NHS Cymru are trying to offer me my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccination for yet a second time.

I had my second jab a few weeks ago and the nurse assured me I was on the Computer system this time, but apparently I am still not registered on the computer system as having both the first and second Covid-19 vaccination.

I give up...

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gennepher said:

I have been online on the NHS app, had to jump through all kinds of hoops this last hour. I am not registered as having either COVID-19 vaccine 1 NOR COVID-19 vaccine 2

My words are not printable...not in this thread...
AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

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gennepher said:

I will go with the energy of a 17 year old, but 'tough as old boots' is also a compliment

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alf_Josiah said:

@gennepher

You have my full sympathy, but me and me's cannot offer any sensible suggestions apart from change your non existence gp's.to a dr populated practice.

Take care.

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geefull said:

good evening all

4.5 today

spent part of the day at mum's, mr gee and I chopped up some small logs from some tree trimmings that we had left lying to dry We bonfired the small trimmings and filled two trugs with small logs for Mum to put in her woodburner

We've picked up her shopping list ready for the weekly trip tomorrow too, we will have to take the little cool box because she wants ice-cream

Add me to the list of mentally 17 year old old boots

Hope your day is treating you kindly

@dunelm - lovely plum blossom and a charming idea for a birthday card Many Happy Returns to your Mum

@gennepher - your flying sparrows have worked out nicely and Popeye looks very content What a
shame, all that extra stress caused by just trying to access health services

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gennepher said:

Fbg 7.9
I didn't overeat. I ate all the correct foods for me. All day I wanted a buttercream carrot cake with frosted icing, to eat the whole thing to myself. But I didn't.

So, last night for about 6 hours I was researching online on the Welsh Government site, to correct your vaccination details on the NHS app. Basically it is useless. You cannot get hold of a person to do this. What you have to do is go to your GP Surgery, have a word in your GP's shell-like, and your GP says 'oh, no problem, I'll tap a few keys and hey presto you will be on the NHS system'. I also managed to access on the Government site on 'Instructions to GP's', which even went as far as telling the GP how to exactly address and exactly write to the patient in a ton of different matters on COVID-19 and the vaccination. My problem is I don't have a GP but a poorly abominably run doctorless GP Surgery by the so called NHS. So, I Google online for the practice manager. Got Practice Manager's email.

I then come across my MP again in connection with my poorly run GP surgery. There is a dedicated email just for problems with my GP surgery. And there is a pile of horror stories there of all the problems people have with my GP surgery. Some people cannot get the surgery to sign a prescription, so have been without for weeks because there is no Pooled doctor (is what they call locums at my GP surgery) to sign the prescriptions. Even locums won't deign to attend my GP surgery. There are loads more stories which my my MP is collecting, and he got mine in an email last night.

So, an email to my practice manager today with an attachment of proof of my Covid vaccination details.

I also came across some online neighbourhood sites where people are asking why they cannot access their doctors at their surgeries (different surgeries to mine in this area) and they are told to go to the injury unit at Mold or go to Wrexham, and also saying their surgeries won't give out repeat prescriptions any more, and they don't know how to get them. Not everyone has a car, and taxi fares to do that would be well over £100. So, basic NHS care is out of reach of many in this area. And an older person with no computer understanding is left completely behind, with no medical care.

By the way I scanned the front page of the vaccination record just out of interested, actually I was photographing it for my record and Google asks me if I want to scan the text. I am thinking what for. But I let Google scan the text. Google says wait a second and then says 'a nurse from my GP practice who saw me in 2016 (my name is on this information) now works for a cancer unit in Sefton authority (Liverpool), and I am like "What?¿?" How the heck did google come up with that? There was a 240 page PDF on this and I downloaded so I could skim through it later. So just on my name and date of birth on the front of the vaccination card, no other details, Google surmises the name of my GP practice and a nurse I had seen there, and where she works now...

I looked at a couple more things on this and I did not like this rabbit hole.

I tried again logging into the NHS, to find my Covid-19 details and I went through all it would let me, which was very little. I had to open an account, and that was lengthy. I don't know what you in England had to do to open your accounts, but it insisted I had to prove I was me. Which meant answering questions, and then they needed to see a photo ID of me, which was my driving licence. I had to scan it and send it to them. Then it said it needed further photo evidence I was me. It gave me 3 options I had to choose from. None of them quite fitted a deaf person who cannot hear/make out her own voice. There is an assumption all deaf people know BSL (British Sign Language) but I don't know it. I wasn't allowed to sign as a child and I have never mixed with deaf people.

So I had to go with the hearing option. Video on and I have to say 1,2,3,4. Then the next page says we are playing this back to you, and please say if this looks like you, and also say if you can hear yourself saying 1,2,3,4 clearly. Well, it looked like me because I had just made that video. But can I hear my voice speaking back to me? Well the honest answer is 'No' because I am deaf, but I could lipread me saying 1,2,3,4. So I ticked the 'Yes' box.

Next page says we will let you know within a week if you are indeed you.

I have lost the will to live more than I have ever done in my life.

And to add insult to injury to top of my bleach bottle would not open in my arthritic hands so I had to stab the side of the top if the bleach bottle to get the bleach out. And then my coffee. The glass coffee jar refused point blank to open, it has a glass lid as well. I didn't think a hammer would work well with that...

So I started up my ice maker...

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Krystyna23040 said:

This is all absolutely awful @gennepher. Really awful.

Words fail me. Actually they didn't but I have just had to delete the rest of my post as it definitely would have got me banned from this forum.

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alf_Josiah said:

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen on this a national bin day.

A self inflected 8.2 on that meter etc etc etc.

Well fellow posters, painters and gamers the sun is shinning here in Tilehurst Towers, the koffy cup is empty, an omission soon to be rectified.

Mr Plumber came yesterday and sorted out the minor problems, but moving the radiator will have to wait. Mrs J is happy she can now immerse herself in her bath and the power shower is now power showering hot water, the pump had finally given up.....for the technical amongst you the bearings on the hot side impeller had worn out.
I managed to get a little woodworking in starting to make the round shields for the grandchildren. 440mm in diameter.

Today features a plinky plonky lesson, assembling the shields from the other day and generally getting on with life.

Now the need for koffy is great, therefore stay apart, thereby staying safe and have a good as day as you possibly can.

@gennepher
Again your tenacity is of Olympic gold medal standard, best wishes in your endeavours.

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dunelm said:

Good morning everyone and happy International Bin Day from yet another propellers in a clear blue sky here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of something made out of bacon, onion, tomatoes and shredded cabbage came in at 4.8 this am

Thank you for your birthday wishes for my mother. Haven’t seen my parents for nearly two years now so thank goodness for zoom. Mum will happily chat for a good 15 minutes but dad - waves, says ‘hello’ - there you go. Another bonus is that my sister now lives but a few minutes walk away from them. Sorry you are having such angst with not the NHS @gennepher - will your MP be able to do anything one wonders - or perhaps the MP surgery doesn’t in fact include an MP? Smashing sea scape @geefull loads of light.

Youngest granddaughter over yesterday. Such fun but not much art so another sketch of Rosebery Topping. Have a fabulous day if you can, drink koffy, put your feet up.


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gennepher said:

Fbg 7.9
I didn't overeat. I ate all the correct foods for me. All day I wanted a buttercream carrot cake with frosted icing, to eat the whole thing to myself. But I didn't.

So, last night for about 6 hours I was researching online on the Welsh Government site, to correct your vaccination details on the NHS app. Basically it is useless. You cannot get hold of a person to do this. What you have to do is go to your GP Surgery, have a word in your GP's shell-like, and your GP says 'oh, no problem, I'll tap a few keys and hey presto you will be on the NHS system'. I also managed to access on the Government site on 'Instructions to GP's', which even went as far as telling the GP how to exactly address and exactly write to the patient in a ton of different matters on COVID-19 and the vaccination. My problem is I don't have a GP but a poorly abominably run doctorless GP Surgery by the so called NHS. So, I Google online for the practice manager. Got Practice Manager's email.

I then come across my MP again in connection with my poorly run GP surgery. There is a dedicated email just for problems with my GP surgery. And there is a pile of horror stories there of all the problems people have with my GP surgery. Some people cannot get the surgery to sign a prescription, so have been without for weeks because there is no Pooled doctor (is what they call locums at my GP surgery) to sign the prescriptions. Even locums won't deign to attend my GP surgery. There are loads more stories which my my MP is collecting, and he got mine in an email last night.

So, an email to my practice manager today with an attachment of proof of my Covid vaccination details.

I also came across some online neighbourhood sites where people are asking why they cannot access their doctors at their surgeries (different surgeries to mine in this area) and they are told to go to the injury unit at Mold or go to Wrexham, and also saying their surgeries won't give out repeat prescriptions any more, and they don't know how to get them. Not everyone has a car, and taxi fares to do that would be well over £100. So, basic NHS care is out of reach of many in this area. And an older person with no computer understanding is left completely behind, with no medical care.

By the way I scanned the front page of the vaccination record just out of interested, actually I was photographing it for my record and Google asks me if I want to scan the text. I am thinking what for. But I let Google scan the text. Google says wait a second and then says 'a nurse from my GP practice who saw me in 2016 (my name is on this information) now works for a cancer unit in Sefton authority (Liverpool), and I am like "What?¿?" How the heck did google come up with that? There was a 240 page PDF on this and I downloaded so I could skim through it later. So just on my name and date of birth on the front of the vaccination card, no other details, Google surmises the name of my GP practice and a nurse I had seen there, and where she works now...

I looked at a couple more things on this and I did not like this rabbit hole.

I tried again logging into the NHS, to find my Covid-19 details and I went through all it would let me, which was very little. I had to open an account, and that was lengthy. I don't know what you in England had to do to open your accounts, but it insisted I had to prove I was me. Which meant answering questions, and then they needed to see a photo ID of me, which was my driving licence. I had to scan it and send it to them. Then it said it needed further photo evidence I was me. It gave me 3 options I had to choose from. None of them quite fitted a deaf person who cannot hear/make out her own voice. There is an assumption all deaf people know BSL (British Sign Language) but I don't know it. I wasn't allowed to sign as a child and I have never mixed with deaf people.

So I had to go with the hearing option. Video on and I have to say 1,2,3,4. Then the next page says we are playing this back to you, and please say if this looks like you, and also say if you can hear yourself saying 1,2,3,4 clearly. Well, it looked like me because I had just made that video. But can I hear my voice speaking back to me? Well the honest answer is 'No' because I am deaf, but I could lipread me saying 1,2,3,4. So I ticked the 'Yes' box.

Next page says we will let you know within a week if you are indeed you.

I have lost the will to live more than I have ever done in my life.

And to add insult to injury to top of my bleach bottle would not open in my arthritic hands so I had to stab the side of the top if the bleach bottle to get the bleach out. And then my coffee. The glass coffee jar refused point blank to open, it has a glass lid as well. I didn't think a hammer would work well with that...

So I started up my ice maker...

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ianpspurs said:

Good morning all. No Swipey but a new grandson who should be about old enough for skateboarding by Paris Ho,ho, ho lympics. Wonderful seascape @geefull; spiffing Roseberry Topping piece @dunelm; congratulations on the power shower being restored @alf_Josiah. Hug for all those whose body sometimes reminds them they are no longer 17 @Krystyna23040. I'm not sure how anyone deals with the farce over your vaccination record and doctorless practice @gennepher. Seems as though the new Golden Age is among the failed deliveries now plaguing these shores. Who is hoarding washing soda and salad - very niche.?

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