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4.8 this morning. Lovely dog walk at 6am. Not so nice was the dog poo that other dog walkers didn't pick up on their walks yesterday evening. Mr K picked it all up with some rather choice words that I cannot repeat here or I will be banned from the forum.
 
Jojo85 said:
Good morning friends!

Fbg at 8am was 5.5
Had a lovely dinner at my sisters and I had a cheeky bite or 2 of dessert lol
Hope you're OK @Krystyna23040

Enjoy the day x
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Hope you enjoyed the dessert. We are away for a couple of days next week and I am so looking forward to having a dessert as a special treat.
 
Good morning everyone from another day under the clear blue scorchio sky here in the dark and dangerous north. Bins are already out and smothered in factor 50 - I hope that the members of the bin lorry cavalcade have plenty of water. Mrs Miggins bought some furniture yesterday and as she refused to pay the extortionate price for delivery has gone off in her stripped down battle start to pick it up - they are removing the legs to make it easier to get into her car - a two piece corner unit and a table - who knew that we needed such items. I blame those 1960’s American Diners although this one is not red plastic thank goodness. Lunch yesterday in a place called Baker Street Kitchen - which is on Baker Street - no sign of Gerry Rafferty. Which is good. Mind you, when finally do go, the last thing in your body to die are your irises because they dilate. I’ll get my coat. Art bit. I had some crazed idea about stone steps but not sure yet how this will turn out. Oh well, I’ve started so I’ll finish I guess. Have a great day if you can. I shall now finish my koffy.


 
Fbg 6.7


Thursday: this is a long post about frustrations at the pharmacy yesterday. Don't read if you don't want to. That is okay.

I do not appreciate being lied to.

I have been chasing up my overdue prescription eye drops for over 2 weeks now. The regular pharmacist had told me to come back this week if they weren't in and he would get a prescription for some different ones for me.

The regular pharmacist was not in yesterday, but the lady who looks a slip of a girl, dispenses medicines as the pharmacist does.

I asked the counter assistant if my eye drops are in and gave her the owing slip. After checking, she told me they were not in and they were none available, and handed the owing slip back to me. But, I have now run out I said and the pharmacist had said to come in today and he would order some different eye drops for me.

So, she tells me to sit down (we finally have two chairs now in the pharmacy), and she goes and asks the lady pharmacist. I am in a good position to lipread the conversation between the counter assistant and the lady pharmacist, despite them being about 15 metres away, (by the way my lipreading skills are absolutely amazing at a distance, it is harder to do near to when I have to constantly move my head to find who is speaking, and I followed very interesting conversations years ago, in the pub...). Tell her (that's me), the lady pharmacist said, that each time we have ordered her eyedrops, they have sent the wrong ones, and we cannot let her have these wrong eyedrops, it's not allowed. And the lady pharmacist repeated that again to the counter assistant. Tell her we can't do anything about it, the lady pharmacist finishes.

And I am thinking as I am lipreading, what on earth is she on about. She has just made that up.

The counter assistant comes over, and repeats what she had been told, and goes to go away, leaving me with no eye medication, and no way of getting it. I had already been back many times for these particular eye drops.

I say, hang on, please will you listen to me. So I explain about St Paul’s Eye hospital, and them prescribing new eye meds earlier this year, and that this empty packet I was showing her were the eyedrops that had been prescribed earlier this year, and that it was on their pharmacy system. And that the regular pharmacist had said, a few days previously, he could get them represcribed for me if my current eyedrops were still unavailable. In any case, I explained, it is on the system that I can go back to the previous eye meds any time I want, if I don't like the new ones.

So the counter assistant went back to the lady pharmacist and explained what I had said. The counter assistant came back with, these eye meds are not on the system (the lady pharmacist hadn't even looked). And the lady pharmacist had finished with, we can't do anything.

On my pharmacy computer system are details of previous medicines, and what the regular pharmacist does is hand me a previous same kind of med if the new one is unavailable, and then he sorts that out for me. The regular pharmacist says he can do that because it is already on the system.

Anyway, this went back and forth for an hour and a half. I had been out to see my friend all day, and my car had shown the temperature as 31C. And we had walked out of icy air conditioning places into a wall of unbreathable hot air. So, I am very tired, but despite this, all the while I am very polite and courteous with this counter assistant. I had asked when the regular pharmacist would be in and she didn't know. I also explained I have 3 different eye conditions, and I cannot use any old cheap eye drops because they make my eyes worse, and I am allergic to them. I am under the care of St Paul’s eye hospital in England. I need these prescription eye drops.

The counter assistant lady was really nice and helpful, unlike the lady pharmacist who appeared so unhelpful. And by the way the lady pharmacist appeared to be very unhelpful to other customers who were making health enquiries, while I was waiting all that time. Whereas the regular pharmacist would take time out (5/10/15 minutes) for each customer enquiry, and help them. That is actually his job (more that it was before), I have a printed sheet which explains what the pharmacist (from this pharmacy at least), can do now for you now.

Normally I order my prescriptions online, but the site was shut down over a month and a half ago for updating and was to return on 27th July. It has not returned yet. It is now 11th August. The site says "Practice currently unavailable".

Yesterday while I was there, there was a constant stream of people walking into the pharmacy with repeat prescriptions to put in the shoebox on the counter. It was stuffed full. They must be in the same boat, not to be able to access the online site.

This practice/I don't have a GP, and there has been no GP's in this practice since 2019.

I googled online, and I find there has been a computer system outage for the last month in the Welsh NHS site for various things. It seems to be a bit far reaching.

I don't know what to think. It is scary.

I am waiting for the helpful counter assistant to text me on Friday. She says she cannot promise to have my eye meds, but she promises to push and push with this to see how far she can get. I believe her, but at the end of the day, she is a counter assistant who doesn't have authority in this. But her eyes matched her words when she told me she will try as hard as she can on my behalf.


I apologise for this being a long post to read, but it was my frustrating day yesterday, and I couldn't sleep last night. I was unable to read some books I bought yesterday, because my eyes were far too dry.

Creative is borage in a kaleidoscope in Laboscope.

Now I need a cuppa and a rest.

Take care...


 
Well done for persevering with that very unhelpful pharmacist @gennepher. What a horrible person she is. I really do hope that you can get your eye drops this week.
 
This is an absolutely amazing drawing. It must've taken a very long time. But satisfying to do @dunelm
Enjoy that coffee...
 
I am so sorry you are having such a frustrating time trying to get your meds. I hope very much that the situation is speedily resolved.
 
Greetings everyone on another day classified as extreme heat for large swathes of England and Wales. Busy day here if mainly for JKP: 3 grandchildren rising to 4 after Pre-school lunchtime pickup; drop off and collect 92 y.o. MIL from a social group; grocery delivery and an evening meal for herself, the grandchildren, two sons and doggie bags for their partner. @dunelm thanks for sharing that detailed art but perhaps not the dad joke. @gennepher what a sad tale of the pharmacist visit. Thank you for the kaleidoscope. What does borage taste like? I have seen it growing and like the colour but never seen any to buy or eaten any. @Jojo85 good to hear from you and glad you enjoyed the desert. @Krystyna23040 I’m not surprised Mr K needed the bleeps. Enjoy your break and any desserts that mysteriously fall from the sky into your mouth. @alf_Josiah thinking of you on something of a bittersweet day for you. @lindisfel good to hear from you. Meanwhile make sure your safe is FBIproof and don’t block your loo with classified documents.
 
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Thank you @ianpspurs
Borage - like cucumber in salads, but I use it for soups and stews. I have a lot growing. I might gather the leaves and dehydrate them. The flowers - used on ice creams and desserts...
 
gennepher said:
Thank you @ianpspurs
Borage - like cucumber in salads, but I use it for soups and stews. I have a lot growing. I might gather the leaves and dehydrate them. The flowers - used on ice creams and desserts...
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Thanks for the borage information and I hope the eye drops materialise very quickly.
 
ianpspurs said:
I’m not surprised Mr K needed the bleeps. Enjoy your break and any desserts that mysteriously fall from the sky into your mouth.
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Mr K definitely did need the bleeps. Today he made a sticky toffee pudding and mysteriously 2 teaspoons fell from the sky into my mouth. It was a Mary Berry recipe and was so delicious.
 
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen as our regular poster @ianpspurs said, today is a bitter sweet day. Heart felt thanks for your best wishes and concern.
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Today is not only national bin day, but much more importantly the 30th anniversary of my liver transplant also even more importantly the anniversary of a young man’s untimely death and his family’s brave decision to donate his organs, to the family I am eternally grateful and will be forever in their debt. Without their gift I would not have see my children grow up and seen my grandchildren and surrogate grand children.
As I walked out of hospital for the first time, the Queen Elizabeth in Birmingham I set my self a task of trying to live as normal a life as possible and to show transplants work and save lives.
 
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