A workmates wife was booked in for surgery today at Redcliffe hospital. All surgery has been cancelled due to Covid. Apparently this is all hospitals in QLD. My pharmacist recently said to me that "we are back in Covid". Fuk
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I quite enjoy the ying and yang of this post saying we're back in covid, and your other post saying you just got over a cold. Did you do a covid test, out of interest?
Lots of people are getting "colds" which are actually covid. You just don't notice anymore because the vaccines worked great and lots of people have them. Now instead of death we have a couple of days off feeling poorly, if that.
We do work at aged care facilities and covid never left. There was always an outbreak somewhere. They shut down areas of the building to visitors, make masks and gowns mandatory, must do a RAT test before entry, etc... But the second they open back up some relative with the sniffles is going to wander in and fire everything back up again. Obviously for the people in aged care covid is still a biggish deal.
As a side note, covid kinda proved that if a zombie virus ever does happen... we are all so dead.
I did a RAT a few weeks ago yes. Having said that whatever lingered might've been Covid and the tests aren't too accurate at times, and who knows if the ones from two years ago even pick up the new strains.
Well I think my everlasting cold has gone at last. ( Wrong word everlasting I realise ) Woke up with a bit of a scratchy throat this morning. Oh Oh.
Well anyway, more whinging.....I have suffered from Rosacea for years and years now. I use cream called Kenacombe every day. It's a bit yellowy in colour. A few years ago down in Southport where I lived ( for six years ) my doctor gave me a free sample of a white cream. Very quickly my face reared up rather sore and red. My eyes were puffy. I went back to Kenacombe.
Last July a doctor told me to use a better cream, it was white and cost a lot. My face reared up red and sore, my eyes were puffy. I went back to Kenacombe.
Last week the same doctor told me to use a different cream again as I was looking rather zitty and blotchy. ( Side effect of the recent infection that I have been suffering from probably ) It cost a lot. I checked with her to make sure it wasn't the same one from last year, it's not she said.
I have been using the new white cream since last weekend. My face has reared up and is sore and red. My eyes are puffy. FFS !
YAY it's Thursday, have a good one.
Haven't done one of these for a while....
trk's song of the day!
I suspect I've referenced a song by this guy before, but its almost FriYAY and I want something relaxing.
Dudes normally wailing away on a harmonica but this track is much more relaxed. Really feel like I should be living on an island, DiaDoLeMacerena style, looking out over the water of an afternoon and drinking some sort of cold beverage.