Isn’t it interesting how you can feel constrained when you are told you have to do something that you had no trouble doing.
I really have no problem staying indoors – especially with the wet weather we are having. But I am required by law to stay indoors, so I really want to go for a short walk to get some air.
Never mind – I got back to find some of my plants have decided to die off because of the weather, but all of my tomato plants (that I thought would die) are producing nice red fruit. This includes my hanging basket plants with tiny tomatoes.
My squash has found the weather just right based on the growth – it has almost taken over the bed it was planted in.
Today was box set day, lots of lounging around doing very little looking for signs I might have the virus. I looked up the symptoms. It must be a nightmare for a hypochondriac. But just thinking about it, if I have a bad cut that gets infected my temperature could go up. At that point my doctor will probably tell me I need a test before seeing him. I remember I had a tiny pin-prick on the Saturday when I went to Vienna to look at houses. I had a medical on the Monday – by then my blood was showing signs of the infection (as was the swollen knee). It took me eight weeks of antibiotics to get it under control. Delays in treatment can be really serious for injuries we often don’t think much about.
I guess this will be part of the problem over winter. It will be the mixture of flu and COVID that will confuse the system. It really brought it home to me how complicated it is going to get for the medical profession over the next few months, trying to work out what is right for patients.
So far I know of three people that have been found passed out on my street under the influence of alchohol. Adding to the pressure on medical staff at this point really seems dumb. We haver a great NHS, but people are taking it for granted. I guess that is the problem with a good health system.
On a brighter note I have been chatting to my distant cousin in Nairn, and worked out why we had two brothers with the same name in one part of our family (actually uncle and nephew – but mother was not wed at the time so they became brothers). I count four people so far that have got in touch because of DNA links that identified family links that were not exactly as people had been led to believe…. If anybody knows a Stewart from Paisley who suffered detached retinas then please let me know – his daughter is interested in finding out who he is.