I'm in hospital :-/ boring but will hopefully stop me feeling like death.

Yep! Purple

Hope it makes you feel better Lillie
It was a wise decision to go to hospital

Hope you get it sorted Lillie.

They are turning on the local clocks chimes on tomorrow. It hasn't worked for about ten years. They recently restored the clock. Fingers crossed that I cant hear it in my flat but I wouldn't be surprised if you can hear it in the park. Unfortunately today is wet and rainy so I didn't go around the park at the bottom of the road.

I hope your appointment went well Tamo.

Purple hair!!!

I hope things work out ok Lillie.

The clock chimes would maybe be nice to begin with but then I think they'd get annoying.

Yes I could hear it in my old flat (which was even further away from the clock than I'm living now). Annoying and let's hope that they have fitted a silencer at night!

Oh, how did you manage with it when you were in your old flat?

It wasn't too loud so I only heard it a little.

On way back to the ward now
Boooo

Hope you have a safe journey Beckie.

Hopefully it won't be annoyingly loud this time Dawn.

Did you have a nice day at home Beckie?

Thanks Dawn

Yes I did thanks lindsay!
Dont want to go back

Afternoon everyone! I have been messing with spreadsheets in work and I think my brain is a bit fried.

Hey eska!
Ew spreadsheets

Evening all. Hope going back to the ward wasn't too terrible Beckie and Eska my brain would be fried as well with spreadsheets. I still remember when I was doing nursing I learnt moref from the HCAs than the nurses because they were stuck in the office doing things like spreadsheets and general paper work.

Hullo all. How's everyone tonight?

I quite like paperwork as it means I get to sit down for a bit!

I hope you're surviving being back on the ward Beckie. Do you have things to do when electronics are charging?

Hi Eska, best avoid all numbers in boxes for the rest of the day.

How are you Buttons and NP? Sitting down must feel very good when you do lots of physical work.

The cats have slept through their dinner time...what is going on?

Hey Lindsay. Is it raining? My cat doesn't want to do anything when it's raining, like getting up for breakfast.

I'm very tired...

Beckie I like spreadsheets luckily :) I find them fun!

Buttons paperwork is a lot of my job, makes sense though because I’m not in a clinical role.

Np I like it when I get to stand up and move around at work!

Lindsay that is peculiar!

Lol Eska. I think we do completely opposite kinds of jobs!

Crookshanks usually tells me it's food time way before it actually is. They are up and fed now. Their official dinner time is 7pm anyway but Crookshanks is usually asking for his food before 6.30pm so I just give them it around 6.30pm.

Are you going to be doing lots of sitting this evening then NP?

Do you ever go for a walk on your break Eska?

We had torrential rain a few hours ago but it was short lived.

It's been heavy showers on and off for the last two days here.

Yes, lots of sitting down, Lindsay!!

Lots of rain here today.

I'm rather frustrated with our office, heating contractors, and not being able to change meds yet. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Grrr indeed. Will all of those be sorted soonish?

I'll post it in a rant thread! Then you can read all the gory details!

I have to wait for the psych to write a letter to my GP for the med change.

Oh dear, I don't know if I want too many gory details. =P

At least the med change is in progress though.

It's not that gory lol!

Well sort of. I have to tell my therapist who has to tell the psych....

Ah, just read... no it wasn't gory. Sometimes simple situations end up being the most frustrating things to sort out!

Sort of in progress is better than not at all. =)

Very frustrating! It's a case of too many people and things and urrghhh!

True!

Thanks. :)

Yes I know those situations where all you want to do is scream! Good luck sorting it tomorrow - prepare a battle plan tonight for when you go into the office!

Indeed! Thanks.

How do I convey to them what I mean? This morning the 2 people I spoke to had no clue, and makes me wonder if I can communicate ok or whether they were just clueless...

I think it's probably that they're just clueless. I don't know if writing something down would help? Like, literally a bullet point list... what the problem is, what keys they will need, etc?

My usual approach to people being dumb is just to be blunt and straight to the point and treat them like idiots! But that sometimes comes off as being rude so.. erm... although not to be advised, it does usually work.

Thanks. I'll give the list a try.

Lists are always the way to go.

Definitely!

Morning everyone

Oh dear Jinxie, how many do you have?

Morning everyone.

Morning Katie. Howre you?

Morning all x

Afternoon guys!

Was woken up by the emergency alarm that didn't stop for 20 mins (the work men couldn't figure out how to turn it off)
Just been snoozing all morning
Still tired!

How annoying beckie!

Very! And gave me a headache

How are you Lillie?

Boo to headaches

Was in resus now getting blood. Feel pretry rubbish tbf they do have ABBA on though

Well done for going china

Thanks, my boss took me so didn't have much choice.

Afternoon peoples.

How is your day going Eska? How's your back?

How are you Katie?

Hope you're doing ok Lillie. Not sure if ABBA would help with that..!

How are you Tamo?

Damn unnecessary alarms! I hope your head feels better soon Beckie and you feel less tired.

The news is that either they haven't switched on the local clock or I cant hear it in my flat. Either way I haven't heard it chiming.

That's good dawn.

How're you lindsay?

I'm currently trying to self discharge
Let's see how this pans out!
One HCA is on my side but the rest, not so much