General Chat

Wooo hoooo

Had a phone call at 5.45 pm last evening and we can offer you an appointment on Sunday at 3.30pm

We only had another 100 doses delivered and as we have a cancellation we can offer it to you as the next one on the list


Yes please!

Means a drive to a health clinic but they have a big free car park so that’s a bonus

Fortunately I know where it is as my vet is in the same complex
:-D ;-)

Shirley, this looks fairly up to date :

https://www.kentandmedwayccg.nhs.uk/your-health/coronavirus/covid19vaccine

Ooh sounds promising Joy

I am in Medway so hopefully!

My pal, who is six months older than me and who is registered at the same surgery as me, texted me this morning to say she'd had a phone call this morning asking her to go for the jab tomorrow at our own surgery.

Hope on the horizon, :-)

JoyLouise :-D

I felt the same about the relaxation over Christmas prior to the relaxation being cancelled for us.

I got it wrong and I am fully compos mentis! Our area was Tier 3 at Xmas but moved into Tier 4 shortly afterwards.

Now I hear that the government is considering opening schools on a regional basis. Sounds like a recipe for more muddle as well as unease about disadvantages.

One rule for the whole of England (as elsewhere) is much more easy to understand.

I'm afraid I still blame Boris for his ineptitude, his dithering and his reluctance to play the bad guy and the resultant pressure on the NHS. There will always be rule-breakers but most people I spoke with realized that the relaxation of rules on Christmas Day would result in an overworked, overstretched NHS and I just can't understand why that seemed to be beyond Boris's comprehension..

Our reading of the Christmas Tier 4 rules were that a single person from one household could join your family for the day not that two families could mix.
Some people carried on with the plans arranged before the Tier change and rules tightened.

Luckily I shop online and get my groceries delivered

Didn’t go out for months after the first lockdown

Did get hair done when they reopened and a follow up in dec

Chiropractor opened up and done 3 monthly appointments

Dentist opened up and had a check up and hygienist

Late nov had a very delayed annual eye check and from then referred to hospital because eyes were showing problems .Saw the consultant 22.nd dec and today a follow up for possible new lenses

All these appointments spread a long way apart

But after every one I get a bit anxious just in case !

We were in Tier 4 too but he allowed two families to mix for the one day only. (Not that we did.)

It was going to be five days of Xmas until the medics and scientists reined him in. :-|

Edit: he reminds me of a good-time Charlie.

A lot of us were in Tier 4 over Christmas and we’re not supposed too mix. Can’t blame Boris really for all the stupid people in Tier 4 that just ignored the rules.

I will too, Shirley.

I have not been inside a shop since before the March lockdown - although I find going back to online shopping again after a 20 year gap is really good. I doubt very much that I will do much grocery shopping instore again - i forgot how easy it was when I was working and also I have probably become too lazy!

I do recall reading that some hospitals had so many members of staff off ill or isolating because of covid infection and coming into contact unwittingly with those infected around Christmastime that Army medics had been drafted in so it is feasible that vaccinations had dropped a little because of the same problem.

I blame Boris for letting everyone loose on Xmas Day! :-|

Yes I know patience needed but also still feel very vulnerable

Not going out much .only essential appointments but even though all precautions taken by me and the contact I still feel unsafe every time and for some time after


It’s such a tense time for everyone


I will feel a bit more relaxed when I get jabbed

:-) :-)

The system is depndent upon the organisation in each area, I think - something we have no control over.

My (younger) 75-year-old pal is going to be done before I am so, as only a mile or so and a different doctor separates us, I'd guess her surgery is better organised than ours.

It could, of course, be that there are a higher number of over-80s and vulnerable people near me but, having done some demographic tables on the whole city for a report several years ago, I think the delay will be due to less-capable organisational skills.

As I am not going anywhere at all, I am in for anyone who phones but I think we shall have to exercise some patience, Shirley.

I, for one, won't complain because I realise how overworked the medical staff I know are at the moment.

Been for an eye appointment this morning as a follow up to my referral to hospital in dec for macula degeneration

The indication was new lenses needed anyway although won’t correct any effects of the macula problem

After a long consultation it was see you in six months .new lenses won’t help at the mo

Soo chats with the consultant he was saying he is getting the jab next week

As someone in constant contact with the general public is categorised as vulnerable

He is in his 50,s

No problem with that butttttt As an over 80 still waiting


When it’s being said some over 70,s now being jabbed it’s where is the system ??

OH and I had our first one yesterday and the whole thing, from door to door, took half an hour. No hanging around - straight in to the surgery, names and dob checked (although the nurse actually knew who we were) painless jab, sit there for 5 minutes and home. This was the Oxford vaccine. So far no side effects.

I said to the nurse that I had seen some of the queues at the vaccination hubs, and was very glad that we didn't have to stand outside for ages. She agreed that it wasn't a good idea even for younger fitter folk and said that was why we had to wait a couple of weeks longer for the jabs, so that they could get the Oxford vaccine and give them at the surgery.

This morning, one of my pals who is 75, so younger than me, got the call to present herself for the jab on Thursday. She lives about a mile from me and is registered at a different surgery.

Perhaps the organisation at her doc's practice is better than at ours but I don't expect it will be too long before my OH and I get called.

It's moving apace now, don't you think? But it will always depend on how good are the organisational skills in the various areas. There's precious little we oldies can do about that other than exercise a little patience.

I know of someone who got a letter to say they had missed their appointment but could book a new one, choice of 2 places mikes away and difficult to get to.

They had not made a previous appointment or received any letter. So now they are still waiting for a more local one. :-|

That sounds awful, LondonBelle.

I actually had an interview for a job using an event site. I didn't go well! :-S

However, in Wales:
"The Covid vaccination programme in Wales has been heavily criticised after the first minister, Mark Drakeford, said the deployment of tens of thousands of Pfizer/BioNTech jabs was being staggered to avoid staff sitting around with nothing to do once the country gets through its current supply."

So first minister, what shall we go with, people not having to 'hang around', or potential deaths from covid?

I thought you might be interested to hear how the vaccine rollout is going on the other side of The Pond, my cousin lives in Florida and sent me the following overnight:

"The Covid vaccines are here in Florida but there seems to be small quantities being released slowly. There are a lot of people here 65 and older that are eligible to receive it but very limited appointments to sign up and get one. You have to sign up online - there is no waiting list or advanced appointments. You have to keep constantly checking the website to see if any new appointment days have opened up. The vaccines are free but the website is actually an event website where you would go to purchase tickets for a play or a concert so you can imagine when it’s announced new appointments are available 9 AM the next morning everyone’s on their devices at 9am trying to secure a “ticket” and the odds are against success."

At least the UK seem to be a lot more organised in what is a mammoth task :-0 :-). I know each State is different but hopefully, for my cousin's sake, Florida will get it's act together soon :-) <3

The man my sister runs a campsite in sussex with, is over 80, and got his last Thursday, as did his wife.
My sister in law (65) with 'slow' Leukemia, lives in the New Forest, and she and my brother had it on Friday.