Covid 19 – Dr Rod’s Odd Blog (almondemotion)

To what extent has Covid damaged medicine?

the back wings
of the

hospital where
nothing

will grow…

Together, we live in dementia.

A basic human right – the right to family life has been bolloxed.

Would you want to risk missing God?

If I was in my last hours of life and the tunnel and the bright light were there

Covid, pants and barriers to communication

I met an old man last week, his pants were poking out of his pyjama bottoms. They were the same as mine M&S blue stars; I was going to tell him and everyone else in the room about our shared underwear but, the facemask and the goggles, gown and gloves Got in theContinue reading “Covid, pants and barriers to communication”

opposite the optimism / down stream

I see school children in groups walking around as if nothing is happening; dumb to the reality that their future is being burned through the profligate nature of government spending on failed schemes for virus control or overall chaotic mismanagement of the crisis.

Hospital acquired infection, Covid, Coroners and the solstice

Ignaz might not be happy, but Donne would be chuffed.

Covid – my brain, my brain! What is happening to my brain?

Serial processing; switching backwards and forwards from concentrating on Word to Outlook to Chrome uses mental energy;

Francis Bacon’s interpretation of our health service as it struggles to catch its breath.

A drooling, dribbling, stuttering, stumbling, drug-addled bully, we express our love through brutality.

Self-organisation, the current state of the world and what has worked

Our growth, our evolution has happened unconsciously, at an intuitive, human level – we have been feeling not thinking, reacting not planning, doing what feels right rather than what we are told is right.

Lockdown, solitary confinement and loneliness

Imagine the harm done to those people previously ‘living well’ with dementia who for six weeks have had a dramatic reduction in visitors and day-centre attendances; even the bitter-sweet routine trips to GP surgeries or hospitals have been done away with.

Death in the time of Covid – why I have stopped looking at the official figures

‘Will my mum be recorded within the statistics?’

I haven’t been asked that yet.

Covid – difficult moment when the answers are not straightforward

All we can do in the Time of Covid is to do our best and act in good faith.

Testing in the time of Covid…

We have closed schools which has reduced transmission; we can’t close care homes.

Marathon and a sprint

The slower we move now, the more people will become ill or die.

In a few hours it will be Mother’s Day.

I feel awful. The message came through that the care home I support was opening for an hour to allow relatives to see their mums. Just an hour, strict hygiene, in the resident’s bedrooms. I asked the manager to stop. ‘If one person gets Covid, many will die.’ I said. It is almost impossible toContinue reading “In a few hours it will be Mother’s Day.”