A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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My 85 year old mother spent a month in hospital last year while they sorted her medicines out, she was taking a lot she shouldn't have had together, the GP kept just repeating prescriptions and locums would prescribe something new but not take old ones away. This had been going on for years, it wasn't until her 3rd trip to A&E after falling over they realised there was something wrong! A local pharmacy who knew their customers would have been on to that straight away.
 
Yes you are right, my 90 year old mother has a cupboard full of eye drops, heart tabs, beta blockers and sleeping tabs, and other stuff which is churned out every month. I’ve rung the doctors for a revue of her tablets, but it’s the old cookie of patient confidentiality and I need to go in and make an appointment, proof of identity POA etc etc
Luckily my mother is bright enough to know what she is taking, but doesn’t want to go to the doctors until she needs to go, so can’t persuade her, in the meantime the mountain of medicines are growing, all at the expense of the tax payer, ridiculous!
 
I think the problem is a while ago they changed my medication for a cheaper one and the pharmacies got lots of stock of the cheaper one in. The cheaper one didn't suit me. I got all my original symptoms back and put on half a stone when I had been symptom free for 16 years so I demanded I went back on the more expensive one. Now they don't carry enough stock of the more expensive one because it is more expensive and hardly anyone is prescribed it anymore.
 
We have a brilliant local pharmacy, a proper old fashioned family business. They take good care of my old mum and she's never left without her pills, anytime she phones up or we go in for her they know just who she is and asks how she's doing and they deliver all her stuff and even alert us and the doctor if they try deliver and she doesnt answer the door in case she's had a fall or too ill to get up!
Much better than where she went before in Yorkshire, we used to spend every bank holiday weekend chasing missing meds right up until closing time on friday, then calling NHS direct trying to get a doctor who was authorised to prescribe her morphine then trailing around looking for somewhere that stocked it...
 
Betsy said:
I think the problem is a while ago they changed my medication for a cheaper one and the pharmacies got lots of stock of the cheaper one in. The cheaper one didn't suit me. I got all my original symptoms back and put on half a stone when I had been symptom free for 16 years so I demanded I went back on the more expensive one. Now they don't carry enough stock of the more expensive one because it is more expensive and hardly anyone is prescribed it anymore.
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I've had the same problem with my tablets the GPs been swaping them around to find one that doesn't make me ill and the rarer more expensive ones are never in stock.
 
PigglePuggle said:
We have a brilliant local pharmacy, a proper old fashioned family business. They take good care of my old mum and she's never left without her pills, anytime she phones up or we go in for her they know just who she is and asks how she's doing and they deliver all her stuff and even alert us and the doctor if they try deliver and she doesnt answer the door in case she's had a fall or too ill to get up!
Much better than where she went before in Yorkshire, we used to spend every bank holiday weekend chasing missing meds right up until closing time on friday, then calling NHS direct trying to get a doctor who was authorised to prescribe her morphine then trailing around looking for somewhere that stocked it...
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I wish we could bring back the local shops for everything. A decent baker, butcher and grocer would be so lovely, somewhere the staff know you and say hello. Shame they can no longer compete with the internet and supermarkets. We lost our last local pharmacy two years ago.
Hope your Mum's doing okay @PigglePuggle.
 
Yes, I’ve noticed my inhaler has gone to a generic one, it’s rubbish, and has no power to get into your lungs just sprays into your mouth!
In my mind the whole health service has really gone to pot, it started with dentists, A&E, elderly care, doctors, chemists and now special needs children services going the same way, dreadful. Too many people in performance management, and not enough doctors, nurses and health care assistants to me. Can’t get dentists down here at all, there’s a waiting list of 18 months now to join an NHS dentist. My OH has had his latest dental appointment changed 3 times, now booked for August! Can’t be good for the Country to have so many poorly and suffering people around!
 
PigglePuggle said:
We have a brilliant local pharmacy, a proper old fashioned family business. They take good care of my old mum and she's never left without her pills, anytime she phones up or we go in for her they know just who she is and asks how she's doing and they deliver all her stuff and even alert us and the doctor if they try deliver and she doesnt answer the door in case she's had a fall or too ill to get up!
Much better than where she went before in Yorkshire, we used to spend every bank holiday weekend chasing missing meds right up until closing time on friday, then calling NHS direct trying to get a doctor who was authorised to prescribe her morphine then trailing around looking for somewhere that stocked it...
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So glad you have found a good chemist for your Mum. Lots have closed local near us, Boot’s seem to have a monopoly round here, they are hopeless x
 
The waiting list for a dentist was years when I lived in Cornwall we had to go private. I found one in Truro who would see the children on the NHS if we paid for private dentristry so at least that was something!
Public services went to pot when they brought in targets, police, education, health everything has targets, no one can use common sense or their own initiative anymore.
 
Bill & Ted said:
So glad you have found a good chemist for your Mum. Lots have closed local near us, Boot’s seem to have a monopoly round here, they are hopeless x
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Ours is next door to the doctor so they have a good thing going on there! We're very lucky with community health care in Liverpool, but the main hospital is rubbish (Carillion were building the new one then went bankrupt leaving a half built hospital 3 years and 6 million pounds over due and over budget, then it was found to have structural problems and flammable cladding...)
 
I miss real Cornish Pasties, I worked late fridays so friday tea was always a pasty from the local butchers. Although the very best ever pasties were made by my MIL, huge they were, she cut the pastry out round a large dinner plate!
 
piggieminder said:
The waiting list for a dentist was years when I lived in Cornwall we had to go private. I found one in Truro who would see the children on the NHS if we paid for private dentristry so at least that was something!
Public services went to pot when they brought in targets, police, education, health everything has targets, no one can use common sense or their own initiative anymore.
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This is the trouble with targets, no one dare use their initiative anymore and use straight forward common sense in case they are sacked. Form filling and duplication are the order of the day, despite computerisation, unfortunately these systems were badly written and have never linked up to each other.
 
People who put a best offer in on ebay, you accept it and then they refuse to pay. This really annoys me as it means I have to go through the process of starting non-payment strike action against them which means I can't relist my item for 6 days from the sale date. You wouldn't go into a shop, ask them to put somehthing by for you and say "Is it all right if I pay for this when I feel ready to, infact I may not pay for it at all but just keep it round the back in case I do feel like paying. I may be back within the week, I may not it all depends if I decide I actually want it or not" now would you? Cos that is, in effect, what is happening to me atm. I have 2 things with outstanding payments on them. I want to post them off as I have enough stuff in my house and need extra space which is why I am selling it.
 
Yes, I’ve had one of these. I emailed her and asked if she still wanted the dress and would she like to pay for it and she got so umpty! You bid for it and won, now pay for it! Simples!
 
I know you enter a binding agreement when you bid or put in a best offer. I had some real abuse of some guy a while ago. He was accusing me of forcing him to pay for something that he didn't want. If he didn't want it why did he bid on it then? I complained to ebay about him and blocked him from bidding on my stuff. He has since left ebay.
 
PigglePuggle said:
I find the kids do better when there arent half drunk adults showing off and encouraging them to behave inappropriately near the animals, if its just me and piggy daddy and a couple of kids its fine, its when the adults prefer to try get a laugh than act responsibly that makes me mad. But I cant say to the kids "no piggies today because aunty ****face has been on the wine" etc... grrrr! The piggies are now enjoying beansprouts and broccolli stalks as compensation anyway, they are all fine but like me they are none too keen on family sundays :)
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PigglePuggle said:
I find the kids do better when there arent half drunk adults showing off and encouraging them to behave inappropriately near the animals, if its just me and piggy daddy and a couple of kids its fine, its when the adults prefer to try get a laugh than act responsibly that makes me mad. But I cant say to the kids "no piggies today because aunty ****face has been on the wine" etc... grrrr! The piggies are now enjoying beansprouts and broccolli stalks as compensation anyway, they are all fine but like me they are none too keen on family sundays :)
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PigglePuggle said:
I find the kids do better when there arent half drunk adults showing off and encouraging them to behave inappropriately near the animals, if its just me and piggy daddy and a couple of kids its fine, its when the adults prefer to try get a laugh than act responsibly that makes me mad. But I cant say to the kids "no piggies today because aunty ****face has been on the wine" etc... grrrr! The piggies are now enjoying beansprouts and broccolli stalks as compensation anyway, they are all fine but like me they are none too keen on family sundays :)
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Put them in a locked room, so they can't get them. Also tell them your piggies are not toys, if they drop one of them it could be the end of your piggy. I would tell them if they have drunk any alcohol, it is not a good example to the children.
So if they drink they ain't coming in.
 
People who overfeed their pets to the point of morbid obesity and then laugh about it and shrug it off. “He is just a big lump of love”, “He has little Dino arms his belly is so large”, “He is happiest when eating” blah blah.. it INFURIATES me, it’s animal abuse! Most animals don’t have an off switch, stop enabling him/her and be responsible!

What’s worse is that TV shows focusing on slimming down obese pets even exist. It’s great the pets get to slim down but for a problem to be so endemic that it needs a tv show?! It’s basically the “hahaha” attitude the owners have in these tv shoes that wind me up so badly.

I have a rescue cat that in the wrong home could easily become grossly overweight, he snorts his food down in under 1 minute and then screams for more. I stick to his correct portion sizes, I separate him until other cats are done eating so he cannot steal their food. I do not give into him when he begs and screeches for more cat food or even human food. I’m a responsible pet owner, he is not going to rollover and die if we stick to appropriate portions and I don’t give into his demands...I just don’t understand why some out there can’t do it.
 
It’s that naughty neighbour who give extra treats too. Don’t feed it unless it’s your cat, the owner is responsible for feeding him
 
Bill & Ted said:
It’s that naughty neighbour who give extra treats too. Don’t feed it unless it’s your cat, the owner is responsible for feeding him
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Yes! My mother was feeding a neighbors cat, going so far as to purchase cheap cans of cat food...as were about 3 others. I told her to stop it! Not only is it bad for the cats diet but you can easily cause diarrhea with a diet change and suddenly offering food brands it has never eaten before.

I said to her “stop feeding it or get your own cat!” She complained it is thin (it’s quite old). The responsibile thing to do in that case is report it if you are worried the owners cannot/are not looking after it. Worst case scenario it gets taken away and re-homed to someone who CAN care for it and who will pay any vet bills. With half a street caring for a cat, who takes it to the vets if the owner does not? No-one!

My kitties are indoor only (they have outdoor access to a kittyproof area in summer) so no danger of anyone “helping” feed them.
 
People who drop litter is a real bug bear of mine. Our beautiful countryside verges are covered with rubbish that’s been thrown from cars. It’s an embarrassment to the nation, we seem to be becoming a third world country in this respect, who are all these people who can’t just bin it when they get home?
The recycling vans drive around overflowing with recycling that people have taken the time to recycle too, spewing it on every corner or bump they take.
We do regular beach cleans and the amount of domestic rubbish is very low down here in Cornwall, it’s mainly fishing net twine which is a killer in itself. We need to concentrate on our countryside now and get the council to clean up these verges and heavily fine offenders. Children need to be educated about “what pockets are for” and all drive through takeaway companies need to electronically print car registration numbers on all packaging, that would help trace the offenders. Phew what a grumpy old cow I am this morning 😤
 
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