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

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Bill & Ted said:
That’s appalling, your poor Mum, how cruel x
I hate to criticise carers as they do a very hard job with little support, little sympathy from the general public unlike nurses and dreadful pay, but there is a culture of “passing the book“ This runs right down the NHS from what I’ve seen, out of mind and out of sight. I just feel glad I’m retired so can go round and help her, how anyone holds down a job with sick and/or elderly relatives who need care I cannot imagine. half of my day is filled with caring or sorting out “professionals ups” Luckily she is doing very well and is capable of dressing and washing, has good balance and can walk unaided.
Mum says if anything happens again she does not want resuscitation and go through the anguish of uncertain care, I think that says it all! 😞
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So sad isnt it, my mum too, last Christmas she was in hospital almost a month just because they couldnt sort out her home care and she swore never to go to hospital again, she was well enough to come home after 5 days but was stuck there until the hospital social worker got back from her holidays and then the community and hospital social workers passed her back and forth and nobody wanted to take responsibility :( fortunately my daughter has a first class university degree in community social care policy and management and tonnes of real life experience and she absolutely kicked ass, but its sad that families have to produce a social care legal eagle to just get the basics older people should be entitled to...
 
Using phones for social media is fine, but it has got out of hand, smartphones are now a thing most of us can't be without, I admit it, I need it for certain things for work, and this forum. But when you see people walking along, bumping into everything, headphones on, not aware of anything, it's dangerous. There was a fire alarm going off in my local shopping centre last year, and teens on headphones were just walking in still, 😂.

BTW when I'm messaging on here in the day time, I am always in the passenger seat👍.

I do believe that smartphones are government control over us, not directly, but they are using smartphones to a major advantage. It's like sheep flocking, ever watched the truman show movie? Have a watch
 
PigglePuggle said:
So sad isnt it, my mum too, last Christmas she was in hospital almost a month just because they couldnt sort out her home care and she swore never to go to hospital again, she was well enough to come home after 5 days but was stuck there until the hospital social worker got back from her holidays and then the community and hospital social workers passed her back and forth and nobody wanted to take responsibility :( fortunately my daughter has a first class university degree in community social care policy and management and tonnes of real life experience and she absolutely kicked ass, but its sad that families have to produce a social care legal eagle to just get the basics older people should be entitled to...
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Absolutely my Mum worked all her life, paid her taxes and should expect and receive adequate care when she needs it
 
I was one of the original generation carrying “bricks” around when they first came out in the 80’s. People used them for work mainly back then. I now have the cheapest pay as you go Tesco mobile phone available. I only keep it in my handbag in case my car brakes down or other emergency.
I am slightly addicted to my iPad though, we have 3 iPads plus a laptop and a tablet, there’s only two of us!
 
Sophie B said:
When your glasses won't clean and they go all blurry
(I've relatively recently got glasses after not needing them for a while, and I'd forgotten all about that)
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Or when they get wet and the droplets stay on there marring your clear vision! Can you tell I don’t particularly like getting my glasses wet? 🤣
 
Betsy said:
So is driving in the dark while wearing glasses! Even with an anti-reflective coating on the lenses you still get reflections from everywhere!
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Yes! I have an anti reflection coating on mine. I don’t drive much in the dark, but I often curse the coating when I do!
 
Piggies&buns said:
Yes! I have an anti reflection coating on mine. I don’t drive much in the dark, but I often curse the coating when I do!
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Neither do I! But once a week I have to drive on the M27 and the A31 right the way through to New Forest, all the way down through Ringwood and then down to Merley most of which is in the dark and it's a right pain! I know the road which makes it a bit easier but I still only do around 60mph and I have cars doing at least 100mph going past. I would rather go a bit slower and get to my destination in one piece. It only takes around 5-10 minutes longer.
 
The anti-reflective coating on glasses always makes me queasy and I have no idea why. I have reactions lenses and I couldn't really justify the expense of another coating on top of that...but then I'm not really complaining. More like why does something I need to be able to function in daily life with, have to cost upwards of £100+?
 
Urgh this is a huge rant... my 5 year old nephew who was diagnosed at the hospital with gluten and dairy allergies a few weeks ago is really ill because his school dinner lady fed him chocolate cake :( all the dinner staff and his teachers had a sit down meeting with his mum a couple of weeks ago, official meal plans were drawn up... but this dinner lady doesnt believe in new fangled nonsense like food allergies so she fed a 5-year-old something that made him go all blotchy and vomit blood "because he's ever so thin and he wanted some cake"!
I am normally a very nice person but I am thinking very not nice things about this dinner lady...
 
PigglePuggle said:
Urgh this is a huge rant... my 5 year old nephew who was diagnosed at the hospital with gluten and dairy allergies a few weeks ago is really ill because his school dinner lady fed him chocolate cake :( all the dinner staff and his teachers had a sit down meeting with his mum a couple of weeks ago, official meal plans were drawn up... but this dinner lady doesnt believe in new fangled nonsense like food allergies so she fed a 5-year-old something that made him go all blotchy and vomit blood "because he's ever so thin and he wanted some cake"!
I am normally a very nice person but I am thinking very not nice things about this dinner lady...
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That's an abuse of power in position, no way someone like that should be around kids. Hell 27 years ago when I started primary school my mum had to go in, look at the kitchens, speak with the staff, the whole thing, because I was the same way. Bet she's one of them that thinks coeliacs and gluten issues don't exist.
 
Lorcan said:
That's an abuse of power in position, no way someone like that should be around kids. Hell 27 years ago when I started primary school my mum had to go in, look at the kitchens, speak with the staff, the whole thing, because I was the same way. Bet she's one of them that thinks coeliacs and gluten issues don't exist.
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Awful isnt it, I know some people avoid gluten and dairy to be fashionable but there's nothing trendy about a horrible rash and uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhoea and ulcerated bowels if you have a genuine food allergy, especially in a 5 year old... of course he wants cake, he's 5 and bordeline malnourished because he's been sick so much waiting for a diagnosis, and all this is a bit new for him :(
I've invited him for tea new week and I'm going to splash out of the most chocolatey luxurious gluten and dairy free pudding I can find on Ocado!
 
PigglePuggle said:
Awful isnt it, I know some people avoid gluten and dairy to be fashionable but there's nothing trendy about a horrible rash and uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhoea and ulcerated bowels if you have a genuine food allergy, especially in a 5 year old... of course he wants cake, he's 5 and bordeline malnourished because he's been sick so much waiting for a diagnosis, and all this is a bit new for him :(
I've invited him for tea new week and I'm going to splash out of the most chocolatey luxurious gluten and dairy free pudding I can find on Ocado!
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The cake at my primary school was the most awful dry...stuff...that you've ever eaten. Thankfully I wasn't missing out, lol. But you'll find dairy in the most odd places. Like pesto. I have to buy dairy free pesto, it feels ridiculous. Gluten free pasta is pretty good, though. Can he take a milk substitute? If he can I'd stay clear of coconut milk for the time being, it's nice but heavy on the stomach and his digestive system probably wouldn't be up to it.
 
Lorcan said:
The cake at my primary school was the most awful dry...stuff...that you've ever eaten. Thankfully I wasn't missing out, lol. But you'll find dairy in the most odd places. Like pesto. I have to buy dairy free pesto, it feels ridiculous. Gluten free pasta is pretty good, though. Can he take a milk substitute? If he can I'd stay clear of coconut milk for the time being, it's nice but heavy on the stomach and his digestive system probably wouldn't be up to it.
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He's fine with almond milk, luckily the blood tests say no nut allergy just dairy and gluten! I ordered his mum a big free-from ocado shop the day he got his diagnosis, gluten free pasta and bread and pizza bases, dairy free mozzarrella substitute, almond milk, dairy and gluten free sauces, gluten free sausages and fish fingers... I'm vegetarian and dairy intolerant with IBS so I went vegan last year and I'm quite used to reading ingredients, but its a shock for a normal household who ate everything before and were used to shopping on a tight budget for the cheapest way to feed the kids! Such a shame when his mum has made such a huge effort at home that school which should be a safe space can't do the same :(
 
yeah I seem to have grown out of the actual dairy allergy, but I have major problems with most milk stuff anyway unless it's whole milk. I tried it for the first time recently, whole milk I mean. That stuff tastes amazing. Unfortunately the IBS means I can't go dairy because I can tolerate very little in the way of fibre. Like my doctor was on at me yesterday about changing my diet and I'm like, sure. You find something new that my stomach will tolerate and I'm all for it. Til then, cola and salted crisps it is, thanks.
 
Poor little boy, I hope he's feeling better. My grandson is dairy and nut intolerant (from birth), he is 5 too. He's had to go to hospital a few times now because he's had something accidently he shouldn't have, it's such a worry once they start school and go to friends houses and get out and about more. You just want to wrap them in cotton wool and not let them out of your sight.

My OH is gluten intolerant among a lot of other food allergies, we think his digestive system has been damaged by the pills he took for his arthritis. We now avoid the shop bought gluten free foods as they were having an effect too, including gluten free flour which I used to use. I discovered when doing some online research that a lot of the food sold as gluten free isn't 100% free. My advice @PigglePuggle is to introduce things gently and see if there's a reaction, it's such a flippin mine field.
 
PigglePuggle said:
Urgh this is a huge rant... my 5 year old nephew who was diagnosed at the hospital with gluten and dairy allergies a few weeks ago is really ill because his school dinner lady fed him chocolate cake :( all the dinner staff and his teachers had a sit down meeting with his mum a couple of weeks ago, official meal plans were drawn up... but this dinner lady doesnt believe in new fangled nonsense like food allergies so she fed a 5-year-old something that made him go all blotchy and vomit blood "because he's ever so thin and he wanted some cake"!
I am normally a very nice person but I am thinking very not nice things about this dinner lady...
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My middle son had a peanut allergy (which he has now thankfully grown out of) and all the staff at school were told about it, how serious it was, the first sign of a reaction and what to do. One day he ate something that I hadn't given him (which he knew he wasn't to do) and he went to The Office and told the staff (who were First Aiders) that he had an itchy mouth (the first sign for him that he had a reaction coming on) and they told him to scratch it! He then went to find his older brother who went to The Office and demanded that they phone me immediately and that my middle son needed Piriton RIGHT NOW as he was starting to have an allergic reaction. Apparently they moved pretty fast after that. My sons were 8 and 10 at the time. How come schools don't take this thing seriously?. It IS a problem that lots of people suffer from. It is NOT made up or trendy.
 
piggieminder said:
Poor little boy, I hope he's feeling better. My grandson is dairy and nut intolerant (from birth), he is 5 too. He's had to go to hospital a few times now because he's had something accidently he shouldn't have, it's such a worry once they start school and go to friends houses and get out and about more. You just want to wrap them in cotton wool and not let them out of your sight.

My OH is gluten intolerant among a lot of other food allergies, we think his digestive system has been damaged by the pills he took for his arthritis. We now avoid the shop bought gluten free foods as they were having an effect too, including gluten free flour which I used to use. I discovered when doing some online research that a lot of the food sold as gluten free isn't 100% free. My advice @PigglePuggle is to introduce things gently and see if there's a reaction, it's such a flippin mine field.
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Thanks for that @piggieminder I'll let his mum know, she is keeping a very rigorous food diary so hopefully any questionable ingredients will get identified pretty fast. Mostly at home she's sticking to plain old home cooked meat/potato/veg meals, but he's tried gluten free spaghetti and gluten free flour and almond milk for pancakes with good results so far!
 
Betsy said:
My middle son had a peanut allergy (which he has now thankfully grown out of) and all the staff at school were told about it, how serious it was, the first sign of a reaction and what to do. One day he ate something that I hadn't given him (which he knew he wasn't to do) and he went to The Office and told the staff (who were First Aiders) that he had an itchy mouth (the first sign for him that he had a reaction coming on) and they told him to scratch it! He then went to find his older brother who went to The Office and demanded that they phone me immediately and that my middle son needed Piriton RIGHT NOW as he was starting to have an allergic reaction. Apparently they moved pretty fast after that. My sons were 8 and 10 at the time. How come schools don't take this thing seriously?. It IS a problem that lots of people suffer from. It is NOT made up or trendy.
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Good on your oldest son @Betsy, luckily my nephew also has a very caring older brother (he's like a fussy mother hen bless him, always clucking about and also telling mum about anything the younger one gets up to!) so there's someone to keep an eye on him!
 
:hb: A certain hospital (I won't name it here).
My mother is in hospital 1 for tests to determine why she keeps falling over, is it her Parkinson's or something else? She was sent yesterday to hospital 2 for a CT scan, admitted through A&E. She waited for hours with no food, drink or meds, they lost her notes. Not knowing why she was there they quized her, decided she was a confused old lady and put her on a ward for the night! Anyone would have been confused. There is a bed crisis in the NHS, my mother bless her has managed to bag two, she's in one and her possesions are at another! She managed to ring my sister this morning who has managed to track her down and is now trying to take her out of hospital 2 back to hospital 1.

Hospital 2 is the same hospital who lost my father's notes, he had so many he had his own trolley. They gave him inappropriate treatment because they didn't have his notes and effectively brought about an earlier death. As it was this was a blessing really, but still horrible, my father was very ill not just a difficult old man.
 
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piggieminder said:
:hb: A certain hospital (I won't name it here).
My mother is in hospital 1 for tests to determine why she keeps falling over, is it her Parkinson's or something else? She was sent yesterday to hospital 2 for a CT scan, admitted through A&E. She waited for hours with no food, drink or meds, they lost her notes. Not knowing why she was there they quized her, decided she was a confused old lady and put her on a ward for the night! Anyone would have been confused. There is a bed crisis in the NHS, my mother bless her has managed to bag two, she's in one and her possesions are at another! She managed to ring my sister this morning who has managed to track her down and is now trying to take her out of hospital 2 back to hospital 1.

Hospital 2 is the same hospital who lost my father's notes, he had so many he had his own trolley. The gave him inappropriate treatment because they didn't have his notes and effectively brought about an earlier death. As it was this was a blessing really, but still horrible, my father was very ill not just a difficult old man.
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The NHS is in a shocking state isn't it @piggieminder the nurses and doctors are angels who work so hard but the whole organisation at management level is so disorganised, working with paper notes and fax machines and physically moving paper about the place in 2019, I hope we are all going to vote in the general election with these shambolic health and social care failings we all keep ranting about on here in mind! Sod Brexit, what about the important stuff!
 
I'm glad they use paper with all these cyber attack threats about. Imagine if the NHS patient data got deleted. But yea I can se NHS is struggling, too much population on a tiny island I think isn't helping
 
Shocking behaviour!! How can a dinner lady do that. Doesn’t matter whether they believe in it or not! What if he had a level of allergy where he would go into anaphylactic shock?!

My niece HMO’s gluten and dairy intolerant. She’s...early 20s and knows, but has a couple of times (knowingly) eaten something she shouldn’t! There’s no sympathy in that case though.

@piggieminder I hope you manage to find a solution soon and your mum’s ‘issue’ is figured out. ❣️
 
On the glasses note, I bought two pairs. One was for driving at night and had the coating so the car lights wouldn’t be as bright. It was all good until one arm of the glasses broke off! It was more than a year since I’d bought them, but the issue is they didn’t even break where the hinge is! So disappointed considering how much they cost 🤬
 
Siikibam said:
Shocking behaviour! How can a dinner lady do that. Doesn’t matter whether they believe in it or not! What if he had a level of allergy where he would go into anaphylactic shock?!

My niece HMO’s gluten and dairy intolerant. She’s...early 20s and knows, but has a couple of times (knowingly) eaten something she shouldn’t! There’s no sympathy in that case though.

@piggieminder I hope you manage to find a solution soon and your mum’s ‘issue’ is figured out. ❣
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Thanks @Siikibam its reassuring just to find out how common food allergies are nowadays! Its quite easy to shop free from but expensive. After further investigation the cake temptation was partly a result of the school only.offering the allergy kids hypoallergenic popcorn for dessert when the other kids had chocolate cake :( there were bananas on offer too but... yes he also has a very random banana allergy but its so random it isnt an issue if there were apples and oranges or grapes or other fruit (which he loves, he's crazy about fruit) but no just allergenic bananas or boring nutrition free hypoallergenic prescription popcorn :(
 
That is just awful, we have 3 gluten intolerant children in the school where I work and all staff know, lunch, teachers and ta's. We always check if we're making something in class and they have separate puddings etc for lunch, we even keep a stash of sweets that we know they can have for when there are birthday's etc so they don't miss out.
 
Spaghetti & Noodles said:
That is just awful, we have 3 gluten intolerant children in the school where I work and all staff know, lunch, teachers and ta's. We always check if we're making something in class and they have separate puddings etc for lunch, we even keep a stash of sweets that we know they can have for when there are birthday's etc so they don't miss out.
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Yes his class teacher is very good, she even bought a "free from" chocolate advent calendar for the class to have a chocolate each every day until Christmas and checked the ingredients with the allergy kids' mums first! But now his mum is too scared to let him have lunch at school because she's been told by the doctor another "bad episode" and he'll probably be in hospital for a while off food altogether until his guts heal... I mean how hard is it for the dinner ladies to make a quick jelly with some tinned fruit in to make a nice dessert for the allergy kids? We know the school gets an extra £20 per week for every specialist diet kid so I don't know why it doesnt stretch to a nice meal, he's not the only kid who's allergic or halal or has special food needs, its a huge school in a very diverse area :(
 
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