littleme
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BobClay
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I'm wondering if the reason it all seemed a bit more hectic up your way is the sheer pressure of numbers. In Westward Ho! there was no queuing for anything. They even had a part of the public car park alongside the church cordoned off for vaccination attendances so you didn't have to pay. It's only a small place anyway so probably less busy and easier to organize. I was in and out in literally minutes and sat in the car for a while afterward to see if I was going to turn into a zombie. (Would anybody notice ?) 
littleme
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I feel like I've been hit by a bus, I can hardly move my arm and the pain when I do is horrendous. The fever is gone, but I keep getting very very cold. The paracetamol are keeping the head & body aches away, but run out a good hour before I can take any more.
But please don't anyone be put off, it should only last a few days at most from what I've read, and is definatly worth it.
I have another day off work before I'm due back on Thursday & fingers crossed I'll feel better by then.
Thank you for asking x
littleme
250,000th poster!
Ive had several frantic calls from work colleagues this evening wondering if I will be in the new shielding people. After all I was clinicly vulnerable enough to get an early vaccine, but not to shield all the other times.... I bet I'm not!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/covid-almost-2m-more-people-asked-shield-england
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/covid-almost-2m-more-people-asked-shield-england
staffordjas
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Hope you are feeling much better by the morning @littleme
On you feeling very cold.......Hubby is colder than he normally is today. We normally argue about me putting the heating up, as he's normally too hot and it's me whose always feeling the cold. But since he started aching everywhere this afternoon, he's whacked the heating up and he's still not warm (And I'm loving it, a nice toasty hot house for a change )
Gramaisc
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I used to be able to remember my NHS number, as I didn't have one until I was 15 and there were coincidental sequences which made it easy for me to remember when it was issued.
It was in the format ABCD 123. A few years ago, I got roped into a trial and was asked if I happened to know the number, I recited it and was looked at strangely - apparently, numbers in that form hadn't been in use for many years, but nobody had bothered to tell me mine had been changed - I was, eventually, able to find out what the current number is and now have that written on my defunct EHIC card.
It seemed a rather strange thing to do, as both numbers were just as individual to me, and then to not bother telling me...
The current form is in the style 123 123 1234.
Noah
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The ABCD123 format appeared with the 1939 Register which was effectively a census designed to register people for ration books & id cards, it was kept up to date while rationing continued. In 1948 the new NHS adopted the register as a basis for their records and continued to use it and update it until 1991 when the use of paper based records was discontinued and the new all number system introduced. The ABCD part of the number was a location code and the numbers were sequention within that location.
littleme
250,000th poster!
I have mine memorised as I lost my card when I was about 20....couldnt tell you anyone's phone number though.... But if you want to know song lyrics* from the 70's, 80's, 90' or 20eeees I'm your girl.
* they may well be wrong, or lifted from Smash Hits...
staffordjas
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After GP receptionist told me to just get myself and my arm up there, I'd taken mine on Thurs ( along with passport , repeat prescription etc to cover all angles) just incase but didn't need it.
So told hubby he didn't need anything on Monday. Good job they didn't ask him as he wouldn't have had the foggiest.
ATJ
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There's a great NHS app (not the covid app) that, once verified, gives you full access to your own records. I had a referral confirmed the same day through it where waiting for a letter would have had me waiting for four days.
Once you have it, it tells you your NHS number on the home page
Once you have it, it tells you your NHS number on the home page
Trumpet
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Feel like I've been run over by a bus this morning. Booked in for another CT scan this morning at Stafford but driving is out of the question. Hoping Mrs T can get an hour or so off at short notice to take me.
staffordjas
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staffordjas
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Hubbys was the Astra Zeneca as well on Monday. I thought he was ok today when he got up . But I've just got up and gone downstairs to find him working with a scarf wrapped around his neck as he's feeling so cold and got really bad pains at back of neck. Other than that he says he's ok. Lucky he's still working from home.
( Very rare for him to feel cold!)
Glad I had the Pfizer last week , I've had no after effects at all except for very ,very slight ache where jabbed which I was hardly aware of.
Don't forget to report your jab reactions. This is important information for the regulators and manufacturers
https://www.nhs.uk/apps-library/yellow-card/
https://coronavirus-yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/
https://www.nhs.uk/apps-library/yellow-card/
https://coronavirus-yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/
