Coronavirus.

staffordjas

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I did a PCR test on Monday morning and popped it in a priority postbox right away. Still heard nothing back. Has anyone else found it to have taken this long?
When son has been to test centres for PCR tests , his positive one came back in less than 24 hours.But the negative ones sometimes took a couple of days.
 

staffordjas

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Hope all goes well @tek-monkey . I had a planned C-section , with a full spinal instead of the epidural so everything was completely numb except for my head and arms . (Hubby got to sit there gowned up watching him come out, all I could see was a green screen which was placed in front of my face ( and the dishy male nurse holding my arm watching my blood pressure ) .

Good luck to you , your wife and baby @tek-monkey !
 

Gadget

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Best of luck Tek and Mrs Tek. I had a similar issue with one of mine, the induction did the trick and all went well. She came out at 9lb 15oz but was the quickest of them all and only needed 1 push.
@SketchyMagpie the 2 younger kids have only just had their results back this morning and their tests were posted Monday. They are positive as expected.
Waiting the results for Spawn2 now and Test and Trace said Ade and myself had better get tested so waiting for ours to be delivered.
 

littleme

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I did a PCR test on Monday morning and popped it in a priority postbox right away. Still heard nothing back. Has anyone else found it to have taken this long?
I've had to wait from a Friday morning test, with a Monday morning result, but that's the longest.


It maybe that they're snowed under at the moment, a, paramedic friend was telling us yesterday that there's now a queueing system for 999 phone calls, not just ambulances, and that can be over an hour.

At work on Saturday we called an ambulance to an elderly lady, despite previously having heart problems and breathing difficulties it took 4 hours for the ambulance to arrive.

I'd say to anyone who needs 999 help, don't wait, get the patient in a car and get them there somehow, whatever it takes.
 

littleme

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Well today I got to see the 'long covid nurse', who is really a 'respitory nurse', for the long covid that I HAVEN'T got, he's decided that I need a new steroid inhaler and a separator (?) for the Asthma that I HAVEN'T got!!!!

Give it 3 weeks he says, if its no use there's a tablet you can have at night to help with your breathing.... If that doesn't work then there's classes at Walton on the Hill that helps you increase your staminer and breathing.....

Still none the wiser! :roll:
 

Theresa Green

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Well today I got to see the 'long covid nurse', who is really a 'respitory nurse', for the long covid that I HAVEN'T got, he's decided that I need a new steroid inhaler and a separator (?) for the Asthma that I HAVEN'T got!!!!

Give it 3 weeks he says, if its no use there's a tablet you can have at night to help with your breathing.... If that doesn't work then there's classes at Walton on the Hill that helps you increase your staminer and breathing.....

Still none the wiser! :roll:

Maybe you just need to move up to 3,000 feet above sea level

Stafford is a bog

With bad air

Too many vehicles, not enough elevation
 

pinky

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I did not have a good experience with track and trace when my child caught covid. They didn't understand much of what I was answering and her phone kept loosing signal. I was on the phone for nearly an hour 😑
 

SketchyMagpie

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No great loss frankly. A chocolate fireguard would be a better bet than Test & Trace. And a damn sight cheeper too...
Can't back this up but I remember seeing several months back that Track and Trace had only identified something like 6% of all cases in the UK.
 

tek-monkey

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And the person I know in those got rid of was bottom rung, those taking the silly money are still there. Staff wise they are massively reducing 'consultants' but money wise not so much
 
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