Talk about out of touch! Thanks to successive UK govt funding decisions, most UK universities are highly dependent on student funding for their survival, and most student bodies are insisting their universities divest from the arms industry, particularly where used to support genocide....touché!

Mum call: 12 and 10 cm sausages. Roads are frozen. Aldi had 👍 cherries and mediocre profiteroles without choc. Pre made cabbage roulades are not bad. I should not worry about my pension past the age of 85 as I won't live that long (shared mum and dad opinion). They are 89 and 86l

When you find a pubic hair in your face mask it's probably time to bin it 🤣

Phone call from a private number. Creaky female voice. "Are you Dr H ? DOB?" Dither, dither on her end. "No (something something) of cancer in the sample " "Can you send me the report?" "No." "Can you read it out?" "Reactive lymphoid cells." So NO CANCER in this sample 🥳🥳

Good morning!

Ages ago I worked in a hospital with a doctors' mess with a long dining table. Once in a while a medium sized white box appeared on the table and then disappeared. Nobody witnessed arrival or departure of the box. Then one day one doctor did: there were donated eyes in the box.

I had one of those bad ideas again

I also learned from a patent that a cornea transplant is a planned operation. I had assumed that it works similarly to cadaveric kidney transplants, ie that the patient gets called when a cornea becomes available. This patient had a set date in the not too distant future.

I have been to the recycling centre. The number of BIG plastic toys being dumped 😱 They didn't look broken.

I can remember trying to take my frozen green scarf off the washing line. It broke. So I didn't have a matching scarf to my green hat any longer. I was 5 or or 6.

A patient taught me this week that marmite is a purine rich food. His gout attacks stopped when he stopped eating it. As Marmite is a thoroughly alien thing to me I had never thought about it. Also, don't people use it in very small amounts? Every day is a school day.

Good morning!

The double yellow line is for walking, right?

Most fantastic professional interaction this week: Me to super-specialist: "What are the criteria for referral to you? This is the story." Super specialist: "I have booked your patient into my clinic for February 3rd." Wow!!

When your milkman got carried away

Good afternoon!

@dianelindsay.bsky.social 👋

I also have a neighbour who can read my thoughts 😍

Diarrhea has stopped. Can they eat cake again? Should he continue with one of the stool softeners? Should he restart iron pills? The ferries have stopped running as too much ice on the rivers. Post ovarian cancer op 88 y old is out shopping again. Spot the pond on the picture ⬇️

Good morning! I have handed over the care of my green work children to a foster carer from the dietetics department for 3 weeks

Would this pillow charge my phone?

The weather forecast for my parents' area is minus 18

The channel swim please 👍

You'll be interested to know that after several days and many doses of several different laxatives my dad now has diarrhea. No Shit. I told my mum all along not to overdose him. He is moving to the bedroom next to the bathroom.

They also said that when 60% of your pupils are bussed in essentially the bus companies decide whether school is on or not

Our secretaries are the best!! My plan A was to go home at lunchtime, but then I cracked on with admin, plan B to get lunch from the nearby Aldi, but it was raining and plan C "ask secretaries for biscuits" 🤣🤣🤣

A teacher explained to me today that when a school closes because of bad weather that day is logged as 100% attendance. When a school stays open and half of the pupils can't make it that is logged as 50% attendance. So closing is better for the stats

Light lunch today

My phone has just decided this 🤣

Plan A was to drive my car down the hill if it starts snowing so that it is near a main road in the morning. Nope, not going out now. Walking to work tomorrow.

Well, I got home before the storm. Tried to do some shopping ... Got my favourite bread tho

I told a German friend about my medical encounter today and my indecision about going on holiday. "People tend to think they know what it is like, but realistically don't have this experience. I don't know how I would feel and I don't know what I would do. I hope you can sleep."

Dream job 😍😍😍 Counting my next cats 🤣

Finding it difficult to take an interest in whom mum has seen walking where with their walking frames. Main news: dad is on the loo. "Mum, my dinner it ready in a minute." ( True) "I wasn't planning to talk to you for long." Well, you might not plan it, but you usually do

My milkman is kindly informing me that there will be a storm

Waiting for my lift home. I can see that captain Moore's money was well spent 🙄

The abnormal lymph node is still there or there again. Needle biopsy done. They got cells this time which is what they need to look at. Results 1-2 weeks. Previously it was 3 days

Good morning! I have arrived at the hospital. Scan at 10.40

My lift is on the way. I am feeling mildly sick, probably anxiety. So glad I am not driving

When I had my cancer operation in 2019 a GP I only vaguely knew set up a "chariots" group of female doctors. They where all strangers to me at that point, but drove me to my far away appointments. One of the group will take me for my scan+/- needle biopsy tomorrow 🥳

Mum went to one supermarket today. No lights , doors closed. Mum thought power outage. Went to the next one. Also dark and locked. It's a religious "bank holiday" in our part of Germany 🤣🤣 Cat has moved out of the roasting tin. He seems to have recovered from the fireworks. 2cm sausage

I told 2 people yesterday that I didn't think the bin lorries would turn up today despite that email saying that they would. Both people were believers of the Bin God. I am a Bin Atheist and was right 🤣

Called dad Gp. Bloods stable Re constipation, she "they could make salads, shred carrots." Me: "Gadgets need washing up, they are just abt coping." She saw my point. Lesson: no prescription laxatives in Germany unless on an opiate. L2: calling dad GP is easier than getting repeat prescription here

3 or 4 phone calls with mum today. Dad is constipated again, she had made senna tea, then this "WhatsApp message". I am sure that people following this story can't wait to read that he "I have made 2 little sausages, 16 cm long" 🤣🤣🤣 He is feeling better for it.

When you whip up your upf yourself it becomes home made food 🤣

No deliveries to the 2 little supermarkets in GP village today

A message from the new President of Venezuela.

Communicating to my GP surgery that I need a repeat prescription for intravaginal oestrogen. Seems to be the only way now

Good morning!

Nice when you don't have to go anywhere