Officially high risk
Mar. 30th, 2020 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arkessian So, I had the phone call from the GP surgery today notifying me that I am now officially classified as very high risk/extremely vulnerable... However, no advice possible on whether I should turn up there for a blood test at the end of the week, and no response to the message I left on the QE Heart Transplant Team's phone asking if they ought to cancel the appointment they've sent me for May. I expect they might be slightly busy, so will give them a few weeks. And if they insist I go... I'll know they're serious about assessing me sooner rather than later.
More annoying: there is no way to contact my gas and electricity supplier to cancel a smart meter installation (coincidentally on the same day as my Heart Transplant Assessment, if that goes ahead.) They're only taking calls about prepayment meters and broken boilers. Their website denies that I have any appointments so I can't cancel it there. So they'll either send somebody out or they won't; and if they send somebody out I won't let them in.
On a brighter note, the gardener has been -- yes, I know, how the other half live! But I cannot mow my own lawns or deal with the weeding and pruning etc. And K is a lovely practical woman -- we communicate via email and sign language through the window. She has volunteered to empty the two compost bins that have been gently rotting down for about five years -- I would not have had the nerve to ask her as it will be a filthy job. She reckons coming to me every two weeks qualifies as supporting the vulnerable as well as getting her daily exercise -- she travels alone, works alone, so it's not putting her at any risk either.
And, as a coda to yesterday's 'discussion' on Facebook, the Parish Councillor in question has conceded that they've drawn the scope for what they're offering too narrowly, and intends to widen it in line with my suggestions! So I'm off the hook for that. (And knowing the man in question, he'll take the credit for thinking of it at the next virtual Parish Council meeting.)
More annoying: there is no way to contact my gas and electricity supplier to cancel a smart meter installation (coincidentally on the same day as my Heart Transplant Assessment, if that goes ahead.) They're only taking calls about prepayment meters and broken boilers. Their website denies that I have any appointments so I can't cancel it there. So they'll either send somebody out or they won't; and if they send somebody out I won't let them in.
On a brighter note, the gardener has been -- yes, I know, how the other half live! But I cannot mow my own lawns or deal with the weeding and pruning etc. And K is a lovely practical woman -- we communicate via email and sign language through the window. She has volunteered to empty the two compost bins that have been gently rotting down for about five years -- I would not have had the nerve to ask her as it will be a filthy job. She reckons coming to me every two weeks qualifies as supporting the vulnerable as well as getting her daily exercise -- she travels alone, works alone, so it's not putting her at any risk either.
And, as a coda to yesterday's 'discussion' on Facebook, the Parish Councillor in question has conceded that they've drawn the scope for what they're offering too narrowly, and intends to widen it in line with my suggestions! So I'm off the hook for that. (And knowing the man in question, he'll take the credit for thinking of it at the next virtual Parish Council meeting.)
