Chit-Chat: a good ol' fashioned DCC!

~Dill~ said:
Insomniac here. I either sleep too little or too much. There's no middle ground 😅
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My sleep schedule messes up so easily because of how often I'm just unable to sleep.
 
I had a scan yesterday morning, but the machine was broken so they had to transfer me somewhere else. When that nightmare was finally over, I was incredibly sore, so we decided to go to our favourite restaurant to cheer me up. It's just opened back up after being closed for covid for months.

As soon as we got there, one of the staff told me that the landlord had given away the lease to someone else, and that they'd be closing next week. They had only just found out. The current restaurant group offered to match whatever rent the new lease was for but the landlord had already gave their property away without telling them. Obviously someone wanted the location and gave the landlord a bung to secure it.

This was one of my few happy places, we'd been going there for years, and knew everyone. They were so excited to be finally opening back up again, and then this happens. I'm absolutely broken-hearted for all of them 😭
 
Ash Ketchup said:
I had a scan yesterday morning, but the machine was broken so they had to transfer me somewhere else. When that nightmare was finally over, I was incredibly sore, so we decided to go to our favourite restaurant to cheer me up. It's just opened back up after being closed for covid for months.

As soon as we got there, one of the staff told me that the landlord had given away the lease to someone else, and that they'd be closing next week. They had only just found out. The current restaurant group offered to match whatever rent the new lease was for but the landlord had already gave their property away without telling them. Obviously someone wanted the location and gave the landlord a bung to secure it.

This was one of my few happy places, we'd been going there for years, and knew everyone. They were so excited to be finally opening back up again, and then this happens. I'm absolutely broken-hearted for all of them 😭
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Hope its all good news regarding the scan. And ugh some people are scum! How awful. I'm so sorry. Are they able to relocate elsewhere?

And I'm so pleased I have a week off next week.
 
~Dill~ said:
Hope its all good news regarding the scan. And ugh some people are scum! How awful. I'm so sorry. Are they able to relocate elsewhere?

And I'm so pleased I have a week off next week.
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I'm not sure when I'll get my results, because my neurosurgeon / specialist is actually in Greece right now 😅

I'm gonna chase up the local authority he consults with over here in a week or two if I haven't heard anything :)


Nope, they're having to close up, it was such short notice. The group that owns them seem to have been really good at offering a lot of staff jobs in their other restaurants, but they were all so heart-broken, they had been almost family, some of them for years.

We had so many people coming over to us to say goodbye. Not really what anyone was expecting or had in mind that day. I couldn't stop crying, but I hid it as much as I could, they'd all just had their life destroyed, and they didn't need to be dealing with that too.

The landlord has done a similar thing to at least two other businesses I personally know of.
 
Ash Ketchup said:
I'm not sure when I'll get my results, because my neurosurgeon / specialist is actually in Greece right now 😅

I'm gonna chase up the local authority he consults with over here in a week or two if I haven't heard anything :)
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*fingers crossed it's nothing too bad =)*

Ash Ketchup said:
I had a scan yesterday morning, but the machine was broken so they had to transfer me somewhere else. When that nightmare was finally over, I was incredibly sore, so we decided to go to our favourite restaurant to cheer me up. It's just opened back up after being closed for covid for months.

As soon as we got there, one of the staff told me that the landlord had given away the lease to someone else, and that they'd be closing next week. They had only just found out. The current restaurant group offered to match whatever rent the new lease was for but the landlord had already gave their property away without telling them. Obviously someone wanted the location and gave the landlord a bung to secure it.

This was one of my few happy places, we'd been going there for years, and knew everyone. They were so excited to be finally opening back up again, and then this happens. I'm absolutely broken-hearted for all of them 😭
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Ash Ketchup said:
Nope, they're having to close up, it was such short notice. The group that owns them seem to have been really good at offering a lot of staff jobs in their other restaurants, but they were all so heart-broken, they had been almost family, some of them for years.

We had so many people coming over to us to say goodbye. Not really what anyone was expecting or had in mind that day. I couldn't stop crying, but I hid it as much as I could, they'd all just had their life destroyed, and they didn't need to be dealing with that too.

The landlord has done a similar thing to at least two other businesses I personally know of.
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Some people are just horrible 😭
Greedy people...
 
My mother needs back surgery and she can barely walk at this point but her doctor has done nothing.
She wants to just go to the hospital but they'll likely tell her to follow it with her own doctor, the one doing nothing.

Healthcare here is a joke.
 
Sandalphon said:
My mother needs back surgery and she can barely walk at this point but her doctor has done nothing.
She wants to just go to the hospital but they'll likely tell her to follow it with her own doctor, the one doing nothing.

Healthcare here is a joke.
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Everything crossed something can get sorted - it's frustrating how some things can take SO long to get looked at/actioned and then after several times, someone sees you and tells you it's XYZ all along...
 
Sandalphon said:
My mother needs back surgery and she can barely walk at this point but her doctor has done nothing.
She wants to just go to the hospital but they'll likely tell her to follow it with her own doctor, the one doing nothing.

Healthcare here is a joke.
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There's bad doctor everywhere. Also those who just don't wanna admit they dun g00fed something up and pretend like everything is fine.
No chance of asking for a second opinion?

My mother's had doctor's telling her everything went fine during surgery, and she should be getting better soon. only for it never to improve and after a length back n forth with the doctor finally gets him to admit they dun goofed something during surgery, and it's why it wasn't healing properly. She's also had to ask for second opinions several times because some doctor in the hospital didn't wanna do anything.
 
Sadly no, the state of things here is bad, you can't see another doctor if you have one.
 
It's a shame that there are such huge differences in medical systems among the different countries. I suppose, I kind of live in a country that has a pretty decent system with public health care and stuff.

On the other hand there are people like my boss who think health care should be privatized so that "people have to take better care of themselves". He's also the type of guy who says things like "yes, I've been vaccinated" because people didn't explicitly ask if he was vaccinated against COVID.
 
Sandalphon said:
My mother needs back surgery and she can barely walk at this point but her doctor has done nothing.
She wants to just go to the hospital but they'll likely tell her to follow it with her own doctor, the one doing nothing.

Healthcare here is a joke.
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ReKoil said:
There's bad doctor everywhere. Also those who just don't wanna admit they dun g00fed something up and pretend like everything is fine.
No chance of asking for a second opinion?

My mother's had doctor's telling her everything went fine during surgery, and she should be getting better soon. only for it never to improve and after a length back n forth with the doctor finally gets him to admit they dun goofed something during surgery, and it's why it wasn't healing properly. She's also had to ask for second opinions several times because some doctor in the hospital didn't wanna do anything.
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I hope both your mothers feel a better real soon :)


Megan said:
On the other hand there are people like my boss who think health care should be privatized so that "people have to take better care of themselves".
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Nothing like a good old bit of victim blaming!




Okay... the weather here is absolutely beautiful today, and it's lovely and warm!!!

...

I just kinda want to see how long it takes Colours to ban me 😎
 
Megan said:
On the other hand there are people like my boss who think health care should be privatized so that "people have to take better care of themselves".
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Does he not realize there are diseases you can get despite that? Like cancer doesn't discriminate, type 1 diabetes is something you're born with. There's many illnesses and disabilities you have no control over. Taking better care of ones self won't get rid of, say, cystic fibrosis.
 
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