This ole house is getting shaky, This ole house is getting old

[oursin]

Well, last week was quite the round of attending to health. I had an appointment with the GP I saw a few weeks ago to follow up the weird skin thing, which is still puzzling medical science - I have now got a referral to the Dermatology Clinic, which is excitingly located in the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, which appears to have moved from St Pancras to just off Tottenham Court Road and to be adjacent to what we do not now refer to as a Clap Clinic. (I think I attended there some years back for another Weird Dermatological Thing.)

I have also got A Different Cream to put on it.

I also raised the issue of Increasing Deafness and Noisy Tinnitus, and have a referral for hearing test at Royal Free. However am advised that would be best to get my ears sluiced in advance (by some modern method which is not syringing) privately. I at least have been supplied with appropriate drops.

Then on Thursday I went and got my booster vax, which I had to book privately as I am not quite antique enough to qualify for NHS this time round. This turned out a lot more hassle than I anticipated with getting the Wrong Bus - and thinking I could just walk back to the right spot when I should have absorbed the message that I had got off more or less opposite a Tube station and it would have been all of one stop. However, I eventually managed to pick up a taxi and got to the right place.

There was also more walking than I anticipated once I emerged - ended up getting Another Taxi home.

The info on common side effects of vax included tiredness, but then also has under rarer side effects feeling weak or lack of energy??? - not sure if this was anyway due to unaccustomed amounts of exercise.

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[oracne]

Which boosters are NHS offering these days? BA variant-specific?

[oursin]

NHS are offering Moderna (Spikevax) and Pfizer/BioNTech (Comirnaty); and the pharmacy that was doing private jabs was doing the latter. (Partner, who qualifies for NHS booster, got Moderna.)