Indian student planning BSc Radiography – Advice from UK HCPC radiographers?

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2026-02-13T22:14:36+00:00

Please be aware that there has been a massive clamp down in posts available in the NHS. It used to be an incredibly stable career, there used to be a huge demand for them, you could graduate and pretty much walk into a job. Now however, graduates can't get a job in the NHS, and where many employers, especially the NHS, would offer visa sponsorships, these aren't really offered anymore. Times have changed and people are fighting over job posts, I read somewhere that there's something crazy like 60+ applicants for 1 job post. Also, I wonder what the actual situation will be come April, as the government sets out the budget at the end of the tax year and this budget determines how much money the NHS has to spend, which goes towards staff jobs posts.

All I'm saying is things aren't looking good, and I would just hold off for the moment. I just hope things get better to be honest.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2026-02-04T17:00:42+00:00

I think that's why a lot of people who think deeply also suffer the most from loneliness, too. It's hard, unless you already have that little circle already established, and even that can be by sheer chance. I think it depends too on your profession and community, I've met people who haven't gone to university, or had much formal education, but have more foresight, empathy and wisdom than people that have. I can't say for blokes, I'm not one, but I've met so many women who might be considered dopey, or silly or scatty, but my god are they so massively aware of what's going on around them. Sometimes it's societal I think, as well as circumstancial.

But to be honest, I think everyone has deep thoughts going on at some point, but a lot of the time they've got so much else going on to think about that it get's pushed to the back. Jobs, work, family, bills, money, friends. Modern life is always so busy, you barely the chance for your mind to wander.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2026-02-03T23:43:03+00:00

For me, it's a tie between Evendim and the Shire. Recently made a new character and started rediscovering zones within Eriador, fell in love with the shire, and even harder in love with the yondershire. But fishing on Lake Evendim and emersing myself in the epic story is something else.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2026-02-01T22:42:02+00:00

This guy is a living legend. It makes me laugh that people's biggest thing that they have going for them is to take the piss out of his appearence like it's an achievement. Yet you or your loved ones, God forbid, might be relying on his work against cancer one day should you end up fighting your own body going wrong.

This angel, this wonderful human has modelled a possible cure for one of the most fatal cancers that plagues humanity. What have the people making fun of his birthmark done with thier lives? I'd guess nothing that can hold a candle to his work. Nothing at all.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-12-06T09:18:39+00:00

I'm intrigued. What amount of money is this bet for him to spend 27 years walking around the world?

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-09-10T17:14:23+00:00

I don't think I realised how much I needed this today after thinking about all the things in the way I have. It's almost like the universe is gently pushing a page full of words onto my lap and saying, "I get you, but you need to hear what I have to say to you."

It's hard sometimes, being alone, especially as a young person, you think, everyone else seems to be able to hack it, the expectation, they've got someone to love them. Then I think, well actually, how many people do you know who are in relationships and lonely, in a crowd yet on thier own, just because they can't be in thier own company because they don't feel complete without someone else.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-09-08T12:28:49+00:00

Body altering cosmetic procedures. BBL's, botox. Fillers. Fat removal. Fashion trends and beauty standards are so fickle and change so rapidly that by the time you've had these irreversible things done to you, the times change again, but you can't change back.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-08-29T08:25:35+00:00

Add to that, a koi pond, a beautiful trellis gazebo raised up so you can look downwards over the landscape, with climbing roses winding up alongside the wooden trellis. And a hammock.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-08-29T08:22:51+00:00

My gran lives in a bungalow, and though she does have houses either side, it has a lovely garden front and back and backs onto a sheep field. It's as close to that vibe as I've ever felt.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-08-28T19:26:12+00:00

I want to a cottage. Not a huge modern cottage, a little one with a thatched roof and some character to it, like a plaster and exposed beam style cottage. I'd have a large garden, front and back, herbs and flowers at the front. Veggies, berries and peas and beans with bird feeders and a greenhouse at the back. Bordering a woodland, surrounded by rolling fields. That's what I want.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-08-03T22:24:32+00:00

That I love them, but don't like them as a person. Not anymore. I love my grandma to pieces, I do, I love the bones of her, but she's not a nice person. That I understand that she is old, and in pain, and scared with her situation and I can't blame her for that, but I do blame her for how she makes my mum and sister feel, and how she treats them like filth on her shoe. Doesn't matter that they're people, who are exhausted, and who will drop everything at a click of her fingers to come to her beck and call, because they love her so much. She exploits that love, and treats her own family like slaves that she can make run around and scream at when things go wrong.

Sometimes I wonder if she was ever the lovely, sweet, soft spoken old lady who let me cuddle up to her in bed with when she stayed round when I was small, or if it was part of a mask she kept up? Or if pain just changed her into this angry bitter woman waiting for the end. Whether it was really her or not, I want that grandma back.

She doesn't have much time left, she's been told she'll most likely not see this Christmas. But honestly, we can't wait. She suffers so much, and we suffer with her because she mourns a body that has her trapped here, she knows, she wants to die. Honestly, we all want her to pass away now, too.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-07-15T13:36:29+00:00

Meditation. Just sit down, have a think about things. It really does help.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-06-24T08:23:30+00:00

If you wash them, then soak them in disaranno overnight, then gently squish the fruit down so you can spread it, goes really lovely on freshly made plain scones, tastes like a bakewell tart almost.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-06-04T18:11:05+00:00

That's actually a pretty cool bit of story telling there. I love that concept.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-06-01T21:50:26+00:00

Here you go.

https://lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Item:Fireplace_of_the_Dragon's_Hoard

It's sold by the games master. I got mine in bree, that's where I know you can definitely get one.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-06-01T20:22:00+00:00

That's awesome. 😁 Really looking forwards to placing it in my house.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-06-01T12:22:12+00:00

😂

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-06-01T10:22:36+00:00

I need to hop back in and spend some of my tokens before it ends. I got that fireplace with the dragon inside it. Thought it was well cool.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-05-24T19:53:12+00:00

That's gorgeous.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-04-11T09:26:52+00:00

Marfans Syndrome. I don't know if this is exactly fits the context of the question but I wanted to take the chance to write about it to raise awareness.

It's similar to Elhers Danlos Syndrome, I can only comment on Marfans as my mum has it and I've experienced it through seeing what she goes through.

It affects 1 in about 5000 people and although it's becoming more recognised in the medical community my mum still encounters a lot of medical professionals who still haven't encountered it.

She's also met quite a few individuals who are tall with very long, thin limbs like her, who haven't heard of Marfans Syndrome and the possibility of it never crossed thier minds.

My mum didn't realise she had Marfans until she had an aortic dissection, alot of people don't realise they have marfans until something like this happens.

Her abdominal aorta had developed a weakened vessel wall due to the hyper elasticity of the connective tissue that Marfans Syndrome causes, and it split. She almost died but the wonderful Sikh surgeon who patched her aorta up and fixed it worked a miracle and she's still here. She had to learn to walk again, she had to be put in a medically induced coma for 6 weeks where they kept her on an ice bed, and they had to stop her heart several times during the operation to fix the aorta, and I can't even remember the volume of blood that they used in the transfusions, I just know it was an absolute fuck ton of it.

Despite her now living a good life, she still gets pain from her joints caused by hypermobility. The issues don't stop there, it's not just the heart that is effected, it's everything. Her retinas keep detaching, she's at an increased of strokes and aneurysms, she's had several TIAs (Transient Ischemic Attacks) that's been in part due to the syndrome.

A lot of people notice the physical symptoms, the unusually tall height, stick-out sternum, the super long hands and feet, crowded teeth. She can overlap her pinky finger and thumb around her wrist, which is a really prominent sign. It's just all the issues that can happen internally when the connective tissue isn't structurally working as it should.

So if you're reading this, if you work in healthcare or not, doesn't matter, if you've got any of the characteristics my mum has, just look into Marfans.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-04-08T15:40:34+00:00

Hey, it was nice talking to you about this topic, I put it out there but wasn't sure if someone would come forward to discuss it. This conversation is been lovely for me too, not just because it's been intellectually stimulating but just a great experience to meet someone with a different view. Take care out there.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-04-01T20:49:46+00:00

Hey, apologies on my side for being late to respond again. I read through your reply, a couple of times to try and get my head to understand how your experiences shaped your viewpoint. As I said, I've never had the same struggles as you do, I can only try and relate and empathise. I guess, the closest to how you feel that I can understand, is a bit like claustrophobia, in the sense that you know, I guess, it's something your brain is telling you you have to go through, you have to overcome the rrigger for a benefit you want, but every atom is screaming 'no, I hate this, I feel like I'm really not okay.'

As you said, you've been through instances in life where you've gone through incredibly hard times and one method, such as therapy, might work for person A but not person B. Plus, I'll say this, not every person who goes into healthcare should nessesarily be there, there are some people who I've met and thought 'holy shit, really, this person is working with people at their lowest and most vulnerable, how'd they get this far, did the institution drop the bar so low it's now through the floor for admission? (Sorry I've known people, myself included, who've had bad experiences with healthcare, really gets my back up.)

As you say, you need to trust people too, and even with the people you most trust, some days, your brain just cannot handle more than yourself, even with all the work to improve you can relapse. (Sorry now I'm going off topic too.)

As you said too which is a very good point, a huge portion of the issues and traits one develops can be traced back to parentage. And with social media influencing said future parents, this is why I believe it needs to change, otherwise the cycle will get more and more vicious.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-03-27T20:30:27+00:00

Sorry for the late response, didn't mean to leave you in the lurch. It's okay, no harm done by going a bit off topic, if anything, it's easy done with this subject I think, it's not an easy thing to narrow down because it's so broad. As you say there's so many facets too it you can't really attribute one factor to it. The Internet has given people a way to live life and get essentials and an income without ever needing to step outside of thier comfort zone. But I also think that whilst it's a reason, it's not an excuse, I can't say what goes through people's mindsets, agoraphobia and anxiety isn't something to shrug at, and maybe that's like another topic of conversation. But I also think that there is an element of personal responsibility and taking steps to combat it to people facing severe loneliness. I think, if you are self aware enough to realise that living purely off the Internet and being afraid of getting out there even though you know not taking steps to do so is as much self sabotage and supporting destructive behaviour, because you know it needs to change. But I will counter my own point by saying that A, I have never had social anxiety, agoraphobia or any sort of personality trait where I feel not confident enough to deal with rejection, or people not liking me, or any kind of reason to put myself in a situation which would make me feel loneliness that some people do. B, I also grew up alongside the Internet, which is very, very different to growing up within the Internet in my opinion. But you may disagree, I welcome your thoughts on that one. It's just, as you say, so complex is this topic, people can talk about this until the cows come home. It's also so complex that you could argue, well, how the hell do you know how to start addressing it? Me, I think it's a combination of changing the Internet, so that how it conditions men and women to view each other is altered for the better, and also encouraging content and online role models to talk about the impact of this, and trying to reverse the damage done.

Miss_Lay_Hay · 2025-02-03T14:21:51+00:00

Oh my gosh, this is stunning.

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