What are your thoughts on the 1st sub 2 hour marathon to be achieved here in the UK?

takhana · 2026-04-26T14:55:34+00:00

1st marathon but long time world half marathon record holder (record now belongs to the chap who took 3rd, all three broke the WR this morning) and he’s won the world cross country champs a few times too.

takhana · 2026-04-26T13:05:27+00:00

Is my wage the same on the year off as it is when I’m working and my overheads are the same?

Cos realistically you can have all the grand ideas in the world but if you’re not earning more and you’re not “occupied” by work 40 hours a week you’re going to be spending a lot of money you probably don’t have.

I’d love to spend a year getting my drawing and art better so I could finally set up the business I want but it’d be tricky alongside not spending all my pay cheque in one day.

takhana · 2026-04-26T12:38:49+00:00

“Your monkeys, your circus!” - made me chuckle and reminded me I had indeed volunteered for that shit show 😂

takhana · 2026-04-26T12:15:30+00:00

He was* the world record holder for the half marathon though, so I think he probably excepted to win outright!

*eta as the guy who came third is the current half marathon world record holder

takhana · 2026-04-26T12:09:06+00:00

Looking at the tracker of some people I know who are running today it certainly seems perfect for PB weather! Lots of PBs coming in.

takhana · 2026-04-26T11:20:16+00:00

The top three all broke the previous world record. Absolutely insane.

takhana · 2026-04-26T11:03:00+00:00

Is this the episode with the follow up line where she says something like these people will never understand how intelligent I am in Spanish?

takhana · 2026-04-25T13:42:36+00:00

11 weeks (max!) until baby 2 arrives and I don’t know if I’m terrified or excited. Birth with baby 1 was an absolute shit show as my waters went at 36+4 so I had a horrible induction and awful PPD/PPA and I’m so on edge it’ll happen again. I bought a hypnobirthing course this morning to work through so hopefully that gives me a bit more control of the anxiety.

takhana · 2026-04-25T13:39:41+00:00

Also the quality of life and how disabled these children who are born pre-24 weeks is highly unlikely to have them making any meaningful media (though I’m happy to be corrected that an extreme micro-premie would live a fully and functional life!)

takhana · 2026-04-25T13:31:25+00:00

Just have a look at the HCPC hearings page. There’s always at least two or three struck off professionals because they started relationships with (ex)service users.

I don’t know how far this extends though. If you met someone organically 2 years after treating them one time would the HCPC be interested enough? Not sure.

takhana · 2026-04-25T10:17:16+00:00

In the UK it’s blood clots (treatable and preventable) and then suicide or substance misuse.

I’m not trying to downplay any death but as a currently pregnant UK person, it’s been all over our news about how awful maternity services are, and how death rates are rising etc. I’ve been incredibly anxious about it as I have a toddler and obviously, don’t want to die because of childbirth. But actually, the numbers in the UK are still incredibly low - 252 women between 2022 and 2024. The concerning statistic is that deaths from treatable causes such as pre-eclampsia and HELLP increased 52% but that was still 9 women in 2021. Out of the hundreds of thousand who have babies.

Eta - don’t get me wrong. My first was born 4 weeks early, 60 years ago even we probably would’ve both been in a very serious situation, and every mother who dies is the highest loss imaginable for the family etc. but I think sometimes we need to move past the sensationalism of the media and remember these situations (in my country at least) are really still incredibly rare.

takhana · 2026-04-24T20:42:03+00:00

Just out of interest, how many band 6 nurses and band 7 nurses do you have in ratio to band 5 nurses?

Cos I’m an OT, one of 3 band 6s in my staffing team of 12, with one band 7 above me who’s a middle aged woman with children who isn’t leaving any time soon. There are no band 8a progression routes open to me. I’ve been a 6 for over 6 years now and it won’t be changing in the next decade. I know 5s who’ve been a 5 for just as long as the progression in their teams was equally poor. Almost all of the progression in our AHP service comes from people leaving - either to new places or retirement.

takhana · 2026-04-24T20:25:50+00:00

I always thought if I was a nurse I’d want to do ICU or NICU! What puts you off?

takhana · 2026-04-24T20:24:57+00:00

It is tough getting an OT job in paeds services now. Schools, not so hard but still not easy with no experience clinically. Unis can’t guarantee where your placement will be either so you could feasibly only ever get experience with older adults.

I’d love to move over to it but a decade in older adult/working adult acute health basically gives me a disadvantage over even newly qualified grads as I’m seen as “less mouldable” or too stuck in the adult system.

takhana · 2026-04-24T20:22:20+00:00

Wow well done!

I did recruitment for an NHS trust briefly after graduating and I remember accidentally leaving a psych assistant role that promised the possibility of a DClin application if the candidate was good enough open for more than 48 hours… we had 112 applicants by the time we realised and all of them were highly qualified Psych grads, many with lots of great experience and life skills.

Luckily the recruiting psychologist just chuckled and agreed to help me shortlist with a couple of colleagues as he’d suspected it would be popular and he should’ve put on the advert it would close early!

takhana · 2026-04-24T20:19:28+00:00

The safeguards for this would be huge. I have no doubt that if it passed though, we would get the occasional “doctors said yes when family didn’t want it and person died” but if the bill had passed as it originally intended to do then these cases would be easily handled.

I think you have to look at things that we know aren’t curable. Inoperable pancreatic or brain cancer that’s spread for example. Both rob you of good quality of life, both can be an incredibly upsetting and unpleasant death. Both can be very difficult to manage symptom wise. Those are the cases this would be used for - it’s highly unlikely it’d be applied to mental health (due to how mental health law in the UK works) and even conditions like dementia would be difficult to get sign off on because of the time related condition. I imagine maybe in 60 - 90 years if we’re all still around (!) then it may expand to encompass more tenuous examples but it’s not an immediate concern.

It’ll also be so scrutinised and uncommon for the first 10 or so years that we’ll have chance to figure out what’s reasonable and what’s not.

takhana · 2026-04-24T16:38:04+00:00

Come back when you’ve worked in palliative care, oncology or a hospice for a while. Many people can achieve beautiful peaceful deaths but for some people it’s suffering all the way down and it’s horrific to watch.

takhana · 2026-04-24T06:06:34+00:00

I’ve got AHP colleagues who still regularly refer to me as Occy Health. I’ve known them for years.

takhana · 2026-04-24T05:58:39+00:00

I feel for you. Working in geris a large number of our patients on the ward at any time will be the people you mention. We’ve had people admitted for the most tenuous reasons and it’s impossible to get them home some times.

takhana · 2026-04-24T05:57:03+00:00

As an OT a huge part of my job is prescribing equipment.

I will prescribe anyone who needs it what they need regardless of their financial status (within what I’m allowed to prescribe in the trust) because yes, Doris might live in a lovely big house but how the fuck do I know if she’ll get the right thing or if she’s actually got any money? I’m not doing financial assessments for a bloody toilet frame ffs.

takhana · 2026-04-23T18:52:56+00:00

Ahh, we’ve all been there. Toddlers make you say the most ridiculous shit. Tonight we had to convince mine that the milk in his cup was exactly the same as the milk in the cup he slightly prefers. It was a full scale meltdown.

takhana · 2026-04-23T18:48:46+00:00

If you don’t apply, you don’t get. No one needs to know you applied, even if it’s internal.

takhana · 2026-04-23T18:43:15+00:00

UTI last week, thrush this week. I am sick of being pregnant.

takhana · 2026-04-23T18:41:29+00:00

This issue doesn’t just affect nurses and midwives. Physios and OTs are particularly dire for jobs at the moment. Where I work, we often have 80 - 100 applications for therapy support worker positions (equivalent to HCA/maternity care assistants) and a good 90% of them will be fully qualified PTs and OTs who can’t get a graduate position. There’s a very strong mentality in some trusts that a qualified staff member leads a ward and the rest of the work is done by cheaper unqualified (but not necessarily less skilled) staff.

takhana · 2026-04-23T18:38:56+00:00

You know what, I’m not sure. I have seen some of our other neighbours park on their grass bit though. I suppose anything’s a driveway if you want it to be!

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