NHS care was top notch
THIS is a warning to all keen cyclists/motorcyclists on main roads; having been my main sport for a good few years, it was on July 4 that on my route and entering Glebe Road, Loughor, Gorseinon on a rainy day, that what I believed was just another pool of water was in fact, yet another pothole.
The inevitable happened and threw me and bike onto the curb/pavement. Being in pain and shock, I would like to personally thank all drivers who stopped to assist me, as I was half on the road and pavement.
A nurse and a gentleman called Steve of Penrhos, Gorseinon, also a cyclist, helped me and my bike into his VW people carrier to my home in Garden Village.
My wife was not too happy with my injury and she phoned 111 and they directed us to A&E at Morriston, where she drove me to. Unfortunately, I passed out by the Ambulance bay, next thing knew I was in the accident room, nurses dealing with me immediately and then onto a cubical to be seen by a Dr A Stallwood whom I found to be very helpful and a cyclist himself.
After my examination of the injury, he prompted the X-ray department and then taken down by a porter to have my badly swollen hip and shoulder Xrayed, whom I found very efficient and quick. It was later explained that I had trauma to the hip called
Haematoma and hairline crack to my collar bone.
All in all, it took three hours. I could not have wished for a better and caring attention, with excellent service rendered, by all concerned at the A&E department, Morriston and a lady at the main desk phoned my wife to come and collect me. Well done NHS in these very difficult times. dense is the perfect habitats for rats.
I saw eight large rats scurrying across the path between the car park and wooden bridge, where incidentally, the Himalayan balsam is spreading. There is also an outcrop of Japanese knotweed there too.
Both Himalayan balsam and Japanese knotweed, according to Section 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981, “cannot be planted or otherwise caused to grow in the wild”. It is a shame there is no maintenance as notice boards there state Fendrod lake is an important wildlife site. only one place in the universe, exhaled from the lungs of infected citizens, but they have vigorously opposed suggestions to trap some, and so lower the amount of viruses floating in globules in the air which we all breathe. If we could decrease the quantity of viruses by 10% or 5%, that would make a huge difference to R, the exponential spread outwards from those whom I infect.
For half a year, this has been UK policy, to do nothing. A much worse policy has been to discourage use of masks for insane reasons, that some folk might rely on them. If science shows that a mask can possibly become a barrier to some viruses, out or in, how can daft people become a reason to change that?