The Archers

[rambo19]

Bloody hell!
I started crying.

[eldar]

surveyor said:

Did not see that coming.

Seems to be the only soap that doesn't trail storylines in the tabloids. And the better for it.

[e30m3Mark]

Didn't she swim in the contaminated river?

[james_tigerwoods]

I think I shall avoid this thread - I won't get chance to listen to the full podcast until tomorrow evening, but I clearly need to steel myself to what it to come...

[Rh14n]

e30m3Mark said:

Didn't she swim in the contaminated river?

She cut her arm and was infected whilst sorting out Joe's box of water-logged stuff.

[The Don of Croy]

Rh14n said:

e30m3Mark said:

Didn't she swim in the contaminated river?

She cut her arm and was infected whilst sorting out Joe's box of water-logged stuff.

Missed that - so it's another 'kick the businessman' storyline with added angst?

Shame coming so soon after she gave Emmurr a proper earfull in the Bull.

Will to go postal in five, four, three, two...

[Rh14n]

The Don of Croy said:

Rh14n said:

e30m3Mark said:

Didn't she swim in the contaminated river?

She cut her arm and was infected whilst sorting out Joe's box of water-logged stuff.

Missed that - so it's another 'kick the businessman' storyline with added angst?

Shame coming so soon after she gave Emmurr a proper earfull in the Bull.

Will to go postal in five, four, three, two...

Guess so - or another 'raise awareness' input, this time about Sepsis

[Doofus]

I like that on the list of symptoms:

"It feels like you are going to die".

Some people thought that when KFC was shut last week...



"You might not want to wait until tomorrow" was a killer line. Lump in me throat

[Europa1]

Rh14n said:

Guess so - or another 'raise awareness' input, this time about Sepsis

I know it's a serious subject, but that poster about the symptoms: "It feels like you're going to die". How does one know what that feels like?

[Paul Dishman]

Doofus said:

I like that on the list of symptoms:

"It feels like you are going to die".

Some people thought that when KFC was shut last week...



"You might not want to wait until tomorrow" was a killer line. Lump in me throat

Clarrie to Poppy "wave Mummy goodbye, sweetheart"

[james_tigerwoods]

The Don of Croy said:

Will to go postal in five, four, three, two...

Well, I've seen it now so now I am pre-warned - Anything with Will in it, I generally fast forward, but I'll have to not this time...

[cheshiredj7]

Powerful episode as the wife returned home in December after fighting sepsis for 10 days in hospital. The first 24 hours being spent in the resuscitation room.

Edited by cheshiredj7 on Monday 26th February 18:09

[BIRMA]

So it was Rob Titchner's fault for causing the Ambridge flood in the first place.

[Doofus]

Why has sepsis suddenly become a big thing? Presumably it's always been there, but for some reason, it's started getting lots of coverage.

[rasto]

Doofus said:

Why has sepsis suddenly become a big thing? Presumably it's always been there, but for some reason, it's started getting lots of coverage.

Had this discussion with my wife last night, her opinion (tin foil hat time) is that because of antibiotic resistance, we are going to suffer from a 'sepsis' epidemic so the government are just trying to prepare us all.

This was prompted by Call The Midwife having an almost identical storyline to the archers, coincidence or are the BBC trying to send out public service messages via soaps ?

Apparently there was a play on radio 4 about it too.

[eldar]

Doofus said:

Why has sepsis suddenly become a big thing? Presumably it's always been there, but for some reason, it's started getting lots of coverage.

150,000 cases per year of which 45,000 are fatal. Around 25 times as many as are killed on the roads.

Antibiotic resistance is making it worse.

[Doofus]

I've just had to look up 'antibiotics' because I wasn't even sure what they are (and I'm 48). I don't think I've ever had any of those. Where do people get them from? Is it GPs, or can you self-medicate?

[eldar]

Doofus said:

I've just had to look up 'antibiotics' because I wasn't even sure what they are (and I'm 48). I don't think I've ever had any of those. Where do people get them from? Is it GPs, or can you self-medicate?

The things that help stop you dying after surgery, infection or a scratch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotics

[Doofus]

After a scratch? Seriously? What's wrong with water? I know I'm going off topic, but do people go the the doctor because they've scratched themselves?

I know the wife of somebody on this thread had sepsis recently, and I'm not, for a moment, trying to offend or upset anyone. I'm just not at all sure how so many people get to take so many antibiotics that they cease to be effective.

Edited by Doofus on Tuesday 27th February 15:50

[The Don of Croy]

Doofus said:

After a scratch? Seriously? What's wrong with water? I know I'm going off topic, but do people go the the doctor because they've scratched themselves?

I know the wife of somebody on this thread had sepsis recently, and I'm not, for a moment, trying to offend or upset anyone. I'm just not at all sure how so many people get to take so many antibiotics that they cease to be effective.

Edited by Doofus on Tuesday 27th February 15:50

It's a big topic - from doctors handing out antibiotics for apparently minor ailments, to farmers using them as a growth promoter (even the last ditch defence one has been sold openly by Asian drugs firms to pork farmers).

Invest in Georgian 'phage' treatments now, before everyone climbs aboard.