Just realised I don’t have to get up at 6:30 tomorrow morning. A silver lining of sorts.
G
That’s the good thing about being retired. I’m a “night person” - get up at 10am, bed 2 or 3am. Different from the 6.30 rise time before I retired from Anaesthetics/Intensive Care (to avoid morning rush hour and see patients before my list started).
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Haha! Now the name makes sense. 
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Yup. I’m a retired NHS Consultant. (to our non UK members, that means one of the chiefs!)
Mrs G is an NHS Consultant (AMU). Can’t wait for her to retire. 3 years to go.
Once retired it’s not about what you did but what you do now.
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I think what I do now is :
Annoy SWMBO (I love her, really …)
Play guitar
Listen to music
Read
Cook
Grandad’s Taxi / Spoil our grandkids.
Gave all my medical books to the Hospital’s Graduate Medical Centre.
Still socialise with some of my old colleagues/friends
She’ll find it strange for a while, but then (like me) will wonder how she ever found the time to go to work.
Retirement might be coming sooner for some us than planned…
Mike we’ll get through this and life will go on. As for how we behave, it might be a good thing to reflect on both how we treat each other and how we treat this fragile planet we live on.
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The current situation caused me to contact a brother I’d all but lost contact with to find out if he and family are ok. We had a longer and more meaningful conversation than we’d had for several years, which was rather nice and made me resolve to keep in better contact from now on. A sort of reverse isolation!
Not all that comes out of this is bad - as indeed discussed in the community thread.
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My brother who is not in the best of health is babysitting his grandson, his mother works in a hospital at what I would consider at high risk. I’ve tried to talking him out of volunteering to help but he won’t listen. I’m concerned for him, but there’s little I can do.
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Very envious. Still active NHS ITU consultant in a London teaching hospital. Next few months are going to be a touch busy
Good luck, crispyduck
SWMBO has put me on ‘house arrest’ because she saw me talking to our next door neighbour - even though I was >6 feet away from him. I’m going to get very bored. Still - my fault for marrying a nurse!
Thanks v much Dungassin (Love the name btw)
My fridge is looking empty, completely ran out of orange juice, fruit and fresh veg.
( Have just one last banana gaffer-taped to the wall in case of emergencies. )
Very low stocks of bread and milk, petrol tank near empty. I need to go to Tesco today.
Wish me luck, i’m going in! 
If you never hear from me again, i’ve been crushed to death under a stampede for the last packet of toilet rolls…
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Yes, the next few months are going to be very busy, especially for you guys working in ITU. My wife is a consultant working in AMU, and her ward is the designated coronavirus ward in her hospital. Four of the consultants in there, plus many other doctors and nurses have already become infected and are off sick. Fortunately, the first ones infected are now clear and returning to work.
So thank you and all your colleagues, and all the ancillary staff, for doing the work you do, and my heartfelt thanks for putting yourselves in the frontline to care for those of us who will be needing you soon.
Keep smiling
G.
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You may need to trade that piece of art you own. Good luck.
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That is very kind of you. Cheers
And all the best to your wife - AMU is no bed of roses
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