Coeliac Journey Through Covid-19 – Posts To Make You Think
Posts To Make You Think
Should Those With Long Covid Be Checked For Coeliac Disease?
Why A Lucky Few May Help The Rest Of Us Beat Disease
Coeliac Disease And Atrial Fibrillation
Why Do More Elderly Men Die Of The Covids Than Women?
Covid Leaves Wave Of Wearied Souls In Pandemic’s Wake
AstraZeneca May Explain Britain’s Lower Death Rate
Infection, Mortality And Severity Of Covid-19 In Coeliac Disease – Prof Jonas Ludvigsson
Voters In Trump Counties Far More Likely To Die Of Covid
Hay Fever, Coeliac Disease And The AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine
My INR Readings Before And After My Second AstraZeneca Jab
Blood Clot Risk Eight Times Higher From Covid Than AstraZeneca Vaccine, Study Finds
Blood Clots In Young German Ladies After AstraZeneca Vaccine
Long Covid And Coeliac Disease
A Slight Problem With Covid-19 Vaccination
Should Coeliacs On A Long-Term Gluten-Free Diet Have The Pfizer Or AstraZeneca Vaccine?
Two More Life-Saving Covid Drugs Discovered
My Advice To Coeliacs On A Gluten-Free Diet Concerning The Covids
Did I Have A Close Brush With Covid-19?
Risk of COVID-19 In Celiac Disease Patients
Covid: Genes Hold Clues To Why Some People Get Severely Ill
Any Politician Who Advocates A Circuit Breaker Is Ignoring The Dynamics
Why The Covids Are Worse In The North
Is The NHS The Cause Of The Rise In The Covids?
A Curious Link Between Pancreatic Cancer And COVID-19
Thoughts On COVID-19 On Merseyside
Care Homes In England Had Greatest Increase In Excess Deaths At Height Of The COVID-19 Pandemic
Should The NHS Adopt A Whack-A-Coeliac Policy?
Coeliac Disease: Can We Avert The Impending Epidemic In India?
Dexamethasone Declared First Drug To Save Lives Of Coronavirus Patients
Oxford And Cambridge Compared On COVID-19
Thoughts On Coeliacs And COVID-19
What Happened In Hackney On Friday?
A Thought On Deaths Of The Elderly From Covid-19
Coeliac Journey Through Covid-19 – Worried About Covid-19
Worried About Covid-19
I think like many others, I was worried about the pandemic when it started.
These are a few of my thoughts and actions.
Attitude To The Internet
I have been an avid reader of the Internet since it started.
But as someone, who has worked with serious researchers off and on for fifty years, I like to think that I know fake news or untrustworthy research when I see it.
I am also in the lucky position, that if I have an advanced question about say DNA, I generally know someone I can ask, with my connections at universities.
I’ve also been used by my cardiologist friend, as an example patient in a couple of his lectures.
Being Coeliac
I was quite worried about whether being coeliac would count against me in the pandemic.
Coeliac UK were not much help and their advice seemed to be along the line of Keep Calm and Carry On!
The Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community On Stamford Hill
It must have been in 2019, when I was asked by my GP, if I had been vaccinated against measles.
I said no, but I did have a bad case at about twenty-five, which I recounted in A Surprising Question From A Doctor.
He said fine and then added that there’s a measles epidemic in the North of the borough.
Apparently, the ultra-Orthodox Jews have a low level of vaccination and a lot of children.
This worried me, as will they bother to get the vaccine for Covid-19.
They should listen to the eminently sensible Chief Rabbi.
So in the end I just kept calm and carried on!
Coeliac Journey Through Covid-19 – Retirement
Retirement
After my stroke, I was not allowed to drive because of an eyesight problem.
As my late wife and myself had decided we would move back to London on our retirement, I decided to carry-out our plan by myself.
I sold my large house in Suffolk and moved to a smaller one in Dalston in East London.
This is an area, where my many and varied ancestors had strong roots.
My father was born close by and was a direct descendant of a Jewish tailor, who around 1800, was kicked out of Konigsberg in East Prussia, which is now Kaliningrad in Russia, for no other reason than he was male, eighteen and Jewish. I suspect my coeliac disease comes from this Jewish ancestor. No female born into the family has ever successfully given birth and my granddaughter was born with a congenital hernia of the diaphragm, which was successfully repaired by surgery, when she was a few hours old. She now suffers from endometriosis.
My mother’s family were a mix of Huguenots and Devon yeomanry and although she was born a few miles away, her mother was born just round the corner.
My father called himself a London Mongrel and I use the term about myself, as my genes are probably more mixed than his.
Since around the turn of the century, I have been a blogger and around 2008, I started my blog called the Anonymous Widower. The topics, I cover are very varied and have made me quite a few friends.
I am a strong advocate of using blogging to improve peoples’ lives.
Kentish Town Station – 30th April 2023
This article on the BBC is entitled Kentish Town Tube Station Set To Close For Year.
This is the sub-heading.
Kentish Town Tube station is set to close for up to a year while its 26-year-old escalators are replaced.
Other works will also be performed during the closure.
- The ticket office will be removed.
- The ticket barriers will be realigned.
- New paintworks, flooring, wall tiling, and new signage will also be fitted.
These pictures show the current state of Kentish Town station.
Note.
- The Victorian frontage of the station could do with a refurbishment.
- The platforms need to be restored to be the same standard as the clock.
- The escalators don’t look as bad as the article says, but new ones will give them forty years.
- Information around the gate-line for both the Underground and Thameslink, is not to the standards this passenger expects.
- The stairs connecting the London Underground station to the Thameslink bridge could be improved.
- The Thameslink information is good.
- The bridge needs lifts.
There is even a side-gate to access the Thameslink platforms, if the main entrance is closed.
Are More Trains Needed?
For a Sunday morning, both stations were surprisingly busy.
But there were only two Thameslink trains per hour (tph) between Luton and Rainham.
On all days except Sunday, the four tph Sutton Loop Line is usually running, but on Sunday it appears it’s only the Luton and Rainham service.
I suspect the Sunday service will be boosted for the duration of the closure.
Could The Side Gate Be Used Permanently?
The side-gate to the Thameslink platforms will have to be used during the station closure.
But could some arrangement be designed, so that it could be used all of the time?
Conclusion
With an unlimited budget, there’s a lot that could be done at this station.
The Anonymous Widower 