Health Care in Autumn

Are there any changes in how you care for yourself and engage with health services during autumn? I don't think it's just one-sided, I think the fact that the GP practices encourage us to have our appropriate vaccinations, I don't think that the autumn or winter will alter my health, because my thyroid function doesn't necessarily change with the seasons. That's the most thing I've got. A bit of arthritis, my joints are a bit stiffer, but I'll still try and walk and do things to enable. We go to this group on a Wednesday, and the physio does exercises with us, and normally I would swim a bit more than I do at the moment. I've just got a bit lazy about going to the swimming pool, but I've just re-looked at the programme there, because swimming is the other thing I like to do, you know. And what support or guidance do you think is needed from healthcare professionals at that time of the year? I don't think any of the conditions I've got are expected to be more difficult to manage in the winter. I mean, medication, it stays the same. Thyroid, a bit arthritic, but they don't offer... Again, because of the system you can use to book a professional at my surgery now, I can actually request to see the physio myself. I don't need to go through the GPs to be referred to the physio, because I'm waiting for this new knee. It's been quite difficult. I've got, I am, at the end of August I think it was, I actually fell and broke my nose. Totally happened so quickly it was unbelievable. It was a day I decided not to take the car. I was going to Riddlesworth which isn't far away. I thought I would just go on the bus like because it's free and you don't have to worry about parking. So it went so smoothly, the bus journey, and I'd walked down to where I wanted to go and I was about to step on the pavement for the next road. I just tripped up, so I actually fell over. I put my hands down thinking I might save myself. My nose was buried in the pavement, so I broke my nose. Really, I didn't break anything in my hands, but I tore the tendons very badly and it's only well my nose healed amazingly because I cut my glasses which were my previous pair because I broke them metal they cut into the bridge of my nose so I thought my nose was bleeding but actually it was this cut my face was a mess I mean horrendous swelling and everything and my hands have been a mess but I just talked to somebody at the surgery the other day and she said you can just refer yourself to the physio. So nothing about my other general health, thyroid function doesn't change in the winter or seasons. It's a personal decision to stay active in a different way if the winter's more difficult, colder to go out or walking's more difficult on the pavements. I now quite often wear my proper walking boots to have a walk. I've worn my posh boots, you know, cosmetic boots I call them. Walking boots are better when you think the pavement won't be so safe. I would do that.