Dr Oge speaks about the flu vaccine and explains why she is encouraging people with Lupus to get their winter vaccinations and avoid hospitalisation.
Dr Oge Ilozue is a practicing GP and Clinical Advisor for the NHS Vaccination Programme
Coping with Lupus during a global pandemic
When the bells tolled to mark the start of 2020, I never imagined it was going to be a year like this. As I was turning forty this year, 2020 was going to be a good year, filled with loads of plans but that all came to a grinding halt in mid-March. Little did any of us expect that a pandemic would hit and that the whole world, as we knew it, would literally come to a stop.
The inside World has suddenly become a scary place
I previously wrote a blog ‘the outside world has suddenly become a scary place’, talking about despite the fact I’m normally a confident person, because of Covid19 I felt frightened to go outside my front door.
I now find myself looking at the other side of the coin and sometimes feel nervous inside my house, which is normally my ‘safe haven’
I shield to protect my precious gift
Even though I had a lot to be anxious about during the lockdown (I have lupus, I recently had a kidney transplant, I’m from a BAME background and work in the NHS) being advised to shield wasn’t the worst thing I’ve had to do and there was something soothing knowing everyone was in the same boat of trying ‘keep calm and carry on’.
The outside World has suddenly become a scary place
Beware the Coronavirus scams
In times of crisis some people will still take the opportunity to con people which is the lowest of the low. People are desperately searching for information and some of the information that they would normally question or filter out might not currently happen as we're uncertain about facts at the moment.
Coping with isolation - Coronavirus
There are going to be people such as lupus patients who are going to self isolate, we don’t really have much choice as for us it might be a matter of life or death.
For some people this can be stressful and difficult. It’s already recognised that social isolation is one of our biggest killers so we should take as many steps as we can to make this as tolerable as possible.
