Ces choses qui me cassent la tête

Things that do my head in :

1) When one headteacher says 'Yeah, go to the conference' and the other first says no, then doesn't say anything...

2) When one of the kids stubs their toe and is it dislocated ? and you hope with all your heart that it isn't because you haven't got the foggiest idea what to do if it is.

Still, the kid in question is quietening down a bit... And if we don't get a response from said headteacher by the end of the week I'll make an appointment to see them.

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Alan said…
Well our neighbour is a geriatrician. She came and inspected Gwilym's toe and suggested that it could well in fact be broken - so the thing to do is to go to the doctor next door to the pharmacy tomorrow and get a prescription for an x-ray. The x-ray place in Pessac will do the deed, and that will reveal if it is broken, and then the doctor will probably do nothing about it.

The alternative is to go to the children's emergency department at the tripod and wait for hours and hours all night for the same result.

We are blessed with our neighbours.
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