Maybe Yes, Maybe No, May Be Crepey

[QueenQueenie]

Unilateral decision... No space for consultation. Call me Dave...

Hope it has gone OK for your DS (nerve-wracking doing MFL speaking and listening!) and for you.

I need to go to have my knee looked at. There is something very not right about it. It is making funny noises and feeling very insecure, like a chicken bone joint that might just snap apart!

I need to go to the doctors. I need anti-migraine pills for my monthly horrors, anti-fungal pills for my vile toenails, a smear, and a wheat allergy test. However, as you can't get appointments within less than four weeks, I can't be arsed.

Get a new GP, Herbs. That is rubbish. My surgery has an excellent on the day telephone triage system now, run by the GPs. Lots of practices are shifting to this sort of thing I gather. And it is ridiculous if you have to see a GP to get a smear! The nurse should be doing that and may well be able to prescribe anti-fungals as well.

Monty, where are you going on hol? Is it en famille?

I don't think I've had to wait for more than two weeks for non emergency appointments. We also have triage on the day for urgent illness. Sometimes you don't even have to come in other than to pick up a prescription. Agree with lalsy , smear should just be with the nurse.

I am still sitting here like a lemon. The contrast between where I went earlier for physio (Private hospital) and now for the blood test (NHS) feels very stark. And I'm an ex long serving employee of the latter....

I know I can just see the nurse for a smear, I'm just making excuses! And also wanted to kill a number of birds with one stone, like. Get all my medical stuff sorted at once.

Herbs I read on here that Vicks is good for getting rid of toenail fungus - I got some for DH, but it is still unused and I can't bear to check his toenails!

I used Vicks for a while - made bugger all difference. I've got a couple of toenails like claws, that have been like that for 20 years.

I too have claws. Nothing makes a difference.

Have had chat with DSis. Sounds like stuff with her partner isn't great but she's feeling better about it...I'm not sure it helps that SIL has whizzy glam job in the arts and DSis has slightly prosaic p/t job. And I said in bossy big-sister fashion that we can relax a bit with the parents at the moment - things will undoubtedly get more urgent at some point, so no need to get ourselves into a state now. I can nip up there for the odd visit, and/or go with my lot. She was v grateful. Then we grumbled about the parents .

It's clearly very wearing for her, MI (and you!) but it sounds like you said all the right things.

No need for medical intervention of the NHS kind here, but Chunky Hamster has developed some nasty looking carbuncle on the side of her face, so I may be paying the vet a visit. She's still happily eating and drinking (the hamster, I mean, not the vet), but it does look a bit 'orrible. What do vets charge nowadays (I can't have been near one in 20 years)?

So how did you get on, Strops?

Yes Stropps, update needed!

Stropps... Calling Stropps....

[ KLAXON ]

We are agog.

STROPPS! WE'RE AGOG!

Here I am! :) Well, it was as I suspected it would be, i.e. we both agreed I wasn't qualified for the job - so that's not happening. But we did have a very useful conversation and I've been invited in a day after my course finishes to do some observation and see if there is any role for me in a voluntary capacity. I desperately need some experience and any experience will be useful. Plus he was pretty interested in my qualifications, so I may well be of use to him at some point. Turned out he was given his lucky break job in education by a friend of mine, so we had plenty to quack about. He said that the person who is "vouching" for me had been very complimentary about me and this person is someone whose word carries a lot of weight in the local area, so that is good to know. In all, no surprises and no quick fixes, but it was a positive experience all the same. I'm just going to need to do a lot of juggling to get enough experience to get a job, but I knew that when I started all this. 17 years out of the classroom is a long time and I'm trying to go back in to do something very different at a time when all the schools are short of money, so I need to make myself stand out some way or other.

That's a fantastic step forward, Stropps, well done! Not surprised to hear you "voucher-person" was so positive. And your mutual friend is surely synchronicity.

Stropps, that sounds great, and very sensible. Well done.

NU - my FIL had stents a few years ago and it made a huge difference.

BTM - your advice was really good, I thought, wish I could have borne it in mind during some of the fights I had with DD. on a diffrent note (and I supsect I keep asking) - do you know the date of post exam celebrating at school? if you do, would you mind PMing me?

I just wanted to add how awestruck I was by BTM's advice to Beachy. Ossum. I wish I'd known you a few years ago...

Oh Stropps fab news - good stuff....

Here the levels of rubbish continue.

Great networking, Strops!

Well, that's a great result I would say, Stropps. Good networking there.

Well she is on the sleepover. I think it's fair to assume dh didn't follow BTM's advice to the letter, but I wasn't here so I can't really comment! I think it will be ongoing, and we will have to persevere.

I've finally returned from three days in London, with all the Americans flitting around. It's really quite chaotic with orders and lists of things to do getting quite extensive.....hope it's more peaceful next week....

A result too I think, Stropps. You never know what will lead to what and is sounds interesting and confidence-boosting too.

That's great news Stropps - how lovely that important people are vouching for you. Now you have to believe them!

at the advice! I'm not sure I even followed/follow my own advice all the time!

addle, I have no idea about any official school post-exam celebrating. There have been no letters or anything AFAIK! Will PM you.

Stropps - that is that really positive - and great to know you have someone on your side and willing to give fab references. Always very reassuring.

I have a possible opportunity of full time Classroom Assistant work next year - I would rather it would be part time as it is DD2's final year at school but if I get this offer I feel I should seize it as it's the sort of thing that may not come up again. Also I would be working with someone I like and within walking distance of the school.

Great news, Stropps! As lalsy says, you never know what this might lead to.

Am sticking to very dull low fat diet, but lapsed last night and had a cocktail or two. But everyone knows, there is very little alcohol in a cocktail, right? Just juice and healthy stuff? (Herbs will back me up on this one, I am sure.)