Michelle
Michelle was at work. She says she has serious earache and the area around the ear is swollen, which makes me think she has otitis externa. She finishes work at 12 tomorrow and there is no way she will be able to see a Dr until Monday, so she is a bit stymied. It can be a very painful condition. She should have seen the Dr ages ago for her chest infection. UK GPs work from Monday to Friday. If you have a problem out of hours, you have to go to Casualty in a big hospital a long way away and sit and wait until the drunks and druggies and brawlers and other patients are dealt with before you can be seen. On a Friday night, she could wait for 6 to 8 hours, and besides, there isn’t any reasonable transport. The buses stop running early and although the train stops at Ashford until about 1am, the taxi fare from the station to the hospital is in excess of £11. After midnight when there is no public transport, taxis charge double rates so to get back from the hospital in a taxi would be almost £40. We dread getting ill on a Friday. It’s a logistical and financial nightmare.
Richard
Richard wasn’t going to come tonight because he was justifiably angry about the way a patient at work had been treated by another staff member. Nigel persuaded him though and he soon cheered up when he got here. He had been working with someone who had lice so he asked Caelyn to check his hair for him, but he was clear. Then Wendy began combing his hair. It inspired her and she went off to her great-gran to comb her hair for her.
I have started my studies but am not feeling well. I'm having a bit of a relapse, plus I have a dental abscess which isn't responding well to antibiotics. It can go from 'OK' to very swollen and sore within 10 min. Then it 'pops' and the pressure and pain eases. Tonight the pressure seemed to be building on a nerve and it was very painful for a while. It has been an ongoing problem and if it is still doing this on Monday, I'll phone the dentist again.
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