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What is hacking you off today?

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londonblue said:
On Friday I was working from home. At about 11.45 my wife came home, said nothing to me and just run straight out again. I watched her get in her car and drive off. This was very unusual especially as I wasn't expecting her home until about 2.00pm. About 45 minutes later I got a call from her saying she's in the doctor's surgery with our youngest who was found in the cloakroom at school clutching his tummy and not knowing what to do. He was also drifting in and out of consciousness and was in a really bad way. It was an suspected appendicitis.

I dropped everything and walked to the surgery (it's about a 5 minute walk). By the time I got there they had already called an ambulance. According to the GP his heart rate was low, as was his blood sugar, although he didn't have a temperature.

My wife and son went in the ambulance, and I followed in my wife's car. By the time we got to the hospital he had perked up, the pain in his tummy had gone, and he seemed Ok, but an ECG that was performed in the ambulance showed an abnormal rhythm in his heart. A surgeon checked his stomach, and decided there was nothing wrong. A full ECG was carried out, and all was normal, and so was everything else.

They sent us home, but told us to keep a close eye on him, which we did. All is still fine.

However, as you can imagine that was a very stressful time, but I still haven't got to the bit that has hacked me off. As you can imagine, when this started my wife had to leave her physio practice and leave a patient in the waiting room. They explained to the patient what had happened and said they would make an appointment available to her the next day (on Saturday) should she wish. (The patient was being assessed for an insurance claim for a car accident.) The patient loosely re-booked for Saturday evening at 6.00pm, but never confirmed. Today my wife received an email from the patient's solicitor accusing her of being unprofessional, and advising my wife she was going elsewhere.
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Blimey - that sounds very stressful. Hope it was just a one off and that your lad is feeling ok.

Clients/patients can be dicks.
 
londonblue said:
He's fine, which is the most important thing. I just can't believe someone can actually do that.
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Glad he's ok, whatever anyone says the customer is NOT always right!

Incidentally, at the risk of sounding very British, the bloody rain is hacking me off! Absolutely torrential stuff, just come back from Tesco and the A13 is a sheet of water from Pitsea to Sadlers.
 
No thread on the Orlando massacre? Or have I missed it? Is it that common now that it doesn't deserve a thread of its own here? I do find it ironic that Islamic State appear to have claimed responsibility and then the perpetrator was allegedly revealed to be gay. Trouble is US reporting is so polarised that getting the facts out of news with Liberals vs Trump brigade is very difficult, even with the media I follow.

Say what you like about our own political system whether first past the post, ethics or something else there is a common middle ground which is for the good.
 
OldBlueLady said:
Glad he's ok, whatever anyone says the customer is NOT always right!

Incidentally, at the risk of sounding very British, the bloody rain is hacking me off! Absolutely torrential stuff, just come back from Tesco and the A13 is a sheet of water from Pitsea to Sadlers.
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Nothing wrong with being British! I hate this weather too.
 
* ORM * said:
No thread on the Orlando massacre? Or have I missed it? Is it that common now that it doesn't deserve a thread of its own here? I do find it ironic that Islamic State appear to have claimed responsibility and then the perpetrator was allegedly revealed to be gay. Trouble is US reporting is so polarised that getting the facts out of news with Liberals vs Trump brigade is very difficult, even with the media I follow.

Say what you like about our own political system whether first past the post, ethics or something else there is a common middle ground which is for the good.
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A mass shooting in America is hardly a rarity these days. I think I saw that 93 people had been killed by guns in the US SINCE Orlando, including a young family in New Mexico that didn't even make the world media. Sad state of affairs and you just know that another one is round the corner.
 
HK Taxi drivers. Much as I love the cheapness, probably a third the price of the U.K., maybe less there are very few decent ones. Got two so far today. The first seems to have a shaky right foot and was a painful kangaroo journey at which I don't think he even touched 30. The second was even worse. It's not uncommon for them to have a couple of phones stuck to the windscreen to pick up jobs but FOUR and think Samsung, not iPhone 4 size. I swear he could barely see in front of him.
 
Daughter losing her new rain mac at school.
"Where is it?"
"Probably in the playground"

Easy come, easy go....

Son losing one of his shoes (after changing for football) also annoying but there is still reasonable hope that we may get that back as one shoe on its own isn't much use to anyone. Unless it's an old lady looking for lodgings for her family.
 
Uncle Leo said:
Daughter losing her new rain mac at school.
"Where is it?"
"Probably in the playground"

Easy come, easy go....
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There's a huge pile of unclaimed clothes at MK Jnr's school. Perhaps it's there? Kids don't like wearing coats & cardigans much do they? Or is that just my little monkey?
 
MK Shrimper said:
There's a huge pile of unclaimed clothes at MK Jnr's school. Perhaps it's there? Kids don't like wearing coats & cardigans much do they? Or is that just my little monkey?
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No, it's all of them. We used to make sure they put them on when it merited it and you'd have those huddling together cos they were cold or those throwing them off and hanging them on the playground railings (if you were lucky, throwing them on the floor if you weren't). Someone used to go round at the end of lunch time and gather them up and we used to have monitors to take the named ones back to classes. Anything un-named went in lost property and we'd put all the lost property out in the hall at the end of every half term. Some of the lunch boxes were rancid!!!
 
What is getting up my nose most nights is when I'm reading MK Jnr's bedtime book, the publishers like to change from portrait to landscape layout for one page meaning you have to rotate the book 90 degrees to read it. A minor thing, but flump me it's annoying. :angry:
 
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