I got a threatening letter today about my oldest daughters absences.
Now they say it's 10 days since September, I thought it was much less, but I was concerned about her time off. The problem is she has had three bout's of really bad headaches and feeling dizzy standing up. lasts about 2-3 days and she feels better. I cannot take her to the GP as it would mean walking 3.5 miles and she'd not be fit enough to do that, or calling a GP out, and christ the medical profession are always harping on about being called out to trifling little problems when there are much more serious ones in need of their attention, and quite right too, you call a doctor out or an ambulance if you feel that your life is in danger in some way or broken bones, so calling out a GP to see a girl with a headache would not go down well with them at all, certainly not with my surgery.
Anyway the letter threatens the social services so I called the school, they've "taken on board what I've said" yet still continued to tell me that another absence will involve the social services :shock:
Am I being unreasonable :?: My daughters education is as important to me as life itself, it's your ticket to a better life, but so is her need to recover from any illness. Surely the social services are there for abuse of any nature and the persistent truanting of children, not parent's trying to do the best for their children by feeding, nurturing, helping with school stuff, relationships and to be at their bedside during illness.
Alison
Now they say it's 10 days since September, I thought it was much less, but I was concerned about her time off. The problem is she has had three bout's of really bad headaches and feeling dizzy standing up. lasts about 2-3 days and she feels better. I cannot take her to the GP as it would mean walking 3.5 miles and she'd not be fit enough to do that, or calling a GP out, and christ the medical profession are always harping on about being called out to trifling little problems when there are much more serious ones in need of their attention, and quite right too, you call a doctor out or an ambulance if you feel that your life is in danger in some way or broken bones, so calling out a GP to see a girl with a headache would not go down well with them at all, certainly not with my surgery.
Anyway the letter threatens the social services so I called the school, they've "taken on board what I've said" yet still continued to tell me that another absence will involve the social services :shock:
Am I being unreasonable :?: My daughters education is as important to me as life itself, it's your ticket to a better life, but so is her need to recover from any illness. Surely the social services are there for abuse of any nature and the persistent truanting of children, not parent's trying to do the best for their children by feeding, nurturing, helping with school stuff, relationships and to be at their bedside during illness.
Alison
I have from my teens suffered from really serious pains in my chest, really agonizing, I don't think you can imagine the pain, yet here I am 47 odd years later still crippled occasionally by severe pain, still here still nothing wrong still going to be here 50 years along the line. My son as a child really had bad pains in his back and side, I suggested warm baths, it alleviated it. now 21 and a Marine as safe as houses. Pain here or there is just pain. I know full well there is nothing more than a headache and that's what anyone would say with a medical degree or not.
