As the title says: I've just come back from having the flu jab together with my daughter - we both have it every year, because we are both asthmatic. Now we walk in, with my daughter already a trembling, crying mess, and the nurse starts making a fuss over my daughter having the jab because she has not had a new prescription for the brown (preventative) asthma spray since last year.
Admittedly, she doesn't use it because her asthma is so mild that she only has to use the blue (acute) spray very occasionally and I don't see any point in pumping her body full of medicine on a daily basis when it is not necessary. But mild asthma is still asthma, right? And her making that fuss really did nothing to calm my daughter's nerves, quite on the contrary.
In the end, she mumblingly and grumblingly did give my daughter the jab - and then proceeded to give me exactly the same lecture about myself and my entitlements (or lack of) if I am not using that f****** brown inhaler on a regular basis.
In the end I interruted her mid-sentence and pointed out that since I am pregnant she has to give me the blimming jab anyway, sod the brown inhalor, and so she did so in a great grump.
Sorry this turned out to be a long rant, but I am so angry, I am close to exploding! Behaving like that when you've got a little kid already crying and terrified - another glowing representative of the so-called caring profession! Arrrrrgh!!!!!
Admittedly, she doesn't use it because her asthma is so mild that she only has to use the blue (acute) spray very occasionally and I don't see any point in pumping her body full of medicine on a daily basis when it is not necessary. But mild asthma is still asthma, right? And her making that fuss really did nothing to calm my daughter's nerves, quite on the contrary.
In the end, she mumblingly and grumblingly did give my daughter the jab - and then proceeded to give me exactly the same lecture about myself and my entitlements (or lack of) if I am not using that f****** brown inhaler on a regular basis.
In the end I interruted her mid-sentence and pointed out that since I am pregnant she has to give me the blimming jab anyway, sod the brown inhalor, and so she did so in a great grump.Sorry this turned out to be a long rant, but I am so angry, I am close to exploding! Behaving like that when you've got a little kid already crying and terrified - another glowing representative of the so-called caring profession! Arrrrrgh!!!!!
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