∞ Know where your GP Out of Hours service is ∞

∞ Know where your GP Out of Hours service is ∞

∞ We had a bit of a scare in our home yesterday.  Our girl was needing medical attention and the GP was not available as it was heading into late evening.  Himself was packing up the bags for a possible long visit to Crumlin Children’s Hospital.  I asked him to sit with our girl a minute, and I put a call directly into our ex-local Out of Hours service.  Once I’d explained the circumstances that warranted the phone call, I was advised to bring her into them immediately.  If things needed to be escalated from the visit, that would happen quickly.  Fortunately, we didn’t need to be transferred to hospital.  Juno is in bed, fast asleep.  She will be well again very soon.    

∞ Tonight got me to thinking about the first time Juno ever needed any medical attention.  It was late in the night.  Baba was coming up on her first birthday, and neither of us knew where to go, or what to do.  We got in a bit of a muddle.   

∞ When things are stressful and in an emergency, particularly when it involves our beautiful babas, we can easily get panicked and/or might not be able to think straight.  It’s really useful to have a list of your emergency contact numbers written up somewhere.  Ours is stuck on the back of a press in the kitchen, alongside written instructions of how to drive to our home coming from either direction, including the gate access code.

∞ Tomorrow on Doc’s prescription is cartoons, cuddles and ice-cream. 

Be well.  Sandy x

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