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Post by gigi on Jan 14, 2023 22:12:40 GMT 1
Norfolk I'm afraid the clinics and hospitals in Rennes you will have to pay, our local in Dinan is free but it is often difficult to find somewhere to park. I guess all depts/ regions will differ as is the norm here? Oh really ? That’s the first French hospital of heard of which charges for parking. You have to pay for parking at Nîmes CHU, have done so for several years. Cars are left at all sorts of crazy angles all along approach roads by people avoiding car park charges.
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Post by Nifty on Jan 14, 2023 22:19:30 GMT 1
Nifty, if you're referring to my Biggles, you've mixed him up with someone else. Hampshire born, raised in Northants. I have forgotten exactly where I got my info from but I had read scores of books about his exploits. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggles. Imagine my dismay upon coming home on leave and finding that mother had given them away to the jumble sale along with my model aircraft, chemistry set and Scalextric.
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Post by exile on Jan 14, 2023 23:35:31 GMT 1
That must qualify for child abuse @nifty - a perhaps rather older child.
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Post by omegal on Jan 15, 2023 0:05:43 GMT 1
To be honest it can be case of a postcode lottery here as well. We are lucky as our previous Doctor retired a while ago and his partner in the clinic left to go a bigger town. So in the last year the next commune just a few minutes down the road built an extension to their existing building and now we have 5 Doctors, a new Physio making two in total, 2 dentists and other health care specialists including a new Nurses station. My wife waited all of a week or so to have her scond new hip and her friend the same. Not including pre-tests but as soon as they were over, she, or rather they, chose their dates. I don't think that is a possibility in the UK? Same for replacement knees which friends have had done in St Gregoire (Rennes). As we drive through villages going West in Brittany, we do pass some villages that have boards up asking for Doctors, Dentists and Physios, often just one of the three. My wifes Father is in a large West London hospital where he is not expected to last the weekend, her problem was trying to find somewhere to park at the hospital over Xmas and the start of the New Year. She told me that the hospitable staff were stretched with all the work and yes, ambulances were lined up outside waiting for beds for the persons inside. I'm sorry to hear your father in law is near his end. Please accept my condolences. I hope he passes without too much distress both for him and you. Dear mangetout, my Father in Law passed away shortly after 7pm our time. Already the boxing World are offering my wife and his family their condolences.
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Post by lapourtaider on Jan 15, 2023 7:51:14 GMT 1
HPGN at Montredon des Corbieres is a new hospital and charges for parking from day one. Not sure the staff have to pay.
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Post by lapourtaider on Jan 15, 2023 7:53:54 GMT 1
my Father in Law passed away shortly after 7pm our time. Already the boxing World are offering my wife and his family their condolences. My sincere condolences to you and your family.
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Post by exile on Jan 15, 2023 8:00:52 GMT 1
Condolences from me too.
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Post by norfolk on Jan 15, 2023 8:30:21 GMT 1
my Father in Law passed away shortly after 7pm our time. Already the boxing World are offering my wife and his family their condolences. My sincere condolences to you and your family. Sorry to hear that.
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Post by Nifty on Jan 15, 2023 8:54:29 GMT 1
That must qualify for child abuse @nifty - a perhaps rather older child. That was nothing compared to the gruelling punishment that we received at the National Institute of Pugnacious Pugilists and Masochists Technical Training facility. See the tension written on these inmates faces. If the truth be known, those that came through it loved every minute of it.
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Post by mangetout on Jan 15, 2023 9:19:04 GMT 1
I'm sorry to hear your father in law is near his end. Please accept my condolences. I hope he passes without too much distress both for him and you. Dear mangetout, my Father in Law passed away shortly after 7pm our time. Already the boxing World are offering my wife and his family their condolences. So sorry to hear that. But what a lucky man to have had such a loving family around him at the end. You can all rest easy knowing you did right by him and he would have known he was loved.
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Post by gigi on Jan 15, 2023 13:03:33 GMT 1
Omegal, I was sorry to read that he had died, but having loving family around him as he passed must have been a lovely thing to know - not everyone is lucky enough to die knowing that they are loved.
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Post by iolar on Jan 10, 2024 13:12:49 GMT 1
Even an old man like me knows how hard life was just a couple of generations ago, especially if you weren't local and being Irish made it that much tougher. My paternal grandfather's people (Protestants) had gone over to Ireland to fight at the battle of the Boyne. As a young man he was sick and tired of the whole Catholic/Protestant hatred and decided to leave after generations and return to Scotland where his ancestors came from.
So my dad was brought up in the second toughest district of Glasgow - Possil Park and I remember him saying to me when I was 10 "if you had been born where I was, you wouldn't have made it to 10 - you would have turned your head to the wall and died"
I think Gigi nailed it well.
It is a post code lottery. After months of crap treatment at two private clinics, Angela got lucky when one of her district nurses, Gerome managed to get a doctor to come out on a Sunday - best treatment she's had in months, a nebuliser and antibiotics. We still await a visit from our own medicant. Gerome left a message in French on his phone - you can't call him directly or leave an email message.
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