Today was a sad day as a school nurse. We had a child who has developed a rash on the face, arm and hand on one side. It was first noticed by the counselor, and then the next day by the school nurse and then today by me... and it's been getting worse each day.
The problem was that we needed to send the child home to be seen by a doctor before we could allow him back to school since we didn't know what the rash was. We couldn't get hold of the father and the grandmother's car had broken down. The counselor called the grandmother to try to arrange someone to get the child, but nobody ever showed up. The child got to me at 11:35 and was in the office until school ended at 3:40.
I called the grandmother just to let her know we won't be able to have the child back in school tomorrow and she described the pressure she is under. She has given the kids and their parents a home so they won't be homeless, but they haven't given her any sort of rights or power of attorney and accuse her of being the evil bitch grandmother. So she's totally stuck between a rock and a hard place. I just listened and gave her a kind ear.
Now we may have to hotline the family... not the grandmother, but the parents.
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