Sun, 22 November 2009
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Mr. FdC and I, for example, have very different ideas of what constitutes everything health-related, from a common cold to a full-blown flu. Regardless of the weather -- or of the temperature inside the apartment itself -- he bundles up our very warm-blooded two-year-old according to the calendar.
October? Well, that means a t-shirt, a long-sleeved shirt, a sweatshirt and/or a jacket. Who cares if it's still seventy degrees outside?
Much like our French friends in Florida -- who insisted on wearing sweaters and scarves during most of what the calendar told them should be "Fall" (but what, in reality, is just the tail end of a long summer) -- Mr. FdC seems convinced that a draft of air, any draft of air, will promptly make our toddler sick with a cold.
My argument that colds are viral, that is, requiring exposure to a virus in order to develop, falls on deaf ears. He simply doesn't buy it. And so the little one, bless his heart, must tackle the Indian Summers looking like a cross between a Goodwill advertisement and Kenny on South Park.
Another source of discord in our household is this: just when is someone sick enough to need an appointment with the doctor? Me, I say almost dead; but my dear husband…well, at the first sign of a sniffle -- and that goes for above-mentioned toddler, too.
Of course, that doctor's visit won't have been worth anything at all to Mr. FdC unless he comes back having filled no less than ten prescriptions, adding to the clutter that used to be in our medicine cabinet, but that now fills a large plastic box under the bathroom sink and is lovingly referred to, by me, as the ‘pharmacy'.
The French relationship to pharmaceuticals is legendary with Anglophone expatriates. The fact that they like to take everything in either water-soluble -- think Alka Seltzer -- or suppository form is only the tip of the iceberg. But that's a column for another day…
Our expert Steven Grover delves into the murky waters of French healthcare for expats and asks how recent changes affect them?
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