How to Get a Wig - Part 3

From: Iris

Subject: Wigless

I take it the vouchers never came today?

From: Canalily

Subject: Re: Wigless

No. But no post at all so I'm still hopeful. There have been some

postal strikes around London.

From: Iris

Subject: Re: Wigless

I got a stack of mail actually but some parts of outer london have been effected by the strike

From: Canalily

Subject: Re: Wigless

W10 is NOT outer London

From: Iris

Subject: Re: Wigless

It'll come tomorrow or monday it probably has to sit in a post room for a day before it even leaves the hospital

From: Canalily

Subject: Re: Wigless

Yes there's probably a troll who collects it from surgical supplies in cupboard-under-the-stairs and trudges it through the gothic labyrinth to some post room in the bowels of St Mary's where they wait for a flight of owls to deliver the magic envelopes.

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The phone is ringing...

“Hello. This is Janine in the surgical appliance orthotics department. I’m sorry that I’m not available to take your call. I’m now out of the office and will return on the 24^th of August. If you are a patient who wishes to change an appointment, please telephone 0207 886 5506. Alternatively you may call 0207 886 5197. If you are a ward with a request for a patient to be seen on the ward please send a fax to 1894. If you wish to leave a message, please leave a message with your name, your telephone number and I will get back to you as soon as I come back on the 24^th. Thank you very much.”