- Called to the baby's Pediatrician to find out if I can take him somewhere besides the ER where they could look him over; his ears in particular. He is sick! Sudden fever after days of junky congestion and irritability I could not soothe.
- Turns out in our area, there are not many "Urgent Cares" that take our insurance (don't get me started). They sent me to one one city over (not too far) and we arrived only to find they do not take children under six. Nice. Maybe someone could have told me that PRE packing up the crying baby and hauling him there?
- I call my hubby (poor thing it's SO not his fault but he did get the brunt of my anger because when I tried to call the local program that houses the Nurses you can get on the phone, it wouldn't take my call because it thought my cell phone was calling from a city one hour away and it told me under no uncertain terms it would not take my call becauase this program was only for those living in XYZ cities. We live in Z city and even though we fall under the auspices of that, it thought I was calling from PDQ city. UGH. Hence my husband had to call them from our home number, find out if there was ANOTHER local Urgent Care without driving to the one 40 minutes away. By the time he called me back with the info, I was pulling in the driveway. OMG.
- He then tells me that I have to drive to the city that is 40 minutes away and have no choice. I call that place and they're all, "why drive here, just drive to the one right down your street" Again, OMG. Numb brains. I tell you.
- Lo and behold there is one literally right down the street I never knew of. We go there. The littlest has an ear infection in his left ear; bad. That whole experience took two hours. Not complaining, just saying. What did I expect? I had no appt. Yes I know, I had no appt. But here with a crying baby one moment, a babbling baby another moment, a baby who wanted to walk, no not walk, mamma hold me, what's in here, no mamma come get me... blah blah blah I was about to go out of my MIND in that small very plain, nothing to do, no magazines to read, no books to read, no toys, no paintings on the wall, no circulating AIR, very small room. Out of my mind. I even went out and probably irritatingly asked the nurse, do you know how LONG it's going to be as he wailed to the high heavens. I picked the right moment you know. Used it to my advantage. ;<)
- Left that place after all was said and done, dropped the prescription off to WalMart, tried to wait the alloted time for it to be filled, had about 5-7 minutes to go till it was supposed to be done, and I'm at the window and they tell me they don't have the medicine. Could you maybe have told me that PRE walking around this God Forsaken place waiting for this medicine? By then I'm beyond starving, out of my mind tired, and the baby is so calm. I think he was so tired, he was in another zone. I'm thinking, I am NOT driving to that other city and getting the medicine there. Call in the troops. My honey would do it. I leave and the woman behind the counter tells me, we'll call it over for you, it should be waiting by the time you get there.
- My honey goes to get it about three hours later (don't ask).
- It's not ready. They are clueless to the fact they were supposed to be filling it there. Lets just say we didn't have to pay for that medicine after I got off the phone with the originating pharmacy. :)
- Had to console a poor little boy who got run over by his big brother both trying to get in the pantry. Aforementioned poor little boy was walking in first, older brother wanted to BE first, and BAM! The baby slammed forward and his head bounced off the floor. More nice.
I am bone dead tired. He is bone dead tired. My day is almost over. I should just eat a dinner and go to bed. I think I might have a long night ahead.
Signing off ---
Jenn
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