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Oct. 17, 2007
Another Tuesday with a dr
Here is our yesterday.
Got up, showered, B did school. Out the door by Noon to be in another city by 1:00 which was 30 minutes before our 1:30 appointment. This was for the allergist to see Heckle for his cough he has had since July of this year.
We had lots of paper work to fill out, and I believe we got to the back after 2:30. Then the dr comes in FINALLY after 3:00 and then the nurse called him out of the room 2 more times for NOT our patient, so we had TONS of interruptions. Then he comes back, talks to us some more, and then finally leaves and says he wants a cat scan of Heckle's sinus. The nurse comes in and says do you know where Open MRI is, and I say yes, and she says well go over there and get his CT scan done. I said ok, can he eat "lunch" before we get over there. It is now 4:00 and she says, NO you need to get over there and get his scan and get back over here BEFORE 5 so we can prescribe your medicine based on the findings of the CT scan.
So I start out speeding.....then realize, why am I falling into their trap, he has had this cough for 3 months. This is not life or death. I will get meds when I get meds.
Then we get to the CT place. They tell me the confirmation number they had from our insurance was not correct, and that could I come back Thursday a.m. for the test. I said sure. So we left. I called dr back and said I needed to now get son "lunch" and if they did not need me to come back, I would go home. They said did you get your prescriptions? I said no since the CT scan was (in their words) hingent upon what prescriptions they were giving.
So I go thru McDonalds drive thru and grab me a hamburger/french fries, and tea, and Heckle a kids meal complete with Chicken Nuggets/french fries and sweet tea.
We go back to the dr shoving food in our mouths in the parking lot.
We go back in. They take us right back to a room. We did not wait long and a Nurse is talking my ear off about him (she is joking) saying he would have to quit smoking, and no more alcohol. Then she added but he could continue cursing. I explained while laughing that his dad was a Baptist preacher. We both laughed. Then she started with her list. He can not have
None of the following:
Alcohol
Coffee/tea (decaffinated or caffeinated)
Carbonated Drinks
Fried Foods
Citric Acid Foods (oranges, grapefruit, tomatoe)
No Onions
No peppers
Spices
Chocolate
I'm sure there were others, but Mike took the list to work, cuz he was going to call the dr.
More on page 2.
Then highlighted all over the place was
He is now on:
Ayr (saline rinse several times a day)
Nasonex (2 times a day 1 spray per nostril)(of course the label reads 120 metered sprays: inhale EVERY spray in each nostril twice daily )
Prilosec (30 minutes to 1 hour before eating in the a.m.)
Dytan taking twice daily 1/2 a pill (I paid $36.00 for this med, to find out later in the consult with the pharmicist that it was like Benadryl. DH was not real happy since Benadryl is only 4.00 or so....)
Then the Nurse tells me not to pay full price for the prilosec and gives me a generic name of prilosec. Come to find out AT THE PHARMACY, that has to be prescribed by a dr. I paid $15.00 for 14 pills. WOW!
So I repeat to her before ever walking out of the dr office. So I need 4 meds at the pharmacy. If you could have seen the chicken scratch of writing all over this paper with heavy yellow highlight, you would have been questioning it too. She almost rolled her eyes like I was a moron. She finally said yes. So off I go to the Pharmacy.
Leaving the pharmacy it was then 6 o'clock. I had a meeting in our city with the other parents from Boy Scouts. So I rushed over to the Boy scout meeting place, and we have out meeting. Then I go by Sonic, it is after 8:00 p.m. I left the house at noon? WOW! So I grab dinner. Wait on dinner to come to the window. Get home, it is now close to 8:50. I then realize everyone ordered tater tots and got french fries. I ordered a salad and no where was there dressing, and I got 3 kids meals and only got toys for 2. I called Sonic to which she explained she would hold a toy for me under my name. I said what about my dressing, I am just hoping I have ranch in the fridge, she said she would TALK to her people so this didn't happen again. GREAT customer service by the way. LOL
Then I get home with said paper work from Dr. I find at the top of the page there was supposed to be an antibiotic....or wait since it wasn't highlighted could it have already been on the form before they started writing my son's information down. It said take medicine till he was well for greater than one week. Ceftin I believe it was. SO are we without some meds the dr wanted us taking? Hmmmmm.
Then looking down to the lower corner of the paper covered in highlighter and hen scratching, I see they want to do an allergy test on Heckle but he is going to have to be off of antihistimine's for more than 10 days.....now my question is didn't he just PUT HIM ON antihistimine?
Anyway, enough dr rant for the day. I am just wondering if he even has been out of school a week at this point.
Oh and another kicker. He is being treated (hence the prilosec) for reflux AND Sinus. Now if he takes all these meds and get better, how will we know if the GERD meds worked or all the sinus meds? Ok...really rambling now I am sure.
So we have a Thursday a.m. appt for a CT scan.
Also, did I forget to mention at the Scout meeting I caught two boys on two occassions getting Heckle in a corner? The last time I just told Heckle to come out of this room and stay by my side. They had him cornered once and were doing something to him. They were both bigger than him. So that made me mad. Ok...really stopping the Tuesday rant.
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