You're Just Going to Have to Tough it Out...

I think I've been pretty vocal about my dislike for my insurance company, Scott and White, and our local clinic that we are assigned to here in town. I've got four more reasons to be unsatisfied with that place.
1. Deep inner ear infection
2. Strep throat
3. Bronchitis
4. Pink eye

These were the findings yesterday when I FINALLY got in to see the doctor. I called last Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. for an appt that day. I told them I was really sick and took the day off of work and would like to come in. Nope. They were already booked by 8:30 a.m. but they could let me come into the lobby and do a rapid strep test on me. Fine, I'll take whatever I can get because I was hurting so much. I had my test and they told me they would call within 45 minutes and let me know the results. Three hours later I called them and they said it was negative. I asked them if they could see if the doctor would call in a r/x for some antibiotics, anything, to get me feeling better. I was running a 102 temperature and aching all over. They told me they could send an "electronic message" to the doctor and see if he could do it but it might not be until the next day that he would do anything.

I take the second day off of work and I get a call from the nurse around 4:00 explaining that the doctor thinks its probably viral and there is nothing they can do...."You're just going to have to tough it out and let it run it's course." She told me to give it a week and see how I am.

Yesterday was over a week and I got in to see a Phys Assistant and he quickly started writing prescriptions. I still had a fever and I have a "very deep" inner ear infection, a nasty case of pink eye, bronchitis, and oh what a surprise, my throat is "extremely red and irritated and covered in white bumps"...strep!

Today is day two on my antibiotics ($65 worth, and that is with insurance!) and I am starting to feel A LOT better. I swear, someday I'm going to live in a town that has good medical care and I don't have to go through all of this just to see a doctor and get some relief! I just hope when we get our child home that I'm not dealing with this kind of silliness to get them some help when they are sick because I have a feeling that mama bear won't be so nice about it when its my little cub feeling bad.