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I figure that since I’m a calmer now I can explain what happened the other day a little better.
Basically I have a really bad sore throat. It got to the point where I actually actively sought out a doctor, and I hate going to doctors. Anyways, after a night of painful swallowing and little sleep, I went to work in the morning and tried to make an appointment with my primary physician. This was not possible, however, since he was not in for the day or taking a half day... something like that (I couldn't hear the receptionist all too well over the phone). So I try calling my mother to see if I can go to a walk-in clinic (one that's covered by our insurance). Her cell was off, so I waited till we both were home to ask. After way to much talking, we make it to the Minute Clinic., a new branch of clinics that is actually located in some CVS stores. That doctor was actually quite nice and I didn't have any troubles with her. However, she had to run the insurance card twice (but that's not really her fault) and she did give me a prescription for a gel that I had to gargle
When I went get the prescription, the first pharmacy said that I didn’t have insurance. I had the same problem at the second one as well. But the guy at the second place was able to find out why the computers said that I didn’t have insurance. It’s because the insurance company has my birth date wrong. ::sigh::
In the end, the pharmacist was able to give me my prescription. But the best part was the fact that he wrote the measurements on the bottle using tablespoons and gave me measuring 'syringes' in ml. Also, the medicine is a local anesthetic in gel form that I’m supposed to gargle then swallow, when the warnings say don’t swallow. At this point, I was very tired and very hungry (I hadn’t been able to eat without pain).
By the time I convert, mixed gel with water (against instructions), and gargled/gagged, I was pretty much anger with all parts of the medical field, but especially the HMOs after hearing how our medical insurance is set up. I knew it was a little screwy, but this is ridiculous.
I can't wait for the weekend.
p.s. - I’ve also come to the conclusion that lidocaine tastes god awful terrible. At least that’s what I could tell from the few seconds before my tongue went numb.
Basically I have a really bad sore throat. It got to the point where I actually actively sought out a doctor, and I hate going to doctors. Anyways, after a night of painful swallowing and little sleep, I went to work in the morning and tried to make an appointment with my primary physician. This was not possible, however, since he was not in for the day or taking a half day... something like that (I couldn't hear the receptionist all too well over the phone). So I try calling my mother to see if I can go to a walk-in clinic (one that's covered by our insurance). Her cell was off, so I waited till we both were home to ask. After way to much talking, we make it to the Minute Clinic., a new branch of clinics that is actually located in some CVS stores. That doctor was actually quite nice and I didn't have any troubles with her. However, she had to run the insurance card twice (but that's not really her fault) and she did give me a prescription for a gel that I had to gargle
When I went get the prescription, the first pharmacy said that I didn’t have insurance. I had the same problem at the second one as well. But the guy at the second place was able to find out why the computers said that I didn’t have insurance. It’s because the insurance company has my birth date wrong. ::sigh::
In the end, the pharmacist was able to give me my prescription. But the best part was the fact that he wrote the measurements on the bottle using tablespoons and gave me measuring 'syringes' in ml. Also, the medicine is a local anesthetic in gel form that I’m supposed to gargle then swallow, when the warnings say don’t swallow. At this point, I was very tired and very hungry (I hadn’t been able to eat without pain).
By the time I convert, mixed gel with water (against instructions), and gargled/gagged, I was pretty much anger with all parts of the medical field, but especially the HMOs after hearing how our medical insurance is set up. I knew it was a little screwy, but this is ridiculous.
I can't wait for the weekend.
p.s. - I’ve also come to the conclusion that lidocaine tastes god awful terrible. At least that’s what I could tell from the few seconds before my tongue went numb.