I have had a cold now for 5 weeks. The symptoms have changed from a back ache, sore throat to a head cold, tired ...then appeared to be going away. Suddenly 3 days ago I have an even worse sore throat (the razor blade kind) with difficulty swallowing and maybe a little tiredness but nothing much more... oh yeah and my mucus in my nose has turned from clear to a more light grassy color green.
I thought - oh man, I hope I am not coming down with strep now that I have had this darn thing so long.
So against my better judgement I decide to go to the Dr's.. not my actually Dr's office but a drop in clinic where I figured I would at least get in on the same day. You may notice Dr's are a little low on my trust & faith scale.
hmmm, so I head down to the clinic today for 9am.
@ 10:15am I am finally asked to come into a room to wait for a Dr.
@ 10:53am I hear someone say "I guess Marianne left?" another nurse says "no, she's here" Original nurse says "but she's not in the waiting room" the other nurse states "no I already put her in room 4" ----- now to give them the benefit of the doubt there are other Marianne's in this world so I got up and looked at my door number "Room 4" okay forget the doubt, they are very unorganized.
@ 10:55am the Dr arrives
to start: the nurse had explained to him incorrectly what my symptoms were
After making this correction he tells me "you and everyone else. It is viral and you keep getting reinfected; nothing I can do for you" He did however take a swab of my throat (where it didn't hurt) Just in case it was bacterial.... Then he told me I should expect it to last 5 - 10 weeks.
I asked him if I was getting reinfected why wasn't everyone in my house getting infected? Karl had it 4 days after me and it lasted him not even 2 weeks. He had no answer.
so @ 10:57 I walked out the door.
I had waited 2 hours for a 2 minute appointment only to be told nothing could be done - just keep doing what I am doing.
What I am doing is using Strepsils or Cepacol lozenges that has an antibacterial in it and a numbing agent so I can swallow. BUT WAIT he said it was VIRAL... those won't work cause they are tackling the BACTERIA!!!!
I should have never gone to the Doctors... huge waste of my time.... when will I ever learn?
$28 for 2 minutes = $840/hour - not bad for wages eh? and he didn't have to do anything.
1 comment:
HOLY!! I wanna be a doctor!
Ours is the same here now that our regular doctor retired-- not to mention an in credibly unprofessional office setting! I hope you start feeling better soon!(have a hot tody each night -- if anything you will ahve a very restful sleep☺)
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