Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Why do I even bother taking the kids to the doctor?


On Thursday Colin was being a even bigger pain in the you know what along with other things, so I decided to to take him to the doctor. I made a appointment and got there on time (if you know me you'll understand how big of a deal that is) waited for 20 minutes with 2 kids in the waiting room. We finally get to go back, get weighed, temp taken, symptoms checked and told the doctor will be right in. That's a load of poop. luckily it was only 15 minutes. In which I rearranged the room so that the children couldn't destroy it anymore. When the doctor arrived (not his normal one) I gave him the low down about Colin. Extremely hungry, low fever for a few days, a very angry and clingy child, and stinky pee. So he give him the one over, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, heart, and lungs. The diagnoses... he's teething. I'm like what, he's teething? It can't be just that I'm a mom of 2 I know what teething is! (OK i didn't say all of that but i should of.) What I did say is what about his pee? he responded with stinky pee is not always a sign of anything. I reminded him (assuming that re read his file) that he has had 2 or 3 UTI's since he was 2 months old and the only sign of him having one is a fever and stinky pee. Also the test in the office never worked, only when it was sent out for a 24 hour culture did it show any signs of infection. Now as I'm saying this the older one is wandering around the room touching everything in sight as well as the doctors computer. And with one touch he turns off his computer. He is amazed at how quick he is and I'm amazed at how dumb this pediatrician for not protecting his computer from sticky little fingers. He tells me he'll be right back (man this place can lie through it's teeth). Next comes in the nurse, I ask so did he decide to check his urine after all? and she shows me the little bag and said yep. BTW I love the nurses at there office I couldn't ask for better people. So the next half hour is having the bag put on him, letting him run around, collecting the pee, testing the pee, and telling me the pee is fine. Go ahead and go home. So here we are today, Tuesday, he now has a fever of 102* Has eaten less and less since Saturday (almost nothing today) he barely can get off the couch and is throwing up' along with stinky pee. All signs of a UTI. I called the office today to see if the results are in from the urinalysis. The nurse can't find them so I ask if they were even sent in? she's not sure and is going to make some calls. So now I have to wait for her to find out if he sent in the pee or not (I know he didn't) so she can let me know if I need to come in tomorrow. Rrrr I am so mad at them!!!!

1 comment:

  1. Doctors annoy me too sometimes. It's usually a couple of pain killers and a rest. Occasionally antibiotics but that's only a last resort. Unfortunately, it's all about saving money these days.

    Do hope your child improves.

    CJ xx

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