My kids have both been sick the last week. Nothing abnormal for the season, just cough, runny nose, etc. Well one day I got home from work and my son was NOT behaving like his usual boy in his terrible twos. He was sleeping all day and not eating or drinking anything. Knowing I could not get an appointment with the pediatrician so we went to the urgent care.
I am a mother with incredibly irrational fears and I wanted to make sure he didn't have spinal meningitis. After a short wait the doctor comes in and checks is heart/lungs (fine), his ears (fine) and his throat (inflammed according to the doctor). He prescribes an antibiotic and sends us on our way. That night, little Noah slept MAYBE 20 minutes at a time. He would wake up screaming and grabbing his ears. The next morning I was able to make hims a peds appointment. The doctor said his throat was fine but after looking in both ears said he has a double ear infection, and a pretty bad one. We were prescribed another antibiotic (one better for ear infections) and ear drops for pain.
Now not only am I upset about the waste of time and the waste of 10 dollars for the copay and medicine 8 had to throw out, but I wa s more upset that my son had a night of unnecessary pain. I feel like the uc doctor didn't even truly check him, just shuffled us out with a prescription so we'd assume he did something. I am not an ignorant person and I know viruses cannot be cured with antibiotics. There have been numerous times I've taken my kids to their doctor only to get told they had the flu and it would be cured with fluids, rest, and a humidifier and I was okay with that. I know it doesn't always take a prescription for a doctor to do their job. I guess some feel it does and urgent cares are use to that. I just wish my son had been correctrly diagnosed. Has anyone else had this experience. IMd love to hear your thoughts. And by the way, Noah is now doing just fine and he's since passed his ear infection on to me...ahhh the joys of motherhood!
Awful! Just awful! At least it wasn't $100. That was our co-pay for taking Emmett to the ER. They helped me nada. I ended up calling my peds weekend line and she told me the opposite that they did. Oh yeah, and I still ahven't paid the bill. I am being a bit passive aggressive about it.
ReplyDeleteWhen my girls were small, far to many times I was sent home with nothing and had to return. I had Kaiser at the time and the wait was always incredibly long. I don't think I ever found a pediatrician that I loved. I just recently found a doctor for myself that seems to really care, at 58 :/
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