So this morning I had a doctor's appointment. To fully explain this frustration I must begin at last Thursday... well actually lets start with three months ago.
Three months ago I was at work (as a substitute teacher) in a middle school classroom (which is not my favorite place to be). Well one of the kids decided the room smelt funky and he sprayed cologne (which is against the rules for a good reason) well as soon as I heard this happened and smelt it I asked that he not do it again because I am allergic (which was actually not fully confirmed... usually the kids cologne smells really bad and makes me cough a lot). Within 30 minutes I was in the midst of a full on asthma attack which quickly escalated to a panic attack because I have not had asthma problems since I was like two! So I was unable to breathe and struggling to figure out why (except for the fact that I would never fudge my level of "allergy" again). I ended the day in the nurses office trying to convince them that I did not actually need an ambulance and I would make an appointment with my regular physician (which at the time I did not have). Then they brought the kid who sprayed the crap in their to watch me struggle to breath (which makes life way more difficult than it needs to be). Needless to say I went to the doctor a few weeks later and was told that I have asthma. I was given my emergency inhaler and an everyday inhaler.
So flash to last Thursday.
I went into the doctor's office to schedule an appointment to have my followup and get a renewal on my everyday inhaler. They told me that my normal doctor was on vacation and would not be back until Wednesday (which as you can tell is today) but I can make an appointment with the nurse practitioner on Saturday, I asked for an appointment on Wednesday and they said that they were not taking appointments for Wednesday. So I told them to go ahead and make the weekend appointment. I went in and waited forever. The nurse listened to my lungs and renewed my prescription. Then asked when I had my next appointment with my regular doctor. I told her I didn't have one yet but in March when I had my blood-work done I was told that in 6-8 months I needed to have it redone because my cholesterol was a bit high. She told me I needed to go ahead and make the appointment for the next available and get it all looked at again. So I did. I went to the front desk and they made an appointment for MY doctor on WEDNESDAY (which if you are following my ramblings is the day I originally asked for an appointment and they told me no!). So today I went into the doctors office and waited for an hour to get seen. When I got seen they asked what I was there for... I said I really don't know and I explained the Saturday appointment. Then I was told that I really didn't need to be there... but they would re-do my breathing test to see if there was any improvement (which there is not). So I wasted an hour-and-a-half today.
Other than that drama, I have been trying to get all of my schoolwork done before tomorrow so I can take a day off for the Fourth of July! I am also very excited because my husband will be spending the whole day at home. It has been very hard with him working a lot of overtime and we have not been able to see each other much. This will be a good quality time for us.
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