Sick of being Sick

I'm so sorry to keep blogging about being sick, but it will just not go away!!! Trust me, I'm sick of it too! I would love to blog about doing fun things, but I can't go out and do them like this. It's been about two weeks so I decided to go to Urgent Care.  Good news, I found out what is wrong. Bad news, I have another surgery that needs to be done as soon as I have time. (My other surgery that needs to be done sooner is removing my wisdom teeth if you didn't know.) Yesterday I went to the doctor with a good spare in time so that I could make it to my class afterwards...NOPE. I had to wait an hour and a half just to get checked in. Then I had to do my favorite task of filling out paperwork including my wonderful medical history.

A nurse finally calls me back and only checks my vitals. She then proceeds to tell me that a doctor won't be able to see me for another two hours. I was so confused and stressed. She hands me this pager like they give you at restaurants to tell you your table is ready. The nurse says, "You can go within a ten mile radius and when the buzzer goes off you have 10 minutes to get back here. If you're not here within that time, you will be placed back at the end of the line." I had no idea where I was. I was somewhere between Isla Vista and SBCC. I didn't know how far I could go so I sat in my car till I was done stressing out. I looked at my maps app on my phone and saw Tropicana was only 8.5 miles away. It was around lunch time so I headed back just to get lunch and drove straight back to Urgent Care.

I arrive to be told that I still need to wait. Granted my pager didn't go off, but I was scared it wouldn't work because I never used one that had a radius that far. The lady at the desk told me that there were only two people ahead of me. At this point it had been three and a half hours. I accepted that fact and sat in a chair like everyone else was and waited. As soon as I sat down I felt like I was going to get sick and I rushed to the restroom. Nothing. I went back to the waiting room and sat down for a split second. It had been four hours at this point. Multiple (more than two) people were going ahead of me and some of them had pagers going off. Others who were behind me in line who I saw come in after me that morning were called up too. Annoyed, I go back in line to talk to the front desk. As soon as it's my turn to talk to the lady, I hear my name back in the area where all the employees were. So I sat back down and waited a few. I was called up and given a room. I was told to change into a gown so the doctor could check my lungs. The doctor comes in and told me I was good in that sense. She checks my right ear...then my left and opens here eyes all wide and surprised. She says, "You definitely have an ear infection! It's all red and bulging out in there." All this time I thought it was because my ears wouldn't pop. She said usually kids get them, but that I was the third adult who came in today with it. Next she looks at the back of my throat and says, "Wow, your tonsils are huge! You have tonsillitis. You'll have to make an appointment to get surgery to get them out". GREAT. I've been told I had tonsillitis before. I proceeded to tell her that I also had to get my wisdom teeth and wished I could get it all done at the same time. She laughed and handed me my prescription and I was on my way to my usual procedure. Get sick. Go to doctor. Get prescription. Get better.