Cough It Up

Spent a large part of my day running around with the girls. There have been several (7 at last count) confirmed cases of RSV at their daycare center so I decided to get them in and get them checked out.  RSV is a virus so there really isn't anything they can do, it just has to run it's course. And for toddlers/children it's not really even dangerous - it's just like a respiratory cold.

But my kiddos have bad, bad, bad allergy problems so I wouldn't be able to recognize the most common symptoms because they have runny noses and coughs almost constantly.  And since it's highly contagious and spreads rapidly,  I didn't want them to go to school and get other kids sick.  Plus hubby is out of town so I just needed peace of mind that we could spend the weekend without any trips to the emergency room.

So I plunked down my $50 and found out we're healthy. And that the nurse thinks my kids are beautiful enough to be on Toddlers & Tiaras. Which is a little interesting because to me you don't have to be beautiful to be on that show - you simply have to have a mother who is willing to tan you up, buy you a hairpiece, and slap in some fake teeth. No thank you - I'm not too keen on encouraging my girls to look like little hookers. 

She meant it as a compliment and I totally took it that way. Even if I don't sound like it. I really did. I just have huge, major issues with that show. Actually, I have huge issues with a lot of what society teaches little girls. But I won't get started on that...at least not tonight.

So this was a new doctors office. We had a pediatrician that I loved - I really liked and trusted her. She was a little on the Nazi side so I wasn't so sure at first but then I found that I really liked her direct manner and the fact that she didn't mess around - she always just put it out there.

But we changed insurance at the beginning of the year. Not something I wanted to do - but the rates on our other company had gone up significantly and it was hard to justify staying with them. Actually, that was mainly just hard for my husband because he's all about the bottom line.  So we switched. Today when I called the new office to make an appointment I was told there were no doctors working today. I just think that is crazy. How does a doctors office not have doctors? They suggested I go to urgent care, which is DOUBLE my office visit copay. DOUBLE.

I wasn't about to do that - no way. What's the point in even having a doctor if I'm going to do that?  So I called the insurance company and had a serious discussion about the ineffectiveness of their healthcare providers and my refusal to be tied to a doctor who wasn't available to me and they switched me over to a different doctor and even made the appointment for me.

But this doctor was weird. Like weird weird. Which, I'm a little socially awkward too but this was...different. So next Monday I'll be switching again.

This insurance company is gonna looooove me...