Hospitals suck big time
This is going to be a total rant post, so ignore if you wish!
So my nose was giving me total agony today, so I went to the doctor. He's this Canadian guy, who's new, and is just filling in until we get a new doc, and boy is he useless.
He decided he wanted to touch my nose, until I put a stop to that! I can't touch my nose, so why should he? So he decided that it didn't look deformed enough to be broken. I cleared that one up for him.
Sure my nose isn't deformed (thank God) but the whole thing has been shifted over to the left, and is now on an angle, whereas it used to be front and centre of my face, dead straight.
He finally agrees that there's a "possibility" that it may be broken. So he tells me to go the local hospital (40 minutes drive away!) to get it xrayed. I explained to him that I had already rung them, and that they said there was nothing that they could do. Also that I should go to my local GP (which I was at) and that he would refer me to the Fractured Nose Clinic, in the Hutt Valley, which is 40 minutes away in the OTHER direction.
But nooo... Mr Dr-I'm-So-Perfect-Coz-I'm-A-Doctor-Who-Knows-Everything knows best, and insists on me going to the hospital first. Oh, and to make matters worse, my brother is in a full body cast, my mother needed to go to the Dr as well, later on, neither of us drive, and I don't have a car anyways! So public transport seems to be the way to go. Of course that doesn't leave town till 2:20 pm!
I agree anyways, to get him off my back. And then he goes to dismis me! So I ask for some pain medication since I'm so much pain. He looks put out, but agrees. (I'll stop here to add that this doctor nearly killed my little sister by not putting her in hospital when he should have!!!!)
So I go to the chemist to get my prescription filled, only to find out I have $5 left. Full stop. I couldn't pay my doctors bill, and now I find out my medication is going to cost $7 and I don't have the money for it, and I'm in freakin pain. So I burst into tears. It was just the bloody icing on the fucking cake, is all I can say. I get lucky tho, they can see I'm in pain, and put the price down to $4.20! Yay, go the tears!
I come home, where I have a bitch and sob to mum, about everything. And luckily Jordan's therapist announces that she'll drive me to the hospital and back! But the hospital ring, and announce that they want me there by 2:15. Now this isn't a problem, as we're leaving at 12. But it means I can't get a ride home with the therapist. So we work out all the kinks, and leave. I get lunch on the way up there, mum slipped me $15 for it.
I get to the hospital, wait around and everything, pop in to see mum's friend who works there, have a ciggie with her, and finally go to my appointment. I arrive, let them know I'm there, and sit down with a magazine. Finally my name is called, and I get taking down to the xray room.
Where they announce that they can't do the freakin xray coz it can cause cataracts! I just want to scream at this point. It was a whole fucking afternoon wasted, because nobody bothered to talk to one another. So yea, I'm totally fucked off, I'm still in fucking pain, as the pain medication I got prescribed does jackshit, and all I want to do is scream!
My mum, well she's got an abscess in her mouth, so she's fuckin bothered as well, neither of us have had much sleep over the past two days, we're both in pain, and she keeps yelling at everyone, and everyone keeps on being noisy, despite the fact I have a migraine.
I guess, despite my bitching, that I am a lot better off. I'm not living in Pakistan or Guatamala right now, so I'm lucky. And, thank God, we've heard from out mates in Pakistan, and they're alive and well, nowhere near the earthquake. So all is good, despite the massive amounts of pain I'm in.
Tahra xoxo