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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Lazy Doctors

For the past three weeks I've been sick, and have been to the doctors three times. I went to an instacare each time. The first time I went the doctor said I had RSV(which only normally effects babies and children under the age of 5). The first doctor sent me home with antibiotics and that was that. A week later I wasn't feeling any better, in fact I couldn't breathe very well. That Dr. said that there was nothing wrong with me and made me feel like I was just making it up. I could hear him talking to the nurses and he kept saying, "There's not a thing that is physically wrong with her, I don't know what to do." Then he came back in with a perscription for an inhaler and that was that.
This past Sunday(Mar.14) I woke up feeling lousy like my head was going to explode and my face around my sinuses hurt.
My dad immediately took me to the doctor, yes on a Sunday-Corby was at church the good boy. Anyway, we went to the instacare at the new Riverton Hospital....The doctor examined me and listened to my dad tell her what all the other doctors said(and oh by the way I have no voice).
My dad said the more he explain the bigger her eyes got.
She then said and I quote, "If you're old enough to drive you couldn't have had RSV. So that meant that I was miss diagnosed and was given antibiotics for something I never had. She listened to my lungs and she shook her head. That combined with all my other symptoms she said, "You are sick, You have bronchial pneumonia."
She sent me home with more inhalers and a C-pack(antibiotics) and instructions of what to do everyday to ease the tightness in my chest. So on my bathroom mirror I have a paper with those instructions so I don't forget.
I am grateful for the one doctor who finally figured it out. Maybe now I have a chance at getting better.