Ivy and the great appointment debarcle.
* Sorry, rant ahead*.
It’s November people, November!
Warm weather, hot actually. So why is Ivy still sick? Why, a mere 36 hours after stopping the antibiotics, is her nose running green and her chest sounding like the old rattling carriage of my school train? Why is her temperature high? Why, Why, Why?
Can anyone tell me?
Can anyone explain to me why, when I asked for a word with the doctor yesterday, I got an appointment a week from now and an angry, short response from the ruler of the world (his receptionist)?
Can I tell you how weird and inconvenient that is?
It’s weird because the paed said he didn’t want to see her until Ivy’s birthday or just after because, until that magical day, he can’t prescribe her Singulair (an asthma medication) and it’s weird because in a weeks time, she will not be acutely unwell.
It’s inconvenient because I had actually made an appointment for Imogen and Madeline to see their paed in Sydney next Wednesday, the day I now have an appointment with Ivy and Noah’s paed, in Newcastle. That’s two hours to Sydney and two and a bit hours back to Newcastle in the space of five hours. I don’t think so.
When I explained this to our gate keeper, she said it was that day, that time or nothing. The paed had ‘created’ that appointment for Ivy as it was. *SIGH*
Luckily our Sydney paed was more flexible and our time was changed to the following Thursday.
Thank goodness for friends in high places who have Bactrim on offer!
All I want for Christmas?
Ivy to be well and no need for the paed !
Rant over.
What a nightmare for you! Do you have a GP you can see, just to get her looked at in the interim?
Poor poor Ivy, she doesn’t deserve this and neither do you! I hope she gets better soon and stays that way!
Comment by Veronica — November 15, 2007 @ 8:34 am
Hoping for brighter, healthier days for her.
Comment by amanda — November 15, 2007 @ 1:47 pm
Nose running green, high temperature, sounds like an infection. With the number of times poor Ivy has been sick and particularly so soon again after the last round of antibiotics, I don’t understand why her paed. didn’t see her immediately. She (and you) shouldn’t be allowed to suffer. And what’s with the “magical” birthday re the asthma medication? Will her body suddenly be more mature then than it was the day or week before? Hope things get resolved for oyu sooner rather than later. (Also wondering why you have two different paeds. hours apart. Can’t the one doctor see both sets of twins?)
Comment by river — November 15, 2007 @ 5:46 pm
What a pain in the rectum. Thankfully (fingers crossed) my kids rarely get sick enough to see the doctor and usually it is just the locum. Boo sees a paed occasionally, but it is a 4mth wait minimum, unless you go to the hospital and state he is the paed. Could be an option?
Comment by Kelley — November 15, 2007 @ 6:23 pm
Thanks girls,
Yep it is a pain. Kelley. I hate the hospital and it is always our last resort with Ivy because she goes in with something and comes out with something else.
River, Our pead in Sydney looks after Immy and Maddy because we used to live there and she has known them for such a long time. Usually we only have to see her once or twice a year. So it’s not such a big deal…only whe the two appointments collide! LOL.
I did take Ivy and Noah to her once but because they needed things she thought it would be best to go to someone who had access to the local services, thus the paed in Newcastle.
Veronica, we used to have a fantastic GP but out here in the boonies they usually don’t stay long…and he didn’t. So we are currently without a GP. Just as a side note, three other GPs closed up shop in town this week.
Thanks Amanda. I hope she gets better soon too. It would be nice to have her well for her birthday.
Comment by Tiff — November 15, 2007 @ 6:47 pm
Hon, you are amazing…worrying about me when you have much more important things on your plate, bless you! Hope your gorgeous girl can get over whatever she is fighting really soon, and you can find someone who can HELP you when it is needed. Can I give you the Wonder Woman award again? You certainly deserve it…
Comment by mountainmama — November 15, 2007 @ 7:36 pm
No fun! : ((( Poor Ivy!! I think she has the same wretched bug that has been plaguing me off and on since August. It has morphed into pneumonia once again. I hope this next round does it for her… I’ll keep my fingers that she’s done for the season.
And coming from a pharmaceutical perspective, there’s nothing magical about Ivy’s birthdate except that it is the date that the manufacturer of singulair lists in the drug monograph as the age that it is safe to administer the drug, thus magically absolving your ped. of all wrong-doing where he to be called to account for the evils of administering it one week early : P
Gatekeepers are assigned as gatekeepers precisely because their primary skill set revolves around the recitation such useful data.
Glad you’ve got an in with something between the ears : )
Here’s hoping that you get your Christmas wish!
Comment by childlife — November 16, 2007 @ 11:46 am