Saturday, January 1, 2011

New Year's sickness

   Today I had the misfortune of having a sick kid that needed to go to Urgent Care.  Of course since it's the 1st of the year there was only 1 Urgent Care open and 1 Pharmacy.  Now I could have gone to the E.R., but unless there is major bleeding or a broken bone, I'm not stepping foot there. 
   Always in the past if I had a sick kid on a Friday I took them into the doctor, because you never know what could happen.  This is the one time that I said, "it's just a cold" and let it go.  Stupid stupid stupid.  My poor Kol baby had a double ear infection.  Since Kolin can barely talk trying to get him to express what was wrong with him was next to impossible, though I have to give him credit because he did say he had ouchies. 
   As I walked into the Facey urgent care I was amazed that many people could fit into that waiting room.  There had to be at least 30 people in there and I almost turned around then.  Not being a fan of Facey I might have been more abrupt with the front desk people for trying to recruit me to join their practice.  No, I am here under duress only!  The people were very efficient for the amount of patients being seen and since Kolin was in a fever induced stupor it wasn't so bad.  3 1/2 hours later Kolin and I were home with antibiotics and he's feeling better already.  My only big complaint of the whole ordeal?  Why is there only 1 freaking urgent care and 1 freaking pharmacy open on New Years Day?  There are almost 200,000 people living in the Santa Clarita valley and 1 is not enough.  I guess this is another place my future lottery winnings will be spent.
   

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