Question Of The Day!
My question of the day is:
How many times do you have to call the Dr's office triage line before getting a call back?
Hmm..I'm at two now.
Ok, so my daughter isn't an emergency case.
So I don't get the first call back.
And..ok..I didn't call until 11:30 the first time and it is now 2:26.
So, I should be more patient. I will be more patient.
I got a call just before that first 11:30a call to the pediatricians office from the school nurse. If you are a mother of school age kids and you don't homeschool, you are familiar with the school nurse. She and I used to see each other often. The years of the strep throat. OH MY! But those years seem to be in the past and the past couple years the school nurse and I have been on really good terms. She has even sent my kid back to class when I decided it was a case of test taking nerves and not illness (this happened twice and I was so right on.)
But today, it was something more. My fourth grader....most likely(disclaimer because we haven't seen the pediatrician yet) has...pinkeye. This is a first for me. And I swear when I looked at her eyes this morning they weren't red like they are now! LOL The school nurse says it's been going around...so it makes sense.
So, um, pinkeye...
I've been doing my motherly duty and learning all can about pinkeye online. The internet is a wonderful thing. And in my own motherly doctor way, I've decided she probably doesn't have bacterial pinkeye which is the big worry. She probably has viral or allergy pinkeye. Who knew there were so many types?
So, I have my oldest child, now completely not allowed to touch her little brothers. This is fine..but it made the just about 2-yr old rather sad when she wouldn't carry him to the van from the school. This might be harder on him than her in the end. He's so lovingly spoiled.
I figure I will have to navigate through her cluttered room. Find anything she might have touched her face to..and disinfect...disinfect...disinfect. That is all I've seen suggested as ways to prevent it from spreading to the other kids. That and making her wash her hands like crazy. By the end of this I bet I'll just have to look at her, and she'll get up and go wash those hands.
Any other suggestions? This is a new one for me..
Addendum:
Dr's office triage nurse called at 4:30p. They just couldn't get her seen today. First time I've not gotten in the same day. She will be seen in the morning to check out her sore throat. They are calling in some eyedrops for her tonight. The nurse who called, sounded tired and irritated at having to be on the phone with me. This is not normal for this office. I usually am given excellent service. hmmm...I hope tomorrow morning goes better than that phone call.
How many times do you have to call the Dr's office triage line before getting a call back?
Hmm..I'm at two now.
Ok, so my daughter isn't an emergency case.
So I don't get the first call back.
And..ok..I didn't call until 11:30 the first time and it is now 2:26.
So, I should be more patient. I will be more patient.
I got a call just before that first 11:30a call to the pediatricians office from the school nurse. If you are a mother of school age kids and you don't homeschool, you are familiar with the school nurse. She and I used to see each other often. The years of the strep throat. OH MY! But those years seem to be in the past and the past couple years the school nurse and I have been on really good terms. She has even sent my kid back to class when I decided it was a case of test taking nerves and not illness (this happened twice and I was so right on.)
But today, it was something more. My fourth grader....most likely(disclaimer because we haven't seen the pediatrician yet) has...pinkeye. This is a first for me. And I swear when I looked at her eyes this morning they weren't red like they are now! LOL The school nurse says it's been going around...so it makes sense.
So, um, pinkeye...
I've been doing my motherly duty and learning all can about pinkeye online. The internet is a wonderful thing. And in my own motherly doctor way, I've decided she probably doesn't have bacterial pinkeye which is the big worry. She probably has viral or allergy pinkeye. Who knew there were so many types?
So, I have my oldest child, now completely not allowed to touch her little brothers. This is fine..but it made the just about 2-yr old rather sad when she wouldn't carry him to the van from the school. This might be harder on him than her in the end. He's so lovingly spoiled.
I figure I will have to navigate through her cluttered room. Find anything she might have touched her face to..and disinfect...disinfect...disinfect. That is all I've seen suggested as ways to prevent it from spreading to the other kids. That and making her wash her hands like crazy. By the end of this I bet I'll just have to look at her, and she'll get up and go wash those hands.
Any other suggestions? This is a new one for me..
Addendum:
Dr's office triage nurse called at 4:30p. They just couldn't get her seen today. First time I've not gotten in the same day. She will be seen in the morning to check out her sore throat. They are calling in some eyedrops for her tonight. The nurse who called, sounded tired and irritated at having to be on the phone with me. This is not normal for this office. I usually am given excellent service. hmmm...I hope tomorrow morning goes better than that phone call.
3 Comments:
We've gone through it over and over. The school calls every little irritation pinkeye and sends them home.
The pediatrician, rather than order the expensive tests, just prescribes drops. 24 hours of drops and they're back in school.
If we have drops left over and they're not stale dated, the school lets us skip the pediatrician and send them back 24 hours later with a note saying they've been treated.
We're careful (kind of) but not obsessive.
It's a pain but lice is worse.
I'm SOOOOO thankful to live in Canada! Ralph Klein was trying his best to leave a legacy of "privatized health care"... in a province as rich as Alberta???
Ralph says "Privatization will make health care cheaper for all of us."
I was part of a rally when he was in town... the Liberals were pointing out: "How can you possibly decrease the COST of health care when you now have to ADD a PROFIT portion??!!!"
You're in within 24 hours of your call for a relatively minor thing... I think you did amazingly well.
The eye drops will get rid of pinkeye pretty quickly. So far (knock on wood), we've been lucky enough that it's only spread one time; every other time, we've caught it soon enough so that the husband and I are hand-washing paranoiacs and evade the dread goopy, itchy eyes.
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