Sunday, September 6, 2009

eye issues / i dont understand certain people...

So this past week, as most people in my English class know, I was in the hospital because I got an infection in the tissue around my eye. I am not quite sure how I got it, but I also had this problem sophomore year in high school. Because I am a diabetic, my immune system is not as strong as other people and it doesn’t help that im allergic to all antibiotic except one which only come in an I.V. form. So anyway, I had to have my mom come get me Wednesday, spent Thursday in the hospital for the infection and came back 1am Friday morning. Something I noticed while dealing with the insurance company, the doctors, and the nurses that people there, unless you are in the pediatric section of the hospital, don’t give a shit. They could care less most of the time. The doctor gave me the option of being admitted to the hospital out of the e.r. or to just get a prescription and go on my way. I asked the doctor for a prescription, and knowing my insurance would need him to call to clear me for the medicine, I also asked him to call the insurance and let them know. He wouldn’t respond to me asking with anything except “I don’t do that. You need to have your primary care doctor call them.” Now y would I have a doctor who didn’t write the prescription and didn’t see me for the infection call the insurance? Does that make any sense? Not to me it doesn’t. My mother and I continued to argue with him that he needed to do it, but still refused. We spent an hour there arguing and finally left. We ended up calling the doctor I had seen earlier that morning before being sent to the e.r. and asked her if she would call my insurance to help me out. She sadi she would happily do anything needed to get me the prescription. The doctor and my mother then spent the next 6 hours fighting the insurance company to clear me for the prescription. I feel like the only reason the insurance didn’t want me to get it was because the prescription of 20 pills is worth $2000. So finally I got the pills and now I am taking them and I am getting better each day. I am glad that everything worked out, but it was a pain in the ass getting here. So basically I wrote this whole story to talk about how some people in the world are so preoccupied with doing as little as possible in life and making sure they focus on themselves, that people don’t get proper treatment and people get screwed in the end. If the doctor hadn’t been willing to do something for me that wasn’t even her job I would still be suffering from the infection. Its people who don’t look to help people in their life who piss me off and make me even surer of what I want to do with mine. I want to do nothing but help people with any problem they may be having. I want to be the guy everyone comes to for help and I want to be able to help them. I don’t see myself doing anything else in life and it is hard for me to image being any other way! I don’t know....maybe that’s just me….

3 comments:

  1. wow. that was powerful but I agree. most of the people in the emergency room could care less what you are going through. In my case, whenever i have to go, I tell them I am short of breath even if I really only broke something, and they take me right back and fix me up. Because otherwise I would have to wait until they felt like helping me, which usually takes hours!

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  2. I totally agree. They're stupid and ignorant. and they just don't want to spend time doing it, because they want to be lazy. People like that make me sooooo angry. I wish they had the respect and willingness to care, but they don't. So it sucks.

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  3. wow. I feel so bad for you. I agree with you that no one cares about anything once you are out of pediatrics. I hope you are all better now.

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