February 28, 2009

It was a hellacious morning. Michaela woke up with a fever again so we headed back to the doctor. Her doctor was not in today so we saw a doctor we've never seen before. I do NOT like this doctor. I was trying to explain some of Michaela's history with her respiratory problems and all the doctor would say to me was, "In my experience as a doctor...." Oh it was infuriating.

She sent us to the hospital with orders for a chest x-ray and a flu swab. The hospital did the chest x-ray but said their lab would not honor my insurance and told me to go to an outside lab for the flu swab.

When I got to the other lab they tell me that the orders are unclear. It says flu swab, but was written like a blood work up order. They called the doctor's office and informed them if they wanted a flu swab that the outside lab did not do those. I was so furious by this time.

Michaela's fever was going back up. She was miserable and they were talking about sending me some where else as soon as they could find a place that would do a flu swab. I finally broke down into tears and told them that unless Michaela's doctor called me personally and asked me to take her somewhere else I was not going to do it, I was taking her home. I mean, they couldn't have done anything for her anyway if it were the flu. They'd already ruled out any type of infection. The chest x-rays did come back negative like I tried to tell the doctor they would.

Tonight was much more fun. I went over to my mom's and Stacey and Melissa came over, too. We watched Mama Mia! together. That movie is SO GOOD! I just love it so much and it was so much fun to watch it with friends like that. I wish my SIL could have been there, but she's been fighting the flu, too. We really enjoyed the evening together.