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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 3:23 am
Is it possible to call the Pediatrician's phone (like my own Dentist does) they give an Emergency number for who is 'on call' (Usually get an Answering Svc.) At the very least they/Answ Svc know who to connect with themselves even if they've been given directions NOT to produce a phone#. Perhaps that would be an alternative, rather than wait the weekend. Not like you haven't tried jumping through the hoops and just expecting regular services after 5pm.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 5:17 am
Wargod, I have taken her. We are starting with an antibiotic soap and creams. She has been using them for a couple mnths now and seen maybe a 10-15% improvement. If it still hasn't done the trick by the end of March then it will probably be oral antibiotics and then.... Because her acne isn't that bad yet, the doc asked her if she would be patient enough to work through the options from least aggressive to most (acutane) and dd agreed. Re: Kota. That's ridiculous!! So glad I'm a socialist. LOLOL Something non-medical you could try for the poor child is gargling with a non-alcoholic mouthwash (Biotene). It's an anitbiotic so will temporarily kill the germs in the back of her throat reducing the pain until their numbers build back up again and won't interfere with any medications you are giving her and because it has no alcohol its much easier for a child to use (no burn). Poor kid, hope it's a short-lived bug.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 7:48 am
War, you really should just call the on-call pediatrician and go from there. He may start a prescription now and then check on Monday for sure. Then he'll either continue the rx or take her off. Either way the rx she'll have on board will either help the strep or not hurt her if she doesn't have it. 2 days (and by now one day) worth won't hurt if she doesn't have strep.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 9:32 am
My daughter did beautifully on birth control for acne BUT she suffered a blood clot in her retina, which was very rare for a non-smoker. Don't put your girls on BC...it works wonders, but the price my daughter paid wasn't worth it. She did get her vision back, but it was a scary time.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 9:46 am
I'm sorry Kota is feeling so awful. That's a ridiculous health care situation.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 10:41 am
There is no on-call dr. The dr office's answering machine tells you to call urgent care. After a horrible night with her (if she wasn't crying and calling for us she was tossing, turning, mumbling in her sleep, and hitting the wall) my baby woke up totally congested, nose and chest and her head hurting. Her fever isn't gone but it is down from last night. Normally this wouldn't be anything to do a happy dance about (she had to have a breathing treatment earlier) but it probably means it isn't strep. Excuse me for being gross, but judging from the look of her snot and her throat hurting so bad and looking terrible it's likely to be a sinus infection. Much better than strep, at least a sinus infection isn't horribly contagious (a worry with my aunt) and I can do more to make her feel better. Motrin for the fever, breathing treatment for the breathing, and sinus meds for the head and congestion. I'm waiting for her to start howling about her ears which probably won't happen til later this evening going off past experience, but she has prescription ear drops so that will help. She'll have to go to the dr, but treating the symptoms we'll be able to wait til tomorrow. She actually did use mouthwash several times yesterday cuz of the nasty taste left in her mouth after throwing up. Ack, OG, that is awful! Rissa, sorry, didn't realize you'd gone to the doctor. That is a good approach and one which I wish we'd used earlier. Like I said, it may not have worked any better for Caleb 8 months earlier, but at least we would have started it all before he had the scarring. Only good thing I can say is we've learned our lesson about going to the dr early if Kota ends up having the same problem.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 10:56 am
War, that is crazy that there is no doc that will call you back in an emergency. The peds here all band together and take turns being on call. The doc that calls you back may not even be from your office, but they can call in a RX or advise you that you need a visit to the ER or whatever.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 11:05 am
I'm not too sure our pediatricians office knows about the medical groups switching around leaving patients with no where to go for urgent care. I'm definitely planning on telling them though cuz they'll have a fit knowing their patients can't get in to see a dr during off hours. The weird thing is that their pediatrician does urgent care on the weekends for another dr (that's how we met him when the kids were babies) and I know he'd get Kota in, but I can't find out where he's working! It's not on his office answering machine or their website and it's not with the same group it was with a few years ago.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 3:30 pm
Wargod, have you tried calling your insurance company's nurse line or Member Services? Sometimes they can provide solutions. The phone number is usually on your insurance card. Sometimes they are all useless, but it may be worth a try.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 1:06 am
Forgot I had this window open earlier! The only number on the insurance card is the one to customer/member service that I called yesterday. When we first got this insurance, hmm, 8-9 years ago, I was sort of shocked to find there was no advice nurse. I always had one growing up and we had one with our old insurance/pediatrician and it was a service I really appreciated first being a new mom then having both a baby and toddler. It sucks not having one, especially with Kota cuz sometimes it's a big judgement call if she needs/doesn't need to go in or if we should go straight to ER rather than the dr or urgent care. Caleb went to bed early tonight with the same symptoms as Kota though to a lesser degree. Stuffy nose, coughing, sore throat, headache, low fever. Guess it's better to have both of them sick, we can make one trip to the dr instead of two. She's still complaining more about her throat but the nasal and chest congestion is pretty bad too. Heh, she's also complaining about her nose. Darren was sitting kinda funny on the couch earlier and she squished up behind him. I don't know if he forgot she was there or didn't realize she was that close but he reached over to grab his soda and nailed her right in the nose. She looked at him and howled, "DAD!!!!!" He felt terrible about it. Her nose is just fine, but I had to tease him a bit about the fact that now I have to take her to the dr and explain what the heck happened to her face.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 4:41 am
New gripe: I work in an elementary school. My office is a campus with only pre-k thru 1st grade, meaning 3-6 yr olds. School starts at 7:45, but I get here about 6:45 and start work at 7. With DST starting this past weekend, it is pitch black when I get to school. Can you tell me why some parent dropped their baby off in front of school by herself? This little girl was sitting by herself in front of the school at 6:45 this morning! Some people need to be slapped. Hard.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 4:44 am
Wow. Isn't that like illegal or something? Can the school call the parents and tell them that is not allowed? I don't know the exact rules at my son's school, but I know the kids are not allowed to get there before a certain time. Seriously, isn't that abandonment?
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 6:10 am
We do call the parents ... often ...
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 7:49 am
It is crazy for someone to do that. So many bad things could happen you don't want to think about it. Shouldn't the authorities be contacted in this situation?
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 8:10 am
Well, it was somebody who forgot to change their clock, right? No, wait, that would work the other way around. They would be dropping her off at 8:45, thinking it was 7:45.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 9:43 am
Ladytex, that makes me sad, poor little girl. Perhaps, the parents had the daylight savings time backwards but still the child should not have been left alone. Wonder if she walked to school?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 9:53 am
Ack Lady, that's insane. At our schools you can't drop them off more than half an hour early or pick them up more than half an hour late. Not sure what they do when you drop them off too early, but I know they'll chew you out for picking them up late (last week we had a drs appt with Caleb and little "adopted" sis was picking Kota up, she forgot and got there at 3:20 and they yelled at her for being late, lol.) Called drs office this morning, explained the weekend situation, they were furious Kota couldn't get in to see an urgent care dr. Receptionist asked if I could be there at 9:15 (it was 9:05,) told her we'd be a few minutes late. We checked in at 9:21. There were a couple appts in front of us, but they had her in pretty quickly. Dr walked in and read her chart...high fever, sore throat, headache, nasal and chest congestion and told her she was a mess, but on the plus side it's been almost a year since she was that sick. She checked her out, said Kota has a sinus infection, a throat infection from the sinuses, fluid in her ears (but no infection, yay!,) and her lungs sound terrible. She gave her an antibiotic, told me to get her a sinus wash? rinse? (can't remember the name but have it written down,) mucinex D, and the crushing blow for us cuz she hasn't had to use it for a while, she's to do breathing treatments 3x a day until her lungs are clear. Already dropped the prescription off, need to go back and pick it up in a few minutes.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 10:10 am
>>>told her she was a mess>>> heehee Just what every little girl wants to hear. What kind of sinus wash? Just curious as I am always fighting my sinus'. Won't go into it, not relevant or interesting. LOL But.... I figure if they recommend something for a sick child it must have some benefit or they wouldn't bother, right? Hope you start seeing an improvement soon after such a rough weekend.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 10:29 am
I know that last year I started using Neil-Med sinus rinse and it's made a big difference for me. I usually get sick a few times once school starts btw the kids and my allergies, but it's helped a lot.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 10:40 am
That's what I use Lady (with the Neti-pot). I can feel an improvement short term but not longer then maybe an hour or so.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 11:12 am
AT&T. I hate them. I just spent literally an hour and 45 minutes on the phone with them. I have auto pay (because I hate to pay my bill) and, when I looked at my debit card statement online, I noticed that they had deducted $123.50 from my account. The only problem is that my only AT&T service is DSL and a "dry loop" I think it's called, which is a phone line that is there just for DSL service. So my monthly bill should be about $37 dollars. How did it get to be so much? Well, AT&T "accidentally" added a variety of charges, like call blocking, call waiting, etc, to my line. And they were double billing me for DSL AND dialup. And apparently they had done it in January, too, but I didn't catch it! One of the AT&T customer reps told me it had happened! But you know how it is when you call AT&T. One person connects you to another, who is invariably the wrong person, who then connects you to anothe person, who can only help you with the phone portion of your bill and then needs to transfer you to another person who handles DSL, but that person only helps with setting up the account, you need to talk to someone else who handles the DSL billing. And on and on in a circle. Final result: I got almost $120 in charges removed. So that's good. But I still only have it as a credit and I kinda sorta need that money this month.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 11:16 am
If you can bear it, Tish, ring again. You should insist they send you a check and they should do it. Something similar happened on a business line at work (also with AT&T) and they sent a check pronto when I argued with them.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 11:21 am
Oh Kitt, I'd love to. In fact, I'd really prefer they just put the money back on my card. But I need to decompress before I deal with them again.
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 11:23 am
tish, something similar happened to me last week. i accidentally set up a gas payment to come out on 2/27 - i didn't even know i had set it up for then because it was supposed to come out on 1/27 and i thought i just forgot to set it up. but my payment still came out. i got a overdraft charge of $23 because they took out the payment. they were just going to keep it as a credit and i told them no that was not going to happen...i wanted a check sent to me. i should be getting it tomorrow or so. then i requested that the credited my account be credited (since i knew the bank wouldn't reverse the charge) the amount of the overdraft charge. it all happened... i would push it...
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 11:27 am
Ack Tish, that's terrible! You should get a check (or the money back in your account) instead of a credit since it was their screw up! Yep, it's the neil-med with the neti pot. I need to read the instructions to figure it out but I'm not in a hurry yet. Just got back from the pharmacy and had to wake her up to give her the antibiotic and sudafed (dr had said mucinex d but when I read it it said it was only for people 12 and over, pharmacist called the office for me and dr said the sudafed was fine) and she went right back to sleep. Heh, Kota was feeling so bad when we got there that as soon as we got in the exam room she crawled up on the table and dozed off. The dr woke her up when she knocked on the door and all Kota could do was sit up and say, "I'm sick."
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