Optimism

So Texas is having this Flu epidemic right now. Schools, Churches, all sorts of things closing to de-germ due to the amount of people getting the flu. Yesterday I myself start to feel very icky. I decide to go to the doctor as soon as possible to see if it is the flu to get on the meds as soon as possible because I don’t like being sick!
So I go to the CareNow center just down the street. Which I was impressed with. I was called back within 10 minutes of the time I got there. The doc came right away swabbed my brain tissue (it felt like. They stick that swab way up in your nose!) then I waited for the test results.
Lucky for me I do not have the flu but instead a “Upper Respiratory Infection” in layman’s terms a cold.
So the doc says it looked like my symptoms were pretty severe for a cold, so she would give me prescription strength cold remedy. So I think cool. Go to the pharmacy to get it, ask them how much it is before they fill it. They say it is about 10 bucks. So I said ok.
They fill it (needless to say I waited longer for the prescription to be filled than the whole doctor process took.)
I finally go up to pay for it, and they say that will be $100. Please. Um..ok. I don’t care what the doc says. I am not going to pay $100 dollars for a cold symptom remover. So I asked what happened from the time they told me it was $10 to now? They said it must have been a mistake. So I said ok. Well I do not need it after all. Went and got an over the counter med, and bought that instead for the $10.
Pharmaceuticals…..really $100 for a cold medicine. That is crap!
Oh well. I am here at home now dosed up on stuff that makes me feel wack. I just hope I feel enough better to go to work tomorrow, because I don’t think I can take this medicine and work at the same time. I would make some crazy decision that would make me lose my job!
And the way I feel, I don’t think I could not take the meds and function either!
So here is to a long recovery day, and night and waking up feeling like spring!