Sick of being sick :P

Today I woke up early in the morning with my left eye crusty and swollen. Having dealt with Eleanor's conjunctivitis in both her eyes for the past 6 days, I knew she had kindly passed it on to me. She's so great at sharing ;)

So I had the unfortunate experience of calling up our insurance's 24-hour nurse line to spend 20 minutes going through a "virtual diagnostic" (the nurse reading me questions off a computer program) only for her to tell me I needed to see my doctor and she couldn't do anything more for me. She definitely erred on the side of "customer service representative" rather than "registered nurse" which she had stated she was... So then I called my doctor's office, which of course was closed as it's Saturday, but I got in contact with the on-call doctor who asked me one question, "So what is the problem?", I gave her one answer about my eye and the conjunctivitis I thought I had, and she said "Okay, I'll call in a prescription to your pharmacy, check with them in a few hours, bye." So I didn't even get a chance to ask her about how long I take it for, what the prescription even is, if I can take it and wear my contacts again, etc... I guess I will ask the pharmacist, but it was very strange to have the doctor not really care about explaining those details.

And the icing on the cake: Ben went at 6:30pm to the pharmacy to pick up my mystery medication, only to find that the pharmacy window at this CVS closes at 6. So I'm still dealing with a swollen eyelid and a bloodshot eye, and the cough and congestion from the cold I got 5 days ago. Ugh. I am ready to be HEALTHY!

On a positive note, I found out that the H1N1 vaccine being given out for free to young children at several public flu clinics in the next 2 weeks. I hope to go on November 3 and get Ellie her first dose (it's a 2-dose injectable vaccine). There are 6 clinics starting next Tuesday the 27th, and I have some friends that plan on having to wait several hours in order to get a shot for their child on that first day. I am not that brave and am guessing there are lots of parents planning to do the same thing, so I hope the later clinics have less of a wait.