Primary Pediatrics here we come...

If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, then we need to trade in one of our peach orchards for an apple one.

Seriously, we have spent $200 at Primary Pediatrics since Friday on co-pays. That doesn't even include medicine! $40 a pop. Our insurance sucks.

It all started with Sassy's annual check-up on Friday = $40.

On Monday, Retro decided I needed to take the babies to Pediatrics After Hours because Baby Girl's eyes were red & swollen from her allergies & Bo has a bad cough & running nose, which is always the predecessor to an ear infection. So...Baby Girl gets a prescription for her eyes, but Bo just gets OTC meds and his ears are fine =$80 (not including $67 at CVS).

Then 6:30 am on Tuesday, Bo wakes up with guess what!?! An ear infection! So I take Sassy to school & then back to the doctor's office that is between school & home. He has a "good one" in the left ear & the right one's a little red. Why couldn't the left one be a little red on Monday? =$40 (+ meds).

I then take Bo back home (no school today for the babies!) and head to a doctor's appt. for myself. By choice, I wasn't sick. While I was in with the doctor, Sassy's school calls - she's in the office with a headache. Well, it's not like her to complain (at school), so I figured it was legit. I called Retro, he says take her to the doc but I decide to evaluate her for myself first. She did seem to really feel bad so I call & get an appt at 2:15, it's 12:30. So we go by Chic-fil-a & get her some lunch (because she was too sick too eat the one I packed that morning). By the time we got to the fruit stand to pick up $40 from Retro, she was feeling much better. Chic-fil-a --miracle drug!

So, I thought we were finally done with the doctor's visits. This morning, everybody got up feeling good, went to school, no problems. Until... after lunch, I put Baby Girl down for her nap & closed the door, as usual. She was crying, as usual. Then after a little while, she opens the door & comes down the stairs, so Matt & I both go to check on her b/c she never opens the door by herself & she has blood all over her. Not like a bloodbath, but still bloody! We take her to the bathroom & can't find the source. I think it's must be her lip, so I look & see this gash on her tongue!



I freak out! Retro is in the yard working on Bo's Putting Green, so I run get him! Long story, short, off we go to... Primary Pediatrics!!! Luckily she didn't need stitches, but she did get an antibiotic & only soft foods (i.e. ice cream) & liquids for a day or so =$40 (+ meds). I guess it looks worst than it is. These pictures don't do it justice! It's gross.

After all that, now I have a major sinus headache, but I ain't going to the doctor - I'll just self-medicate myself into a coma! please.