Being Sick is not the Worst of It

So this week I have gone to the doctor three times (not counting the various visits to the Mercyhurst Health Center). Now I finally know how insurance works. NOT GOOD. I first found this out when I called them at 4 AM on Wednesday because I had scratched my eye the day before and it was so swollen I couldn’t open it. After putting me on hold for about 10 minutes they tell me that I have an appointment for 10AM the next morning. So, my roommate who was already awake and worried thought we should call 911 and go to an emergency room. We called our other friend who had done this last year, just so she would tell us what to do and stuff, buut…it turns out that when she had to go to the hospital in an ambulance last year, they ended up charging her about $9,000. Now I don’t want to call 911 anymore. So my roommate gives me a cold pack and puts it in my eye and I wait four hours until the health center opens. So at 8 AM we are up and ready and we walk to the health center, but it turns out to be closed. After waiting ‘till 11 for the Dr. to arrive, he gives me some ointment and tells me to use it for couple days and it will get better.
Great. But my eye still hurts. So I finally call my mom, who’s half way around the world and I didn’t want to worry, and she ORDERS me to go to an ophthalmologist. So now I have to call the insurance company again. They give me an appointment for Thursday. Now I have to find a ride. After calling everyone I know who has a car, I finally find a friend who can take me and is on her way to pick me up. When I get downstairs to meet her, she is frantically searching for something on the ground – HER KEYS!! Now this is just bad luck, what more could go wrong? Well, it turns out by the time we found her keys the center was closed. I had to once again call the insurance and get them to ask for an appointment somewhere else. Once I went, the doctor told me I had to go to the Erie Eye Clinic because they didn’t have the necessary equipment for what needed to be treated. As you can guess…I had to get another approval from insurance and another ride..