Aaah Civilian Life

Yesterday three of my four kids needed to visit the doctor. Clover was sick, Sunny was stuffy and is having skin issues, and Zoie ran out of Flovent and has some strange looking moles on her back and chest and is just having too many appear lately. I called the doctors office directly in the morning and asked for an appointment with my doctor for the three kids at the same time....she said, "No Problem" and I had my appointment set at 3:45pm that same day.

We arrived at the office at the appointed time and parked right outside the entrance door and walked right in and up to the check in window and announced our arrival. We sat in the waiting room for about five minutes before the friendly nurse Angie beckoned us back to our adorable professionally painted 'choo-choo train' themed room with a train as the patient bed. She took all three of the kids vitals, gave stickers to each including Dalton who was just there for moral support, and then stepped out telling us that Dr. Moore (our pediatrician of choice) would be with us shortly.

Dr. Moore arrived clean, courteous, full of energy, and immediately asked me what was going on while standing face to face with me and made eye contact the entire time. After seeing the number of moles on Zoie's body he said it was worth a visit to the dermatologist and gave me a referral and gave me a years worth of Flovent refills. With Sunny he comforted her by talking quietly to her during the assessment and then gently rotated her head to check her ears... nothing to worry about with her and her skin is nothing more than some over active oil glands. With Clover there was no flu but there is an ear infection. He wrote me a prescription with the council to fill it if I want. I can wait a few days to see if it clears up on its own or fill it now, whatever I want.

After the appointment we drove three hundred feet to the pharmacy's drive up window and put in our order for the meds, picked it up thirty minutes later (during that time I dropped the kids off at home because their dad was now home and went and picked up a pizza for dinner) and then went home and cooked the pizza for dinner.

You might be asking yourself "yeah...so...what's the big deal!" and I will tell you that things just do not work like this in the military. From getting a same day appointment WITH my pediatrician to the quick and courteous service, to getting the referral with out being the residents guinea pig first. I loved it...being civilian is a GREAT thing!