Sofia's Bad Day at The Medical Centre

Sofia’s Bad Day at The Medical Centre

Published on January 10, 2011 by admin in Hawaii, Picture Post

(this happened on) Monday 13th July, 2009

(For some reason I did not make any notes for this day, so today only Sofia narrates on what was a trying day for her.)

A Rotten Stinky Day For Me

I needed to go to the Pharmacy and get my prescription, I walked to it with Alan.

When they saw my prescription from Australia they basically said ‘No Way’ and we would have to go to the medical centre and see the Doctor and get yet another prescription.

I went to the medical centre to see the Doctor and to try and get a new prescription sorted out. In the medical centre they told me to come back at 2:15pm as the Doctor was nowhere to be seen, so we wandered off to fill some time.

I felt so pissed off and powerless, I got too emotional and was crying as the last prescription in Australia was AUS$45 and now I was looking at a further $134.90 to see this Doctor.

When we returned to the medical centre at the allotted time the Doctor still had not turned up so we sat and waited for a 40 minutes until he strolled in.

In a few minutes he had taken my blood pressure and prescribed the different tablets, taken my money and that was that.

It was then back to the pharmacy where they had some of the prescription but did not have the Asthma inhaler, I just told them to give me the pills.

Now they did not want to give me the prescription back with the other medication, so that I would be unable to get it anywhere else. They told me to go back to the Doctor, I told them that I had paid $134.90 for that prescription and that they had better hand it over. I paid a further $56.80 for the water pills and they reluctantly gave me my script back.

I felt ripped off and pissed off and totally miserable. A middle aged woman weeping is not a pretty sight.

During the evening I was chatting on line with Stefan and also Nick Taylor (my cousin in California), we will be having a BBQ at Nick’s place on Sunday.

We all went to Lulu’s Surf Club for a really good dinner and it also had great live music.

Sasha is very excited as she has tickets to see Blink 182 on 23rd July in Las Vegas.

We played some cards and I won and then we headed back to the hotel after stopping at the ABC Store and exchanging our gift card for a shirt and sarong.

I am so glad this day has ended.