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a couple months ago i came down with a nasty bug. It started around 11 at night. I had this awful pain in my gut, and i couldn't stop throwing up. this continued till about 7 am, when my (blind) mother found me curled up on the bathroom floor. My dad works in a town an hour's drive away, so I wound up going to the local walgreens with my mother. I passed out at the walgreens, but i managed to come around and get back to the car. I have very minor medical insurance, so i ended up going to the local quick clinic, which supposedly advertises that they accept walk ins. I went in, still throwing up about every 5 minutes and in horrible pain from the muscle strain. the nurse said i needed an appointment. there was nobody else in the place, no patients, just three nurses,a secretary, and the dr. I finally got the nurse at the desk to agree to let me see the dr. I had to pay upfront for the visit. all i had was a 100 dollar bill, which my mother gave me. the nurse tried to tell me that she couldn't break it,,,(the change would have been less than 20 dollars.) she finally took it. i sat in the waiting room for another hour, throwing up in the garbage can every couple minutes. finally i went back to the window, and begged to see the dr. she said i would have to wait. I puked on her. 5 minutes later i was seeing the dr. 
the dr said my veins had collapsed and i needed fluid. she set me up with an IV and antibiotic shot. the nurse who did the IV stabbed me in the arm about 5 times, till it bled, before realizing that i needed a baby needle. they left me with the IV, an hour after it finished, they came and took the needle out, and i promptly threw up again. the nurse administered the shot, in the backside, left the needle in, and WALKED AWAY to place her order with the secretary for lunch at taco bell. came back and took out the needle. i went home, crashed for about 3 days, and a week later got hit with a bill for 600 dollars for the shot and the IV. it was NOT worth it. I should have just let it run its course. -.-
the dr said my veins had collapsed and i needed fluid. she set me up with an IV and antibiotic shot. the nurse who did the IV stabbed me in the arm about 5 times, till it bled, before realizing that i needed a baby needle. they left me with the IV, an hour after it finished, they came and took the needle out, and i promptly threw up again. the nurse administered the shot, in the backside, left the needle in, and WALKED AWAY to place her order with the secretary for lunch at taco bell. came back and took out the needle. i went home, crashed for about 3 days, and a week later got hit with a bill for 600 dollars for the shot and the IV. it was NOT worth it. I should have just let it run its course. -.-
That's almost as bad, if not worse than my epic ER visit. Those people, especially the nurse who left the friggin' needle in you, need to be reported.
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