Stunned

So I finally caved at day five of my headache and tried for a doctor's appointment. The clinic I've been assigned to opens at 8:30 and you can only call for an appointment the day of, two days before or a week before. So I started dialing at 8:35 and finally got through by 8:43 and they were booked for the morning. If I wanted an afternoon appointment I would need to call or come by at 3 p.m.

Dad and I walked down to be there when the doors opened at 3 and after waiting in line a few minutes, I had an appointment for 4:20. Walked back home for awhile and then headed back. Mom was going to be home for when Maddie arrived on the bus.

The doctor called my name at 4:25 and ushered me into a regular office (not an exam room) where she sat behind a desk and I sat in a chair across from her. She asked what the problem was. I told her. She did not take my temperature, look in my nose or throat or ears, take my blood pressure...she didn't even shake my hand. There was no sense of concern that I have had a headache for five days. She told me that if it was sinus it would probably go away on its own, but since I was leaving for holiday, she would give me a prescription for an antibiotic if I wanted one. She told me that they don't write decongestant scrips, so if Sudafed wasn't working...So after three minutes and no exam whatsoever, I walked out with a piece of paper for some amoxicillan.

Hope it's not a brain tumor. Nobody here would ever know. And that clinic is my only option for medical care unless I want to go to a walk-in center. Surely this is not the answer.