I have been sick for three straight weeks now.

From week one I was told by everyone to see a Doctor.  I said no....it's just a head cold.

Week two it moved painfully into my chest with a DRY cough that had a tendency to bring me to tears.

Now that I'm in the end of week three and it's still here...I think, OK, I'll call the Doctor.  I told my husband exactly what he would tell me to do and sure enough....here's how it went down.

The nurse took my info over the phone and shot him a note via email.  She then called me back and said he is prescribing an over the counter drug....I had it written down before she even began.  Mucinex DM and Mucinex D at the same time.  If I'm still sick in a week, call and make an Apt.  I then tell the nice lady that I have been taking that since that's all they ever prescribe for me.  She said, OK, but take them together for a week and then call if you're still sick.

Click.

Why is it that everyone else on the planet goes to the doctor for a mild cough and gets GOOD drugs, and my teeth ache from my sinus being so blown up and I get told to take an OTC drug that I have already been on. 

It just makes me nuts.

But there...are y'all happy now?  I called a Doctor.