Wednesday, November 19, 2014

It's a Seinfeld Episode they missed*

This morning I went over to my mother's before I went to my high paying job in Elmsford. Just about the time I was going to leave Teri calls me and says she hurt her finger and thinks it's broken. She says she's not a baby when it comes to getting hurt, but she is. She shows me her pinkie finger. I ask her if she can move it. She moves it at the knuckle, but not at the last joint. So I know where this is going. She wants to go to the Emergency room and I tell her no, that is for emergencies. She then says what about Immediate Medical in Nanuet. This is where I make my mistake. I tell her they charged me $540.00 for a shot for poison ivy and they can go to hell before I step foot in there again.
   I tell Teri, who is getting pissed off at me we should go to the Doctor, that's where this would be taken care of properly and with minimal cost.
   Teri is fully wound up by now and she launches into her speel. It is WEDNESDAY. The DOCTOR is not open TODAY.
  We go to Nyack Hospital after I give up and say we'll go where ever you want to go.
   We go to Nyack Hospital. I drop her off at the entrance to the ER and look to park.  I tell her there is no place to park. Before she gets out of the car she points to a spot reserved for ER patients and says Park there, I don't someone gets it before me. I don't know if I would of parked there anyway. It still didn't feel like we shouldn't be here, it wasn't an emergency.
   I track her down, on a bed in the ER, waiting for a doctor to see her. A nice doctor finally comes to see her. The Doctor says she has dislocated her finger tip and she can A- put it back in. B- give her a shot and put it back in or C- get a shot, and four little shots around the finger and put it back in or D- get an IV drip and get it put back in. All of this for the most useless of digits.
   I give her credit. She let them try to do it straight away, it didn't work. She got a shot, her finger put back together, an other X-Ray to check it out and we finally got out of there at 1:30, about four hours. I hope they don't charge by the hour. A few months later we get the bills (ER, doctors and hospital) with good insurance it was still over $1,000.00.

* The pinkey toe episode where Kramer puts it in his box of candy I think? Friends does one too where they are in a flash back and Monica is trying to act sexy and drops a knife and cuts off Chandler's pinkey toe.