[Jims5543]

A couple of months ago my 2 year old was VERY sick. We went to the family practitioner and he said it would have to run its course. It was a nasty stomach virus. He had the runs for 3 weeks straigh. After a week we saw the doc. After 3 weeks we saw the doc. When we entered the 4th week we called him and he said, "go to the emergancy room." This pissed me off to no end.

We went to the E-room and it was packed to the rafters. We would never would have known sitting in the empty waiting room for 1.5 hours. When the nurse bagan to walk us to the back I was amazed to see people everywhere just waiting. They had every examining room filled and the halls were lined with people. Mosty of Hispanic origin.

I turned to the nurse and asked her "You have to be kidding me , right? Are all these people waiting? (Dumb question I know) She responded yes, I turned around and walked out. Porbably saving myself a clean 5-7K in doctor and hospital bills for nothing.

He did a lot better about 3 days later, he never exhibited any signs of dehydration just the runs and bouts of vomiting.

I will do everything I can in the future to aviod going to an E-room.

I do like your trick Byron, I might have to go to the army navy store myself.