Before I begin, we have a change of policy here at blowitoutyourpiehole.com. We have had a policy of not giving free advertising or links to companies, places or things that piss me off. We want to link to companies who excel. But then, I reasoned, how are you going to know where not to go? Websearching won’t bring up the thing that chapped my hide. So here it goes, the people, companies, events and what not who need to BLOW IT OUT THEIR FARGIN BASTAGE PIE HOLES will be named.
Once again, I have a severe case of otitis externa, also known as swimmer’s ear. My ear is hurting like a son of a bitch right now, and couple that with the little sleep I’ve had over the past couple days, I’m really on my last nerve.So last Saturday, I call upon this new technology to make an appointment with my “health care provider.” I clicked the link that said “make or cancel an appointment,” set up a profile, filled out my health care history, and sat back and waited until the office opened on Monday when someone would fill me in. Actually, if I had created the system, it would already know which appointments were available and put me in there right away.
So I go in Thursday, take half a day to go see the doctor. The office is in a building next to St. Rose Hospital. There aren’t enough signs, so I’m walking all around the complex looking for the building. I find it. I go to the second floor, and there are no suite numbers in the damn building. Mind you, it’s about 500° outside, and I’m walking in a giant circle for 30 minutes trying to find a building with little numbers on the side.So I get to my appointment, and they have misspelled my name, to make it sound like some little tart who spent a couple days in the Los Angeles County Prison lately. Doctor looks at my ear, and agrees with my diagnosis of otitis externa, and prescribes some Cipro HC Otic HC Otic. It sounded familiar, and I’m sure that I had been prescribed it before. They electronically faxed it over to the drug store right down the street from my home.
I wait a couple hours, since it’s the middle of the day, and all the assisted living facilities in the area need their prescriptions filled. So I run over there, and they say that they were calling me to tell me that they didn’t have any Cipro HC Otic HC Otic. Dumbasses were calling my work number. They call the other store down the street. They don’t have any either. So they call another other store, and they have the medication. I drive down there to see how long it will take, and they give the standard, “10 to 15 minutes” response. It’s the same you get when you go to a restaurant. “10 to 15 minutes.” Even if they’re empty, it’s still “10 to 15 minutes.”Since I figure I have about a half hour, I walk over to Me-n-Ed’s for a calzone. The dude takes my order, and tells me it will be “10 to 15 minutes.” According to my receipt, this is “18:42.” Twenty five minutes past seven, a guy walks over to me with a cold box.”Are you a combo calzone?”
“No, but I ordered one about an hour ago. 10 to 15 minutes, my ass.” I grabbed it and went back to the pharmacy.
The pharmacy girl takes my insurance information, punches it up on the computer. Also, at this time, I was really feeling the effects of the wearing off of the four Extra Strength Excedrin I had taken a couple hours ago.”Ok, sir,” she starts with her little girl voice. “Your Cipro HC Otic HC Otic suspension ear drops art not covered by Blue Shield, so that’s going to be $136.47.” She showed me the screen that said, “Not Covered.” After expressing my disbelief that a common antibiotic would not be covered, she said that she would call my provider in the morning to find something that is covered.
So here I am, a week later with an ear infection, running out of the excedrin, and not able to hear anything. I couldn’t go to hear Patrice Pike (as seen on TV’s Supernova) with my ache, and couldn’t go to the New Dimension Chorus rehearsal last night.
You can help purchase my meds!
In the mean time, Blue Cross Blue Shield, BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLE! We need more competition in health care.
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