Clinic Days

Colleen only goes to clinic one day per week now. She went Monday and we were there for four hours. Some days it is just a short visit, and other days are like yesterday. Of course, that was the day I took our 2 year old daughter along, it was a LOOOOOONG clinic day with two girls in toe. Her port was flushing, but not drawing, so after an hour and a half in the blood draw station and a changed needle with no success, we went to clinic. There I told them immediately that blood was not drawn only to be told by one nurse that the computer said it was pending. Pending?!? I felt like she was saying "Mom, you don't know what you are talking about". So, of course it was an hour later before "eurokaniase" was ordered to get her blood drawn because aparently the computer was still pending. After she saw the doctor Colleen was allowed to play in the PLAYROOM! Oh joy. That was worth the visit, as she had been banned from there until yesterday. Then we were off to the Pharmacy, where it took another hour to get authorizations from Medicaid for one of her new medications. But they have a television, so with Dora on Nick, the wait was tolerable.