Saturday, March 12, 2011

Another Doctor Visit

We've come to the conclusion that we can't do anything efficiently here, partly because we can't do anything efficiently in general and partly because we just don't know what we're doing.

Yesterday was no exception.  We were planning to go to the zoo, but Rosetta woke up complaining about pain in her shoulder and there was a noticeable lump on her collarbone that wasn't there before.  So, our day went kind of like this:

- We debated whether we should go to the doctor or wait.
- We decided we should call someone and ask first.
- We debated who we should call.
- Chantelle called the triage nurse back in St. Paul on Skype, who said we should probably see a doctor.
- We debated on whether we should just show up at the clinic or try to call to ask about making an appointment.
- We decided we should call someone who can speak Slovenian to call and ask for us.
- We debated who that should be.
- Chantelle called our friend Charlotte from the Embassy (who took Chantelle and Rosetta to the hospital when it first happened) and she said she would.
- We waited for Charlotte to call back.
- Charlotte told us that we should just show up at the clinic with all of our paperwork.
- We decided we would have lunch first, then go.
- We got to the clinic about 12:45 and there was no one at the reception desk.
- We waited about 15 minutes and were finally told they're closed from 12:30 to 2:00.
- We went to a coffee shop to kill an hour.
- We went back and were told to wait outside the doctor's door; if he agreed to see us, then we should come back to the reception desk to get our visit put in the system.
- We waited and were told the doctor would see us.
- We went back to the reception desk and set up our appointment.
- We waited to be called in, they called us in, the doctor said it looks fine.
- We went back to the reception desk, waited to pay, paid, and left.

The bad news is we spent our entire day working on what turned out to be about a 45-minute appointment (they actually have a fairly efficient system once you are at the clinic; it was figuring everything else out that took all day).  The good news is that everything looks okay with Rosetta, the zoo can wait, and we were finished in time to sit by the river and enjoy a beer for happy hour.

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