Health Care in the Military

When D was in the hospital sick he developed a hernia which made his scrotom swell up to about the size of a softball. It of course went down and when he went into remission they decided that since the hernia was not casuing any problems to just keep an eye on it. Well around the 14th of Feb. he was getting out of the shower and I noticed that his scrotom was swollen, not to the same size but still swollen, and bright red. I checked and there was no bite marks from something like a spider or anything like that, he had not scrathed it and he kept saying that it hurt. I gave him some medicine for the pain and by the morning time he was complaining that it was hurting to sit down on the couch. That Monday was a holiday so the hospital clinics are not open, going to the ER would do me no good because I would be told he needed to see his regular Dr. So on Tuesday morning I called the Ped's clinic as soon as it opened they of course had no appointments available that day. So I called on Wednesday morning as soon as the clinic opened and again they had no appointments available. Now so you know I can make appointments ahead of time but they need to be made about a month in advance! Anyways so by Wednesday I knew I just needed to get him in so we did a walk-in appointment. We sat in the waiting room with the other really sick kiddos for 3 hours before we got called back to see a Dr. The Dr. came in looked at him and said ok. It could be an infection so we are going to put him on anti-biotics. I explained that I thought it could be his hernia and I believe just to please me he went ahead and ordered an ultrasound as well. We went to radiology and had the ultrasound done, picked up the meds and went back to the clinic to give a urine sample. As we were walking out I saw the doc and asked if he would please call me and let me know what the results were for the tests. Given D's medical history I don't think that I am asking to much for someone to take 5 minutes out of their day and call me one way or another. I never heard a word!! My husband called his friends in the lab the next morning and found that the urine test came back normal. So probably no reason for him to be taking anti-biotics. But I still have no clue about the ultrasound. I am hoping that they didn't notice anything wrong but then what was the problem in the first place?! I hate our hospital, doctors, anything having to do with that place! It is so frustrating!

We have an appt with his oncologist on Tuesday so I will be asking him about it. His oncologist is in another hospital but D will be having another ultrasound done with that appt. I will keep you all posted.