Searching For a Prayer, With My Good Eye Closed

So after a year of being down in the States and being healthy (I have had a cold twice in the passed year) I FINALLY got to go to the doctor today! YAY! Today was a stat holiday in the US so I wasn't working and THANK JEBUS because going to the doctor down here is a PAIN in the ass.
Yesterday my right eye was a bit tender and this morning when I woke up it was swollen shut. Not cool. So I canceled a shoot and went to the UMC. I got there and I signed in at 1:23 then I had to go to the lobby to wait. My name was called at 2:05 and went in for the pre-exam with some lady named Linda. She weighed me, took blood pressure, and asked questions like "do you have insurance?" and "have you fallen recently?". She also tested my vision. This posed a problem as my good eye - my right eye - was not opening fully, and my left eye is complete shite. Even with glasses I dunno what is up with my left eye. It just doesn't focus properly. Then I had to go back to the lobby to wait. At 2:47 I was called up to present my insurance and pay for seeing the doctor which I was told would be happening "right away". Then I had to go back to the lobby to wait. Then at 3:12 I was called in to see the doctor. I was given my own spacious waiting... I mean examination room and continued to wait. Doctor came in 10 minutes later and looked at my eye, asked me questions like "do you have insurance" and "how are you with a skill saw?". Then he said he was going to give me an antibiotic, and that I would get the prescription after I went back to the lobby to wait. At 3:53 I signed off saying that I was seen by said doctor and had sufficient amount of time to come up with a carefully planned bank heist while waiting in said lobby and was presented with said prescription.

Two and a half hours. Two and a half hours people. I must quote Gob from Arrested Development - COME ON!!!
So by the time I had driven to the UMC, driven to get my drug from the pharmacy I had spent three and a half hours to get some eye medication. That is such a load of crap. I can't believe it took me that long. This country sucks.



So I was supposed to shoot with Joanna Krupa tonight and now I cannot. SUCKS. When you are a camera guy, you sort of need to see well. C'est la vie. Wish me luck on my drive home!