P100 Refund

Monday, January 13, 2013

I forgot that we’re going back to Cardinal Santos. My son was calling me at 1 pm and our doctor’s appointment was at 2 pm. Edmund said no hurry because doctors are always late.

I sent the drivers to buy lunch, ang tagal-tagal nila. Oyen wanted salad and Edmund wanted pasta. Opposite directions. To save time, I sent one driver to Amici, and another driver to buy Oyen’s Juju salad. Ang tagal tagal nila, tila isang oras. Yun pala nagsabay sila in one vehicle. Both of them went to Amici, then to Juju. Kung kailan pa ako nagmamadali.

Pizza Parmigiano with Pesto dip. Always, for me.

I picked up my son from our house at 2:30 pm. We left the house at 2:40 pm. We arrived in Cardinal at 3:15 pm, medyo traffic because of LaSalle in Ortigas Avenue. We detoured to Santolan.

We patiently waited for about 45 minutes or a little bit more.

My son felt pee. The door was wide open so I helped him go in. I held his crutches and closed the door. Oh oh, for girls pala ito. I didn’t call him na to come out.
I told him after he stepped out. Sorry anak for women pala.

The assistant doctors (sous chef in culinary parlance) cleaned Nyke’s wound. The doctor asked me if I have a new bandage or gauze. None. I told him to put the same one back and I would just change it when we got home. It had a lot of blood stains.

I was given an official receipt for the professional fees and medicines. The secretary promised to give me the other receipts when we go back on friday (tomorrow).
She’s collecting P750. the P250 was supposedly for the dressing last saturday in megaclinic, and the P500’s for this new cleaning and dressing.

I told her I found a receipt for P200 from Cardinal Santos Hospital supposedly for the professional fees. Since I issued a check for the whole amount of their fees, I would just give her P550 to refund the P200 overpayment. I gave her P1,000 bill. She asked me to wait for a while. I left their tiny reception area and sat outside with my son. After almost half hour, I went back inside, sh’e still doing the receipt daw.
She gave me P650 sukli, hindi daw pwede ibawas yung other P100 because the anesthesiologist should be the one to refund the P100 to me. I told her, if I could just deduct the whole P200 para hindi magulo, sila na lang magbawas dun sa anesthesiologist anyway they’re a team. And the P16,000 professional fee for the anesthesiologist was included in the check totalling P133,500 which I paid last saturday. Ano ba naman yung abonohan muna nila yung P100. Ayaw. Hindi daw pwede. Sa next visit na lang daw. They accepted P16,000 on the anesthesiologist’s behalf, but didn’t want to shell out a P100 refund.

Dr. Eufemio’s secretary only wrote down the pain relievers on the prescription when we went to Megaclinic last saturday. It didn’t include an antibiotic so the assistant doctor gave us a new prescription. Mas mainam yata chine-check ng doctor kung ano ang inire-reseta ng mga sekretarya at baka kulang o sobra o mali!

That reminds me of the female dermatologist near Tektite in Pasig. Merong nag rekomenda, ang haba ng pila, ang daming pasyente grabe. Tila two or three hours ang wait.
She had assistants taga sulat ng reseta, nakaupo lang yung doctor, ni hindi man lang lumapit para tingnan ang mukha at skin. Yung assistant ang taga tingin. Parang si Cleopatra na taga utos lang. Donyang-donya. The minute she saw me, na insecure sa akin, tumayo at hinawakan ang pisngi ko, ano daw nilalagay ko, kulang na lang ilagay ako sa microscope. That was 20 years ago, may konting ganda pa ako nun. Ngayon ngetpa na.
Hindi na nga kami bumalik dun.

Instead of going to Mercury drug. I just bought the antibiotics from the Planet drugstore on the same floor as the doctor’s clinic.
10 tablets = P1,250++