Misery Loves Company

This is another post from my blackberyy, so please excuse typos and any lack of punctuation.  It's bad enough with the little keyboard, but right now I can hardly see...
Today about noon my left eye felt a little irritated. By 1 o'clock it was oozing, so I went to see the nurse at work. She rinsed it out with saline and told me I should be seen by the doctor today.
So I went back to my desk and called Kaiser. Talked to the triage person and she said I would receive a call back within 2 hours. Two hours is a long time when your eye is irritated.
At 4:30 I finally got a call back. Yep, sounds like pink eye, but Kaiser doesn't prescribe meds without a dr visit. So now my choices are to see my dr at 9:40 in the morning or go to Kaiser urgent care. Well by now I can barely hold my eyes open. They are oozing yellow gunk and I am miserable! No way I'm waiting until tomorrow morning.
I leave work and make my way to urgent care. Great -- its a 2-hour wait!
I feel rotten - I really would like to just go home and crawl into bed. I decide to go wait in the car vs sit in a waiting room and infect all those sick people with pink eye. It was about this time I realize this is my perfect opportunity to call my younger sister to chat. We are both so busy and its been a very long time since we've had a good heart to heart. It was so good to catch up and 45 minutes of my 2-hr wait were gone.
I then decided to go inside. After washing my eyes with warm water in the bathroom, I made my way to the waiting room. My name was called within just a few minutes and soon the physician's asst came in and within minutes I had my prescription in hand.
A 20-minute wait in the pharmacy now and then I should be on my way home. Looks like I have a day off work tomorrow - doctor's orders!
I'm feeling miserable and look even worse but very thankful for the interruption in my busy schedule and the opportunity to visit with my sis. It's been a good day.