Waiting always waiting

Why when you have something wrong do you have to wait so long?

My son is now back on the ENT waiting list for his grommets to be put in. I found this out before we had to go to the GP for yet another perforated ear drum :(
The poor boy is back on antibiotics and painkillers.
This all happened on a misrable Thursday when it was raining.

We went to school as normal and everything was fine. But once I had picked my son up from school at lunchtime, he only goes to school in the morning, he fainted on the way home. As I said it was raining and the path was wet so he got soaked. He is also now quite heavy now and it is a struggle to carry him.

When we got home he said to me 'Mummy I don't want to faint any more, please make it go away' he then started crying which made me cry too. I didn't know what to say to him. If I could take it away I would, I am the one who gave him the condition in the first place. But I must not think like that.

So we had lunch and then he fell asleep but woke up a short while later screaming that his ear hurt. So I got on the phone to the GP to ask for an appointment for that day. But was told that there where none available and all they could give me was the next day. So I explained to them that he was 4 and under ENT waiting for an operation and that he needed to see someone that day. So the receptionist left me on the line while they went to talk to someone. When they came back to me I was told to bring him down at 5pm and I would have to wait.

So we went down and were sitting in the waiting room at 4.40pm, I don't like to be late, and we were called into see the doctor a few minutes later. The doctor looked at his ears and then asked if she could show a trainee doctor his ears. Our GP then got the trainee to look in his ears saying that unlike other children with his condition you can get a really good look at them and he doesn't cry or scream at you. So the doctor said that he had another perforated ear drum.

Back on the antibiotics and painkillers for the poor boy.