To Clinic For Anemia But ER as "Tired"?

I don't have insurance right now, so I went to the walk in clinic to be checked for anemia and maybe given medication to get this back up...I cannot afford to be so fatigued right now.

So I was sent to Emergency with the complaint listed as "Tired". They wanted a signature. I said, "Are you kidding me? tired?! and Emergency?" I said, "This makes me sound nuts, like I'm going to the Emergency room thinking being "tired" is life threatening."

So I said, "Will you please have someone change this to "anemia"" and I don't need the Emergency room, I just need the walk in clinic. It's not an emergency." So I was told I hadn't been diagnosed with anemia yet. I said, "I was, it came up on my Red Cross exam" and I said I was just there to get it confirmed and get something that would help me get my energy and memory up to normal so it's easier to function.

I sat back down in the waiting room and told some guy, and he said, "Yeah, it would sound nuts, like you need to be in another kind of room." I said, "I know! Like, hi everyone! I'm just feeling kinda tired and wondered if I could have a cup of coffee if I check in?" He laughed, and I said, "Or, I could really use a nice soft bed to lie down on, and I just thought about yew guuuuyyyys."

I tried to explain, and to the regular guy waiting on the side, it needed no explanation. I said to the front desk woman, "I just don't need any more medical records which sound nuts or make it sound like I am, when I'm not, and I'm not a hypochondriac, and I wasn't trying to get 'emergency' attention either."

So I was told they'd add "anemia" to the record and then I said, "What about the emergency thing? I came in before 5 p.m. and I'm told the walk in clinic is open until 6 p.m."

So I was told I HAD to go to the ER if I wanted to be seen. I said, "But this isn't 'life threatening'!" and I demanded to know why I couldn't be seen in the walk-in clinic for a normal problem.

I was told, "It's Dr. Freed's orders--you can't go to walk in, only ER." I said, "Well, I just had an MRI and radiology done there and that wasn't ER and there were no problems, so what's the problem now?"

What I am very aware of, is how an inaccurate record gives me a bad or misleading appearance, to someone who doesn't really know what the story is or was.

So, for the record, I DID try to go to the walk in like a normal person, and I do NOT think anemia is life threatening, but it is definitely something I need to be treated for because it's affecting my ability to function.

But imagine. I know very well what the state likes to do with some kind of medical record that pops up in an Emergency room visit, with someone admitting themself for being "tired".

At my request, they made some alterations to the wording. I couldn't get around the ER thing and was told I should just go there since I couldn't go anywhere else, and get checked out because sometimes anemia means there is internal bleeding.. Either that there has been internal bleeding, or the stores of iron have been lost and they cannot be replenished by iron-rich foods alone. It has to be treated.

So I'm sitting here. Waiting for my blood to be drawn. Totally not an emergency, but let it be said, I know this. I'm stuck with only one option.

But when this guy came in and then said, "Well, this is a nice place to rest" I raised an eyebrow.

I was asked if I am doing something, like working, which I need my energy for and I said, "I'm not working now but I've been looking for work and I have other things going on like litigation and need to have my strength for possible appeals to higher courts."

I have already decided, if I have to, I will keep appealing to get my son back, all the way to the Supreme Court. I found out today that the state has to pay for the first appeal but after that, a law firm has to take the case pro bono or be paid to go further.

I am going to do everything within my power to get my son back and I don't care how much time, energy, or money it takes. I've been the only person who has heard what he says repeatedly, that he wants to be with his mother, and who respects his wishes and tries to fight for the truth.

I had thought people would try to work with me at the Wenatchee level but I am preparing myself for a very long haul. And I am ready and willing to do it.

This woman who I talked to today said, now that she's in the 9th circuit, she thinks the Wenatchee or Chelan Judge wishes now that he'd taken a closer look at her case and she said she thinks he actually even feels sorry for her, or about it now. I said, "Do you think he feels sorry because he didn't have any idea? or sorry because he never thought it would get out and go very far and no one would be caught?" She said she didn't know.

She said she was forced to go to a psychological evaluation and they said she was "paranoid schitzophrenic", "Bipolar" and had "PTSD" too. I said to her, "But I'm talking to you and you sound so normal!" She said, that's what everyone says. I said, "Are you on medication now?" and she said no. I said, "You sound so NORMAL!" I wondered how in the world someone got away with diagnosing her with such incredulous things. Then one of her friends came along and said that as long as she'd known her, she sounded normal too.

I don't know. There was the weird stuff going on again, but I do have to say, this woman isn't half the things they diagnosed with. She just got trashed. I don't know if these psychologists really know what paranoid schitzophrenia or bipolar is or if they've seen enough cases to know what the difference is between normal and creative or different, and truly mentally ill. Her friend spoke up and said, "Yeah, schitzophrenia is an organic disorder that is corrected by certain salts and they didn't work on her because she doesn't have it and never did."

I asked how the case got started and she said they had been living in a poor looking house and she had turned in her landlord to the Better Business Bureau and he retaliated. She had a lot of evidence but it was all overlooked in court.

In my case, I've never had a lawyer even helping me to bring it to court so it could get filed. I kept telling my lawyer too, to appeal certain things and they just say there is only one appeal at the end. There are a LOT of things which can be done before "the end".

Anyway, this woman said after she's done with the custody suit, she's going to sue the state. I told her I'd like to hear more and put together an article about her case, to publish online or possibly with a paper that might be interested.

I've had a lot of people asking me to help them and telling me about their CPS case, but they're usually out of the area and I can't do anything unless they can email me and send me all the details or documents. But this woman lives nearby so I may be able to do something there.

One paper in this area said they'd carry my own story, about what I've gone through, personally, and then I thought it might be a good idea to write something for someone else too, and put it out to a larger audience.