#3-Jan. 3rd

And another reason that Minot AFB kills moral…

So Dan has had a fever and been sick for three days now.  He called to get an appointment so he can get put on quarters (for those who don’t know this is how the military “call in sick” to work~Dr. visit required.)  He was informed that the clinic on base doesn’t have appointments for that and he would have to get seen downtown or wait until the next available appointment on base on the 10th!!!   Really, waiting for seven days with a constant fever over 100 degrees is a good idea?!?!?

One of the issues with this is that for him to even go downtown to a doctor he has to go to work to get paperwork since he is on PRP.  So Dan, with a fever of 102 degrees (this is even while on Tylenol and Motrin) had to go into work to get paperwork before even heading downtown.  But that still doesn’t even get him out of having to report to work tomorrow!  The base nurse he talked to just said to him. “Well you are a captain, so can’t you just call in and tell them you are sick, so you aren’t coming in.”  {Agh, are you kidding me, so the airmen who are sick just get to suffer being sick at work because they aren’t high enough in rank.  Um, no, the Air Force doesn’t work that way and it shouldn’t!}

So then, he got to go sit for almost THREE HOURS at the base clinic to wait to get “squeezed in” between appointments to get put on quarters.   Talk about a pain in the rear!  This is followed up by finding out that the clinic on base doesn’t even carry his prescriptions and we have to go back downtown to get them filled.

Seriously, I am beyond disgusted with the lack of care for the military members at this clinic!!!!  I just don’t see how they can’t have same day appointments for the guys who need to get put on quarters when they are sick!  We left the house at a little after 10am and I didn’t get Dan back home to rest until after 4:30pm!!!  So disgusted!  I swear people get sent to this base just to realize how good they truly had it at previous bases!!!