Dr. visit

Sitting there in the waiting room, the nurse comes in and asks Trevor what is wrong with him. He looks at me with a bit of alarm and isn't saying anything. Then he says to me, 'what do I say?'. Um. Trevor. We're here for something wrong. Tell the nurse what you've been feeling. He thinks another couple moments. 'I have a sore throat'. What??? I ask him, your throat is sore? Yes, when I cough. The nurse asks if he's been coughing. Trevor says, yes a little. I'm about levitating off my seat. A LITTLE? Listen my dear little son, you've kept two conventions up at night with your coughing and gasping to the point of wretch. So then he says, 'can you tell her?'. Ok, but tell me if I'm not saying something right. We get all the pertinent details out and wait maybe one more minute and in walks Dr. V. I've never met her. She asks some of the symptoms and makes nice small talk. I'm a bit nervous. I'm thinking Trevor is acting pretty good. I don't hear the chest wheeze and rattle. What if she thinks I'm a hypochondriac and bring my kid in for any little thing (which if you know me is utterly untrue). She pulls out her stethoscope. Listens to the heart and then has him do the deep breathing. Again, I think I hear nothing. She listens to about six spots, calmly takes it out of her ears and then looks straight at me and says, 'he has an unbelievable amount of wheezing and rattling in his lungs'. Why didn't you bring him in sooner? I look at my feet and quietly say, 'I didn't think it was too serious'. She says sternly, 'breathing is a good thing and he hasn't been breathing very well'. I just muttered 'oh'. Then she says, 'how long has he been congested?'. Oh about six years. SIX YEARS? YOU'VE LIVED WITH NASAL CONGESTION FOR SIX YEARS? (Again barely a whisper) yes... Then she told me it was a very good thing I brought him in. He has a terrific case of allergies/asthma. The pneumonia seems to be gone. So he's on about four different medications to get this under control - some oral and some through respirators. She did give me a nice big shopping bag of samples to use. So that was nice. Maybe she felt guilty for the stern lecture. Maybe she felt pity for me since I said we have a super-high deductible and it would all be out of pocket. Or maybe the closet was simply full of samples. Nonetheless, we came home with our goods and the coughing is subsiding. We're to have a follow-up at the end of next week and also she highly recommended me taking him to an allergist. She repeated it three times. I think she thinks I'm either stubborn, a tight wad, or a nut case. She wished us well to have a nice day!