Now that is frustrating

I am going to rant... so be warned.


We are still trying to deal with Justin and this cough he gets every year. He gets it and it doesn't go away. He has had a cough all the way through summer before... and it started in the fall.
So like good parents, we bring him to the doctor to try and figure out WHAT it is. Before we lived where we live now, we were told it was a sinus infection. Since then, we've been told a various amount of different things that are making him cough: Walking pneumonia. More sinus infections. A virus. An allergy to maple trees. He just needs to blow his nose more often, instead of sucking it back up into his brains. He's just prone to having a lingering cough.

So this year, when he started coughing up stuff that I won't go into detail about, I brought him back in. Walked out with a case of Walking pneumonia. His cough lingered... so I brought him back in. This time it was the beginning of a new virus, or something like that.

We have never been given a real diagnosis of WHY he coughs like this. The closest thing to any testing has been an allergy blood test. (That's when we found out he was allergic to maple trees). So after that, he has continued to cough. Then a few weeks into this latest saga, add random vomiting for a couple of weeks. It wasn't the flu. It was nothing like that. Brought him in again... left with a nose mist spray, but no explanation. How do I explain that to a kindergartner who is excited to tell me that, "Mom, I only threw-up once at school today!"

Any way, it seemed to help, but now the cough is back, so we just called in and got a refill for the nose spray, along with instructions to use the nebulizer  again. Oh- and by the way, he WAS diagnosed with asthma back in 2009. ?!?!??!!*%()#*$()#.... that would have been nice to know TWO AND A HALF freaking years ago. What. the. hell. ???? Well, guess what? The neb. medicine had expired, so I called to get a refill of that now, too. What did I get??
Attitude. He needs to be seen if you think he is needing that again. He needs to be seen every 6 months for a med check. Well... La Ti Da. This is a whole lot of information that would have been better had I KNOWN he had asthma. And why would they have told us to use it again as of yesterday, but today when I need to get new stuff that isn't expired, do they give me attitude and make us spend more money to go in...again... for a med check on medicine he hasn't been taking??? ARRRRGGGGHHHHHH. How can one day, someone on the nurseline is helpful and friendly, and the next day they are contradicting the day before and are snarky and short with you?

I am beyond frustrated. All I want is to know WHY and WHAT exactly is causing his cough. Without the confusion and mis-communications. Maybe an x-ray of his lungs, maybe something better than a guess. Something... you know, scientific??? You just don't mess around and blow off a little kid with a chronic cough. Right? Or do you? I sure don't. I think that maybe, I will be trying to find a second opinion really really soon... you know, so our little *almost* 6 year old can go one whole day without coughing.