I wish this worked for me sunkacola
I usually get a persistent NO or an OK... I will pass that on to...
Which ends up getting nowhere!
Maybe it's where I live, maybe it's me, maybe it's the world we now live in ... I'm not sure. (probably a mixture) But getting what you need sadly just seems to be getting harder.
I always got lots of NOs too.
I also hate the asking repeatedly and also have a very hard time doing it. But you do what you have to do.
Don't get me wrong - I can also squeak louder when I need to
This is a time when you need to, because your health and your quality of life are at stake.
It is VERY HARD, and we shouldn't have to do it at all - healthcare should be available to everyone!
What I always have done and still do is every time I get another NO I thank the person for their time and ask them if they can think of any place at all where I might request what I am looking for. Usually they will give me another place to call. I call them and they give me another place to call. And I just keep going. Like I said, it takes energy but I simply refuse to stop trying until I get an answer I like better than NO.
An example: I had a companion animal who was my soul mate. Medication and supplies for a condition that he had were more than I could possibly afford at the vet. (online was not any better ). So I started calling. Every single pharmacy in the nearby city. Every single vet office, and so on. It took
weeks. But eventually I found out that I could get this part here and that part over there and it was all completely affordable. But without
all those phone calls, I never could possibly have found the most important business in town that saved me the most money, because it was an obscure business and not a place that advertised or was even in phone listings.
I agree that it is probably harder these days because everything is; my story was 12 years ago. But put into the same position or a similar one for my own medications or supplies or seeing a doctor, or for one of my animals, I would do all the same.
All I am saying is that it
can really pay off to be persistent in the face of a dozen NOs. The 13th one or the 20th one may say yes.
If you are in the USA you can find a clinic somewhere not too far away where you can see a doctor if you keep looking.
Or if you are rural, there may be a travelling doctor. Or you may be able to see someone remotely, which is pretty common these days.