Top 3 Times I’ve Needed a Walgreens Healthcare Clinic Indianapolis

Posted on March 11, 2014August 3, 2017 by Matt Todd

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Access to quality healthcare is important. Doctor’s offices, however, aren’t always open when you need access to healthcare. Fortunately, there’s Walgreens Healthcare Clinic Indianapolis. Here’s how they have been and will continue to be a great service to our family as we continue to pursue access to quality and convenient healthcare:

1. Flu mist

We really aren’t big fans of needles in our home. I don’t mind getting a shot. But when you’re going to take something out of my body? That’s when my face gets pale and I start to hyperventilate. I was even like that when they had to lance an infection in my finger. I knew that this would help me. But even then, the room started to spin and I almost passed out. Sorry. Is that TMI?

Aiden, however, does not like shots. He never has. There was one time when he was a wee little lad (maybe five or six years old) and he hid under a table and then kicked the nurses who were trying to hold him. I think there was a grand total of four people holding on to him so he could have his shot. The struggle was exhausting for everyone involved.

While he doesn’t run away from shots anymore, he still gets worked up over them. I’m always a little concerned that he’ll go into fight or flight mode when we bring him into the doctor’s office for a flu shot. He’s 100+ pounds of bone and muscle. I don’t want to try to hold him down so they can give him his shot. I don’t think anyone else does, either. So when it comes time for flu vaccinations each year, we do whatever we can to make sure he gets the mist. Why put everyone through all that trouble when a simple alternative is available?

We scheduled an appointment at the doctor’s office for the annual flu mist ritual. When we scheduled the appointment, they had flu mist available. When we got there, the flu mist was no longer available. This, friends, was not OK. We left the office without a vaccination because I had promised him that he was not getting a shot.

Walgreens Healthcare Clinic Indianapolis to the rescue!

I must admit that I was pretty frustrated when I came home. If the doctor’s office was out of the mist (even though they said they had it) and I had promised him that he wasn’t going to get a shot. How were we going to get out of this mess? Aiden’s not so small anymore. It pretty much takes a whole football team to keep him down.

Fortunately, Christy had the calmer head and called Walgreens Healthcare Clinic. They still had the flu mist available and they could see Aiden that very evening! And since we have a clinic right around the corner from us, it was amazingly easy to swing over there, check in, and get Aiden’s nostrils flu-misted. We were home within the hour.

Walgreens Healthcare Clinic Indianapolis was super-close and super-convenient. The healthcare professional was nice. And insurance paid for it, too! That’s pretty super!

2. Physicals

As part of all the paper chase in our upcoming adoption, I have to have a physical. Since I’m usually at work when most doctors’ offices are open, I wasn’t exactly looking forward to having to schedule a physical. I was happy to learn that Walgreens Healthcare Clinic Indianapolis provides physicals in a convenient location at a convenient price. Now I don’t have to spend my day off in the doctor’s waiting room. I can get in, see the healthcare professional, and get out, so I get on to doing everything else that needs to be done when I’m not in the office.

3. Travel vaccinations

The last time we flew to Ethiopia, I had to drive two hours round-trip to meet with a doctor who would provide a travel-related health consultation for me.

Sooner or later, we plan on traveling to Ethiopia again. Hopefully, it’ll be much sooner than later. And when that happens, I’m going to need to see a healthcare provider about the trip. I need to find out which vaccines will need to be updated. I’d also like to do whatever possible to make sure we don’t get malaria while we’re there.

You have no idea how happy it makes me that I won’t have to drive all over Indianapolis to talk to a healthcare provider at a travel clinic! I can just hop on down the street to our neighborhood Walgreens Healthcare Clinic!

Thank you, Wallgreens Healthcare Clinic Indianapolis for helping our family stay healthy!

What times have YOU used a Walgreens Healthcare Clinic?

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Matt Todd

Howdy. I'm Matt. My wife, Christy, and I have four kids and two dogs, I'm passionate about orphan care. I'm a die-hard fan of the Evansville Aces, the Indiana Hoosiers, and Star Wars. I'm trying to live life by the Todd family motto: "It behooves us to live!"