1schlmrm
Patience
Jun 11, 2010
So I was supposed to hear from my surgeon's office this week about scheduling a date for my surgery. I waited all day Monday...no phone call. On Tuesday I carried my cell phone wherever I went, but still somehow I missed a phone call from thier office while I was at recess. I spent the next 30 minutes getting all excited thinking this was the phone call I had been waiting for...NOPE! It took forever to get an actual "human being" on the phone to take my call. (I HATE AUTOMATED PHONE SERVICES!!!!!) When I finally got to talk to someone, they transferred me to the nurse. The nurse wanted to talk to me about the bloodwork I had done. When she started in about the H. pylori infection in my blood, I stopped her and said I already knew about it and I had been on the antibiotics for almost a week. "Oh, well, then nevermind." AHHHHHHHHHHH! I asked her if the infection would cause me not to be able to schedule my surgry in the near future, and she said no. So, once again I waited with cell phone in hand everyday. Finally today I called the surgery scheduler, but couldn't actually talk to anyone so I left a message. I went out to dinner with two friends from work, and while I was there I missed to phone calls, both from the surgery scheduler. She said that she had gotten my message, and was looking over my test results. She then said that everything looked good and that I was already taking care of the H. pylori infection. Then she said she was still waiting on the results of my PAP smear and mammogram. I knew that couldn't be right because my GYN had sent over the results of my PAP smear almost a month ago, and by VA state law mammogram results must be given within 2 weeks, which it had been. While the scheduler was leaving her message on my phone she discovered that both my PAP smear and mammogram results were already in my file. Should I be concerned with the lack of follow-through with this office so far? Whatever! To make a long story short, the scheduler is going to call me on Monday to give me a date for my surgery. Maybe I'll get lucky and get that for my birthday this year. It's on July 5, and would make a great present and new "birthday" of sorts. BTW ONLY 5 MORE DAYS OF SCHOOL!!!!!!
