Strike two

Apr 01, 2014

I had a surgeon appointment today, booked for 2:20 pm.  Because I am a freak I was there at 2:00pm and the waiting room was packed, not a seat to be had.  I found out that the 1:00pm appointment hadn't even gone in yet.  Finally after 2 hrs a resident came to get me.  I assumed I would meet with him first then see the doctor.  Wrong.  As nice as this person was I was not 100% comfortable with him.  I asked questions that he didn't know the answer to and he had to leave the room to ask the doctor.  I signed my consent papers which I guess was the goal of this appointment, but I feel completely lost.

He wasn't entirely clear on what happens next.  I had to ask for the optifast prescription and he thought I could just get scheduled right away.  Wrong.  I will get a call when they have booked it.  They don't know who the surgeon will be, it's whoever has time available first.  Which is fine I think they are all good doctors.  I took my script to the pharmacy at St. Joes and it was CLOSED.  Annual inventory.  Great.

Frustrated, again, I came home.  As I drove home I felt like just a number for the first time during this whole prices.  An assembly line of patients on a conveyor belt going through the steps.  It shouldn't matter, they don't owe me any special treatment or personalized care but boy would that be nice.  It finally felt like they were just trying to push everyone through and unclog the backlog.  I was a bit sad and even questioned this entire process and if it was right for me.  

I have no idea when my date is, I have no idea when to start the opti I now have to drive back to Hamilton to get because my pharmacy tells me they can't get it, I feel uneasy about meeting the surgeon the day of, I'm lost on what to eat or drink right after surgery.  I have no idea how I get a doctors note about being off work, do I do it through my family doctor?  Ugh.  Questions I thought I would get answers to on my second attempt to see the surgeon.  Wrong.

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