@TrollDragon , I'm sorry about your dad. Hoping you are hanging in there.
I'm buying (if I
buy anything RAWWWGH!!! LOL) from US sites until this all gets straightened out. I am home, and I am Not Dead Yet, at least I don't think so. I feel pretty crappy but at least I'm not at work.
BEWARE, medical rant follows:
I did go see the adult side of my clinic... .It sort of... Well, I'm going to be finding somewhere else probably. They didn't do a good job at all. Anything that ends with me TRYING to stay polite but having to say, "Look. The right answer for ME about the blood draw you just did and the doctor said would be read TONIGHT only she was wrong, and she left, and the lab closed... I need the answer that is TRUE, not the answer that you think will appease me. If you have made a bunch of mistakes, I can understand that, but I really need the answer that is VALID, not what you think will make me leave, okay? If it's Friday, I need to vigilant until FRIDAY and to not expect anything TONIGHT so I know to be careful. Do not tell me you do not know. You DO know. I am WATCHING you refrigerate my blood in a vial next to a whole bunch of emptiness. Tell the truth, because I can see for myself they have been and gone."
This was after them telling me "CBC needed" listed in my patient plan was "like an order you can go to any hospital."
I just replied, "No, I'm sorry, I'm a social worker. I know that I actually can't. I really do know that, I cannot take some random paper that gives me discharge instructions and get a lab ANYWHERE at all." Like 20 times. Then they offered to print me off some actual lab order which I was like, "Okay." Only some pseudo helpful person still there said she could draw my blood and she did... Only to tell me it would sit in the fridge until Friday afternoon when I was like, "So the doc said that would be read tonight and that is correct?"
Had I not been at "work" sorta I would have grabbed that vial, and been like "I'm gonna keep it on ice and find a way to like, get it tested. Because I can't SPARE anymore blood, I am bleeding and that was the whole point of this DRAW to see if I'm dying yet."
My doctor was like, 12. She wasn't very smart . She told me I was going to have to take hormonal birth control AS she was busy doing swabs and telling me it could be an infection and she was referring me to OBGYN. I was like, "Why would you say that to me, you don't even know what it is, and I am NEVER going to do that, did you even read my medication or dx list? Because I cannot take hormones for a TON of reasons, including the fact that they make me suicidal and INCLUDING the fact that you have not diagnosed me yet." I think she thought she was like, making fun or deep conversation or something. I kinda wanted to smack her.
Oh well, they are now my PCP of record and like, unless I want to spend a billion dollars on like, Medicare plus the hospital and ALL that money, this is the only way I can fix this. I just freaking drove home and ate an extremely iron rich dinner. I'm still alive this morning. Sigh.
I am getting an OBGYN referral "in 14 days" and whatnot. What that team doesn't know is that I will be attacking the referral "team" on like, Monday with the ferocity of a bear in a foot trap, because like, I'M SORRY I am NOT waiting 2 weeks for a freaking referral it's unnecessary and granted my like, docs in Tucson were good, but they did referrals while you waited. SIgh. Oh well, such is life. It makes me glad to be on the pedes side because like, they docs there are mostly smart. I am sure some of the adult ones are, too, but like, mine was not one of them. I am going to make discovery of the smart ones and stick to THEM. I am also kind of... Well, I'm not going to complain because I am an employee. If I were not an employee I would have written them the most scathing "How did we do" card they have gotten yet. I might have needed 20 cards to do it with, but I know how to number stuff. LOL.
Anna
Anna
