I was suppose to call this month when I started my period
because I have to start a 3-month series of the Lupron Depot injections before
my surgery. So Tuesday morning I called
and left a message on Michelle's VM.
She's the surgery scheduler and the one I had been talking to the
most. I told her I started my period and
then asked what date she scheduled my surgery for. Last time I talked to her it was either going
to be Nov. 21 at the Women's Hospital or Nov. 26 at St. Mary's. She said when she found out, she would
call. I never heard back from them on my
call Tuesday so I thought I would call them again today, because I knew there
was a window of time that I needed to have the injection.
Well Kristy (the receptionist) answered the phone and she's
always so busy sounding and is always putting me on hold because the phones are
ringing...no big deal, I understand. I
told her I needed to talk to either Michelle or the nurse. That's when she told
me Michelle didn't work there anymore. I
told her that I left her a VM and what I needed. She put me on hold to get my chart. I was on hold forever. I'm thinking she must of forgot about me
cause when the phone rang back she answered it normal. I'm like...it's still Stacey. She apologized and said they were swamped and
they had 10 transfers just today. I'm
thinking....get your current patients pregnant before taking on any new
patients, but whatever! She says shes
going to get my chart and puts me on hold.
Again forever. This time Tera,
the nurse answers the phone.
So I have to tell her what's going on and she's like your
surgery isn't scheduled yet, I don't
know why Michelle told you that. We
don't schedule surgeries that far in advance and that they only schedule them a
month ahead cause they do so many. Fine
whatever, I tell her I prefer the Women's Hospital over St. Mary's and she
said, well we don't do surgeries at the Women's Hospital. I said apparently you did cause that's where
I had my first one at. She said maybe we
used to but we don't anymore and she gave me some excuse. Fine whatever, just schedule it and let me
know when it is so I can get my work schedule figured out. Then she wants me to either come in tomorrow
or Monday at the latest to get my injection.
Tomorrow they are they from 8-noon.
Great I get off at noon, that's not going to work. So she wants me to
come in Monday. I told her I already
have plans on Monday to go to Holiday World and I'll have Gavin with me. She said well can’t you come in beforehand? I would prefer not to. So I'm like fine, I'll come in in the morning
on my way to work and get it. So I'm
like well do you need to call the injection in or will the pharmacy still have
it (they had already called it in once when I thought I was having my surgery
this month, but I pushed it back a couple months)? She said they should still have it. Fine, I'll pick it up tonight and come in in
the morning.
So I call the pharmacy.
Of course they don't have the injection anymore and won't get it in
until tomorrow sometime after 12 noon.
Ugh! Beautiful. So now I have to pick the injection up
tomorrow on my way home from work, and then Monday morning before Gavin and I
go to Holiday World, I have to run into Evansville and drag him with me. Not that I mind taking him with me. It's just aggravating that they should of
called me back Tuesday so we wouldn't have to wait until the last day to get
the shot.
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