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Jul. 16th, 2009 06:27 amit saddens me that I still can't post to dreamwidth from work. I don't think it works well with our browser (IE6) since nothing displays right, and you've basically got a big white screen and you're guessing where the 'post' button might be. I don't have the option of updating or downloading a new browser, so I'm kinda screwed there.
but yeah, I wrote this Tuesday night at a write-in, and I was going to post it yesterday at work. but that didn't work out. then I fell asleep last night. yay sleep! but that makes this kinda old. oh well. yesterday and today in this thing refer to Monday and Tuesday.
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getting very tired of playing phone tag with the doctor’s office.
so I hurt my foot somehow while I was at Origins. don’t know what I did or what’s wrong. just know it hurts and when it started hurting. and I hurt it bad enough that I went to the doctor the day after I got home. I’m not one who goes to the doctor much at all. but I called and scheduled an appointment for that Monday since I was already off work and it was hurting that bad. I couldn’t get it with my doctor until July 6th, and since it was June 29th, I really didn’t want to wait a week. so I accepted an appointment with another doctor in the office. though I wonder if I had waited for my real doctor, even though I would have been in pain for a week, if the rest of the mess would have been avoided.
long story short, we’ve been trading messages and test results back and forth. and the doctors’ office can’t seem to call the correct phone# for me. I told them I’m not allowed to have my cellphone at work, so they have to call my work phone until 3pm. after that they can call my home phone or cellphone. and yet they KEEP ON CALLING my home and cellphone during the day. it’s infuriating. because then I have to call them back and sit on hold forever and still not get any answers. because after sitting on hold I get the receptionist who takes my information and questions, and puts a note in the doctor’s box. then the doctor’s nurses call me back AT THE WRONG PHONE # the next day, and since I’m not there, they either hang up or leave a message for me to call back to get the answers to my questions (instead of just leaving them in the message). if they called my damn work # like I asked UMPTEEN TIMES, I’d actually be there to get the message in the 1st place. (and for the record, I have checked the box on my file saying they can leave messages about my health.)
yesterday was especially infuriating. last Friday I had gotten 2 different messages on my cellphone during work, saying that if I was still in pain to make another appointment. still in pain? why the hell would I still be calling and badgering them if I wasn’t? so I made an appointment for yesterday. I went straight to the doctor from work, only to find out the doctor had called in! and they had called my HOME PHONE while I was at work, wanting to reschedule! WTF!
so I demanded to see a doctor – any doctor – then. they gave me a doctor I hadn’t seen before, but hey, it was someone to listen. I got a new anti-inflammatory medicine, a new, expanded note for work (that will prevent a repeat of the horrible error of my being forced to work on the floor (not my regular job) last Saturday for 6 hours – not good, me limping around unloading semi trucks), and a promise that someone would call me today (presumably at the CORRECT phone #) to schedule an MRI.
of course, they didn’t call today. I called the office right before they closed, wanting to talk to someone about the MRI. my call got transferred to Scheduling, who told me very nicely and apologetically that they wished that nurses didn’t tell patients they would get a call the next day. that they have to make the appointments in the order they receive them, unless they are a rush and handed to them personally by the nurse. this is all perfectly understandable to me. only mine wasn’t given to them as a rush, despite the fact that my work is restricted pending the MRI appointment, and the Scheduling Lady said mine should have been a rush.
so since it was the end of the day, she said she would put my chart on the top of the stack. due to my insurance, she has to call them (the insurance) and get permission for me to get an MRI, then she will call me to schedule it.
here’s to hoping the insurance company says yes. I’m am SEVERELY SHORT on funds, and it’s only getting worse. and with me on desk duty at work, I’m not allowed to work overtime unless there is seated overtime work to do. so I might be missing out on the work this Saturday (I’m already missing out on the overtime during the week this week). and money would be a good thing. besides the umpteen other bills looming largely, and the roof which is going to give me a nervous breakdown, now the MRI will be between $600-$800.
at this rate I need a 2nd job.
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as an update, Scheduling Lady did call me (at the correct phone#!!) yesterday afternoon. I have an MRI for Friday night. yay!
but yeah, I wrote this Tuesday night at a write-in, and I was going to post it yesterday at work. but that didn't work out. then I fell asleep last night. yay sleep! but that makes this kinda old. oh well. yesterday and today in this thing refer to Monday and Tuesday.
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getting very tired of playing phone tag with the doctor’s office.
so I hurt my foot somehow while I was at Origins. don’t know what I did or what’s wrong. just know it hurts and when it started hurting. and I hurt it bad enough that I went to the doctor the day after I got home. I’m not one who goes to the doctor much at all. but I called and scheduled an appointment for that Monday since I was already off work and it was hurting that bad. I couldn’t get it with my doctor until July 6th, and since it was June 29th, I really didn’t want to wait a week. so I accepted an appointment with another doctor in the office. though I wonder if I had waited for my real doctor, even though I would have been in pain for a week, if the rest of the mess would have been avoided.
long story short, we’ve been trading messages and test results back and forth. and the doctors’ office can’t seem to call the correct phone# for me. I told them I’m not allowed to have my cellphone at work, so they have to call my work phone until 3pm. after that they can call my home phone or cellphone. and yet they KEEP ON CALLING my home and cellphone during the day. it’s infuriating. because then I have to call them back and sit on hold forever and still not get any answers. because after sitting on hold I get the receptionist who takes my information and questions, and puts a note in the doctor’s box. then the doctor’s nurses call me back AT THE WRONG PHONE # the next day, and since I’m not there, they either hang up or leave a message for me to call back to get the answers to my questions (instead of just leaving them in the message). if they called my damn work # like I asked UMPTEEN TIMES, I’d actually be there to get the message in the 1st place. (and for the record, I have checked the box on my file saying they can leave messages about my health.)
yesterday was especially infuriating. last Friday I had gotten 2 different messages on my cellphone during work, saying that if I was still in pain to make another appointment. still in pain? why the hell would I still be calling and badgering them if I wasn’t? so I made an appointment for yesterday. I went straight to the doctor from work, only to find out the doctor had called in! and they had called my HOME PHONE while I was at work, wanting to reschedule! WTF!
so I demanded to see a doctor – any doctor – then. they gave me a doctor I hadn’t seen before, but hey, it was someone to listen. I got a new anti-inflammatory medicine, a new, expanded note for work (that will prevent a repeat of the horrible error of my being forced to work on the floor (not my regular job) last Saturday for 6 hours – not good, me limping around unloading semi trucks), and a promise that someone would call me today (presumably at the CORRECT phone #) to schedule an MRI.
of course, they didn’t call today. I called the office right before they closed, wanting to talk to someone about the MRI. my call got transferred to Scheduling, who told me very nicely and apologetically that they wished that nurses didn’t tell patients they would get a call the next day. that they have to make the appointments in the order they receive them, unless they are a rush and handed to them personally by the nurse. this is all perfectly understandable to me. only mine wasn’t given to them as a rush, despite the fact that my work is restricted pending the MRI appointment, and the Scheduling Lady said mine should have been a rush.
so since it was the end of the day, she said she would put my chart on the top of the stack. due to my insurance, she has to call them (the insurance) and get permission for me to get an MRI, then she will call me to schedule it.
here’s to hoping the insurance company says yes. I’m am SEVERELY SHORT on funds, and it’s only getting worse. and with me on desk duty at work, I’m not allowed to work overtime unless there is seated overtime work to do. so I might be missing out on the work this Saturday (I’m already missing out on the overtime during the week this week). and money would be a good thing. besides the umpteen other bills looming largely, and the roof which is going to give me a nervous breakdown, now the MRI will be between $600-$800.
at this rate I need a 2nd job.
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as an update, Scheduling Lady did call me (at the correct phone#!!) yesterday afternoon. I have an MRI for Friday night. yay!
