We went to get our medicals updated for the 3rd time just in case our paperwork runs out before we travel. Our original doctor moved to North Carolina last year so this meant we needed to get the whole thing done again, not just an update. So we did our lab work last Thursday with a follow up scheduled yesterday to finish it up and lab work would be back. Needless to say, nothing is ever easy...
Got to the doctor's at 8:15AM. Got in there and they were going to have us meet with the NP, not the MD. I specifically asked to meet with the MD when I set this up, but they had changed his schedule the day before. They never called us. I don't really think they fully understood what we were doing, and why, and why it had to be the doctor, and why our labs had to be back etc., etc. We told them, and explained it all, the past 3 years, and that this was our 3rd time through all of this. So they called and asked and found out he was in Carthage, they ask, "Can you travel to Carthage"? Plus, our labs weren't all back yet, and they tried to tell us they wouldn't be back for at least another week-WRONG!!! They called the lab and they were done and the lab faxed the rest of the tests to the office-(don't mess with us, we've been through this before!!) We explained this had to be done today, that's what we said when we called the week prior, thats why we were there!
So we travel to Carthage, all lab work in hand. We get there, "Dr. J isn't here, can you go to our other office (you've got to be kidding me...right?) Dr. Shaw will do everything for you!". Okay we say, where is this office, they tell us, and we get there. We get out of the car and I look at Gary and say, "Third times the charm! Well of course, this is the 3rd doctor's office, why would we expect anything else?"...
It ended up our 1st doctor was in the ER, himself, something was wrong that's all they would say. We'd never met him, this was to be the first time. So we went and saw Dr. Shaw instead. Dr. Shaw was great! We liked him a lot, and that office was great, very helpful, and understanding.
It took 3 doctor's offices to do the 3rd update. It took exactly 3 hours longer than expected. We had to travel about 30 miles out of our way to get this done. Are you seeing a pattern?
We can appreciate the 3's but enough already!! I'm wondering if we are going to have to wait 3 weeks to hear anything? I hope not!! (It's been 2 weeks right now, but actually 3 weeks if you know the whole story).
A thank you to Darby at the clinic though, she really went above and beyond for us yesterday to get us to a doctor, and even followed up by calling us at home later in the afternoon to make sure we got in and everything was done. We appreciated that a lot!!
The number 3, who would have thought it would affect our lives so much and so often!
