Sunday, January 29, 2012
A little frustrated (Sorry, a bit of a rant)
Last week was a bit frustrating. After I left Bob and De's I went to Dr. B's for an appointment. I actually saw J instead of Dr. B. She put me on a ketogenic diet. But the frustrating thing is that I had blood work done for the appointment, but the lab assistant never turned the blood work over to be tested. So I didn't have the results needed for that appointment. Since I was going to see Dr. C the following morning I decided to ask Dr. B for the results to take to him, and since there was no blood work for Dr. B's appointment, I wouldn't have blood work for Dr. C either. Two wasted appointments. I was not happy. Dr. C was OK with it, but had me go to the lab at St. Joe's to get the needed blood work. While I was waiting for the lab assistant, I googled the ketogenic diet and found out that it can cause hyponatremia and prolong the QT interval. I had second thoughts about doing it, but it is only for one week. I'll bring it up to J when I go in on Tuesday. I called Dr B's office on Thursday hoping the lab results would be found, but the person who answered the phone didn't know anything about it and said that they probably wouldn't know anything until Saturday. If they didn't have the results then I'd need to go in to get the blood work done on Saturday and have another appointment on Tuesday. I had plans to go to a concert in Huntsville on Saturday and I had to give up on that. On Saturday morning I called Dr. B's again and was told that the results had been found, but the samples weren't run until the 26th, twelve days after the blood was drawn. All of my results were high because the blood waited around so long. I had to go get the blood redrawn. So because the lab assistant was incompetent I had two wasted appointments, two extra appointments to go over the blood results, two extra blood draws and I missed the concert. For all that, I got told "Sorry". Just frustrating. The lab should at least take me to lunch, but on the ketogenic diet I can't eat anything anyway. It has been a struggle to stay on the diet.
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3 comments:
I just found your blog (through the obvious channel of course :)). I am very pleased to hear you are a survivor. You have no idea actually, I love to hear/see the positive outcomes.
I am sorry to hear about your friend. All cancer is bad, but leukemia literally gives me nightmares. No joke, I dreamt my husband had ALL. Part of me wants to do a transplant fellowship just to fight leukemia, but I am not sure if I could emotionally survive it.
take care
I'm sorry you had such a run-around. It certainly shouldn't be that way. I hope you can quickly bounce out of the frustration it gave you.
this is a bum deal! I am not a fan of diets and I was put on the Mediterranean diet by dr because of my high blood pressure..it is ok but I am not liking it because I was told to! the red wine is not bad! hope you get to feeling better..and dr offices just need to get a clue we have life outside there office! smiles
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