Call Before You Come - Part Deux

[chessiegirl]

In the continuing saga of trying to get my 15 year old daughter's medical problems taken care of, the lab results for the fasting insulin came in and the doctor herself called me last week. She informs me that Loopy Lynn's blood insulin level is "highly elevated" and then mentioned "pre-diabetic condition" and a host of other things. I was not

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[number1son]

Good Heavens! It appears to me that you don't need money, intelligence or good looks to get through your health system, but you do need a sense of humour!

How did it go?

How did it go

[chessiegirl]

Finally got the appointment but it's not until April so I have plenty of time to prepare myself for more confusion and frustration.

[jigsawpig]

It is the sole task of receptionists to prevent people from seeing the person they are actually trying to see, and selfishly bothering them with their personal problems. This is a WKF, and applies to all receptionists, in all types of business. Although doctors' receptionists may occasionally fail in respect of this goal, they do try to ensure that in the event you actually get to be seen, you are sufficiently irritated and depressed as to definitely be in need of professional medical help, even if you weren't when you arrived.

Well Known Fact

[chessiegirl]

Now that you mention it, I remember calling a receptionist once to see if a medication that my daughter was taking was making her see double. "Oh no", said the receptionist, "There is no way that medication would ever do that, we've never had any report of that, it's perfectly safe."

This led to a round of visits to the medical doctor, an eye doctor, a specialist eye doctor who upon examining her sent her immediately to the ER where she endured a spinal tap (to see if she had Multiple Sclerosis), a Cat Scan (for possible brain tumor)and finally seeing the top neuro doctor there who declared her new medication had done this to her. Rare but not unknown.

I was not so much upset with the receptionist for not knowing; after all, it was a rare reaction, but I was upset with her for not referring the question to the doctor when she obviously didn't know what she was talking about.

My point? Sometimes receptionists think THEY ARE THE DOCTOR, lol.

Re: Well Known Fact

[jigsawpig]

Ugh, Doris at work was told by a receptionist over the phone the results of her heart tests, along with the line "You'll need surgery, but most people who have it don't really ever recover". Which was rubbish, but meant Doris was in a state for a week until she could see the doctor.

I'm taking a very lacksadascial approach to my condition now, since it's become apparent I'm not ever going to be TOLD anything, and if I'm doing all the finding out myself, I really only need a script every 5 repeats.