Testing, Testing, 456
I’m not trying to turn this into a hospital blog or something (well, WTF not, it’s not like I have some other theme), but we went for another visit to see my mother tonight.
She was really out of it and not in a sleeping way tonight. She didn’t know who I was, thought that I might be one of her sisters, and, in general, kept saying all kinds of strange things about potato picking, or school (she used to be a Principal), or just staring at the woman in the bed beside her; which must have been really strange for that woman.
I heard today that the specialist said she was living on borrowed time and that may be so – there was no euchre playing going on, that’s for sure.
In other news, I went for those respirology tests this morning at 8:00 (I was in to work by 9:30). They told me that I’d probably hear back about the results in a week or so from the doctor.
The funny thing though, is that my cell phone rang as I was driving home. No, I’m not one of those idiots with a cell phone glued to my ear as I’m driving, I have the little stand for the phone and I only have to open it and press speaker phone and I can have the hands-free conversation.
So it was the doctor’s office calling me to tell me that they had my test results (so soon!?) and that she was calling me to set up an appointment.
I asked her to call me back at the office tomorrow since I was driving right then and couldn’t write anything down.
She said, “well, why don’t you phone me in the morning?”. I said, “I probably won’t remember to do that, so why don’t you just give me a call at the office, the number is…. “.
So she said fine and in ending the call, she said “I hope that I remember to call you”, whereupon I laughed and said I hoped so too.
Ha ha ha. Wasn’t that funny. Was she trying to be funny? I didn’t find it funny. I found myself thinking, ‘hey! isn’t it your job to call me about this? not my job to call in and set something up is it?’
So I don’t know if she was “perturbed” at the thought that she’d have to call me again or whether she thought she was being amusing. Cuz, Lord knows, when I told her I wouldn’t remember to call, I meant it. I wouldn’t. I’m pretty damned busy at work, and the thought of all the shit going on with my mother. The farthest thing from my mind is who else I have to call.
So I guess we’ll find out if I get a call tomorrow to set up yet another appointment. It’ll really bug me if I go there for an appointment, only for the doctor to tell me I’m just fine and dandy, only for the sake of billing for another appointment rather than just telling me on the phone.
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Comments
Hmmm…. forgets to ring doctor, could be oldtimers disease.
I used to forget to do things like that, now I just forget …. what was I talking about?
Trust me she wasn’t being funny. My father has various aliments and even though he has told the staff and the doctor that anything they have to say to him they can say to me.
The doctor and his staff still insist that he calls, only to tell him everything is alright. Apparently they all think that you have nothing to do all day, except to deal with there various crap.
Lazy f@cking bastards! I hope everything is ok and the extra tests are just them trying to milk the system.
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Maria
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Female, taken, fire, Sagittarius, Monkey, Toronto, two kids, one grandson, IT.
55
is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
Well, hopefully ther will be nothing wrong, J.!
But I know what you mean about paying money to be told nothing’s wrong.
(BTW, the Receptionist sounds like an asshile!
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