No progress yet w/appointments ..... I called lots of offices today and everyone is booked out several months. The joke for today was one office that I called told me that they I can make an appointment for a new patient on the 2nd Tuesday of each month (this is just to schedule, not the appointment itself)! I about lost it with the lady on the phone .... guess they have that many patients that they can be selective. Another office wanted me to fax all my records and then a board would review my case before scheduling ...... I don't have time for any of that!
If my STL surgeon doesn't get back to me by noon tomorrow, I am supposed to call him. He is willing to do a referral if he knows the neurologist (which is what I'm waiting to hear on tomorrow). He is in surgery all day tomorrow, so I'm not sure if he will do anything on this on Tuesday & he leaves on a trip on Thursday. I've heard nothing back from Chicago on a possible referral.
Still doing some other checking on my own and a relative is making another possible contact in the Chicago area .... it is a slow process. At the rate I'm going, I'll be lucky to have an appt. scheduled by the end of the week. I think the Botox shot is out. Finding a neurologist that has seen foot problems in other patients is the kicker - this isn't your "normal" neuro problem - it is nothing like Parkinson's, Lupus, MS, etc.
I'm going to ask the STL dr. tomorrow about pain, just to make sure that nothing has torn or come a part inside the foot .... the pain level is quite high for a tendon problem. There is more pain now than I remember having in November.
I'm trying to hold all of this together and do this around work. I have very little time to make phone calls or send e-mails, faxes this week, but I'm trying to get it all done. I told my staff today that if I'm in the middle of speaking to 100 kids and a dr. calls me back on my cell phone, that someone has to come and take my microphone and finish the speech. Thankfully, I have a good staff! I have kids all day Tuesday through Friday this week and evening meetings tonight, Tues. & Wed. - it is too much w/a good foot.
Hanging in there and trying to be patient. Thanks for praying!
Jenny
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Thanks for the update, Jen. Mike and I have been praying. Isaac prayed for you yesterday PM at bedtime, too, though he prayed for "mommy's friend who has a hurt finger..." Wrong appendage, but he's 5, and his heart is in the right place! It makes me want to go "camp out" in one of your doctors' office FOR you until somebody sits up and takes notice! Hel-LO...the girl needs H-E-L-P here! Hugs! L Jo
Thinking about you again & just wanted you to know. L Jo
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