The week ended with no news from either the plastic surgeon or my STL orthopod. I e-mailed my STL ortho dr. yesterday and asked him what his opinion was of a possible bone infection on the MRI, but I didn’t hear back from him.
I am having major second thoughts as to whether or not I’m working with the right plastic surgeon. He isn’t doing anything wrong w/patient care or being cautious, but communication is sorely lacking. I cannot speak to a human when I call his office and always have to leave a message …. this is annoying to say the least.
I realize that my case may be challenging, but to go 2+ weeks after an MRI and not have an accurate reading is starting to border on unacceptable. My Chicago dr. always told me that as the patient, I should always feel in control of the medical situation and if I don’t, then something is wrong …. I’m not in control of much at the moment. Unfortunately, it is not like there are other easy options out there for other physician opinions.
My biggest concern is that w/every few passing days, the open areas get deeper/larger. I know from past experience that if the area is too deep, skin grafting no longer becomes an option. This is the problem that I had before that led us to San Antonio …… this definitely cannot happen again. I have kids at work in 4 weeks & on the first day there are 140 kids, which is over our maximum by 20 kids … timing is not working in my favor.
I had 5-6 things this week that I had to say “no” to doing (Make-A-Wish assignments, holiday musical, date stuff) because I don’t know what will happen w/the next several months …. Life on “hold” is not a fun place to be & we haven’t even started the recovery weeks yet, which is usually the hardest part.
Someone at my office today joked w/me that what I'm experiencing would be what it could/would be like if we had national health care (waiting, waiting & more waiting) .... sad to say, but they are probably right.
Enough rambling ….. God is still in control & His plan is perfect. I am not required to have it all figured out, but will be happy when there is a plan! Tonight I planted fall mums at my house and took out some frustation digging. Hanging in there …. I’ll make it. Off for mint chocolate chip ice-cream ….
Happy holiday weekend to you!
je
2 comments:
Jenny, I cannot say that I blame you to say the least. It is very non professional not to have an answer after two weeks as they can almost read them immediatly. I believe it is in the code of ethics to communicate with the patient. I guess you will have to be calm until Tuesday and then get aggresive. Try to stay busy over the weekend hopefully it will go by fast for you. Praying and thinking of you. Ted,Carol,Teddy
I'm surprised that your Chicago doctor would so blithely say that she thinks that the patient should always feel in control b/c I RARELY have felt that in a doctor-patient relationship. I feel that is more of a rarity than a normal, unfortunately. Especially b/c it shouldn't be that way! Is there any way you can camp OUT in his office like 1/2 hr b4 closing one of these afternoons and tell the receptionist that you are staying until he speaks w/ you b/c, apparently, messages do not WORK, and your wounds are getting to the not-able-to-close stage? Parking your happy butt (or not-so-happy-butt) in a waiting room chair and perusing People for, like, an hour (plus) may get the message across. Praying 4 U. PS: hope the mint chip ice cream fix helped...if it didn't...try chocolate and peanut butter. L Jo
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