The last straw

I am currently pregnant. I have to say this time around I am going crazy. I have all ready switched my Dr 3 times do to scheduling conflicts, horrible waiting times and now just shity ass service.

My first Dr Visit to a Dr in the Old Farm Gyno and Obstetris was rotten. The Dr seemed nice enough but it took them until 45 mins after my appointed time to get me out of the waiting room and into the Dr's office. Where I waited another 15 mins before the doc even came in to talk to me. He then moved me to the little room where the actual exam takes place.

Now normally papsmears are uncompfortable for me any how, this was way uncomfy and I didn't realize why untill I got home. He didn't have a nurse in the room when he performed the pap. Odd.

So I decide that it's ok and I will just set another appt. I was refered to him by a pretty reliable source and maybe I just feel off because I've never had a male OB. The next appt is set up six weeks later. I walk away with a perscription of Clomid and am told "Good luck!" Thank you and on my way.

I find out I'm pregnant! It all worked great. So I call to set my 8/10 week appt. They have nothing available until I am 10.5 weeks along. I'm all read 4 weeks but that seems ok, I guess. Getting closer to the appt date I realize I can't get the time off to go to my appt. So I call to re-schedule and there is nothing more available and I will have to wait untill I am 14 weeks to get in. The office schedule and my work schedule just don't mesh so I wonder off to find another Dr.

Another Dr's office sets me up to come in when I am 9 weeks along but again the office hours just suck and I can't get the time off. Finaly I find one that is just up the street from my work and they seem to be an in-network facility, so my insurance is accepted. I set an appt to see Dr Ostriech. I get to the office, now being 10 weeks and 4 days along. I am told that the Dr I am set up with has not transfered to the office yet but I can see Dr Sasanka. I hate change and unexpected surprises.

I sit and wait. My DH comes with me since it's the first appt and he is very excited. We might get to see the baby via U/S. While waiting the office is filled with many, no, all Mexican's and one Indian. Then there is me. I'm trying to be a good person and I ignore this. Even though everyone that works the front desk speaks primarily Spanish and I felt like I was inconveniencing them to speak English to me. DH mentions that he feels like we are sitting at the free clinic. Hey! Maybe we are. I no they accept any insurance and no insurance. What can we expect?

So I get in to see the nurse. We go thru everything with the nurse. The Dr comes in and talks very little with us. Not much other than he wants to do a pap. I just had one and I told him. He says that it's not the same, they do different tests when they do the first pre-natal pap. Grabs me by the hips and slides me down. Of course my husband is sitting there the whole time watching. He told me he didn't want to be in the room if they were gonna do a pap. I told him they wont. The nurse gave me a release form to get the last pap results released from the other Dr's office. Guess I was wrong.

So after that I am told to go give a gallon of blood for all the tests and to return to the waiting room and wait for our U/S. They would like to do one so they can date the fetus. I could have told you how far along we were but they insisted and who was I to argue. We were going to get the first look at our little baby.

Ended up waiting like 40 mins untill they came to get us. The U/S went great and Dh got to be there to see the baby flipping around like crazy. We took home some pics. They call me back a week later and tell me I have a UTI and to come pick up my perscription paper. I ask them to call it in. Long story short and many many calls to the Dr's office later, it takes them a week and a half to get it called in. Mean time I am hurting.

The next visit goes even worst. I wait till 20 mins after my appt to be called back. I get to see Dr Ostriech, which is who I was suppose to be seen by in the first place. He seems nice enough, I guess. He gets on me for not drinking enough water and tells me that my pains under my rib are nothing. Doesn't even poke at me. I advise him my left ovary hurts all most constant and for the 20th time state that we conceived on Clomid. He then jokes about me not making a good first impression and tells me we will do an U/S to make sure everything is ok. I tell him about the resonating pain in my back and he tells me to get a belly gurdle thingy. (It's not that kind of pain) There is something wrong here. He writes on the file so the tech would be sure to know to check my left side for cysts. He then sends me out to the waiting room to wait for my U/S. The nurse and Dr both dawn their personal items and bolt out the door. I was the last patient for them it seams.

I waited about 10 mins and a nurse comes to tell me it wont be long and I am next. The tech comes out and says something. I was watching TV and didn't notice the name he called but the nurse said I was next. So I stood and said Allen? He said Yes and so I followed. We get into the room and he starts babbling Spanish at me. I don't understand a word you are saying buddy. He then looks at me like waiting for something. Then he tells me in English "Sit on table". I do. He soes the U/S of the baby and moves my due date again. Up by 5 more days and then starts to clean up. I ask "Did you see the note by the Dr? He wanted you to check the left side for cysts" He says, "Ya, I saw" and starts to clean up more. I insisted he wasn't done and to please check. So he does and ends up I have a big one but it's far from the baby and nothing to be concerned about. I get done and go home. Look at the picture of MY baby and that fucking idiot did the U/S with somone elses name in the computer.

I tried to get the office to straiten it all out but they didn't understand the English I was speaking. Then when I do get my Dr's nurse she says it was my fault because he called someone elses name and I went out of turn. Screw you lady just fix it. Thanks!

I go in today and the Dr hardly looks at me. He hums over my file and asks if anyone told me two weeks ago I have a bladder infection?... Um, No and wouldn't the be you, the Dr, that would tell me that? He then asks if anyone gave me a script for the antbiotics. Um, No again and wouldn't or shouldn't that have been you? So he gives me my perscription and tells me to go give some blood. I ask about the cyst and he say, with his back turned and not looking up from my file, It's not a big deal. Signals me to follow him out of the room and gets impatient when I stand there for a moment to do up my pants. Arg! Fuck you dude. I am not an inconveniance and I am paying this bill out of MY pocket. Not on state assistance don't treat me like you're better than me.

I give blood. The phlembotomist is awesome. She even acts shocked that they didn't even fill out my chart all the way and had to correct my orientation to Caucasion. We had a laugh about that. She jagged me and I went home.

I will be changing Dr's offices again. This sucks and there are no offices in Tooele excepting new patients untill after the first of the year.

Now that I have written a freakin novel I'm going to bed. Next post I will write about our doggy drama and tragedies.