My son had an appointment today that I scheduled about a month ago only for the office to call a little more than a week ago to say the doctor won’t be in that day. The doctor isn’t nearby and every appointment is during my son’s school day.
I tentatively scheduled an appointment for December, but will probably just cancel it and forget about it, as I don’t think it’s necessary. It’s a follow up from when he was in the hospital in September with what the first hospital thought was appendicitis (I posted about it at the time). He was transferred to children’s hospital and the doc there said it was just a virus, not appendicitis. He missed four days of school, but got better and has no related problems. For some reason, the hospital told us to have a follow-up with some other appendix specialist, but it seems completely unnecessary, since it wasn’t appendicitis and my kid is fine. Besides, if it was important, they wouldn’t have been ok with the appointment being two months (and now three months) later.
Doctors schedules changing is one thing. I’ve had that happen plenty of times where their office days and surgery days get moved around for example, and chalk that up to variance. But this wasn’t variance, it was sheer incompetence. This appointment should never have been scheduled at the location it was scheduled at, as they can not do the procedure there. If there was the bare minimum level of competence involved, I’d be getting the test tomorrow at the correct location and having the followup next week.
Last time I had an mri I showed up for my appointment and they told me ther machine was broken that day. This was after a 45 minute trip to get there. No phone call or heads up.
This is fascinating. I’m watching the k-hole doctor’s testimony. He’s a kooky windbag but comes off as authentic. The slackjawed defense attorney is a total dick and referred to the Kowalski family as “these people” and the deceased mother as “the mother” in a really dehumanizing tone. Many of his arguments are along the lines of “You recommended ketamine but ketamine has SIDE EFFECTS doesn’t it? And you even acknowledge that it won’t help every patient long term.” Oh hai welcome to medicine bruh.
We have Guantanamo. Let’s use it. The best part is how she still thinks her hunch of MBP was absolutely correct and all of the doctors who treat CRSP were simply wrong.
Lol wonderful. I wasn’t particularly looking forward to it but was planning to go in mostly blind. Is the contrast injection really that unpleasant? I’ve had an ultrasound guided hip injection done (totally unnecessarily, but insurance required it to approve a surgery I needed) and it wasn’t fun but was rather forgettable after the fact. I’m assuming this will be worse?
I had an arthrogram of my elbow in maybe 8th grade (baseball pitcher). The part that hurt like a sonofabitch was the novocaine injection right into the joint before they did the dye. Went numb very quickly, though.
After that injection, the doctor left the room for a few minutes while it took effect. Before he left, he said, “Don’t look at your elbow.”
Naturally, I looked. There was a needle sticking out of it. A bit disconcerting. So the dye didn’t hurt since I was numb, though they also pumped air into my elbow, which was uncomfortable because of the pressure, though not “painful.”
Took several days for the air to eventually leave my arm, so my arm was swollen and bent until it went away. btw, I was fine - test confirmed I didn’t have a serious injury, was back playing in a couple weeks.
I had one right before my blood transfusion, and I was like y’all oversold this, it’s barely noticeable
Then I had one a month or so later, at a follow up, without dangerously low blood pressure. They were like ok well you’ve had one before so you know what to expect. JESUS CHRIST I DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT
They were like listen, you’ve got to stop writhing around or we’ll just have to do it all again
Just finished the arthrogram study. Shout out to @CaffeineNeeded and @AngryQueer for mentally prepping me so I went in expecting the worst. Turned out to be fine, rather unpleasant but totally bearable compared to other things I’ve had done. The injection took about 3 times longer than normal according to the dr, said the joint casing was very thick and difficult to pierce. Needle was in for about 15 minutes total trying to get it placed properly and then injecting the contrast.
It hurts a good bit now, and I struggled like hell to tie my left shoe afterwards as I can’t bend that hip well. But it’s over and hopefully will give clear results one way or the other.
I’m still annoyed it got delayed weeks due to incompetence though.
Had this surgically repaired in 2020. I can tell you the exact moment it re-tore in June of this year. Really frustrating and depressing trying to lead an active life and having your body be like “nope fuck you” over and over again.
