I'll add some Dr. S.D., some Dr. P.B., a little of Dr. A.B., and some Dr. G.R., a pinch of Dr. R.W. turn it on high and you've got NOTHING but a huge mess. Especially when you top it off with the pharmacy.
I went on Wednesday to see Dr. B. I sat down and started explaining how complicated everything was. After a long silence, he flipped through my chart and repeated everything back to me. Yup! That's what I just said, at least he was listening. Then kinda gave me that look like 'Sorrrrryyyy'. So that was what I expected. He said that we would check up at the end of November.
The next morning after I dropped M off to school, I went to go and get J from work. Thankfully, he was going with me to see Dr. S.D.. I had the most horrible dream the night before. Two separate scenarios, but both end in death. I actually died in my dreams! How are you supposed to feel after that? We got there and I felt as if I was even more scared. He told us the neck MRI was fine (he saw the same narrowing in my c-spine), the head MRI had the DVA I looked up, but since it was on the other side, he said it was something I was probably born with. I explained all of my new symptoms and he said he thinks its Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. This might just be pain that I have for the rest of my life. Like telling someone, 'your eyes are going to get red where you are tired'. He asked when the UCLA appointment was and I told him. *Side Note: When I called UCLA they told me this was the person I had to make an appointment with. He said, "You need to be seeing a Neurologist!" Uuummm, I thought he told me Neurosurgeon. Well Great! Now travel plans, J's vacation dates, and my appointment needs to be with another doctor. I will take partial blame, but only now is he sending down an EXTENSIVE LIST for a referral to their Neurology Department. It's sets me back again, but I'm not shocked. Also we thought it was weird when the nurse wanted to review what medications I was on and listed only 3. When I go into a new doctor I bring a printed list to give them. Today I got a call from their office wanting to re-list everything that I told them on my 1st visit and yesterday. Maybe no one sees their doctor enough to find all of the mistakes that they make in health care. Next week I will need to start again with everything that I thought I had already taken care of.
I got a call yesterday from the pharmacy that I had an RX to pick up. So I went in this morning to get it. I walk up to the counter and 'Helga", as I call her, recognizes me. I am not even kidding you, the lady reaches down and pull out a stretched handful of plastic prescription bags. She said that they were all mine and she needed to find that one. Then she picks them back up and goes to a back counter. The Pharmacist said are those all of one person? She confirms and he said "Are you kidding me?" After she finds the refill for Vitamin D, she rings me up and I leave. Then I thought, I bet when I went to pick up my medication last month and asked for them to be put on automatic refill, they refilled every prescription I had refills for in their system.
Maybe I'm just like that 1%. The one percent that things go wrong.
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