| Am I crabby and overly hormonal or are you just incompetent and insensitive? |
I'm really frustrated with the OB/GYN that I used to go to. And I say used to because I just got my records transfered. There's always something wrong that needs explained or fixed with my bills, or refils, or whatever I call in to ask about. Today was no exception, only I got mad once over the phone and once when I was in the office.
The thing about their office policy is that you must go to each Dr. in rotation, so one might give you an exam one month and the next month (or week depending on Trimester) you'll see another and they'll examine you a different way. So between the three in the office, one was male and has about 8 kids and no empathy, one was childless and told me to ask a nurse who had given birth my questions, and the other was a woman who was bluntly honest and I liked her. Of course when you're giving birth you never get the one you like. For me I was induced at 7 a.m. and 9 hours later I had my bundle of joy. We never planned to be induced, and according to one of the Dr's I was to plan for a c-section anyways because my pelvis is angled weird. Nevertheless we attended every weekly appointment, waiting and hoping we were dialated, and to no avail. By the time I was a day over my due date I finally got examined (after 3 weeks of not being looked at) and was told that I should've been induced a week or two ago. Yeah. Nothing like suffering through the late July and early August temps if you don't have to. When we were in delivery, Dr. Man came in and of course he asked my progression, if I felt anything after my epidural and I honestly answered that I didn't (and I did so because my Mom had told me that hers didn't take 100% when she had my sister and it was a back labor, which I was also having) and he in turn TURNED OFF MY EPIDURAL FOR AN HOUR WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE, NOT EVEN A NURSE! So after my 2nd epidural.. and more unnecessary hours of being on oxygen.. here came Kyan.
So I called in today because I needed to have them prepare my records to transfer to the Dr I liked since she had left the practice last fall/winter. I was told it was a $10 charge, unless they fax or mail them for me. Okay.. that makes sense. You'll pay the postage to mail it but you'll charge me $10 to drive there, pick them up and mail them or take them in myself. Good deal. Then I told them that my bill had come with the last name misspelled (instead of -ons it was -ins) and she got snippy with me about how it was correct in her computer and it was billing's problem and when I asked that she make a note to tell billing she got huffy.
I drive in, with my other errands of the day, and sign the permission to forward paper and explained that it was requested that they put the date of my appointment and time and blah blah blah. After a sarcastic "anything else?" I told her who to send it to and she asked at which office. Well, I called the hospital to get my appointment per what they had told me to do so I guess forward it there, and she acted like I was the idiot. Your office told me to call and make an appointment at the Hospital so why ask me where to forward it to her at?!
I really wonder sometimes am I abnormally hormonal since having Kyan, or too cranky because I used to have an office job and did it without sarcasm or ridicule and professionally and this office apparently doesn't have that same couth? Possibly is it that I just attract inconsiderate people? |
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Alias: SNM
Hometown: Farmington, WV, United States
About Me: SMN is currently a S@HM who resides in the Senior Citizen capital of the world. Amongst her many talents are writing, tiptoeing through the mind field that is her living room, saving run away strollers, lacing any comment with sarcasm, and changing a diaper in 10 seconds flat. Her greatest achievements are birthing Thing One and Thing Two. Ongoing projects include diving into the world of blogging, weaning an aggressive breast feeder, parenting and all it's challenges, and being a wife she can live with (as well as her husband).
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