Orthopedic Surgeon Appointment Scheduled

OMG, dealing with the American Healthcare System is a royal pain in the a$$!!!! I have been on the phone off and on the entire day trying to get an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon regarding my fractured fibula.

Series of events/phone calls throughout the day...

• Call sports med. Dr. to see if they could get me in to see orthopedic Dr.….no such luck. They gave me orthopedic Dr's number and said that their office would be calling.
• Orthopedic Dr office doesn't call, I call twice and go into voicemail.
• Orthopedic Dr office finally calls me and I get the run around regarding getting an appt soon…finally get an appt with someone for tomorrow.
• I call my primary care Dr. for a referral to the orthopedic Dr., get voicemail which instructs to hang up and call to speak to a live person.
• Call primary care Dr. back, talk to live person and am instructed to leave a message, so I leave a message with pertinent info.
• Primary care dr. eventually calls back and says that Orthopedic Dr is out of network, so we find another orthopedic surgeon…which happens to be the same surgeon that Drew saw for his knee.
• Call orthopedic Dr. #2 office, can't get into see him for two weeks, make appt for Wednesday to see his associate orthopedic Dr. #3.
• Call primary care back to get referral for this guy, go to voicemail.
• Call again primary care again, talk to person and she thinks that I can go see Dr. #3 but get referral for Dr. #2 and all subsequent visits with Dr. #2. Says she will call me back if any problems with referral and no call means all is good.
• Call orthopedic Dr #1 office to cancel appt. They say they have never heard of being out of network and reluctantly cancel appt.

So far no call back from my primary care Dr and it's been at least an hour…hopefully all is well with the plan for Wednesday's appt. with Dr. #3.

Funny that I am going to see same guy that Drew saw…small world…and quite the coincidence…

This evening I have to pick up x-ray and MRI films… I'll be driving around to two places after work.

My ankle is hurting off and on today…it didn't hurt all freakin' weekend and I did a helluva lot more walking and what have you this weekend. Maybe I'm just thinking about the possibility of walking on it and really screwing it up… given it IS broken (fractured)… Who knows what kind of damage I've done the last two plus weeks…. Walking all over the place, swimming, recumbent biking… Unreal that I can even walk on the dang thing without it hurting like a mother. It does give a little twinge every now and then when I step on it the wrong way. Hmmm… I dunno! LOL!!! I sure don't know much as of late!

Looks like the crutches will be getting their first real use while I'm out and about this evening. And I suppose I should be using them at work, too. Perhaps I will have to leave my laptop in the office….so that I'm not lugging the dang thing from here to kingdom come.

::sigh::

At least I have an appt this century, okay this week… ;)