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  1. Rae

    We have had major follies of this sort involving missing school for half a day and then the MCG Dr. does not even TOUCH Jacob. I could have easily attended the appointment w/o him and gotten the scoop and left him in school all day. Finally I insisted at every visit that they explain what they would do at the next visit. If it was a talking visit then Jacob would stay in school, if it was a touching visit then he would attend the appt. They weren’t happy for me to ask all these important questions and especially not happy when I complained long and loud about the length of our wait at each appt. and how upset I was that we were left for hours at a time in the waiting room or exam room while we could hear the Dr.’s down the hall discussing selling a home or at other times there seemed to be no one there at all. One time we attended an appt. and were met with the Oncologist. You can imagine my aggravation when he announced himself and the fact that the Hematologist wasn’t there because he was out of the country. COUNTRY!?! Couldn’t they have phoned me and requested another appt. date? They surely had some advanced warning. There is another interesting connection between your experience and ours. We were visiting a clinic that handles Hematology patients along with Cancer patients. It is one thing to treat your run of the mill patient in this way, but a CANCER patient?!?
    Welcome to the world of constant Dr. appts and CONSTANT frustration. Hang in there.

  2. I can only echo the frustration with medical people playing free and easy with our time. We have been to certian offices that I know I can show up an hour late to. Others are gems of efficiency, but they are rare.

    Donna is working through chemo? That is one very determined lady you have there! And how wonderful is it that therapy is to such a point as to allow that. Amazing. Jean went through sessions that put her in bed with need of help to do everything. Only amazing support from her father allowed me to continue work.

    We are thinking of you,
    Brent of Brent and Jean

  3. Chemo is such an individual thing. What you are getting, because of what you have and how *you* react to the drugs all are variables that determine the experience. In our research into the aspects of this disease we discovered so many differing effects on the recipients that almost any strange reaction could have happened. So far, knock on wood, Donna has not really been hit to bad. But as I titled one post we are waiting for the other shoe to drop.

    Don’t get me started on the general quality of service in anything these days because I will definitely sound like your Dad. 🙂

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