Um. Never Mind.
October 02, 2008
I'm scheduled for October 15th at 2 pm, with my regular doctor, all is set and well. They still did not apologize, but hey, I wrote a bazillion angry paragraphs about them on the Internet. So...I win. I think.
*cough*
And yet the anxiety-related cookie consumption continues unabated. Hmm.
You definitely win.
And they didn't apologize? Wha?!?!?
So glad to hear it worked out. What a clusterfuck! And, of course, the very LAST thing you need to be worrying about right now.
Hang in there!
It definitely still warrants an email to your doctor... but wait until after she cuts you open and all that. Ahem.
So glad it all got sorted out. The whole major abdominal surgery and all that is plenty stressful enough.
Oh. Well. I'm glad I didn't get uppity and overreact, then. Ahem.
But YAY! You got your appointment w. your doctor. That's all that matters.
For my second baby, I met the "other doctor in the practice" 20 minutes before I pushed out my son.
Luckily, I liked the hell out of her and she was the only girl in the practice, so it did work out.
It does suck when you go into labor the ONLY DAY your OB has off since he was on call the entire weekend waiting for you to deliver. fun, fun.
So glad all is back on track!
well thank God. freak I was pissed off for you!!!
Now breathe and relax cause holy crap 2 more weeks!
well they should have apologized. but still I am glad everything worked out
Baby needs cookies. You see, babies aren't allowed to eat cookies after they are born for a long, long time. So moms have a responsibility to provide as many cookies as possible for the baby before birth, so the baby can build up a long-lasting store of vital cookie nutrients. It's very important!
If it helps, I can eat anxiety-cookies, too
I actually stayed on the phone waiting for an apology or at least the barest acknowledgment that this was, indeed, a complete clusterfuck. Neither happened, which is why I'm still having trouble calming down from the whole "WHAT IF I HADN'T EVEN ASKED" brainteaser.
It almost makes me want to have another baby, just so I can dramatically announce that I am taking my baby-making business elsewhere.
That would make me stabby too. I would write a strongly worded letter to be delivered AFTER your last postpartum appt. Or get an OB shaped voodoo doll, that could work too.
Awesome!
Does that mean we can put away our torches and pitchforks now?
So you don't get to eat all day long that day? EEEK!
Well, I'm certainly glad it worked out, although you had every right to vent in the previous post. Even 30 minutes of worrying over that bullshit is too much.
I have learned over the years that there seems to be a corporate rule among any medical/educational/government professionals NOT to apologize. To apologize admits wrong-doing, which includes taking the blame. In my experience, no one EVER wants to take the blame.
Also, I went into natural labor, 10 days late, with my son six hours before I was scheduled for induction. Good thing, too, since my doctor had never scheduled my induction. Of course, he railed at the labor/delivery nurses about it. They grumbled in my general direction that he had actually NEVER scheduled it. I reminded them all I was laboring on my own so "no big deal; now give me the goddamn epidural!"
Good luck in 2 weeks!
I'm going to go and have a cookie on your behalf now, because seriously, THEY DIDN'T EVEN APOLOGIZE? Unbelieveable. You totally win, though. Eat more cookies :)
So totally feel your fuckity fuckness despite the correction (yay!) and because of the missing apology (boo!)
For months my daughter was a scheduled repeat c-section for March 17 (St. Patty's--yeah!) I mean, like 4 MONTHS! Then, ten days before this SCHEDULED c-section, my doctor casually mentions that he will be going out of town for vacation and we can't do it then. WHA??!! So, either I could re-schedule early, or I could wait. Um, wait? I DON'T THINK SO! So I elected for "early" (March 13) and what did that 4 day difference get me (besides clearly a beautiful baby girl) but a totally different date (that I still sometimes have to think of) and a fucking amnio, because God, 4 days makes all the fucking difference. Bah!
Glad yours worked out well and Tivo's date will always be the same in your head.
Congrats!
My son and I happen to think the 15th is a great day to be born on. We will celebrate his birthday and your new baby's birthday that day!!
WOO HOO!!
And Boo!! to the obgyn staff!!!
I would pay good money for a recorded transcript of the phone call you made to Jason after leaving the doctor's office.
When I read your previous post, I couldn't help but be reminded of the Seinfeld episode with the rental car. They could TAKE the reservation, but they could not HOLD the reservation. Just as in your case, writing down your wishes for a scheduled C does not make it so.
Who are they to eff with the seriously pregnant lady?!? Sure, sure, pregnancy comes around all day, every day for the folks in these poor OB offices, but seriously, for the actual pregnant person, they've got to know they inflict serious panic by pulling these stunts.
Geez, glad problem averted, though. WHEW!
What a fiasco!! At least you have a room, right? Like they aren't putting you in a gurney in the hallway or anything, are they?
Well, when you can use wine to relieve anxiety, I think cookies are the next best thing.
Whew! What a ride! I'm glad it all worked out, but I still can't believe they didn't apologize.
You know, I'm told at the end of all the crap, they actually let you take a baby home. So, just keep that part in mind.
2 pm. That means FASTING until 2 pm. All the fuckity fuck was validated. If they'd called on time, you could be having that baby at 8 am.
So there.
It never, ever, ever ceases to amaze me how people in the medical profession honestly, seriously, completely Do Not Get how things they think are routine and whatever are not and will never be routine and whatever to the actual patient. Ever. In any other situation, you would fire this person or shop elsewhere but with medical stuff, you're often stuck. And they know this. So it's like a vicious cycle of suck.
Ahem.
Anyway, glad it's working out and they had the decency to at least call you back!
Whew!
SO glad to hear it's all in order now.
Yay!!!
Just read both posts at once and am so happy it worked out. Seems dotors should really have their shit together a little bit more than that but at least they were able to stil do it the same day. Now it's like it never really happened right? Except for the residual stabbiness?
hahahahaha.. sorry.. really shouldn't be laughing.. but from my perspective.. totally funny! Plus.. you live like at least 900 miles away from me and can't punch me! :) so HA!
And.. chocolate chip cookies.. fresh bake chocolate chip cookies are all I can think about now.. SOOO not nice to do to a fellow pregnant whale..
and umm.. I was just catching up on your Twitter (could you make it easier for lazy people like me and display your twitters some where on you page.... ummm..thanks!)
And I was reading the one about you wanting to Google the babies name.. I TOTALLY do that.. How weird is that? I dont know what I'm looking for.. I guess I want to see what other people with his name look like! weird weird weird...
so..um.. yea...
congrats on getting your date and time...
Hey I would have been pissed too! How the hell do you forget to schedule someone's C-section?! I would talk to the office manager about this and all the other disorganized crap over the years. That is too much.
Glad they called you though and it's worked out.
But, damn. That is fucking rediculous.
Wow, even a half-assed 'I'm Saying Sorry Even Though I Could Give A Fuck Less' apology is better than NOTHING.
I just read this post and the last one (damn you Bloglines being down) and I was gonna say Hole. E. Shit. about the whole situation. You know, going with the cursing last post.
But then I was gonna make up something less 'hole' oriented since its a c-section post.
But I'm kind of stumped. Slice. E.Shit? Whoo-hoo-I'll-still- have- snap-to-my- trap-after this. E. Shit?
Anyway, glad it got resolved. Does this mean the post it in your file was just wrong, or did they squeeze you in because they fear your wrath?
Hurrah! Thank goodness for that! I shall be thinking about you on October 15th at 2pm. In fact, I shall be thinking about you from ROME, which means I'll eat an extra bite of tiramisu (hell, maybe just a WHOLE extra tiramisu) in celebration. It shall be me mentally (and vicariously) urging you to keep your strength up. And then when Tivo is actually BORN, I think I shall have to consume a whole wheel of parmesan in joy.
Just look at it this way...at least all this was discovered and taken care of BEFORE Oct 15th, when you could have shown up to the hospital and they would have been like..."Storch? Amy? Hmm..I don't see anything..are you sure it was today?"
I could totally see this happening at my doctors office..one time I was sitting and waiting for my appt FOREVER..it turns out they forgot about me. Lovely.
Good Luck!
Wow, what a mess. I'm glad it all worked out, and I think you definitely win. :)
Glad it all worked out, and you definitely win if you had cookies AND angry ranting posts on your side!
I would have been just as pissed. Glad it all worked out!
I'm constantly amazed how disorganized drs offices are. I got prescribed the wrong medication and they made like it was my fault. i screamed and yelled until someone called in the right damn prescription. ARGH!
Sorry for the vent. Glad it all worked out, but you know you totally dropping noah off here at midnight next week. B/c that is the way things happen.
You definitely win. I'll send the award later.
Hallelujah! I'm glad all is well with that.
In a weird turn of events, I dreamed that, for some reason, you and Noah were visiting me and you had his hair in a pony tail on top of his head. I thought it was stupid, so I cut it off. Then I felt really bad because that made it look worse and then there's the whole part about cutting another person's kid's hair without permission....
Anyway, it's not unusual for me to have out-of-the-blue dreams, but that was one of the weirder ones. Noah's hair is all good, right?
Mrs. CPA - remember that scene in Ratatouille where Linguini opens his shirt and starts screaming incomprehensibly at the sight of all the little rat scratches and bites on his torso?
Yeah, that's pretty much how THAT phone call went.
You'll never get that baby up to 10 pounds if you don't keep up the cookie consumption. And let's face it, your alternative (bourbon) would prolly be frowned upon. ;)
In all seriousness, you deserve a cookie. Or eleventeen.
They should have documented your pregnancy for a reality show. Would have been hilarious.
Good great news!! Baby Brother - here we come! (STILL HOW ABOUT A FREAKING APOLOGY ARE YOU KIDDING ME??)
"2 pm. That means FASTING until 2 pm. All the fuckity fuck was validated. If they'd called on time, you could be having that baby at 8 am. " Plus, not to add to your fuckityness, but...When I showed up to have my oldest (I was IN LABOR) they told me I had to go home because they were FULL (they thought I was a scheduled induction)!! I guess the look I gave them cleared things right up but I'll be crossing my fingers for you on the 15th. And, I'd still send the e-mail to your Dr. just to have your displeasure on record.
Wow. You do live on the edge, don't you? Things have got to settle down NOW, right? Best of luck!
Um, if that's your last name in an earlier comment please remove it right away. It makes me nervous. They have freaks out there that have killed women for their babies. Please be careful not to post anything that could lead someone to you.
They definetely should have apologized. I'm glad for you that everything worked out. I'm looking forward to the wee babie picks in a couple of weeks.
Hopefully you will go into labor tonight and you won't even have to worry about it!
Um, whew?
would you mind if i shared your link on Portland's new moms web site, www.MomsLikeMe.com? You are so fun to read!
Er, at least you found out today, not on the 15th? That doesn't help? How 'bout some cookies?
I just have to jump in and say that my doc is in a practice, and the doc I saw regularly during my pregnancy was not on call when I was induced. I am counting my lucky stars that I liked the doc who delivered - she was awesome - and I met her while I was pushing. But yes, I totally agree with wanting your regular doctor when you deliver!