The Waiting Room

My boss said that I would need an excuse to return to work, so I had to go in to see the doctor... Getting down the stairs was kind of tricky, but by the grace of God, I made it into the parking lot. I told Jones that I needed his help and gently asked him not to fail me now! Well, we made it, although I was painfully limping from my car into the doctor's office...

I gave the receptionist my insurance card, and I waited. I think that waiting is a prerequisite for you to determine if you are really sick enough to wait for the doctor or healthy enough to stick it out at home... Unfortunately, I had to be there, because the Eye said so... And so I wait in the lobby...

Finally, the nurse comes for me and just about has a heart attack over my blood pressure reading... So for the next hour or so, she has me resting between multiple blood pressure readings, but of course, all the readings are the same! Hello @ that stupid woman doctor I saw the last time ignored me when I told her I needed blood pressure medication... So FINALLY, I am called into WAITing Room #2... where the patients wait for the doctor... Thank God there were no vaginas staring down on me. Believe me, posters of vaginas do not help to keep me entertained for the entire time that they make me wait...

Finally, the doctor showed up. The first thing he did was apologize for the wait, because some man chewed him out the day before for making him wait so long... I told him that I had actually been waiting for him since 8:00 a.m., when my boss told me that I had to see a doctor, because I specifically wanted to see him instead of the woman doctor, so for me, it was worth the wait... He looked at my leg and was surprised that the ankle bone was very swollen as well. He explained that even though such an injury would probably require an MRI reading to see what is actually wrong, the insurance requires for them to have an X-ray first. This seems kind of stupid, because an X-ray is only going to show the bones. LOL @ maybe insurance people need some kind of "Medical Tests for Dummies" manual...

And so, NOW they decide I need a wheelchair. LOL... I am wheeled away to the X-ray room to pose my leg for the X-ray shoot, but of course, the X-ray comes back reading as normal... Then, I am wheeled into a different room... a scary room full of vaginas. ::::SCREAM QUIETLY:::: The doctor returns with my chart in hand. He says the last time I had a blood test to see how my kidneys, etc, were functioning was in 2007, so he ordered Eddie the vampire to draw blood... As usual, the vampire could not find my veins, so he drew blood from the veins on my hand, which didn't hurt at all. Wow! And so, the doctor says he wants me out the rest of the week and I am to return on Friday to get re-evalutated. If all is well, I will be able to return on Monday... If not, he will need to order an MRI. He prescribed some pain killers and put me back on blood pressure medication... Eddie wheeled me to my car...

Then, I went to the pharmacy to pick up my meds. Yep @ it was another long wait..... Grrr...

So here I am this morning... I think my blood pressure is still bad, because my head feels as if someone split it in two with a hatchet. OUCH!