Guest guest Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 I feel like I'm in limbo. It's been almost 6 months since I went and spoke to my doctor about having gastric by-pass. He was so upbet, wrote the referral right there in front of me. Even had me do some initial lab work. Things seemed so perfect, the required clinics were calling the next day offering to set up appointments. After some running around by one clinic ( i missed the appointment, then rescheduled for the next month.....only they wern't there and then they told me I needed a new referral from PCP) I've finally gotten all but one done. The last one we were told not to call to schedule...they would call us. So I've just been waiting.....for what seems like forever. Then yesterday I called in a script renewal and my PCP actually called me at home to ask a question about my meds; and then asked me if I had changed my mind about having the surgery. I was confused and told him no, that I had seen surgery, nutrition, physical therepy and even the psychiatrist and been cleared by all of them and was just waiting for occupational therepy to call and give me an appointment. None of that was in my patient file that he was holding at the time! I know I slacked for a bit in December between Christmas and my husband deploying to Iraq (active duty army) and put my passion to have the surgery on the back burner.....but now I'm ready and willing to do any and everything I can do. But I can't do much without the approval of this final clinic. I know it's against their rules.....but I'm about ready to call them myselves and ask for an appointment. I want to get to the top of that dang waiting list, instead of just floating around the bottom. They have so many silly rules between the Army hospital and the insurance that they expect us the patient to follow, but don't follow themselves. They did surgery the other day on a lady who hadn't seen all the clinics yet....because she somehow got put on the " on-call " waiting list. There were some upset people in the support group who had been waiting for a year or more, some on the on-call list themselves and yet this woman got to go first, just because she answered her phone. One the upside, my PCP told me last night that he'd look into what's going on with my case today and see if he can find out what's holding things up. We leave this post at the end of the year, and if I havn't had the surgery by then, I have to start all over at the Army hospital at the next post....which will really suck! ~Tanja Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 I feel like I'm in limbo. It's been almost 6 months since I went and spoke to my doctor about having gastric by-pass. He was so upbet, wrote the referral right there in front of me. Even had me do some initial lab work. Things seemed so perfect, the required clinics were calling the next day offering to set up appointments. After some running around by one clinic ( i missed the appointment, then rescheduled for the next month.....only they wern't there and then they told me I needed a new referral from PCP) I've finally gotten all but one done. The last one we were told not to call to schedule...they would call us. So I've just been waiting.....for what seems like forever. Then yesterday I called in a script renewal and my PCP actually called me at home to ask a question about my meds; and then asked me if I had changed my mind about having the surgery. I was confused and told him no, that I had seen surgery, nutrition, physical therepy and even the psychiatrist and been cleared by all of them and was just waiting for occupational therepy to call and give me an appointment. None of that was in my patient file that he was holding at the time! I know I slacked for a bit in December between Christmas and my husband deploying to Iraq (active duty army) and put my passion to have the surgery on the back burner.....but now I'm ready and willing to do any and everything I can do. But I can't do much without the approval of this final clinic. I know it's against their rules.....but I'm about ready to call them myselves and ask for an appointment. I want to get to the top of that dang waiting list, instead of just floating around the bottom. They have so many silly rules between the Army hospital and the insurance that they expect us the patient to follow, but don't follow themselves. They did surgery the other day on a lady who hadn't seen all the clinics yet....because she somehow got put on the " on-call " waiting list. There were some upset people in the support group who had been waiting for a year or more, some on the on-call list themselves and yet this woman got to go first, just because she answered her phone. One the upside, my PCP told me last night that he'd look into what's going on with my case today and see if he can find out what's holding things up. We leave this post at the end of the year, and if I havn't had the surgery by then, I have to start all over at the Army hospital at the next post....which will really suck! ~Tanja Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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