So I’m seeing a lot of doctors lately. The RE wanted me to see my family doctor to talk about some weird test results I got back. So. Here’s how that went today:
First, as I said in my last post, they called to change my appointment from 11 am to 1:15 pm.
Rob and I got to the dr’s office at 1:10.
I stood in line at the receptionist’s desk for 15 minutes (there were two people ahead of me) waiting for the receptionist to get off the phone. And she wasn’t talking about important medical emergencies, either – she was talking about someone’s wedding shower that she was going to, or had been to, or something. Fine, fine. She got off the phone, it took 5 seconds for us all to tell her we were there and have her check us off on her list.
Then I sat and waited… and waited… for an hour and a half. How long would most people wait around for a doctor’s appointment? I guess I’m just used to waiting, because you can’t just leave and have them see you another time – getting an appointment takes at least three weeks if not more, so you’re not going to waste one when you have one! Finally I was called into the little examination room which is adjacent to my doctor’s office. Where the doctor’s daughter was breastfeeding her baby. So I got to listen as, between each patient she saw, my doctor went in to say hi to her daughter and grandbaby, and spent 10 or so minutes with them.
Suffice it to say, my 1:15 appointment was finally uhm… “consummated”? yeah, that’s REALLY not the right word. But anyway. At 3 pm.
And the doctor just basically told me that it would probably help my liver if I lost weight, and that she’d try to get me an appointment with an internist about that, but it might be a year and a half before I saw her. Then I at least made something out of the appointment and had her refill a bunch of my prescriptions.
Have any of you seen this? It’s funny, and I haven’t been lately:
I love Buck.
