Moms you will feel my pain. I just called to find out about my kids strep culture from yesterday. THEY CANT FIND IT. and want him to come back in for another one.
We had to HOLD HIM DOWN yesterday to get the damn thing. It took the doctor a good five minutes to calm him down enough to get a good sample. And now they f-ing lost it. ARE U F'ING KIDDING ME???????
He will FREAK out when I tell him he needs to go back to have it done again. And hes not even home til 6 tonight so today is out. so yet another day not knowing if he has strep?
that's weird Wendy- don't they just do the quick strep test in the office? If they sent it out for culture- I can assure you- most likely the lab lost it- not them! What a bummer
Yes Pennee. they do a rapid strep and then do a culture in house. They do not send them out. So yes. this is their incompetent office.
rapid strep was negative. However I had strep. Strep is in the house. I am not willing to forego the 24 hour culture in this case its too risky.
He is going to freak out when we tell him he needs to do it all again.
and we are finding him a new doctor. which sucks because i love his doctor, the office however is full of bumbling bitchy idiots. This has been his doctor since I was pregnant with him. Seriously, this just sucks.
But this is not the first screw up. Many years they run out of flu shots or don't have them in any kind of reasonable time. Yesterday they didn't have a flu test which he needed. "they were on backorder". seriously?
I had to miss yesterday because I spent all day with the vet and farrier. Millie now has to have surgery on her face to remove bone chips from the fracture. I'm beyond PO'd this even happened and it's now costing me major money. The bone chips are irritating a tooth root, and may cause more damage if we don't get them out and there is a risk she could lose teeth.
My heart and head just hurt right now. I'm so upset over Las Vegas, Tom Petty and my beloved horse. Enough all ready.
Thankfully...it's raining like crazy today...I have plans to go home and bang the heck out of some metal tonight...and I think I'm going to work on a couple of repousse projects just so I have something to really beat on, lol. I have had a few ideas in mind for awhile now...and I need to get some major stress out.
Erin...I'm sad about your soap shop. Could you send me a link? I would like to try some out...the person I was purchasing from locally just stopped selling her soap as well. :-(
Gayle...I hate it when that happens! I lost an earring from the buffer. I even redid my floors and never found the darn thing! I hope you have good luck finding it!
Wendy...you're cheap gallery sounds like the one I was in several years ago. Before it closed...it ended up being a good venue for me. It took awhile for people to find me though. I like having a local venue. I get asked a lot for where people can find my work locally, and I found that it does drive people to your website. I need to find another local avenue...it's been too long since I've done a show or gallery setting. It would be nice to have another local presence to just take some work over and reconnect with people and get feedback.
...and they finally found the culture. and its negative. thankfully. But it does not strengthen my confidence that they needed to search in bins and biohazard containers in order to find it.
we have one doc visit scheduled and i think we will tell him we are leaving the practice.
Hi Chrissi. So sorry to hear about yet another big issue with Millie. That must be incredibly frustrating and worrisome.
OMG Wendy that is so bad. Sorry you had to be put through that stress. It is so frustrating when the Dr is great but its the support staff that make it unbearable. I went through the same thing when our family dentist (that I had been going to since I was 2.5!!) I couldn't handle his hygienists, they were miserable, unnecessarily rough and I always left with bleeding gums or a mouth full of pain just for a cleaning. His wife ran the reception counter, but if she wasn't there they would forget appointments, make rude comments about billing etc. But my dentist was this lovely soothing man that I adored and everyone in town went to him. After a while I got to talking to other family friends and they all said the same thing - they hated going because of his support staff. I think no one ever wanted to say anything because he was such a gem.
yep. same thing here Jaime. that really stinks to lose a dentist you love.
I interviewed this doc when I was preggers and I loved him from the start. he is kind, gentle, pragmatic, not a drug pusher, not an alarmist. Just really even keeled and awesome. however.... other than the nurses which are hit or miss the rest in the office are not professional and very clusterfucky.
Wendy - yep he was my dentist for 25 years! Then he finally got rid of the mean hygienists after so many just stopped going to his practise, only to die of liver cancer the next year :-(
Glad they found the culture. What a crazy thing to happen. Also sorry about the hunters. It feels like some of them lose their minds during hunting season. I don't mind hunting but be responsible and take only what you need, and ALWAYS think of others around you. SMH
So sorry about Millie Chrissi. That just sucks. Poor thing.
I know I really feel for Chrissi right now. that just is the worst.
Im dealing with health stuff with Koko. And its killing me - but Im trying not to think about it because its too much mentally and at this current moment she is ok.
I can't image it with a horse. Just their mere size alone and the closeness you have with them physically... it must be so hard when they have illness or injury.
Gayle I am so sorry about your uncle's death, cancer just sucks.
Chrissi this WILL end, I am really sorry to hear Millie has yet more surgery to endure. that type of thing is such a big worry , nevermind the expense involved. Wendy I always cringe when I hear stories of lost medical tests. Glad it resolved.
Must be fall, I actually made a pottery sale here and have cleared out all my back inventory from stores that I had stored in my basement. Not much happening on the metal front here. I quit two more stores and I'm focusing on making only what "I" want to make. I have a hankering to tackle some Rubbermaids full of beads I've been collecting for 30 + years.
I've been playing a game with myself, reaching blind into the rubbermaid,grabbing a string of beads, and forcing myself to create something with them. It's sparked my creative mind a bit.
Thanks Wendy. It's absolutely the worst! She's my dance partner. My connection to this horse is very strong and we have a deep level of trust with each other. I'm sick over this. Mostly...because it never should have happened in the first place. It was carelessness of the barn, and I am having a difficult time forgiving myself that I put her in that situation, but I really couldn't foresee this happening...or predict it. I believe she will be fine...but it's a huge expense that I wasn't prepared for.
Thankfully, I can do it and I really don't have a choice because she is not going to fully heal from this unless we get it cleaned up. :-( The good news, she's not in pain, it's mostly an annoyance to her because her nose runs all the time. We did a few small work sessions the past couple of days, and she really enjoyed it. Pranced back into the barn like her old self. :-)
I need to ride though...I'm feeling restless and unfocused. With all the depressing news lately...that is my sanctuary and escape and I feel like I've lost that lately.
I'm hoping to get some good banging on metal time tonight. I have some custom projects I need to work on as well....but they may have to wait until I can take out some stress.
Thanks Kathy. I know it will. It has felt like one strange bizarre problem after the other. I'm focusing on the future...on what we will accomplish once this is all over. If I keep looking forward...we will get there.
I'm heading home from the office. My head is throbbing...and the fire alarm just went off a bit ago...making my already pounding head hurt even more.
