AW CRAP

Jesus... I feel like I am the Queen Complainer lately, but I am having some really bum luck!

So... remember back in January I had my annual female pelvic exam and the results came back abnormal?  They found traces of squamous cells (potentially cancerous), but they didn't test for HPV like they were supposed to.  So they asked me to come back and test again, which I did in February.  Again, their lab didn't check for HPV and the results were abnormal.  This was at the "free clinic" and at this point I had received health insurance (ha! or so I thought) through my company.  I made an appointment for a third pelvic exam in March at my regular doctor's office, but it wasn't with my regular doctor, as he's male and I just don't feel that comfortable having a male doctor up my hooha.  I'll do it if I have to, but if I have another option, I'll take it.

So I scheduled the appointment for April 3 with a female nurse practitioner, made sure I told her that they needed to test for HPV.  She was aware that this was my third time in as many months.  Two weeks went by and I didn't hear anything, so I called and left a message asking for the results.  No call back.  Called and left another message, no call back.  (I was also leaving messages to see about getting generic Rx's for my name-brand ones, as my insurance didn't cover name brand at the time.) 

Now it's been a month, I'm wondering what is going on.  Are the test results okay and that's why nobody has called?  When I went in two days ago for a lab, I left a message asking the nurse practitioner to please call, it has been a month and I just want to know what the results were.  Now it's Friday, no call.  I call and talk to the office manager there, explaining the deal.  She sees notes in my account saying I'd like a call back, but nothing.

I explain that the Rx problem is no longer an issue, I have since changed insurance plans and I'm covered for name brands.  (But they fax over the prescriptions and it gets ridiculously confusing so I need to just get fucking hard copies, in my hand, so I can take them in and drop them off and know that everything I need is there, and will be filled correctly.)  But what about the test results?  The office manager says that the last message went to my main doctor, and that he instructed the desk to call me so I could make an appointment to come in and speak with the doctor and/or office manager about the results.  (And nobody called anyway.)

That's not good.  They don't ask you to come in if everything is okay.

So I already have an appointment next Thursday to go over the lab results.  And apparently, go over the test results from April 3rd.  And, with any luck, get my prescriptions straightened out.

Five minutes ago, my cell rings and it's the clinic.  It's the nurse practitioner's assistant, whom I had spoken with on April 4th to ask about generic Rx's.  She was going to ask the NP and get back to me, never did.  She's on the phone now telling me that the office manager just talked to her and said there was problems, but she has in her notes that she faxed over generic versions to my pharmacy.  Now... she never called to tell me this.  The pharmacy never called to tell me there was an Rx waiting.  And I already told the fucking office manager that this was NOT an issue at this point, as my insurance now covers the name brand Rx's.  To top it off, the NP's assistant is confusing me because she keeps saying she faxed over the Avandia... but then says it's generic, and Avandia is not generic.

I'm confused.  Frustrated.  Worried.  Angry.  Tired.  Hungry.  "And a little gassy."

I promise I'm going to try to stop all this complaining soon.