Me.

And it should be me.

This is MY life.

This is MY future.

This is MY well-being.

No one else's.

I was told yesterday to, in my own words, sit patiently by the phone and wait for THEM to call me.

I'm not patient.

Can't do it.

Won't lie and say I can.

So I searched and dawdled and explored and cajoled and got myself a phone number out of thin air.

And I called it.

And I said - I can't wait. :tt2:

Ok, not really, I was a WHOLE LOTTA nicer than that. But that was the general jist of it.

And they made me an appt. Not for two weeks from now. Not for two weeks from two weeks from now. Nope. For TOMORROW. Friday. 10/9. At 10:30.

And here's what I know about this. My six months starts TOMORROW.

At the end of the conversation with the lady who really didn't care that I had called even though I was told not to, I asked - is this going to cause a problem? She said no, it's a good thing actually. I then asked if they'd have my paperwork on time? She said she didn't know but if they didn't they'd call the other office and get it.

Oh. Ok.

That was so NOT difficult!

I went to a friends house for dinner last night with my husband. She is recently retired and was an office manager for a asthma and allergy clinic. That clinic is a lot like this place I'm being sent to. They had offices all over Houston. So this place I'm being sent to - it seems to me they have satellite offices in all the corners of Houston and once they know you're a candidate they send you to the main office for all the workup stuff. And then when it's time for surgery, you go back to your satellite location, if you want to. And fills may or may not be done there. And support may or may not be done there. Her office was similar. It was a bunch of satellites. She said here's what happens.

The Nurse Practitioner has to get her notes done. Because she's a Nurse Practitioner, she has to get the surgeon to sign off on them. Once he does that, then the paperwork can be sent into this main office. Once it's in the main office, they will call me and schedule the appt. They generally say two weeks so that if anything goes wrong, they are covered, but it doesn't generally take that long.

She said, though - that in scenarios where offices or clinics are set up like this - they love love love people like me. Instead of sitting in a quagmire of paperwork, I'm saying "this is what I want, this is when I want it, this is how I want it" and they are happy to comply because now they aren't waiting, either, AND they know I'm serious about moving forward.

Enlightening.

So - as is generally the case - although not always, there are always exceptions - it's a good thing to be in control of my own life and my own outcome and my own future. :thumbup:

So I'm excited, eager and ready for tomorrow!

Way to go! You do have to be your own advocate in this process! -BG

Awesome! I have been know to say you are incharge of your own health care! WTG for making it happen!