2 1/2 hrs for a 10 MIN appt!! vent!

[6kiddos 18]

Well, I had my pulmonary appointment today. I spent 1 hr in the waiting room...then 1 hr in the room waiting for the doc! I was sooo frustrated! It didn't help things at all that I had my 6 and 3 yr olds with me. (dh is out of town last minute and this doc was near dd's allergist and she needed shots for the week). So...they started really losing it at about 2 hrs...I stuck my head out and asked if the doc would come in anytime soon. He came right in...spent 10 min with me. Wants to do a chest x-ray and some kind of sleep blood oxygen test (not sleep study). No follow up (as long as all is normal).

To make it worse...at the 1 hr mark my oldest (16 yrs) called and said he was locked out with ds4 (8 yrs)...it was ONLY 97 today. :cursing: (cool for this time of year..will be 108 later in the week). He ended up climbing up on the patio roof and getting in an upstairs window. ugh. I can't believe I forgot to leave a door unlocked or one of the downstairs windows.

Anyhow, frustrating that they were running soooo late! If I wasn't trying to hard to have everything ready for Aetna by the end of the month I would have rescheduled. sigh.

Thanks for listening. LOL:001_rolleyes:

[BlackBerryJuice 349]

Just to be fair, you never know why the doc's late. Some of my preceptors have told stories of people having heart attacks or passing out in the waiting room or smack in the middle of the appointment, and then the doctor may spend hours with the person trying to fix things until the paramedics take them away. They obviously won't share this stuff with you because of patient confidentiality, but there's usually a good reason for it, as no one wants to deal with an angry patient who's been waiting for a long time.