Frustrated and impatient

zoomomma · May 15, 2008

My surgeon in playing phone tag with my psychiatrist. They've been doing this for a week. :lol: He won't even talk to me about anything until he talks to my shrink. Won't discuss the possibility or anything. Hopefully, things get rolling soon. I'm considering looking into a new doctor, but I don't know. The other one I've looked into is a Center of Excellence, the one I'm with now isn't. I'm not sure what to do. I want to get started now. I have never been a patient person and now is even more difficult. I know I want this. I know I can work it. I know it will change my life. After five years of research I'm stalled. I get everything set to go, I'm moving on it and now this. It's like a stop light in the middle of nowhere that won't turn green. Can't run it and hate sitting. What's a girl to do?:biggrin:

Long2BFree · May 16, 2008

Get your surgeon's fax number and have the psych fax over his report.

zoomomma · May 16, 2008

Oh, but this isn't the psych eval for the surgery. This is my maintenance psych for my bipolar. He won't even proceed with the preliminaries until he talks to her, won't even discuss it with me.

Long2BFree · May 16, 2008

Oh, but this isn't the psych eval for the surgery. This is my maintenance psych for my bipolar. He won't even proceed with the preliminaries until he talks to her, won't even discuss it with me.

Oh, I gotcha. That does seem very frustrating. Hopefully they can connect soon.

Enchanted · May 16, 2008

While it may not seem like it, your surgeon is acting responsibly by waiting to talk with the psych before going further. Just think if they waited until much later in the process to have the conversation and there was an issue that needed to resolved . . . what an incredible waste of time that would have been for everyone.

I'd call both of them -- ask if there's anything you can do to help facilitate the conversation. Perhaps try to find a mutually agreeable time so they can stop with the phone tag.

Hang in there -- lots of people have roadblocks along the way to approval and surgery.

Best of luck.