Though I am trying my best to immerse myself in my research and blog, I am falling short. I am anxious. I took my noon medication and it is working to the best of its ability, but sometimes my anxiety is more than it can handle.
We finally found out what is wrong with my husband. His gallbladder is not functioning. It is causing him great pain and yet he still manages to go to work each day. I am worried about him and that the gallbladder might rupture of become infected before we can see the surgeon in 2 weeks. He has a physical job, he’s a welder and machinist. He works very hard and to be in pain while having to rely on your body for your job just isn’t easy on him.
I called the surgeon’s office to try to move the appointment date up, but the doctor is out this week and unless someone cancels an appointment for next week, we will have to wait the duration of 2 weeks for a consultation. My husband is ready for surgery, by-pass all consultations, just yank the painful thing out!
Maybe my next blog page needs to be put aside and I work on something else. I was working on one for the gallbladder, but reading all the problems that can cause a gallbladder to stop working is really getting to me.
I am grateful that we finally know the cause of his pain. Now I am like him, let’s get it out!
~Peace
Invisible Illnesses 
As a nurse I think it’s reprehensible that people with a known diagnosis which requires surgical intervention are made to wait weeks or months. To compound, many who are in pain can’t get medication prescribed because of the opiate epidemic. It’s become a terrible system.
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You are so right! And our hands are tied as far as what we are able to do.
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I’m on a warpath of sorts. I’m refusing to tolerate being ignored by a doctor’s office any longer. When I started seeing a new neurologist for Botox for Migraine (after my long time doc gave 3 weeks notice that he was relocating to another state) I could not get the doctors nurse. MA, whatever to return my calls. All 7 of them over nearly 6 weeks. Botox needs a PA each time with my insurance and I wanted to make sure it was obtained as he is 1.5 hr drive one way. Finally I called my insurance company for guidance. Guess what? The office didn’t return their calls either. Next week is my second visit (every 3 months) and once again I’m running up against this BS. Called the insurance company today. I’ll get the injects this time but asked insurance to send me list of docs in another area. If I was that inept at any of my jobs I would have been fired ~ union or not.
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Sounds like your dr lost his license in your state. They make their moves quickly so no one finds out how stupid they are for not following up on their board certifications in the state they were practicing in. I had it happen to me too. Very irritating and disappointing that they care so little about their patients. You can do a google search and find out if he still has a license to practice in your state, it may take some digging, but you can find it.
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He does still have it BUT the boards often make deals. I do know he had been arrested for drunk driving two years ago ~ in the middle of a Saturday morning! The OB/GYN that did the 2 part hyst I just commented on was never vetted properly when he moved here. Board didn’t know he had sanctions against him in CA. Like I said, no more shut up & take their crap. They’ll get what they dish out. Be honest and open and I’ll respect you. Lie to me and fail to return my phone calls for months? Honey gear up because we Jersey Gals are mean when pushed.
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That’s all you can do is watch out for yourself because no one else will.
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I am so glad you found the answer. When my daughter had a CT scan and ultrasound and we found out her gallbladder was bad, we had to wait 10 days to see the surgeon while she was constantly in pain, vomiting, unable to eat much. So wow I really feel for him and you having to wait!!!
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Thank you. It will be tough, but all we can do is wait.
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Waiting is SO hard. I don’t know if they told you, but while we were waiting they told us to not have her eat ANY fatty foods at all. She had a lot of carbs, potato, noodles,fruit, oatmeal. The fattier the food the more pain she had.
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They didn’t tell us, but I have researched it and put him on a low fat diet until we can get into see the surgeon.
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It’s deplorable….
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Hit enter too quickly. It’s deplorable that a sick person has to wait so long and even worse, are not told of dietary etc changes they can make in the interim that might help some of their pain. It’s laziness and smacks of incompetency. My heart aches for those who don’t have an advocate to speak for them. Many of our older seniors still have that perception that everything they’re told by the doc or his staff is 100% accurate and complete when we both know it’s far from it.
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You are right, we are able to research for accuracy and the elderly do not even think to question a doctor’s authority. I believe it is because they were raised to trust doctors respectfully. But we are more educated now and can question their knowledge and that scares many doctors.
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Exactly! To be honest, I simply don not take crap from a secretary anymore. Or a MA or even an office nurse. Honey spend 20 years doing trauma and disaster relief nursing then come talk to me. Until then shut up and don’t lie to me simply because you’re too lazy to do your job…I’m done with incompetency. I had an ophthalmologist ruin my vision, a two part hysterectomy for a *&^% kidney stone ~ it never ends where I live. Let them think I’m nasty I don’t care.
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Sounds like you need all new doctors!
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I need to get out of this state is what I need! hahahahha
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Come on to Texas, Houston has top notch doctors.
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I need to go somewhere. I will be in OK at some point. The southern art which I think is close to TX. But just for a “visit” of sorts.
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It would probably only take about 8 hours drive from the southern part of OK to get to Houston.
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