Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[rivka]

So yesterday I called the radiology place where my doctor wanted me to have the mammogram. They said that in women my age they usually just do a sonogram, and asked me to call her back and confirm. Much to my relief, my doctor decided that we could start with a sonogram, and then only add a mammogram if necessary.

They offered me an appointment more than two weeks away. I explained that it wasn't a routine screening, but a problem-related exam, and they found a slot available due to cancellation - today at 3:30.

I reorganized my schedule: arranged to leave work early, re-arranged my evening plans with curiousangel at significant inconvenience to him, drove downtown and paid $11 to park near the IHV conference so I could leave early, left the meeting at 3 and raced back to the suburbs to the radiology office.

What I didn't do in all of that was transfer the referral and prescription from the clinic bag I was carrying yesterday to the purse or conference bag I was carrying today. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

So I got to the office and didn't have my prescription. I called my doctor's office to see if they'd fax it over, but after about fifteen minutes they concluded that my doctor must have taken my chart home with her. No prescription. Doctor not in the office. No sonogram. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

The next available appointment isn't until the 20th. Once again I'll miss half an afternoon of work and have to deal with the expense and inconvenience of parking downtown. And it's all my own stupid fault.

Comments

[stomps in sympathy]

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

Crazy-making, but not stupid.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

*seeble*

I make lists for this kind of stuff. And read them. And follow them. Because I am becoming hopelessly forgetful, and bugger things up this way on a regular basis.

Thank goodness for my Palm Pilot alarms.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

I don't have a Palm or anything like that, but I've found that taping notes (or, when necessary, entire documents) to the bathroom mirror works pretty well ...