Hen23's Journal~Goodbye

[Henrietta23]

You know how sometimes you just know something stupid is going to happen?? Well today was one of those days. The woman who did my x-rays told me the radiologist would have them read before the end of the day so I should expect to hear something from the nurse practioner who ordered them by this morning. I called the doctor's office right after they opened to let them I was expecting results and that the best way to reach me today would be on my cell. The receptionist took the number and that was that. Never heard a thing. Got home and called again. Receptionist said, "Well, she has to read them first." To which I replied "I know, but the hospital said I should hear soon and I'm in pain and I'd like to know what our next step is as soon as I can." She said she'd go check. After about 4 minutes she came back and said that the results were on the nurse practioner's desk and she won't be in until Friday. Are you kidding me??? I remainded calm and she told me she had put the chart on the doctor's desk to review before Friday. I worked in a family practice office and stuff like this happens, I know that. But still, how much common sense does it take to see x-ray results and not expect a patient to be looking for answers before a freaking week has gone by????????? She did also tell me that they found no fractures or bone abnormalities. I'm pretty sure I've got posterior tibial tendonitis with some plantar fasciitis going on. I just need to know what we do now.
It was an all around stupid day and it's getting stupider by the minute.

 

[savingdogs]

They were gonna wait a WEEK to call you?

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Waiting a week to call???! That's not acceptable at all. I hope you get answers soon.

 

[Henrietta23]

Apparently! Unbelievable huh? I certainly wasn't going to wait a week.....
but not surprisingly the doctor did not call tonight. I will probably just go ahead and make an appointment with an ortho on my own. I don't need a referral from them anyway.

 

[Henrietta23]

So I get a message on my cell from the same receptionist this morning that the doctor has looked at the results, there's no acute injury so I'll have to wait until Friday to see what the Nurse Practioner wants me to do next. No surprise there. So I'm keeping it stabilized and doing plantar fasciitis exercises for the heel pain that started two days ago. Life goes on! I don't have time for this!

 

[colowyo0809]

 

[Henrietta23]

Thanks...... partly what you're hearing is frustration with DS and math homework. I'm letting him dig his own hole. He is spinning yarns about why he didn't write in his planner that he had a math test today. The hole is getting deeper and deeper. DH is home. I'm going to the library.

 

[colowyo0809]

Thanks...... partly what you're hearing is frustration with DS and math homework. I'm letting him dig his own hole. He is spinning yarns about why he didn't write in his planner that he had a math test today. The hole is getting deeper and deeper. DH is home. I'm going to the library.

You know, my mother struggled with this same thing. And then one day, she just stopped. Stopped worrying about it, and decided that if it was going to get done I would have to be responsible for it, as it was my work Eventually I figured out life was less complicated if I just did the homework And then I got to highschool and realized that I could get by with doing occasional homework and just blasting through the exams Teachers either disliked me or were frustrated by me

 

[Henrietta23]

Soooo today's the day the NP was to be back in the office after being off since Monday. By 4:00 still no call so I called them. I'm told she is stacked up with double booked patients and will probably be making calls from home later. :/ So I told them I am going to be headed out at 6:30 so cell will be the best way to reach me. I'm friendly and polite even though I'm get a tad impatient. So 5 minutes go by and my cell phone rings. It's the same woman I just talked to telling me the NP has reviewed the results and agrees with the doc. There's no fracture. Pause............. I wait to hear what's next but apparently that's it. so keeping my temper in check I say, that's great but what I really need to know is what do I do know? Because I've been wearing a brace on it for almost a week and it's minimally better so do I keep on doing this and hope it heals on its own (yeah, right) or do I refer myself to an orthopedist or do they or what???? Pause...... "Let me check" OHFORCRYINGOUTLOUD! Did you NOT think I was gonna ask that????? So yeah, they referred me to the ortho office in town and will fax the x-ray results over this afternoon. I can call next week to make an appointment. The doctor could have taken 5 mintues and dealt with this on Monday and I'd already at least have my appt. scheduled even if I had to wait a bit. Stupidstupidstupid!! I know I am the one who waited almost 2 months before going to have it checked out but there was no reason to make me wait this long!
Glad the week is over. Had a lot of kids absent but had some really awesome sessions too including one with an apraxic kindergartener. He's pretty much noncverbal although he is learning to speak and can make quite a few speech sounds now. He's very motivated right now so it's going well. He is a native Spanish speaker but understands almost everything I say to him in English and is enjoying speaking simple English words with me. He also works with our bilingual speech pathologist in Spanish and she has been having some trouble with his behavior. We have different approaches and he seems to be reacting to me better lately. I think she has been misinterpreting some of his behavior too. What she considers to be random and impulsive to me looks like him trying to accomplish something without giving up when it gets a little difficult. Even though she is the certified speech path. and I an assistant I've gotten more outspoken about pointing things out to her and I think some of it is starting to get through to her. We don't normally share students but this kiddo is high needs and she is only part time so she arranged for me to give him some of his speech time. Anyway...... he was getting frustrated looking for something and I needed to get him to stop what he was doing and get on to something else. He gave me this look that said "Fine, be angry with me. You're always angry with me!" I stopped immediately and asked him if Mrs. T got mad at him a lot when he was looking for buttons on his computer. He nodded. The light bulb went on for me. When she thinks he is randomly pushing buttons to be naughty he is actually trying to find something that she has put in some weird folder on the thing. Today it was puppets. There was an assembly with puppets yesterday. Today I asked him to say the word puppet to practice his "p" sound with different vowels. He wanted to TELL ME ABOUT the puppet show. He knew she had added a puppet show button. But she put it under "gym" which is where the assembly was held. He coudln't find it. I had no idea to look there. I wasn't at that school yesterday so puppet show wasn't even something I had any awareness of. When I figured it all out and said to him "You're not being naughty when you push buttons. You're just trying to find the right one aren't you?" he not only nodded but threw his arms around me. I GOT IT! We had a little heart to heart and I promised I would share with Mrs. T what we figured out. I emailed her and she agreed that she might be interpretting some of his behaviors wrong. It was honestly one of the most positive experiences I've had in this system!

 

[Henrietta23]

Weird. We're having a tag sale here at the house today, making up for the one from the day before the hurricane that didn't do so well. All these people wandering around my front yard. And all of a sudden I can't breathe. I had to run in the house! DH is out there with my mom and DS is wandering back of forth. But I really couldn't stand being out there! I went into major "leave me the heck alone" mode.....
Looks like I'll be in here knitting or trying to little spurt of cleaning. I may head out back and clear out one of the garden beds for my garlic which has arrived. I already ran away to buy pine shavings for the coop. I think I'll run away again later to go to the grocery store.