“When your day is long
And the night, the night is yours alone
When you’re sure you’ve had enough
Of this life, well hang on
Don’t let yourself go
‘Cause everybody cries
Everybody hurts sometimes” – REM
‼️SPOILER ALERT‼️
My mom’s surgery has been CANCELLED.
Read on if you’re interested to hear me complain about incompetence, ahhhhhhh!
Cardiologist Office
- 10:04am – office staff calling to ask about the dates of my mom’s heart tests and the hospital where the tests were performed.
- 11:07am – different office staff calling to ask about the dates of my mom’s heart tests and the hospital where the tests were performed.
Not to mention, I already clarified all of this information yesterday at the cardiologist office during our appointment. Ugh!
- 12:36pm – I call to follow up on whether they were able to obtain the test results/ reports so the cardiologist could review and provide his clearance. The office staff looks through my mom‘s records and tells me that clearance was faxed to her oncologist on 6/18 (today)
- 12:42pm – just 6 minutes later, my mom’s cardiologist calls and says “I’ve reviewed all the reports. Your mom has severe blockages in her heart, surgery is too dangerous, I am not giving her clearance, she will not survive the surgery”
So yeah…that happened. I called the oncologist office to leave my own message to make sure they didn’t get false clearance because I don’t trust anyone.
Medical Records
Recall that on 5/8/26, my sister switched doctors. Since then, I have been trying to get her medical records sent from the old practice to the new practice. We filled out all the forms but found out at my sister’s 6/5/26 follow up appointment that the records still have not been sent over.
So on 6/5/26 after leaving my sister’s doctor appointment, we drove over to her old doctor’s office. They had moved to a new location. I called the telephone number on the door and asked about the medical records request. They told me I could go pick it up in person but it would cost me $50 so they recommended making sure the new doctor’s office had the right fax and email address to send medical requests. I noted it and shared it with the new doctor’s office.
I followed up on 6/9/26 and was told the medical records still had not been received.
On 6/18/26, I called the old doctor office and the staff said they faxed the records over on 6/5/26. I asked for the fax number they sent it to and then I shared that with the new doctor office. The new doctor office replied back and asked for them to fax it to a different number. WHY?!! Why does everything have to be so difficult?!? According to the old doctor office, they faxed it to the number on the medical request form. That’s logical! Why?!! Oh my freaking goodness, tell me why?!?!!!!
Universal Medical Records PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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