Hi Rae
sorry must of missed your post yesterday.. god i am sorry you are being messed about. How can someone schedule you for a date that the theatre is not even open!! so unfair that you are being messed about and dreadful that you have to now fork out for this yourself. Really hoping they find a slot before the end, do they have a cancellation list that maybe you could take someones place that changes their mind before xmas?

Hoping when i get back to the site i hear some good news from you!!
big hugs J

Rrae, see if you can talk to the hospital yourself and find out what days the hospital is doing surgery. I know we are booked full with people who want to get in and get things done before the first of the year. It may or may not help. As far as the Docs nurse, I have found you can fight them ONLY by talking to the office manager or your doctor, the problem with doing this is getting labeled a "problem" patient, but sometimes it needs to be done, the hardest part is to get past the nurse to get to the doc in the first place. I had difficulty with my first pain doc and left multiple messages as she had promised to get my tial done before the first of the year. After multiple messages left, checking with my insurance company to see if they had applied for approval, I got a call from the manager one day basically telling me to back off they had done their part and I was to quit calling and wait for the insurance company to call back. When I told her I had contacted my insurance company and they told me they had NOTHING from them, she assured me they had sent it and it was "probally lost in the system", she then indicated if I persisted to call I would be fired as a patient. I told her I was a RN, was not asking for medications and only following up and being proactive for myself as the MD had promised me to get this done before the first of the year. About an hour latter I called the insurance company again and then called my previous insurance company found out they had recieved all the paperwork but since I was no longer a client of theirs they did nothing with it. You can bet my SCS that I called the clinic manager back told her they had sent the info to the wrong company and I was going to talk to a lawyer about incompatance in the office, I got a call withing 15 min from my doctor telling me that she was sorry about all the mix ups but she did not feel she could treat me, she would set me up to see one of her partners for my next visit and there was no telling when I would get approval from my company. Well in March I finally got my trial, I love the doctor I see and have had no more problems with the office or my doc. I also have issues with my primary docs "phone nurse", she tends to decide if I am calling for "personal reasons" or needing medical attention. I have reported her several times to no avail but that will soon come to a halt as she just recently put a note I called about a patient for surgery on the bottom of the pile so my doc did not find it until it was too late and the patient had to reschedule surgery!!
Moral to the story, be proactive for you!
:grouphug::hug:z

Oh good grief.....
 

Doncha just hate it when that kind of incompetence results in a shift of the whole affair to someone else. Your doc basically fired you?!?!?! Gee whiz, I should go into malpractice, gotta be a LOT of that out there. Now, where is my shingle....... oh, it's in Rae's left pocket.

Mark56:D

Well thank you!
 

Pooh, you are right! I'm sorry that you tell me this through personal experience however! How very stressful it must have been during all of that!! :eek:

I've decided ONE thing for sure.....I'll play along with this YO YO thing, and I'll get revised when it happens....and I'll do my best to get along with everyone....BUT, as far as the $2,000 deductible....well they are gonna EAT it! They'll just have to settle for whatever they get from my insurance. I am NOT paying that amount of 'out of pocket' . For a repeat of a procedure in which they got $100,000 the first time around!!

And ANOTHER thing! :eek: I am gonna make mention that MY INSURANCE is DONE after this procedure! I want these people to be of the impression that if it doesn't get done RIGHT THIS TIME, then they'll be doing alot of PRO BONO the next time around.
This whole thing just isn't fair to ANY of us......I feel bad for my insurance company!! :eek:

Thanks for all your great input!
:hug:

OH! and Mark, I dug very deep for a shingle, but PUPPIES kept popping out of my pocket!!! :rolleyes:

well i have 4 cute puppies, (our older male cattle dog went visiting:eek:) that have landed here thanks to the paterinity issue, one is now my house puppy, and three have been deemed to be future cattle dogs. They are Austrialian Sheppard/Border Collie cross pups, due to the fact that our Border Collie female had a false pregnancy so everyone was happy:D. As far as shingles there were one or two in the yard after the last wind storm.....:cool:
And yes Mark, she "fired" me but I got the better end of the deal with her partner... This office is very strict and let you know up front that..... If you are 10 min late you forfit your visit and pay for it, insurance will not cover for no shows, 2 no shows and you are out, If you do not follow the narcotic contract, you are warned once then out, drug screens are a posibility at any time...If you habitually call in on Friday or weekends for narcotic refills, one warning then done. The doc who set up the practice in the first place was apparently burned so....
All of this is outlined in your information packet with your intial stuff from the office.
I have had no issue with my doc, and the former doc will not look me in the eye when I meet her in the hall and one time I had to have her check a wound that was infected and even then she would not make eye contact at that time
Oh what fun.....:p

Glad my pain doc is human
 

So blessed that I have a human for a pain doc, yes indeed. He has become a compassionate friend. It was he who saw to my immediate consultation for psych issues when my depression deepened so rapidly and dramatically. It was he who saw to my medication which brought me out of the depression and anxiety.
Mark56

Rae
 

I am so sorry you are going through all of this Rae! You definitely do not deserve it. I am also sorry that you went through that too Pooh with your old doctors. I understand where you are coming from though because I had to get rid of my old doctor and nurses that were treating me so bad and now I am so thankful I did. My new pain doctor (who taught my old one) was floored when I said she never let me be on pain meds and when I told him how she was mean to me when my parents were not around. It was so hard because I was nervous and never had to face changing doctors like that but I wish I would have done it sooner because I suffered over a year because of her and also her surgeries were not as good and we think that is why my leads kept moving. SHe called me her problem patient and said she never had these problems with anyone else and believe me I was not being mean I was just trying to get some help. I am also glad I did not go with her surgeon either because he laughed when I was nervous about the laminectomy and that is never a good sign!
The fact is you deserve a great health care team and no one should be treated this way! I always think that if people are mean to me they probably take advantage of others too. I also think that when our leads move or whatever they should fix it asap because it is their work even though they will blame it on you or whatever. Through talking to all of you guys, I have learned how important it is to be proactive and that we do have rights as patients and that we can fire our doctors just like they can fire us! I really really hope and pray that you get this revision scheduled and taken care of so that you can feel better ASAP! I hope that maybe you can find someone that will treat you better and not make things worse for you, the stress of having a doctor office treat you bad made me feel even worse :( I always talk to my friends that are going into nursing about stuff like that because they need to know how their patients are being treated. However, I am very thankful for good nurses too and I plan on sending Thank You cards to two of them that were so nice to me in the hospital. Wow, I am sorry this is so long must be the meds....I just really feel for you Rae, and I do not want you to suffer anymore! Take care of yourself :hug::hug::hug:'sTara

Me feel for you too, you know
 

:hug:Hey Sis- :grouphug::circlelove::rm_milk::Sorry::smileypray: :smileypray::smileypray::smileypray::Soapbox::Hear t::Heart::Heart::Heart::Heart::Heart:
Mark56

Rae, you poor thing!!
 

Rae:hug: Its bad enough having to go through a revision, but then to have all this other stress must be just so bad!

Im really sorry for you, you have enough to deal with. Bloody insurance company too....I know you have a different kind of Social Welfare system in the States compared to Ireland. But at the end of the day insurance companies no matter where they are , are a bunch of rotters. They definitely love scamming people dont they:mad:

Hope your well otherwise and that your grandson and daughter are both doing well too......

Jackie:hug:

Hugs!
 

Thank you all so very much for all this attention and support! :grouphug:
........I think I feel another puppy squirming around in my left pocket :D

Somehow things seem 'ok' for me.....probably because of the precious little guy in my life who has made my heart melt like BUTTER!! :rolleyes:
My grandson (Aidyn) is way too cute and his pic is on my phone 'wallpaper', so I see him every time I phone or text.........somehow his cuteness graces over any stress I am facing and it makes things seem 'ok' :p

........however, we'll see what frame of mind I am in AFTER the actual revision takes place....... ! Will I still be allll :inlove:, or will I be more like :Soapbox::deadhorsebeat:......we shall see.......

It's kinda hard to paint the picture of the relationship I have with this doc....on one hand, I just can't help but really like the guy......he truly does have a good reputation, and he's had one hell of a bad year.....
He's the one who found one of his friends DEAD on their bathroom floor from a sudden heart attack (and HE ,the dead one, was our very 'renowned' one and only HEART DOCTOR who ran the big 'Heart Institute' wing of our hospital) :eek:.....plus he's going thru divorce procedings and that's why one of my tentative schedule dates had to be changed was because he had to go to court that day for his divorce trial....... Lord. :Noooo:
Surely he wouldn't be doing this to help pay for court costs ...... :confused:
Nahhhhhhh.......... :icon_eek:........

I'm determined to have a good Holiday season.......
There are others who are going thru much worse than I....my situation seems 'pale' in comparison to what some folks are dealing with!
I just LOVE you guys! Each and every one of you are like family to me :grouphug:

Thank you all...
Rae
:Heart:

Mark, I completely LOVE your Doctor for seeing to it that you didn't completely fall apart! You have come so very very far and then you got sucked up into that horrible dark cloud.........
If I could hug that man I truly would! :hug:
And YOU, dear Bro will get a huge :grouphug: in PERSON!! This, I guarantee! You live in the state right next to mine, and we have relatives who live near you, so......WATCH OUT!!!!