Went with my wife to what could be considered a fairly life-altering doctor appointment today. Here's how it went down:
- Got there, signed in.
- Sat down in waiting room, which apparently dubs as a sauna (or the doctor is too cheap to run the AC out there given it's 100+ degrees outside and all, full of pregnant women who I'm sure absolutely LOVE to be in sweltering heat).
- Waited for 2 hours past our scheduled appointment time in said waiting room (along with said pregnant women including one taking business phonecalls in an otherwise annoying Jamaican-eqsue accent, another who brought her two brat kids that decided to play armpit wars, another who would let her annoying-ass ghetto ringtones play for about 45 seconds before answering and finally godzilla who was eying me up like a meat-puppet).
- Finally get called back into the exam room area which is an icy 45 degrees... kelvin.
- Sit down and wait for several minutes in said icebox after being told "The doctor will be in shortly."
- Doctor comes in, starts going over all the bullshit we already know or is otherwise easily found using Google.
- Loud knock on the door as a nurse pokes her head in and tells the doctor he's needed at the hospital immediately for an emergency.
- The doctor turns to us and says "Go have lunch and come back, we'll get back to you as soon as we can" and then leaves for the emergency.
- Wife is visibly distraught and we're told they'll give us a call when the doctor gets back in. I'm irritated at this point as well.
- Nearing 4:00pm as my wife is just about home, she receives a call from the doctor's office saying we can come back in now, which is nice and all except my wife is already on the other side of town and our babysitter has to leave at 4pm and I've already missed 3 hours of work today.
When it's all said and done, we found out exactly NOTHING and the stress and irritation of not having any certainty in this particular situation will have to persist until... Tuesday. I'm sure that's health for a pregnant woman to have to deal with this sort of anxiety.
- Got there, signed in.
- Sat down in waiting room, which apparently dubs as a sauna (or the doctor is too cheap to run the AC out there given it's 100+ degrees outside and all, full of pregnant women who I'm sure absolutely LOVE to be in sweltering heat).
- Waited for 2 hours past our scheduled appointment time in said waiting room (along with said pregnant women including one taking business phonecalls in an otherwise annoying Jamaican-eqsue accent, another who brought her two brat kids that decided to play armpit wars, another who would let her annoying-ass ghetto ringtones play for about 45 seconds before answering and finally godzilla who was eying me up like a meat-puppet).
- Finally get called back into the exam room area which is an icy 45 degrees... kelvin.
- Sit down and wait for several minutes in said icebox after being told "The doctor will be in shortly."
- Doctor comes in, starts going over all the bullshit we already know or is otherwise easily found using Google.
- Loud knock on the door as a nurse pokes her head in and tells the doctor he's needed at the hospital immediately for an emergency.
- The doctor turns to us and says "Go have lunch and come back, we'll get back to you as soon as we can" and then leaves for the emergency.
- Wife is visibly distraught and we're told they'll give us a call when the doctor gets back in. I'm irritated at this point as well.
- Nearing 4:00pm as my wife is just about home, she receives a call from the doctor's office saying we can come back in now, which is nice and all except my wife is already on the other side of town and our babysitter has to leave at 4pm and I've already missed 3 hours of work today.
When it's all said and done, we found out exactly NOTHING and the stress and irritation of not having any certainty in this particular situation will have to persist until... Tuesday. I'm sure that's health for a pregnant woman to have to deal with this sort of anxiety.