Friday, January 10, 2014

Rudeness amplified!

I have been accused of being rude...


Okey dokey, now what the heck is that all about one might ask?
After all my personal aggravation of being in continuing pain due to my herniated lumbar disc November 26.2013 and just hanging in there with taking prescribed Gabapentin 1200 mg. and Baclofen 40 mg. and using moist heat for the last six weeks waiting on my new insurance so I could realistically afford to go to physical therapy and my neuro's nurse calling in the wrong prescription, albeit it was the fault of my physician and I use the term without much belief of her being a 'doctor' in the truest sense of what that means, Hippocratic oath wise... I did leave a message for the nurse, Barbie, stating that she had sent the WRONG prescription and at that point
I was disgusted with her not getting my diagnosis, the reasoning for the PT correct! But all I said was for her to take care of it, not the rest...
And yes, I did tell her to correct it... wouldn't you?
Ring, ring, ring, Amy Mellor, MD so-called neurologist called me!
She defended her nurse and said it was her fault, but thought I was very rude and sarcastic when I tried to tell her that I am still in pain and reminded her that I was her patient or was I a client?

She did not clarify, only said that I was wrong to say what I did, and I said that I had waited so long for this to be taken care of and then it was all screwed up! And yes, I was angry, rightfully so and who to her is the one she is supposed to take care of; it's fine if she supports her staff, but when they screw up due to her admittedly own mistake unbeknownst to me is ridiculous to chew out the PATIENT! Consequently, we have parted company! Her decision, not mine oddly enough... to be honest there aren't that many to choose from nearby, sadly I hadn't thought that I had any options at the time or I would have gladly told her to take a flying leap, but alas I did find one, someone I went to years ago, I had been sent there by my then rheumatologist for a consult on my cervical stenosis and spondylosis, but he is a neurologist, Dr. Khalidi, who happens to be just a little over a mile away and does treat Multiple Sclerosis, all set with an appointment early for next month!   
*Note:I posted, on Facebook, all her negative, mostly, Amy Mellor's,  ratings from patients from online doctor sites... I should have read them before I went to her nearly four years ago!

Doctor dearest will soon find out that without PATIENTS she will not need a staff!

Hopefully none of this will change the fact that, just prior to this all went down I  did receive a call from the rehab with an appointment for next week for an evaluation and setting up of my PT. I did not call back to see if that had changed after the doctor call; too afraid, and right now I am leaving well enough alone.
They had received the corrected prescription with all issues on it from my cervical stenosis, spondylosis, MS and herniated lumbar disc all to be assessed!

Talk about stress and knowing that it all can just exacerbate my MS, I am taking slow deep breaths and trying hard to think about the fact that I now have another neuro doc and I am scheduled for PT and for now that is all that counts... YAY!

And so on that note of trying hard to feel better, allow me to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to count all your blessings and share those overages with you know who and we will too!

Next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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