LessHumid
Finally had my call returned(and got a date too)!
Aug 17, 2014
I last called my patient navigator on August 8th(one month to the day after completing EVERYTHING). As per usual, I get her voice-mail. I left a message again asking for a callback to let me know if the internal review was finished and what the next steps are. As of last Friday, I had still not received a call back from her. I called Friday afternoon again to have someone track her down. Long story short she wasn't in the office but the young lady who answered the phone looked up my chart and told me the internal review was over and everything was sent to the scheduler on August first for submission to the insurance company and said she'd leave a message for her(the scheduler) to call me by COB. Anyway 5p.m. came and went and I still didn't get a call. I was all geared up this morning, after brooding all weekend, to call the office and lay everyone out for the lack of responsiveness and follow-through. To my surprise, the scheduler called me this morning before I could make the call. I had been approved! The next available date is September 11th. I declined. That week is the Star Spangled Spectacular here in Baltimore. My neighbourhood is smack dab in the center of all the activity as it's home to Fort McHenry. For those who don't know it's the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore which inspired Francis Scott Key to pen the poem(Defense of Fort McHenry) that would later become our National Anthem. Check out Starspangled200.com for more info. The concert and fireworks will be aired nation wide on your local PBS station. At any rate, my neighborhood(Locust Point) is a pennisula and all ingress and egress points will be barricaded and only open to local traffic. Seriously, it's gonna be a traffic nightmare and parking clusterfuck down here. I thought it better to delay it a week to the 18th. I have a prep centre work up and a workshop on the 2nd and a pre-op with the surgeon on the 10th. My three week, three and six months post-op appointments are scheduled too! Why am I not excited?
