Monday, December 19, 2005
ON DOCTOR COORDINATION
Frustrating, frustrating, frustrating is the kindliest way I can describe my feelings right now concerning Karon’s medical situation. As I indicated in a previous blog, Karon has to have surgery on her hip. The orthopedic doctor said he couldn’t do surgery until she has been off chemotherapy for 3 or 4 weeks. He said he would talk to the oncologist and call Karon. After a few days, the ortho doctor’s office called and said that her oncologist said Karon could stop taking cumadin. That’s nice since she wasn’t taking it in the first place! We have no idea what that ortho doctor’s office said to the oncology office!
The other night the oncologist called to discuss the situation. He said he hadn’t heard from the orthopedic doctor. He wouldn’t say he would interrupt the chemotherapy treatments until he heard from the orthopedic doctor as to a definite date surgery. The orthopedic doctor says he won’t schedule surgery until he hears from the oncologist that Karon has been off the chemo for 3 or 4 weeks. Grrr! Getting these to coordinated so they are communicating is worse than getting two feuding marriage partners to communicate with each other!
In the meantime the patient (in this case, Karon,) sits in the middle and wonders what’s going on and how it’s going to turn out. Karon doesn’t want to have the surgery in the first place. And now, to not be able to schedule it and work out the time with her work is very frustrating. So we wait and wonder and get more frustrated and angrier all the time (at least I do.) God is teaching us something. I pray that we (I) can learn.
Today she and I have a “serious” discussion with the oncologist. There are a lot of questions to which we need answers. We are going to have what a lady with whom I used to work called a “come to Jesus” talk! We’ve got to get something settled as to whether she will have a chemotherapy treatment today, and other questions.
Jim
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