Proactive Medical Attitude
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:12 pm
Just to let you know. I was in to see the doctor 3 weeks ago. He wanted me to take a stress test. I just got the test today, but if I hadn't been hounding them, who knows when I would have gotten it. After telling the doctor I couldn't do a treadmill test, they called me to make an appointment for last Tuesday. I asked Gail if she had confirmed it would not be a treadmill test - she hadn't. To make a long story short, it took till yesterday to get everyone to understand I wasn't going to take a treadmill test. They made the appointment for today, and the first thing the technician asked was I ready for a treadmill test. Just because I could walk, she thought I could run on the treadmill for 6 minutes. I told her that wasn't going to happen, and that they were going to have to give the the chemical stress test. Then she blew through my vein when she was putting the IV in, and she couldn't get the BP monitor to work. She had to leave because she was all "stressed", and other technicians had to come in to get me set up. After all that, the test was a piece of cake. Just be sure you're proactive if you have to deal with medical people. Denny