Doctors and Derby and Hand Therapy

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So, I finally called about the X-ray, and sat on hold for a half hour, and had a nurse cheerfully tell me "Oh! Yup. It's normal." I could tell she was all done and about to hang up so I quickly asked what my next step should be. She seemed surprised when I told her that it was still about as painful and swollen as it had been almost two months ago. I prompted that my doctor had recommended possible therapy. Apparently my doctor is on maternity leave. I didn't even notice that she was pregnant when I was there. Nurse said she'd share my file with doctors not on materinty leave and see if they still thought that was a good idea. Got a call back just now that I'm cleared for hand therapy, but when I asked if they had a referral she just kinda went through the phone book, so I figure I can do that just as well on my own.

I'm pretty annoyed with the service I got this time around- both the non-followup, the long hold time, and not even a mention off-handedly that my chosen doc wouldn't be around or a possible person with whom I might follow up- I know due dates aren't clockwork and I'm extra sympathetic to maternity leave as my boss just came back- but still, it would have taken two seconds, and it would have been nice to know there was a reason behind the not-following-up before I sat around waiting to hear about it. Eh, well, whatever.

I liked the idea of going to a Health Center for Women, but, despite not being listed as a specialty or OB-GYN clinic, that's really what it feels like. I'd probably still go there for my annual, but I think I want to find someone else for GP stuff or, hell, for sports medicine. The last two visits I had were derby related. Plus, as S4 mentioned, since I'm now bruise-ridden fairly often, I'm a lot less likely to get the hairy eyeball about that from a sports doctor as I am from a doctor in a women's health clinic... Do you feel you're in danger at home? Bonnie Rotten made herself a tee shirt that says "I'm Not Abused, I'm a Rollergirl". Nice. Jawbreaker should borrow it; she's sporting another black eye from Fight Club this week.

So, anyway, long story short: I'm looking for a hand therapist covered by Medica. Frost? Pied Piper? Buttons? Got any good ideas?

Comments

[adamnation.livejournal.com]

I had an equally upsetting visit to the hospital today, although for a scheduled procedure.

Sitting around for 3? hours, R was hooked up to an IV and told that her op. would take about 15 minutes. We were then told that the hospital had become too busy with emergencies that day and there was only one doctor who could perform the procedure (on a staff of 600-ish? hmm..), because another doctor had "other things to do today."

I came up with the analogy that if I were running a webserver which routinely threw up Server Busy errors (or in your case, never displayed results of searches), I would be out of a job.

DAMN J00 HEALTH-CARE(?)!

[r0ckc4ndy.livejournal.com]

as if jawbreaker wasn't hot enough, now she's fighting and wearing black eyes! Damn!!

[lostbutton.livejournal.com]

I went to the Hand Clinic that is part of Fairview Riverside or whatever it's called nowdays over by the UofM. They were nice.

[lostbutton.livejournal.com]

But honestly, I needed a referral to be covered or seen by them. Do you need referrals to see specialists? If so, you may need your primary physician to do a little more work for you there to find a suitable therapist.

[pied-piper70.livejournal.com]

I would check with Sister Kenny...They've got a great hand therapy program...I also went through United as well and they might be able to work...