Continuing the Journey

Are You KIDDING Me?!?!!

Paperchasing was going way too smoothly. I should have known better. I shouldn't have bragged on this blog that we were gonna make it in under the wire to update our homestudy.

Today was my physical appointment. The last time we compiled a dossier, I distinctly remember that getting our physicals completed and notarized was one of the more frustrating tasks. Well, at least my doctor's office staff is consistent -- it's raring up to be another fiasco of mistakes!!

I just had a physical a few months ago (required for clinicals for my BSN program). My goal today was to drop off the physical form required for the dossier (which I was told they would fill in from the last physical since it was so recent), get a prescription for the few blood draws that are required, and be finished. But, noooooooooooo.

First of all, they charged me a co-pay...to DROP OFF PAPERWORK!!!! Thankfully, that got straightened out before I had to hurt anybody. (Just kidding...sorta.) Then I explained quite clearly to the medical assistant that I needed to have the three listed labs drawn. When I got the lab prescription, it had a list of eight or nine labs, including a fasting lipid level...and I had just eaten breakfast!! Asking them to just get the three required labs on a prescription sheet was sort of like asking them all (three lovely and incompetent ladies) to remove their hair, strand by strand, and weave me a wig. For goodness sake, people, just listen to ME and FOLLOW SIMPLE DIRECTIONS!!!!

I tried to very clearly (and s-l-o-w-l-y) explain the way this form has to be notarized...but I'm expecting that to be a fiasco. Two years ago when we did this, we had to have our physical forms redone THREE TIMES because they just couldn't follow directions. I adore my doctor, really I do, but I have to believe he has hired three of the dumbest office assistants God ever created.

If you are the praying type, please send one up that we get this straightened out before next Thursday!!