Failed endo appointment

I waited a whole month for this appointment. This was to be my first appointment with an endo ever. I went to the doctor’s office – they told me the appointment was at a clinic around the corner. Mind you, it’s raining cats and dogs down here. By the time I got there, my pant legs were wet and so was my jacket.

I told everyone I was there to see Dr. O, the endo and I was referred by my primary care doctor. After about 2 hours of waiting, I asked someone when I was going to see the doctor. At that moment a resident came in the room. She told me the endo wasn’t there. Sometimes he comes there but he wasn’t there.

So how did I get an appointment with someone who wasn’t there ?? The resident got an attending and he was kind of nice to me. But no one knew what happened.

The problem is this – this guy was the only endo in the two counties close to me that takes my insurance. Or so the insurance company told me. And when I called his office later on, they said the next appointment would be another 3 weeks ! I felt really abused at this point. Especially since I had to pay $5 for parking and I hadn’t eaten or taken any meds.

It was such a rough morning I took a nap for several hours. I made some calls and managed to find another endo group who said they accept my insurance and it would only take a week to get an appointment.

Tomorrow I go see my regular doc and I really hate to see what my a1c is but at least I can tell her how well I’ve been doing since last month, going from 200s to fbg 119 in one month.