Step 4 ?

When Mr. Fixit had his first heart cath and a stint put in place, the surgeon left us sitting in the surgery waiting room for more than two hours waiting for word. It was supposed to be a 45 minutes procedure. Of course, I was beside myself, imagining the worst. It turned out that the surgeon had an emergency and everyone in the operating theater “forgot” to tell us that Mr. Fixit was okay and had been transported to his room.

That same cardiologist left him on a heart medicine for more than three years when one year was the medical standard at the time.

When Mr. Fixit had another heart episode, the cardio nut decided to do another heart cath. He “forgot” that Mr. Fixit was in the hospital waiting for surgery. That meant he had extra days in the hospital.

This cardiologist was a network provider. We found another network doctor in a town farther away and associated with a different hospital system. The relationship with the first cardiologist was severed.

After Mr. Fixit saw the kidney oncologist, we received a call from a physical therapist setting up an appointment to teach us about some unfortunate issues that could be a consequence of his upcoming surgery.

We kept that appointment today. It appears that the appointment was made by mistake. The therapist thought Mr. Fixit had prostate cancer. When we told her that it was indeed kidney cancer (still not specifically diagnosed as “cancer” at this point), she said that she didn’t think that there would be the same side effects to the kidney surgery as there is with prostate cancer. She called the doctor to check to see what exactly what she was supposed to do, but he couldn’t be reached. We left.

We stopped to have one of his prescriptions renewed at the kidney doctor’s office. When we picked it up at the pharmacy, the dosage of the medication was different than the first prescription he had been given.

We are so confused. We really don’t need this crap right now.