Proceed with Caution Part 2

Just a quick recap of my day and the battle of the Dr's.

I started pee'ing blood this morning. Not a lot, but some (see, I told you to proceed with caution!). Enough to be concerned and definitely was NOT normal.

I call the GI Dr to find out my CT results. Nurse tells me there is a spot on my ureter...whatever the crap that is!! She wasn't sure if it was a kidney stone or what, but was going to talk to Doc and call me back.

She calls me back and says Doc wants me to go see either a Urologist or my Primary Care Dr. After sitting on hold for four and a half minutes, I hung up on the Family Dr and called the Urologist.

Long story short-GI Doc sends the CT results to the Urologist. Urologist secretary calls me back and says "You need to go to your OB. You've got a cyst, not a kidney stone." Um....WRONG! I have no freaking ovary on that side of my body! "Oops" says the receptionist. She takes more notes on the information I've already given her and says "I'm going to give this to the on call Dr's nurse and have her call you."

Nurse calls me back. Nope, she says, I have no problems whatsoever. There is nothing "urologically wrong" with me.

I admit it.

I lost it.

I started crying and apologized to her because I was about to go off on her and yet it really wasn't just her that had pissed me off at that point. I was just so frustrated! I explained the bleeding-I explained the low grade fever-clarified to the nurse that the pain was in the FRONT, not the back like she though! I swear, I thought I was dealing with a 5 year old!! I had to recap the whole freaking week all for her to say "Well the CT doesn't show any kidney stones, so therefore it's not a urological problem." I think the heavy sobbing and explaining that I just want to know what's wrong-that I know my body and know something isn't right-and she said "Let me talk to the Dr and I'll get back with you."

She called back about five minutes later and said "Let's just make you an appointment for Monday." She said the bleeding makes it a "urological" problem. Who knew!? Grr!!! So I go see the Urologist on Monday at 11:00 and I'm making Steve go with me. Not sure what to expect, but I'm taking me some back up.

The nurse did say that I may have passed a kidney stone on Monday night (when the pain was the worst) and that this is just the healing part of it-even the blood. She said some people are instantly better when they pass stones, others hurt for months. Who knows.

I just know that I'm tired of the run around from the Dr's this week. It just seems like it shouldn't be this difficult to get an appointment with a Dr of any kind!! i told Steve, if the pain comes back this weekend even half of what it was Monday night, we are going to the ER and finding out once and for all what the problem is! I'm tired of waiting.

On another note: my kid got bullied today at school. Not many things make my blood boil like it does when someone bullies my kid. I don't care who you are, bullying is WRONG! Thankfully Tanner held it together to get through class without killing the girl and went to Mrs. Lewis (the Asst. Principal) office and she will be handling it on Monday morning.

I'm feeling old and cranky tonight. It's been a long week and I'm exhausted. I think I'll get off of here and head to bed.