Wednesday was the PET scan and yesterday was the biopsy. THe PET scan was a piece of cake, the biopsy was an all day affair.
I want to know why: a doctors office will send you for an appointment, and they don’t bother telling you any specifics. Like, you ask:
How long will I be at the hospital?
They say: no more than a couple of hours.
Doctors office tells you not to eat or drink anything from midnite on.
You get to the hospital, nurse takes your vitals, etc, you mention you can’t wait for a cup of coffee, and bam! she brings you one.
The nurses and the “medically trained” – for lack of a better description – are wonderful. But the people at the hospital registration desk, while nice and efficient to a point, need a tad more training. The girl who registered us yesterday told us where to go. I specifically made her draw me a map. We go to the designated place – it was the wrong place. This happened two weeks ago as well. Why can’t they pick up a phone and confirm where a patient needs to go? My mom can’t walk very far. If a patient is sick, is there by themselves, whatever, they don’t want to wander hospital corridors.
I know I was worn out from the whole thing. I can imagine how mom felt.