Lesson Learned: Don't Do IUIs on Mondays

Notice: Really Boring Scheduling Minutia Below

Some people have been known to call my clinic a factory because there are so many people there--both patients and medical staff. I myself have found this comforting. I like that they have systems in place and that everything runs like a well ordered machine. Until today.

Now, one of the things that impressed me about the clinic is that they're up and running 7 days a week most of the year. Yesterday was a Saturday, and as I groused previously, when I went in around 7 am, the joint was jumping with business as usual. The way it works is that you go in for monitoring and a coordinator from the induction team calls you between 3 and 5 that afternoon to tell you what your next steps are. So yesterday afternoon I got a call as I was expecting, but it wasn't from my usual coordinator. He told me to go ahead with the trigger shot and to call today (Sunday) for a semen wash appointment on Monday when they'll do the IUI. Since this is my first time on this particular merry-go-round, I had lots of questions, but this fellow didn't have any answers and said I should ask when I call on Sunday.

Okay, now flash forward to Sunday. I call to make my appointment and get the clinic's answering service who says someone will call me back. An hour later, I get a call back telling me I'll have to call tomorrow to make an appointment, which isn't really practical since the appointments have to be made between 8 am and 10:30 am, and we have to leave the house by 6:30 to be there by 8. Add to this that I have a RIDICULOUS Spanish test tomorrow morning and my husband has a work meeting at 9:30. So, I'm all in a dither. I'm vaguely okay with blowing all that stuff off, but I'd be okay-er with it if we actually *had* an appointment, and I knew I wasn't going to spend that time just sitting around the waiting room twiddling my thumbs.

UGH!

Comments

[Jo]

Grrrr! How insanely frustrating! That's the sort of thing that makes me sorry I don't own a tackling dummy.

Good luck with the appointment, and, um, your Spanish test which you've already taken by now.

[Lisa]

Thanks Jo. I wonder if my insurance would spring for a tackling dummy? An item like that could come in handy.