I’m so cranky/frustrated/irritated I could spit.

So we did the doctor chase.

David said the paed would never admit to forgetting to organise the IVIG.

He said he would play the blame game.

He said he would say he wasn’t able to contact the immunologist or the ward or the nurses or someone who needed to be contacted to get the infusion sorted.

You know, instead of being honest and saying he forgot.

David was right.

What David didn’t count on was that he would hide behind his ~~pitbulls~~ receptionists and have one of them call with the news that there would be no IVIG this week.

I was so cross.

Truth be told, I could still scream.

After the phone call I went outside and I pruned the potato vine.

When I say pruned, I mean that I hacked the living bejaysus out of it and imagined that it was the doctor’s head.

Then

I got my little saw and chopped off a gazillion dead branches and pruned back the climbing rose to within an inch of it’s prickly life, imagining stuffing one of the sharper sticks up into the ENT doctor’s nose and scraping any adenoid tissue I could find and then poking at his tonsils for a while.

and I felt a little better

and I decided that I would keep very very calm.

However, tonight I am still fuming, so I thought I might try to look at the good things…

Ivy is still in pretty good spirits and aside from having goopy ears and a slight temp, is quite well and happy.

Noah sat on my lap this afternoon and said “Love me, I am your guinea pig” and then proceeded to make guinea pig noises.

“weeep weeeeeeep weeeeeeeeeeeeeeep”!

My fence can be seen again and I think the bottle brush that the potato vine has slowly been killing may live to see another Spring.

Oh and while I did all of that pruning, I plotted a double murder and now I have space in the garden to hide the evidence.

See?

Every cloud has a silver lining.

PS, sorry for the two posts in one day

PPS, I’m not really sorry just cross and a little crazy.

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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Tiff
Filed under: doctor related posts, rant & rave

17 Responses to “I’m so cranky/frustrated/irritated I could spit.”

Tracey (109 comments.), on August 13th, 2008 at 7:23 pm Said:

You have a potato vine? Damn, I never even knew potatoes grew on vines.
Mary, on August 13th, 2008 at 8:03 pm Said:

He is a big potato head.
Veronica (293 comments.), on August 13th, 2008 at 8:37 pm Said:

And I bet the dirt is all fresh and nicely dug ready for the bodies too. Maybe once you have them buried you can throw all the clippings on top and call it compost.

Or something like that.

Take a sharp stick with you next time to poke the receptionists.
Amy, on August 13th, 2008 at 8:43 pm Said:

“Take a sharp stick with you next time to poke the receptionists.”
Or to throw for them to fetch
frogpondsrock (106 comments.), on August 13th, 2008 at 9:32 pm Said:

hehehehehe I really dislike potato vines. stupid useless plants.. much like some paeds..

ps..I have sharpened the axe
me & boo (29 comments.), on August 13th, 2008 at 9:49 pm Said:

Ah the therapeutic value of pruning and hacking! You have every right to be fuming. Dispose of the pitbulls first, the doctors may become more useful once they have to answer their own phones!
Dr. Cason (39 comments.), on August 13th, 2008 at 9:57 pm Said:

You’ve got to change pediatricians. I’ve never heard someone so unhappy.

I’m sorry.
trish, on August 13th, 2008 at 11:23 pm Said:

I am so sorry !
I already hacked my roses but still have the potato vines …very therapeutic
Jayne (132 comments.), on August 14th, 2008 at 12:32 am Said:

I’ll bring the shovel and bucket-loads of hot chocolate for us to drink afterwards.
Laura (23 comments.), on August 14th, 2008 at 3:03 am Said:

You can use my garden - I am over the ocean - NOONE will know!

Sorry man Tiff! I can only imagine your frusration and anger at this!!!!
Marylin (155 comments.), on August 14th, 2008 at 3:28 am Said:

Aww honey. (((hugs))) for you and Ivy. xxxx
Xbox4NappyRash (168 comments.), on August 14th, 2008 at 4:26 am Said:

I hate it when doctors do stuff that reminds you they are normal stupid humans.

Small steps Tiff, but in the right direction at least.
jeanie (70 comments.), on August 14th, 2008 at 8:17 am Said:

Potato vine as in that horribly clings to you and trunks of trees and the only consolation is for a week a year gives lovely flowers and no matter how you attack it will come back hale and hearty?

What a therapeutic plant!! I find having a clump of morning glory is another great frustration breaker, and for really nasty angst asparagus grass.
Gemisht (38 comments.), on August 14th, 2008 at 9:56 am Said:

Don’t take a sharp stick for the receptionists, see if someone can lend you a cattle prod. Then you could use it on the paed too. I bet his memory would improve after that.

So sorry to hear you are doing the Dr chase. AGAIN.

And if you need another shovel just let me know - I’ll bring that and a wee drop of something to put in the hot chocolate
river, on August 14th, 2008 at 4:58 pm Said:

I agree with Dr Cason, you should find another paed. I’ve said it before………
HennHouse (Karin) (52 comments.), on August 15th, 2008 at 3:15 am Said:

So in all of the chasing and crossness–did the IVIG get rescheduled?

I’m thinking about you today.
Childlife (157 comments.), on August 19th, 2008 at 2:43 pm Said:

Oh, bless Noah’s adorable little heart! That is just too precious for words

And no harm in channeling those frustrations into gardening — I’ve been known to terrorize the plant life in our yard upon occasion too - lol!