What a huge hassle.

We went to the hospital today at 7:00am for the little ones CAT scan appt which was at 9:00am. At first they weren’t going to do it because he didn’t have a recent medical checkup. My wife was about in tears waiting for this and then being told this. I calmly but angrily said that we had just gotten a call from them a week before to say everything was okay so why now are they telling us we needed somethng else and that it was unfair to do this to parents.

Apprarently the scheduling department is the one who called and they screwed up whereas we were in pediatrics. They had only gotten the paperwork the night before when they caught it. It had gone thru scheduling and radiology but niether group bothered to tell us.

Anyway, pediatrics kept apologizing saying were frustrated as well. They tried to get the original physical extended by our doc but she wasn’t available and the doc on call woulnd’t extend it so they were trying to arrange an appt for us to go see the on call doc and then come back but there wasn’t any appts so finally they said they would try it if we could get him to sleep. This was around 10:45. Well of course this was right after he had finished a nap in the room so that was a no go.

Finally an assistant nurse offered to go to radiology with us and try to distract him. The radiologist strapped him down and he was crying so loud. My wife was again almost in tears and I couldn’t think of what to tell him to get him to calm down. He hated being strapped in but then the nurse started blowing bubbles and he just froze to watch the bubbles long enough for the scan to complete. So by 11:40 or so, we finally got out of there.

We find out the results this Friday. I hope this was all for nothing in the end but it could have been easier.

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