Fight for yourself

Something that’s been a common thread in discussions I’ve had lately is to be sure and take care of myself, get the care I need and to not lose my voice! Sometimes in our lives we lose ourselves and it’s not always a good thing when it happens.

I recently had some medical issues and while I do have insurance that’s normally good, the care this round hasn’t been. I’ve had to fight just to get test results and then fight to get more tests because the results didn’t tell what’s wrong. Then to make matters worse I had a new completely unrelated incident where the same treatment started. This time being worse because I might have broken a bone or torn the tendons and I still can’t get the clinic to do anything. I had to fight to get an appointment just for them to agree I needed more testing to determine damage. This all after I’d spent hours in ER and was told by them it was possibly fractured and got put in temporary splint and a referral to ortho, but they kicked back the referral without an MRI. They then said they couldn’t request it since I wasn’t a patient yet and ER said they couldn’t because I was already released. And I couldn’t get an appointment til 3 days later and the MRI wasn’t scheduled for another week later. I’m hoping the results come quick once test is done but I won’t hold my breath. I’ll just call and email until someone tells me something.

I’ve said all this to show what I’ve fought against just in last two weeks, the trouble before that’s worse. I’ve had to fight for answers and you should fight too! If you know something is wrong do what you have to in order to get an answer. I had to crutch myself down to the clinic with my 3 girls in tow to get my answers. It wasn’t easy but when they wouldn’t respond to the messages I’d left I had no choice. They talk about trying to stay with your primary care doc and keep continuity of care, but when they don’t follow up with patients it’s not possible. So I’m fighting! I saw the patient advocate at the hospital who had me write a formal complaint too. I doubt it’ll fix the problems, but they wanted a formal complaint to be on file that things aren’t right.

So now I sit back and wait to find out what’s going on with both my problems. When the next tests are done though I will continue my fight to find out the answers so I can move forward! This is just one of the fights I’m currently battling, but currently the most important as I need to know what’s wrong to move forward with treatment. This girl can’t be chasing her kids with a possible break for long 😉