Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Oh No They Didn't

The subject title should be said with attitude, and a finger waving in the air.

Because, yes, they did. Or they might have. We're not entirely sure.

Mom has been calling every few days or so to find out the results from the kidney stones collected the morning of her last hospital admission (Jan. 6), because we were told they can take weeks to analyze. She called Dr. K's office (urologist) yesterday again, and there's no record of them.

WHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTT? She passed three of those massive buggers, has been doing tons of research, and the only way we're going to know how to prevent them is based on their pathology. She's livid. Who wouldn't be? She made a point to stress to her nurse that day the importance of the stones being sent to the lab.

I spoke with Dr. D's office this morning, gave her secretary the run down of what happened Friday at DFCI, and expect a phone call back from the secretary to schedule an appt for later this week, or from Dr. D herself to talk more. Either way, I will ask them to look in to the stone thing as well since they're all part of the St. Frannie system.

2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

This is MORE than annoying. REALLY hope that someone finds a festive gift bag under a desk somewhere that contains those stones. (I'm assuming kidney stones don't get stale and useless, the way the prior little gift did.) St. Effing Frannie needs to track those suckers down, dude! Lots of love. xo E

Claude said...

Do they still stone people for bad behavior anywhere? Howard might know. Or, he might be stoned himself somewhere, licking his wounds.

Liz's father had to save his stones for the same reason. He carefully collected the stone in his little sieve, and placed it by his bathroom sink to bring to his next doctor's appointment. His cleaning lady rinsed the sieve on her next visit...this losing stones thing seems to run in the family. I sure hope passing them doesn't ;>O

jJen, I'm not related to dDad by blood, but he's my iForever brother-out-law. cClaude/aAunt cCoco