I apparently haven't posted in a while, oops!
Well lets see here, where to start! I am home from christmas leave obviously:) And ever since I have just been working on Alyssa's room, and getting everything perfect for her arrival!<3 I was doing a bit of nesting when I first got back, but now I have a horrible cold...so the nesting has been put on hold. Which is probably a good thing because I was going a litttttle crazy. Im now 30weeks<3 I can't even believe it, these past 30 weeks have flown by! Part of me feels like Ive been pregnant forever, but the other part feels like I just found out!
I had an OB appointment this past Monday. When I went in I told them Alyssa hadnt been moving as much this past weekend, but I was still feeling her daily so I wasn't really too worried. The nurse told me I should have went in and gotten it checked out (oops I didn't know). Then they put me on the machines and had me push a button anytime Alyssa moved. She passed with flying colors, I swear Ive never felt her move that much before. Its pretty much amazing! Well then my doctor came in, and he said her heartbeat and movements looked great but he wanted to do an ultrasound just to check my fluids & see her. Well he turned the machine on and right away it was her butt, he said 'its still a girl' (yay). Then he said something about my fluids that I didn't understand (the nurses swear my fluids are fine though), so maybe he was saying the look good, idk! Then of out no where he asks me if I am free today, I told him yes. He wanted to know if I would go see a specialist THAT DAY. I said yes of course, well then the nurses came back letting him know I couldn't because of my insurance, I would need a referral. So he said to book the appointment for the following Monday. He put the referral in, but because hes not an on post doctor apparently he doesn't have that power. So the referral was denied. I then had to call the appointment line and beg for a same day appointment to get my referral, I explained the situation and they were able to get me in! The doctor I saw was pretty nice, but she kept saying she didn't understand why I needed the referral..listen lady either do I but my doctor wants me to see someone so damn it I am going to see them. She ended up calling the doctors office asking some questions, after talking to them she decided not to be the referral in as urgent -which sucked because tricare told me that if they put it on as urgent I would be able to get in and see the doctor thursday (because they said they would fit me in as long as I got the referral in time). WELL -she put ASAP instead of urgent so apparently that makes a difference. I was stalking the website like crazy! Then Friday came around and no word about my referral so I started calling numbers, most of them were dead ends or no one answering. The appointment line had no clue, they said I needed to call the doctor who put in the referral and gave me 3 numbers -none of them worked. I couldn't get ANYONE to answer. Finally another friend posted two phone numbers for me to try and they finally worked! I was able to talk to referral management who then gave me the BAD news! The OB clinic on post wanted to see me BEFORE they would OK the referral. They then wrote in their notes that they didn't see why I was off post anyways, and wanted me back as a patient. I started crying to the lady explaining how I never saw an OB on post. And told her the whole story of why I was off post. As I explained more and more the lady seemed to be getting pretty mad at the system. She told me I would have to call the OB to try to get them to deal with this, OR drive down there and get answers. But then she changed her mind and said she would go ahead and call for me and fight with them. She asked me if I was OK with going standard in order to see the specialist on monday AND stay with my doctor! I told her that was a DEFF YES. So then I played the waiting game for a little bit of time, but thankfully she called me back & let me know she had taken care of EVERYTHING! She told me she made it so I am able to see my doctor Monday AND keep my OB! The referral management people called quite a few times yesterday telling me what was going on, and finally I got the call that it was totally taken care of! Needless to say I did A LOT of crying this week! LOL. Mostly just because of the stress of the referral, and some because I am worried about my baby. I know that if anything was seriously wrong doctor Zarate would have sent me right over the hospital and called in Dr Theard to see me...so Im not super stressed. Its just kind of weight on my heart. I did end up calling L&D at beaumont AND sierra medical center on weds evening once I realized I deff wasn't going to be seen on thursday. The beaumont nurse scared the crap out of me -telling me how there has to be a huge reason hes sending me otherwise hes wasting money. Then going on about how shes surprised Im off post because they are calling all their patients back, and then telling me not even to bother coming it because they don't have anyone at the hospital that could even do what dr theard could do. And pretty much shit talking my doctor the whole time. So I got off the phone with her feeling WAY worse and WAY more scared. So I called sierra medical, I actually got a nurse who knows what shes doing. She explained how it DOES make since that my doctor would be sending me to see a specialist because of my past, and because I went in saying I wasn't feeling her. She explained how my doctor can't do the extensive testing that Dr Theard can do. And that now I am in my third trimester so its really important to watch out for everything and be really careful. She said she knows the doctor I am seeing and hes wonderful. THEN she told me not to come in because if it was something serious dr zarate would have deff sent me in to the hospital that day and called him in because he works with thier hospital. She also told me she saw a specialist for her pregnancy, and how wonderfully the doctors explain everything. So I feel a lot better! And now Im super excited because Justin didn't think they were going to allow him to go to the appointment monday, but they said yes:) So luckily I won't have to do this appointment alone! Now if monday could just hurry up and get here..
Besides all that crazy nonsense I have just been dealing with a cold this week, I swear I feel like its getting worse everyday. Monday, Im going to ask the doctor to just listen to my lungs and make sure everything is OK. Im having so much chest pain from all that crap stuck in there! The doctor I saw on tuesday gave me some stuff for my throat, but thats all I was having problems with that day.
Well, thats pretty much all I feel the need to write about...soo I will update after my appointment!
