Soooo....for the last couple weeks I reverted back to wasting away in good ol' Denialville. I was told by my OB/Gyn to call within 10 days if I had not heard back yet regarding my colpo results. Well, Wednesday (last) came & went with no phone call incoming or outgoing...then Thursday...then Friday...
When Sunday came & I went out to coffee with a friend the subject came up. She asked whether I had heard back on the results yet or not & if I was worried. No, no, no....I said. I wasn't worried. I just KNEW that the results would be fine, especially since I hadn't heard back yet. I figured it was clinic policy to call ASAP on bad test results & so "No news was GOOD news." I promised my friend I would call to check on the results come Monday morning. Well, Monday came & went without a phone call.
Today, at around 4PM I decided I guess I should probably bite the bullet & call since I STILL hadn't heard. anything. I was very quickly transferred to the nurse & explained to her that I was still waiting to hear back on my colposcopy results from nearly 2.5 weeks ago. She apologized & looked me up in the computer. After a couple quiet seconds she said that she doesn't even know if my doctor has looked at my results yet or not so she would have to have the On-call provider look at them & then she would call me back.
Uh-oh.
I know EXACTLY what that means. They are abnormal. =( Just how abnormal, I don't know. But, my heart sank in that moment. How do I know they are abnormal? Because, I work for the same clinic & I KNOW the policy. If the results had been normal, she would have just told me. I do that for patients all the time.
10 mins. later the nurse calls me back. And here comes uh-oh number 2. The nurse tells me that the On-call doctor prefers that my own OB/Gyn reviews the results first & then just calls me back tomorrow. Is that okay?
Uh....NO. It really ISN'T okay, but what the fuck other choice do I have? Because in what world does the On-call just have the right to refuse to deal with abnormal results?! I'm kind of pissed. So now, I have to wait until tomorrow to hear just how abnormal my results are. And the fact that the On-call didn't even want to deal with it....means they are likely NOT good. Some doctors hate being the bearer of the bad news. Thanks for the added stress, especially since I have to work a 12 hour shift tomorrow. =(
I'm so sorry that they couldn't tell you what is going on. Not knowing is WAY worse than knowing what is wrong and getting together a plan on how to fix it. Hopefully by the time I've written this, you know exactly what is going on!!
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