No News Yet

It's almost 4 pm Monday as I write this, and we've heard nothing about the biopsy results.

Am I frustrated?

YOU MIGHT SAY THAT!

If I ran a hospital, by d*mn, I'd have the email address for every person waiting for a pathology report, and I'd email that sucker to its owner (the PATIENT owns the report, not the doctor) one nanosecond after it got typed.

Making people wait to find out if they're going to live or die is a LITTLE TOO MUCH LIKE STICKING INNOCENT PEOPLE ON DEATH ROW, so they can enjoy that long and lingering traumatic experience of wondering if and when and how.

And staring holes into the phone is fun, too.

FOR PETE'S SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least, I got a little nerve up and called over there today. My call didn't land anywhere near the right place, but the people were kind and kept switching me until I finally got a marvelously empathetic Oncology Dept. telephone person named Vickie, who looked into the computer system for me (OH YE WORKS OF THE LORD, BLESS YE THE VICKSTER!) and found out that NO ONE has the path report yet. Apparently it gets entered into the computer the instant it's released, and until that happens, the case says, "path pending." The Blessed Saint Vickie told me that his case says, "path pending" so she assured me that I could be positive that no one has the results yet except the pathologist.

And I'm thinking maybe pathologists don't work on weekends.

Heck, I wouldn't.

If I were a pathologist, I'd negotiate a work contract that involved receiving zillions of dollars an hour, plus a new Porsche every year, and NO WORKING ON WEEKENDS. Wouldn't you?

THE VERY NANOSECOND I have those results, I will announce it on the blog, on facebook, by email to some who don't know how to do blogs and facebooks, and probably by running around in circles yelling it out.

No matter what the results are, they're going to be HIGH MELODRAMA FOR ME. Comic or tragic, I'm going to be WILD when those results come in.

Okay, till later. And I'll post every day, just so you know I didn't forget!

Love and gratitude and yes, I will eventually calm down.

And I will always love Vickie the Phone Angel.

Bethie