Back home at square one.

After mentally preparing for the surgery for almost two months, and physically needing this surgery even longer, the surgery has been indefinitely postponed because my doctor over reacted as usual instead of listening. She puts all her faith in tests and not in her patients observation and input.

Her "patient service coordinator" has the sensitivity of Igor and is probably the main reason I will be leaving this practice I've gone to for over 20 years. She is my nemesis. This is the woman who billed me and the insurance company for a prostate exam yet never went back to the insurance company and fessed her mistake.

This is the woman who said to me in front of other waiting patients, when I hadn't returned her phone calls, "I'd appreciate it from now on if you'd return my calls right away." This is the woman who when I called to make an appointment after I got out of the hospital for chest pains and had written discharge papers to see my doctor immediately after discharge, "Don't you have discharge papers telling you what to do once you're released?"

This is the woman who when I called in November to book this pre op exam and told her when the surgery was said the only date they had available was Dec. 29. Then when I walked in yesterday for the exam, the first words out of her mouth were, "why did you wait so long to book this exam."

When she goes to schedule my stress test and she's on the phone to the orthopedist she says, "oh she hurt it in May. Then she should have no problem running on a treadmill. And she's been taking aspirin." (You're not suppose to take blood thinning agent 7 days before surgery.) Like she's ratting me out. In fact, I didn't take aspirin, i took Advil, two days before making it safely within the 7 day range. If I walk more than 10 minutes my ankle hurts, so no, running on a treadmill for 30 minutes shouldn't be any problem for me.