Southern Girl
Friday, August 5, 2011
You didn't know I had surgery?!?!
As some of you might have been able to tell, I have not been very happy with my current ob/gyn. At my first prenatal appointment I voiced my concerns with the pregnancy related to my surgery and medications. She took all of this information down and basically said I think you are ok. She took some urine and checked out my woman parts, and sent us on our way. I left feeling like, that was it? At the second prenatal appointment I anticipated having an ultrasound to check for a heartbeat, and just make sure the pregnancy looked normal for the time frame. As some of you may of read, there was no ultrasound just a doppler. But one thing that was slightly alarming was when she walked into the exam room she asked me "what happened to your leg?". At both appointments I was on crutches and wearing a giant brace that covered my entire leg. I responded "you don't remember I had surgery?" I had yet to see one patient in the ob/gyn office that was either on crutches or was wearing a brace for anything, so personally I would have thought I would stand out in her memory. Also if her memory wasn't enough, I would have thought she would of read it in my file before she walked into the room! She proceeded to ask me all the same questions over again that she had asked me just a month prior.... are you kidding me? She was lucky my head didn't spin around.... maybe then she would of remembered me. We continued with the appointment. No one ever told me what kind of tests they were running or what might happen at my upcoming appointment. I also had to point blank ask her my due date! What about that information do you think I don't need? We also informed the doctor that Randy's niece had some developmental issues, and stated the name of the illness. She acted like we didn't say anything. I left the appointment feeling like maybe I was just over reacting. I had never been through this before, so maybe this was how it goes. But then we started sharing our exciting news with the world. I had multiple people ask "you haven't had an ultrasound?". Now I know different doctors do things differently so I didn't think much of it. But as the amount of people who asked that question started to rise, it aroused more doubt. Then to add to it my sister-in-law said that her molar pregnancy, which was unviable, had a heartbeat. So the doppler didn't really tell us anything about the pregnancy, it could of been just a giant placenta! Then she also said that because of the family member with developmental issues I should have an ultrasound at 34 weeks to check the brain. When we told my doctor about the illness she didn't even act like it was relevant information! My gut feeling of "something was not right with this doctor" in addition to all this outside knowledge has led me to find another doctor. I have an appointment with her towards the end of August, I just hoped I like her.
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