the gd gd
i am ready for bed. i am exhausted from dealing with the gd gd. i just want milo to be born and to be fine. he's kicking in agreement right now.
we went to meet with the gd dietician first, who was nice enough and helpful and didn't talk to me like i was an imbecile (which would have annoyed me greatly and which has happened to me more than once at this facility by other educators). i had charted everything i've eaten since i got the diagnosis, and she felt like i was already on the right track, which was encouraging.
then we met with the nurse educator - also nice but a little....hmmmm....scattered. i think she has been doing gd education too long and it has become a bit rote, leaving her focus free to direct itself to other things. she actually forgot to give me the prescription for the glucometer, which i didn't realize until we were almost back home. and despite her slightly over-the-top enthusiasm about getting a new gd patient, she hadn't bothered to familiarize herself with my history, which i had to go over in complete detail again.
when i got home, i went ahead and called my insurance company first, to figure out how i get the machine from them and to find out to whom she should call in the prescription she forgot to give me. but instead of a simple call, i ended up bawling into a kitchen towel and telling the customer service agent with whom i was speaking that she had better let me talk to someone else, sometime after she informed me that i didn't have any of the options for which i signed up last fall, my equipment wouldn't be covered because of those non-choices, and i didn't have any reason to be upset. a more rational agent got on the phone, fixed my options, and gave me directions for picking up my FREE glucometer, although they did require my return to the hospital for the hard-copy Rx.
then followed a run back to my hospital for the Rx, dropping justin back at home, trekking across suburbia to the insurance company's own inconveniently-located pharmacy, a conversation with the pharmacy tech about why they couldn't provide the specific machine prescribed, several calls back and forth to my dr's office to determine what substitute would be acceptable, and listening to another pharmacy tech tell me how she was so obsessed when she had gd that she tested herself every few minutes until her provider finally took her equipment away.
i took the gardening magazine from the pharmacy waiting room with me when i left. it had some good ideas about starting a kitchen garden. i figured i'd earned it.
we went to meet with the gd dietician first, who was nice enough and helpful and didn't talk to me like i was an imbecile (which would have annoyed me greatly and which has happened to me more than once at this facility by other educators). i had charted everything i've eaten since i got the diagnosis, and she felt like i was already on the right track, which was encouraging.
then we met with the nurse educator - also nice but a little....hmmmm....scattered. i think she has been doing gd education too long and it has become a bit rote, leaving her focus free to direct itself to other things. she actually forgot to give me the prescription for the glucometer, which i didn't realize until we were almost back home. and despite her slightly over-the-top enthusiasm about getting a new gd patient, she hadn't bothered to familiarize herself with my history, which i had to go over in complete detail again.
when i got home, i went ahead and called my insurance company first, to figure out how i get the machine from them and to find out to whom she should call in the prescription she forgot to give me. but instead of a simple call, i ended up bawling into a kitchen towel and telling the customer service agent with whom i was speaking that she had better let me talk to someone else, sometime after she informed me that i didn't have any of the options for which i signed up last fall, my equipment wouldn't be covered because of those non-choices, and i didn't have any reason to be upset. a more rational agent got on the phone, fixed my options, and gave me directions for picking up my FREE glucometer, although they did require my return to the hospital for the hard-copy Rx.
then followed a run back to my hospital for the Rx, dropping justin back at home, trekking across suburbia to the insurance company's own inconveniently-located pharmacy, a conversation with the pharmacy tech about why they couldn't provide the specific machine prescribed, several calls back and forth to my dr's office to determine what substitute would be acceptable, and listening to another pharmacy tech tell me how she was so obsessed when she had gd that she tested herself every few minutes until her provider finally took her equipment away.
i took the gardening magazine from the pharmacy waiting room with me when i left. it had some good ideas about starting a kitchen garden. i figured i'd earned it.
posted by laura at 5:19 PM
5 Comments:
I'm sorry. I'm surprised they didn't just hand you a free meter at the facility. If nothing else, most pharmacies offer meters with a full mail-in rebate.
I had similar issues with a blood pressure monitor. I couldn't figure out why they would make a pregnant woman go back and forth, especially one who they knew already had high blood pressure and was supposed to be on bedrest!!
As hard as it is, it will get better. It's just matter of getting into a rhythm. Stay close to the diet to avoid insulin. Walking everyday, if you can stand it, will help immensely.
Hi Laura. I'm so glad everything is good with you and Milo and Justin -lovely news to hear... & YES, I'm back from oblivion after having to trash the blog because of unwanted intrusions from the outside. I've started another blog and hope not to be found again (might never use real names again, except just now). can you please change your old link to me to this new site instead. and I'll start catching up with the blogging community (as we speak). xClare
The GD GD seems like a good thing to let your anger/frustrations/worries out on. I hope it isn't too hard to manage for the next couple of months. And maybe many thoughts of ice cream in august will help in the moments you want it now!
Lol about taking the gardening mag -- good for you! Insurance companies can be a real pain in the rear. It's one thing that keeps me up in here in Canada, safely away from their clutches (for the time being, anyway -- the system will probably change in the near future). Glad you got your monitor after all of that rigamarole!
Ick. I am so sorry about the GD! It wasn't that bad for me...just one more thing to worry about (as if you needed one more thing). I hope the time FLIES by and Milo gets here safely and quickly! Thinking of you often, even if I don't get to check in as often as I'd like...
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