At about 8:30 this morning my phone rang. It was Dr. Ramharrack's office telling me that they received the test results from my stay at the hospital. The Dr wanted to see me ASAP to go over the results. So I got dressed and I drove all the way across Ocala to see my Dr. When he first came into the room he started listening to my heart. I gave him a really odd look and he told me he would go over the results with me as soon as he was done. He took a seat in his chair and already started making excuses. Supposedly the nurses at the hospital didn't draw my blood at the times that they were supposed to. I thought to myself..hmmm, that's odd because I remember them drawing blood every couple of hours so how could they not be getting what "the dr. needed." Then he started talking gibberish aka doctor talk.
Now I have been waiting for two very specific test. I have called the doctor's office every other day going on three weeks asking for the results and they told me that they had sent them to the University of Florida for more testing. I was expecting to get them today, FINALLY! As my doctor went on with his gibberish talk I interrupted him and asked him for the results of my cortisol levels and my ACTH levels. He then proceeded to tell me that the hospital failed to do those two test. WHAT? Do I look stupid? I am the patient and I was in that hospital bed for 20 hours. I know for a fact that the nurse came in at 6:00pm and gave me a huge dose of cortisol and then at 6:10 pm someone came in and took my blood. I know that the test was done...I was there, he was not!
He acted like everything was okay. Like it was no big deal that "someone" didn't do their job. Now he wants me to come into his office on Monday and sit there all day long so he can draw blood from me every hour. While I was checking out I asked for copies of my results. I immediately came home and started googling every little thing that they DID test for. As I was looking over the results I realized that the hospital sent the labs to the Mayo clinic in Jacksonville. Now I am beginning to wonder if the story they have been feeding me over the phone for the last three weeks about the test results going to UF is a lie. If these are truly even my results then from what I can tell my body is pretty out of whack, but hey I'm no doctor!
I have phone call into my regular doctor. He is the one who referred me to Dr. Ramharrack. I am hoping that I can get an appointment with him this week. I am going to tell him to send me somewhere else, besides Dr. Ramharrack. Mine and Ramharrack's relationship is over and I refuse to give him one more once of my sweet blood. I put my health and most of all, my trust in Dr. Ramharrack and he has failed me. I am not some lab rat that you can just poke over and over again. I refuse to be tortured! As of right now...I'M ON STRIKE!!
Unsatisfied!
-Kimberlee
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