Still No Date (Rant).

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Through my experience of receiving care from military docs and nurses and contracted providers, it has been...slow but sure.

I've fought with my primary care provider who was not supportive of my decision (through talks I heard that she was denied the surgery because she did not meet requirements and takes it out on her patients, which is so wrong ????), appointments take forever to plan because, well, they do (I've been at this for a year now because of shortage of docs at the military hospital where I am getting surgery done), and because there is one bariatric nurse that handles the patient's appointments for the surgery clinic and plans surgeries, she is an EXTREMELY hard person to get ahold of in instances of emergencies and needing to change appointment dates, which are difficult to make when they don't make their schedules in a timely manner.

It was more than wonderful to find out that I had gotten through the rough spot (pre op requirements, psych and nutrition, etc.), but was given no surgery date as of yet at my decision appointment when we were told at orientation that it would be the date we got it. I was told by my surgeon "sometime in January" but he didn't know because the ONE day I get an appointment, the only nurse in the clinic that has the schedules takes off (I'm salty, lol). And was told to wait for the nurse to call me to give me a date. She called and said "January maybe February...we don't have the schedule finished." (WHY DID YOU CALLL UGGGGGH) And then she asked me which surgery I was having for the fourth time because my surgeon didn't finish his notes, and that she'd be in touch.

I feel it there just in my grasp. I'm so close after waiting what feels like so long. I'm so ready to get my date.