drained

Sorry it's been a while. I would have written yesterday but we spent most of our time in the effing waiting room of our plastic surgeon, whose office manager needs to be FIRED.

Can I rant for a minute here? I mean, when your office starts out the morning an hour-and-a-half behind schedule, albeit for the perfectly legitimate reason of your main doc being unexpectedly called to the O.R., what should be your first thought? "cool, I have an extra hour for my donut-run!" BAMP wrong, try again "I can't believe all these ugly people will be sitting in my waiting room for an extra 2 hours!" BAMP wrong again...

How about "hmm, I've got some extra downtime. Maybe I should at least make a half-hearted attempt to call patients coming in later today and let them know about the delay..."

Now I know this is not how most doctors' offices work, but why the heck not? There is no trouble calling us to move the appointment, so obviously we have those skills available. We even have automated reminder calls for our upcoming appoinments. WHAT am I missing here?

And then to have the secretary, when queried about the delay, shrug and say "well it is a doctor's office..." !! Now I'm thinking Becca and I may be in a good position to evaluate this statement, as a matter of fact... Let me see here...yes, that statement is completely bogus. What's our appointment count here? Are we up to a hundred yet? Except for our thoracic guy, we have *never* had to wait that long.

And don't get us wrong, we love our surgeon, but it can't make his day any happier to have every patient he sees start out having just sat in his waiting room for 1-2 hours past the appointment time.

Ok rant over. Sorry. All this for 10 minutes of Dr. L. checking Becca out, noting everything seems to be progressing well but we can't get the drain out quite yet (which we suspected because the amount of "drainage" is not yet down at the level we were told it needed to be for removal...) He prescribed some more precautionary antibiotics, told us to come back Friday if the levels were down enough, and that was it.

Oh and Becca can now drive (yay!).

So then today Becca got another Herceptin dose, along with a bone-strengthening drug called Zometa. It was great to see all our favorite Needham nurses again.

Lastly, we continue to eat like kings. Nancy brought over some fabulous steak tips and dark chocolate cupcakes Monday and Erika brought barbecue beef sandwiches tonight along with this peach crisp that is just heaven in your mouth. I'm sure there were veggies in there too but it all becomes a blur after I get through the sweets! Thank you, thank you!