Kaneohegirlinaz
Wannabe TV Chef
I took Mom recently for her annual Medicare Wellness checkup.
Her weight was less than where I feel she should be at, her BP was too high even on medication, her cognitive abilities are mediocre on a good day and this was not a good day, she refuses to have any sort of tests done, they couldn’t get an oxygen level on her with that finger-clip-doohickey, she almost fell over trying to get up onto the exam-table, she didn’t know her address, forgot what year it was, AH! But NO she’s good!
I give up trying to get answers from this doctor, well she’s not even a doc, she’s a NP and whenever I bring something up that concerns me, I get, “she’s old what do you think.”
When we left the doctor's office, Mom was grousing at me the whole way home.
Ya know what I said to her?
"Mom, you've made me do even worse things than this, so buck up."
She was not taken out to lunch after. I do not reward poor behavior.
DH said that she’s probably already got a special code on her chart to indicate that Mom is an "uncooperative patient" with medical instructions. Who doesn’t go for a blood test or any other recommended procedure?
Mom’s answer to all of that is “NO! I’m fine. I just want to be left alone.”
Okay Mom... so I give up. I’m not going to bother wasting my time taking her to doctor’s appointments she doesn’t want to go to in the first place.
She has a cyst on her ear, and I said that if that isn’t gone by the Summer, she’s going back to have it removed and that’s going to be the end of me pushing any more doctor’s appointments.
I know if she wants to be able to keep her Medicare coverage, she MUST go to the annual Wellness and that’s going it for me!
Her weight was less than where I feel she should be at, her BP was too high even on medication, her cognitive abilities are mediocre on a good day and this was not a good day, she refuses to have any sort of tests done, they couldn’t get an oxygen level on her with that finger-clip-doohickey, she almost fell over trying to get up onto the exam-table, she didn’t know her address, forgot what year it was, AH! But NO she’s good!
I give up trying to get answers from this doctor, well she’s not even a doc, she’s a NP and whenever I bring something up that concerns me, I get, “she’s old what do you think.”
When we left the doctor's office, Mom was grousing at me the whole way home.
Ya know what I said to her?
"Mom, you've made me do even worse things than this, so buck up."
She was not taken out to lunch after. I do not reward poor behavior.
DH said that she’s probably already got a special code on her chart to indicate that Mom is an "uncooperative patient" with medical instructions. Who doesn’t go for a blood test or any other recommended procedure?
Mom’s answer to all of that is “NO! I’m fine. I just want to be left alone.”
Okay Mom... so I give up. I’m not going to bother wasting my time taking her to doctor’s appointments she doesn’t want to go to in the first place.
She has a cyst on her ear, and I said that if that isn’t gone by the Summer, she’s going back to have it removed and that’s going to be the end of me pushing any more doctor’s appointments.
I know if she wants to be able to keep her Medicare coverage, she MUST go to the annual Wellness and that’s going it for me!