[channeling that cranky old guy from "60 Minutes"]Don’tcha just hate it when doctors keep you waiting?[/channel]

I had an MD visit today, about my shoulder. I, yes, I have to call Preferred Care to follow up on a request to authorize the prescription I need. Said authorization was requested June 28. No one told me, no communication from Preferred Care. MD won’t do it.

Anyway, two options.

Continue my exercises, take the meds that have not been authorized YET, and hope I do not injure the shoulder any further.

Surgery; regional anesthesia, scope not open surgery, two to three weeks without the use of my right arm!!!!!

Yeah, that’s gonna happen. Too many things around here require two hands and lovely wife is NOT up to helping with them.

The only benefit is that the orthopod I see is very cool, as have been all the orthopods I have ever met. The comedians of the medical profession.

And I so appreciate the 45 minute wait after my appointment time.

Lovely wife then had her appointment after I rushed home from mine.

Echo is good. Ejection fraction of her heart is 45%, about where it was last time. That makes her final heart recovery from the silent MI at about 80% of normal.

No changes in meds. Good to go for 6 months. Yay!

Half hour wait here, too.