Want to know the percentage of OB appointments I’ve had for this pregnancy that have been canceled? 57%
That’s right, four out of seven have been canceled the day of the appointment.
I thought I might have better luck today, since I was sitting on my couch at 2pm, about to get up and leave for my 2:30 appointment, when the phone rang. I saw the name of my OB’s office on the caller ID, and realized it was happening… again. It happened last time, as I was already out for the morning, thinking I was using my time off from work oh-so-productively. I got to keep the one before that (because I was seeing the nurse practitioner), but the one before that got rescheduled at the last minute, too.
Aside from one time being due to my OB having a cold, they always get canceled because of their ridiculous policy of scheduling office appointments on days when they’re also on call for Labor & Delivery. Shockingly, they then miss a whole ton of appointments!! It’s getting really aggravating.
I’ve decided that, now that I’m already missing a day of work every week for the ultrasounds and non-stress tests, I will not schedule my OB appointments for a time that will cause me to miss more than an hour of work. Either they can fit me in on the same day as my hospital appointments, or they can see me Friday afternoons when I’m off (yay, half-day Fridays in the summer!), or they can see me very first thing in the morning or very last thing in the afternoon.
It’s also a little annoying to keep getting put off, given I’m a relatively high-risk patient. I know they want to watch me closely for preeclampsia and other things, so it’s extra annoying to have to wait almost another week to be seen. And I even had real questions I wanted to ask, things I wanted to make sure were normal, etc, and now I have to wait again! Yes, I could call the nurse, but she didn’t return my call the last time I had a question like that, so I’m not too keen on leaving more messages.
So, that’s the story of my would-be 30 week OB appointment. If they cancel next Wednesday, I might have to have a pregnancy-induced nutty.
