In the Backseat Where it Belongs
Dr. Generous phoned today. 12:30PM PST on the nose. I love her promptness. Somehow it makes me feel she's on top of everything.
She may be on top of everything, but LabCorp clearly isn't. Although I gave them a vial or two of my blood on Sunday, it's Wednesday and the results are no where in sight. I've never had great results from LabCorp though. Even here in parts south they lose my blood, my results, my records even. Instead, I've found a safe haven in Hunter Labs. I go to the main facility where they have a draw station literally in the laboratory. No way is anyone going to lose my blood walking across the floor to the lab machinery. What's more? I nearly always get same day results. (I'd better quit before I decide to write a haiku in honor of Hunter...heh! Go ahead and laugh, but my haiku to Opera Software actually won me an award at their last anniversary!)
So tomorrow is my phone meeting with the patient care coordinator who will tell me what drugs I need to order, what my protocol will look like, some tentative dates, our fees, etcetera, etcetera. Odd how I stressed so in cycle #1. Everything was such a big deal. Now it's just "Eh!" and I mosey on with whatever it was that I was doing. IVF has finally taken a backseat to my life even though it's actually the biggest thing going on when you think about it. I like it this way.
She may be on top of everything, but LabCorp clearly isn't. Although I gave them a vial or two of my blood on Sunday, it's Wednesday and the results are no where in sight. I've never had great results from LabCorp though. Even here in parts south they lose my blood, my results, my records even. Instead, I've found a safe haven in Hunter Labs. I go to the main facility where they have a draw station literally in the laboratory. No way is anyone going to lose my blood walking across the floor to the lab machinery. What's more? I nearly always get same day results. (I'd better quit before I decide to write a haiku in honor of Hunter...heh! Go ahead and laugh, but my haiku to Opera Software actually won me an award at their last anniversary!)
So tomorrow is my phone meeting with the patient care coordinator who will tell me what drugs I need to order, what my protocol will look like, some tentative dates, our fees, etcetera, etcetera. Odd how I stressed so in cycle #1. Everything was such a big deal. Now it's just "Eh!" and I mosey on with whatever it was that I was doing. IVF has finally taken a backseat to my life even though it's actually the biggest thing going on when you think about it. I like it this way.
posted by linda at 8:21 PM
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tonya said ... (4:08 PM) :
post a commentYou are such the old pro now. I think it's good to have a cycle be just part of things, not everything. Even if it is the biggest thing.
As you get your list, lemme know if I have anything you might need.
I soooo agree with you re: Hunter. I also found their phlebotomists a bit more competent, too. I was religious about going out of my way to get my draws at one particular drawing station just to get the "good" lady. I'm curious, where is the main lab? I'm sure it's close by... (is it the one on Winchester underneath Camden Ave)?