The Bureaucracy of Babies

All did not go well yesterday at the so-called "infertility specialist". My insurance company will be getting both a nasty written statement as well as a phone call from yours truly on Monday.. I just don't have it in me today.. it is too hectic of a day.
So, I busted my butt yesterday to go into work early, getting out of bed at 3:30! I did this so I could have time to go to the Dr. appointments yesterday while still managing to work one of the busiest days. Good intentions, right? So, I ended up going to the wrong location for my sleep study appointment.. even though my sister went to the Northpark location.. and my paperwork instructed me there, I had to be late because they needed me at Memorial downtown. Time is money, folks.
So, that was a two and a half hour chunk of my day. Yes, I need the sleep study, but I am not impressed nor do I think they will find anything other than another way to charge my insurance company too much money:-) At this point I wouldn't mind if the insurance had to pay out for a zillion mindless procedures. They are not on my "happy" list.
So, I go back to work, working through lunch, and leave at 1:35 for my afternoon appointment with the fertility specialist. I arrived plenty early, still with only minimal frustrations for the day.
It was an absolute joke. From start to finish this "Dr.'s Office" was like walking into a zombie movie where instead of trying to eat at you, they just ignored you and made you annoyed. I sat there for two different people, the office assistant and the "midwife" to go through my information packet and medical records and enter them into their computer system. For 2 hours! And the thing that ticked me off most was the fact that I had faxed in this information a week ago!! They had not taken the time to enter it into their system! So, I had to sit through all of that. Then, the "midwife", who I found to be a little odd anyways proceeded to give me an entire speech on the necessity of birth control for someone who has PCOS to regulate myself and to lessen the risk of cancer. By this time it was almost 5 and I was so upset! I kept telling her I was there for fertility diagnoses and treatments, and here she was preaching to me about birth control, which you already know how I feel about that! Ugh. I was so super frustrated! Then they kept wanting to give me my "yearly" exam, to which I had just had one with my regular OBGYN not even 3 weeks ago! I told 3 different people this after they finally stopped looking confused. Then I got a speech about vitamins, etc, and told that they needed to see my last lab-work with my primary care Dr. before I come back, so they know what other bloodwork and labs to do. Can you believe it? I basically paid an office co-pay, and missed 3 hours of work and life in general just to go over info. with them and not even see the stupid Doctor!!! What a waste!I am so discouraged! Aetna sends me to a quack who doesn't really handle a lot of fertility issues, and the office was in a strip mall! Oy!

The Lord measures our perfection neither by the multitude nor the magnitude of our deeds, but by the manner in which we perform them.

-- St. John of the Cross