week 14

I’ve got a great story for you.

So Monday, October 20, and Tuesday, the 21st. I had like 4 doctor appointments. On Monday, my regular OB doctor told me that I’m right on schedule and everything looks great, baby is growing and all is good in the hood. So I said, “no you’re wrong doctor. My high risk doctor said that I’m further along than thought at first.” She gave me a disapproving eye, but agreed that maybe we should get an ultrasound done to find out for sure how far a long I am, and when the due date will be. So Monday, I schedule my ultrasound appointment for Tuesday. I’ve got dr. appts anyways at tripler, why not knock it out while I’m all ready there?
So Tuesday comes, Kim gets off work early. We’re this happy little couple skipping up to ultrasound, we’re gonna see our baby and life is going to be great! We get there, tell the receptionist my name, and she nicely looks up at me and says, “sorry mam, you’re not on the schedule for today”. Ok a simple misunderstanding…..so I say, “yes I am, I scheduled this yesterday, please check again”…….again this girl comes back with, “mam, I’m sorry you’re still not on here…I don’t know what to tell you” Ok, clearly its time for the big guns…..this girl is a moron that has no idea how to do her job. So I raise my voice a notch, get my arm motions going, look her straight in the eye and say, “Yes I am…..My name is Elizabeth Hamilton, I am pregnant, and I’m scheduled for a damn ultrasound today”…..then she gives me one of those looks, like, “honey, you’re crazy, go take your prenatal vitamin or something” so I flip it into bitch mode now (aka I put my Kirk voice on). So, I get on it now, “LISTEN LADY, I SCHEDULED THIS APPOINTMENT YESTERDAY AND ON THE PHONE THE LADY TOLD ME THAT MY APPOINTMENT WAS AT 3PM TODAY OCTOBER 22ND SO HERE I AM, SO LET ME LOOK AT THAT COMPUTER!” and as I say this last statement. Kim calmly grabs my arm, turns me away from the receptionist, leans in and whispers in my ear, “honey, tomorrow is the 22nd”. I was so embarrassed. I apologized to the lady and we rescheduled for November 5th. Oops.