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3rd Trimester
my friday night date w/L&D.. and dr. vent..(long)
We had our 37 week check up Wednesday, and my doctor had an emergency surgery so he was an hour late to the appt. (Fine, I understand, you really can't control things like babies!!) But he rushed us through the appointment, didn't ask if we had anything we wanted to talk about, and made me feel completely ignored. My feet and hands have become unbearably swollen. Every morning it takes literally 45 minutes for my fingers to become fully functional again, and even if I've been off my feet for hours, they still look like Fred Flintstone. I am not the kind of person to overreact about things, and don't really panic. However, I'd also been having headaches, feeling faint, stomach pains, etc. A friend of mine was pre-e, and it seemed we had a lot of things in common. Anyways, this was something I wanted to bring up to him just to be reassured. He noticed my feet and just snapped at me to lay off the salt. I don't add salt to anything, and haven't changed my diet, so I was a bit taken aback.
Yesterday it got so bad that I called my doc and they said take tylenol and elevate your feet, then call us back before the day ends. Three hours later I called back and said nothing had changed. His receptionist said 'Yeah, he didn't think anything would be different.' Okay then why waste time?! She then said he had already left for the day (at 3:30), which basically made me feel like he didn't have any concern at all, and just wanted me to call back after he was gone. (Yes I'm pregnant and hormonal, but I didn't want to go the whole weekend without being seen if something was wrong!) So the receptionist then asks me a few more questions and asks about my diet. I tell her I eat alot of pb & j's, sandwiches, wraps, salads, etc, and she says 'Oh honey, well that's your problem! All the dressings are where you're getting your salt from!' As if I just douse everything in so much salad dressing that's the only possible solution to my insane swelling?? Even my flip flops were making indentions on the tops of my feet at this point!
I ended up going to an immediate care office just because at this point I needed someone to LOOK at my feet and say I was or wasn't fine. As soon as I walked in the woman sent me straight to my hospital's L&D. On the way there my doc's receptionist called back and said I should go to L&D - thanks, I already am.
The nurses were so nice, and ran tests and watched me for a few hours. Everything is okay, which I'm incredibly grateful for. I was having lots of contractions, but I'm only 1 cm dilated so now we just have to wait for her to be ready! I'm just so annoyed with my doc because I know he has a life outside of work, but these past few days he seems to care about anything except me. Which sounds selfish, but someone has to look out for me and my baby!!
Sorry this was so long!!
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Re: my friday night date w/L&D.. and dr. vent..(long)
This. All I could think was - what a douche!
glad everything is okay... and i honestly am starting to think that many docs are that way. i know that i adore my OB, but getting to her, and getting through the nurses, etc, can be way too difficult. i also don't feel like the other docs in my practice care about me AT ALL, sort of like you were saying with your doc, having you call back once he was gone for the day so it's not "his problem". i wish there was a solution, but at this point in the pregnancy, i think we're both out of luck and just have to make the best of it.
glad you were such a good advocate for yourself and your LO!
Ditto!! I don't know about the salad dressing thing and the salt....but I do know that peanut butter has a lot of sodium. My feet are swelling like crazy too....my doctor put me on bed rest because of it. But knock on wood....I don't have any of the other signs of pre-e. Hope your little one comes soon, that way you won't have to worry about all that suff anymore. You should "accidently" kick you doctor in the head durring delivery!!