My Surgeon is Amazing
My journey to diagnosis was a hard one. I mean I first started showing symptoms in January, but they were diagnosed as actual conditions; piriformis syndrome, ITBS, hip bursitis, you name it I have/had everything. But, no matter what I did (including weeks of physical therapy) I would still go right back to suffering. I started by seeing a sports orthopedist in the same office as my PCP, after xrays and many visits, he told me I needed surgery (took about 6 months) and he directed me to another surgeon who does hip athroscopy.
This other surgeon was like, "I think you should go to a colleague of mine who is way better at this time of surgery than I am". Great, so I booked this other appointment. two MRIs later and a visit to see this surgeon's PA, I was booked for surgery the 14th of November. The 13th of October, I had my pre-surgery appointment with the surgeon. Apparently, this was the first time this surgeon had seen all my films and he was concerned about my apparent need for surgery that would fix me 'permanently'. Now this got me all upset since I had had the appointment booked for 2 months and all the arrangements had been made. Even my mom is flying up from Puerto Rico. This surgeon pretty much wanted me to get a second opinion from this super doctor at the Children's Hospital. Now, how to I get an appointment within the next two weeks for one of the countries leading hip surgeons? Also, if I didn't get the second opinion, would the doctor actually do the surgery? Answer is no. I was/am still in a pickle.
I did get to see this last surgeon. He confirmed the other doctors suspicions and now he will have to operate on me (the original surgeon doesn't do the type of surgery I need) (honestly, these guys need to branch out a bit). Anyways, I explained my predicament to the surgeon and he is trying to accommodate me as much as possible. Yep, you heard right, this super surgeon is actually accommodating What a relief. He actually called me earlier this evening, to let me know that hes trying to get my surgery booked for the end of the month. Also, he wants to speak to my mom (WOW!) so that he can explain anything she might to need, and he proceeded to give me his opinion on the strategy he is thinking of taking with the surgery; it seems there are three different things wrong with my hip, but he thinks that I don't actually need surgery for all of them.
After all the nightmare, its nice to get a healthcare provider that actually cares about the lives of his patients and tries to help out as much as he can.
1 more point for healthcare.