Today I was scheduled to have a "full body" CT scan. My appointment to see Dr. B about the nodule in my lung is next Tuesday and he needs the results by then which is, I reckon, pushing it.
I think I should have had this scan a week earlier to make sure that the results were with him on the 22nd and I usually get a week or ten days notice of the date for the scan so when I had heard nothing by the beginning of March I was worried. The lung cancer department and the urology department both have sessions with me about now for checks and as each would need a CT scan they agreed on one combined "full body" scan to save me going for two separate ones. I was worried that each department thought the other one was booking the scan.
The only contact I had with any of them was Dr. B's secretary so I rang her and expressed my concerns. She was very pleasant and helpful and said she would check and ring me back which she did some 10minutes later.
Judging from her scarcely concealed fury I had been right and it was her lot who had forgotten to book the scan.
Anyway I turned up at 12:30 this afternoon as requested and sat around for an hour. It appears that just before my appointment time victims of a road crash needed urgent scans and, quite rightly, they took priority so everybody in the queue had to wait well beyond their appointments. Instead of getting home by about 1:30 as I had expected it was just after 3pm when I got home.
Let's just hope they can get a wiggle on so that the results are with Dr. B. by next Tuesday.
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