I am surprised I haven't broken my phone.

I suspected that my doctor's office is struggling to stay afloat. I remember one time last year, I was called by their scheduling team to ask me if I was okay and if I wanted to be seen. But.... get this.... I'd been there the month before to do the whole song and dance. At this point, I'm about ready to block my doctor's office. I am so over it. They always call literally right before they close or just after. I don't know how many times I've refused to schedule an appoitment because George isn't driving? I almost considered just doing it and getting it over with for the year, but after this, no. Not worth it. If I had been suffering from diabetic symptoms, sure. Maybe, but are you kidding me? After my "diagnosis" they kept me wanting to come back month after month. I did it for a couple months, but George and I finally put our foot down. I was supposed to go in last november, but I was in the hospital with George. I called, cancled the appoitment, and they tried to vilify me when I explained, I don't know when I'll get there. My husband had a stroke and I can't leave him. Every couple of months they call, and I tell them the same thing. I can't afford to do the back-and-forth, draging George all over town, just to put money in their pocket. Bad enough I have to take him to the VA to get his lab work done. But, you know what? that's easy. The lab and doctor are in the same buliding. fine. If there's an issue, I can go talk to someone. None of this back and forth like when I have to go to a lab. I tried for years, my doctors office insisting the orders had been sent to lab. We got sick of it. So we started hetting a paper coppy of the orders and taking them when I went to the lab. Now George isn't clared to drive. So that's an added expence to do the back and forth.

@BearArtistLady No kidding right? If they actually cared, they'd let us call the shots. They work for us, we don't work for them. I am sure that the pain clinic also failed to realize, that all that travel.... could squew any results from any testing. But... of course... none of that matters, right?

@kaylachan The pain clinic got on my "S" list when they called me about morphine being in my urine and where did I get it. I told them I hadn't had any and they essentially told me I was lying and that I had to come down right now and do a urine test. They are 30 miles from where I am, I don't drive and would have to take a bus-take a in town bus and do the urine test and hope to be able to get home. (The call was 4:30 p.m., the next bus south was at 5:30 p.m. and the pain clinic closes at 5 p.m.) I told them what to do with themselves and their clinic. My primary care physician took over prescribing my pain meds and he gained the "Tude" so I gave him back the pain meds. I hurt like crazy right now, and in a way I wish I had the pain pills, but it ain't worth the heart ache and grief that they are handing me. I have gotten in the habit of getting paper copies of the paperwork for "Just in case" purposes. I am tired of being treated like a instant teller that they plug into their computers and I poop charges for them to get money from the various insurance companies. I think that they make up some of the problems I supposedly have just to pad the bills, I can't prove it, but I wouldn't put it past them. Somewhere along the line they need to realize that we are living, breathing, human beings that have brains and not an instant teller machine where they shove their debit cards up our butts, pull our tongues and we spit out cash. As I said once before, I'd rather go to a VooDoo Witch doctor, at least when they dress up and dance you get entertained and there is something for you to enjoy for your money.

I don't neglect my health. I really don't. I know better then that. However, I am fine. I know I am not diabetic because I know how I'd been eating. I test my blood sugar two three times a day and monitor it closely. When I went to the doctor last year, I had just gotten back from a staycation, and had eaten things I normally don't. I also drank a lot more soda then I usually do. Both of those things are going to cause a spike in my blood sugar. It's going to make me pee sugar, too. I tried explaining this to my doctor, as did George. But, we both were flat out ignored. In the time since, I've reduced my soda concumption to a lot less then I had before. My numbers are trending on the lower side, and, I'm not eating those triggering foods. I also lost about 30-35 pounds. But, none of this matters to the doctor's office, nor does it matter to the insurance company. They are too quick to diagnose someone falsely without taking the time to talk to them. But, that's just how the healthcare system works. When you have free insurance like I do, they will bend over backward to get you to do all this testing so they can say they are giving you quality care, but the doctors don't actually get to know the patiences. They don't treat us like we have half a brain. If there was a valid reason for me to see the doctor, I would. But, I have never believed in unnecessary diagnostic testing just to please someone in an office somewhere to say 'it was done'.

@kaylachan well virtual hugs to you and I understand. As long as you're feeling fine and things are OK as they say, you know better, I hope they stop bothering you,

@RasmaSandra I thank you for your concern. And, you're right. I know my own body. I know what I was or wasn't doing. But, the doctors don't actually listen.

@kaylachan Next time start talking like a child and just keep chattering away until they hang up!

No. I don't know how many times or ways I have to say no, for them to get the hint.

Here's the thing.... if I DID need it, I would. But, I don't.