Almost missed it

Thank you for all your comments on the last post, and for the reassurances from those that have been through this before. It really eased my mind.

I began the progesterone yesterday. I chose to do a PIO shot in the morning and one suppository at night (vs. 4 suppositories throughout the day). I give myself my own butt shots and I didn't want to be oozing from the suppositories all day long. Yuck. So 2 shots down, my tush is sore but otherwise ok.

I had to go in today to check my progesterone level. RANT ALERT - I am a little miffed at the far-away clinic for almost missing this. I was looking over the "calendar" they give, which is not really a calendar, but more of a list of all the stuff you inject, swallow and otherwise do to yourself over the course of the FET prep cycle. So, on the "calendar" every appointment (blood draw, u/s) it is written in bold, off to the side on the day you are supposed to go in. Easy to see.

But as I was looking at the meds I needed to start/stop after Saturday's green light phone call, I notice in regular non-bold print "check p4" embedded in the rest of the text. On Monday morning.

Not in bold. Not off to the side. Not easy to see.

So I email the nurse later on Saturday, which is always how I contact them (I like having everything in writing for later reference) asking if this is something I need to do. Because the weekend nurse that called me Saturday did not mention it, nor has anyone else. And clearly, no orders have been sent my way to actually get this test done on Monday morning.

Sunday rolls by, no response. I figure, hey, it can't be that important, right?

Well, this morning at 9:30am I get a response email saying, yes, I do need to get this done. I scramble to call the local clinic, and they tell me if I can get there within 45 minutes, they can run this test today. So I drop what I'm doing and hurry my sore tush on down there, pronto.

Grrr. I mean, if I had not seen this on my calendar, or not sent the email questioning it, do you really think this would have just slipped through the cracks?

I do.

I think it is just another example of having to be on top of your own care. Be your own patient advocate/billing specialist/case manager. Even at the best clinics, they miss things. They are busy, and have a bazillion patients. They miss things.

Hopefully not the really important stuff though. Fingers crossed about that.

UPDATED to add: My p4 was at 13.5 and they only want it somewhere above 6. Yay body! Way to absorb the butt shots!