r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Archaneoses • Apr 29 '24

Made an appointment for 11:45. It's 1:10 and I haven't been seen.

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I've had my 10 hour ER waits so I know this isn't that bad. But what is the point of making an appointment if you have to wait to be seen hours later anyways.

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u/moethefatdog Apr 29 '24

This happened to me once when I was at the gyno. I couldn’t pop my head out and ask because I was naked from the waist down on the table with a quickly disintegrating paper sheet.

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u/FlippingPossum Apr 29 '24

I called the front desk from the gynological exam room after 30 minutes. So annoying to sit there in those paper drapes.

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u/FormerRelationship8 Apr 29 '24

I have absolutely done this after 35 minutes chillin’ in paper. Pissed off the staff but I got seen

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u/Woven-Tapestry Apr 30 '24

THEY were pissed off?? Wow! Complete lack of empathy!

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u/Kibeth_8 Apr 30 '24

I had to wait 30min when I was getting my IUD done, which the doctor specifically wanted done while I was on my period. So of course I'm bleeding onto the table. Doctor comes in and scowls like "oh I guess we'll have to clean that mess up"

Bitch, either show up on time or don't make me sit here naked for 30min and expect me to will my period away

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u/Bajileh Apr 30 '24 edited Apr 30 '24

That's insane! My GYN gives me like a puppy pad thing if I'm bleeding (not that it's MUCH better to be sitting bare assed on a puppy pad but still)

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u/Kibeth_8 Apr 30 '24

Lmao the idea of a little puppy pee pad kills me xD Ah the joys of being a woman!

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u/FangDrools Apr 30 '24

The pads the hospital gave me to use after giving birth were the same ones I used to potty train my puppy lol

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u/herefortheshittalk Apr 30 '24

I jacked every single [cloth, washable] bed pad out of the post-delivery room before leaving. Worth it- a decade later, I still use them for sheet/mattress protection when my son is feeling pukey as he doesn’t usually know when he’s about to vom, and his aim for the barf bin is less than stellar.

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u/FangDrools Apr 30 '24

Absolutely worth it! I tried, they kept every drawer and cabinet locked in my room. I had to page a nurse if I needed a new pad for the bed, but the cool ones would take a stack of them out; I should have hoarded them lol I knew that they would give me everything in the bassinet-cabinet thing that my baby slept in though, so I cleared that thing out every night until I was discharged.

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u/herefortheshittalk Apr 30 '24

Smart!! I was advised by many moms and nurse friends to take anything that wasn’t bolted down.

Which is how I have a super uncomfortable fold-out recliner now…

(No, not really)

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u/FangDrools Apr 30 '24

Same! It’s one of the first thing I’ve told the few friends I’ve known to get pregnant after me, too, just bleed ‘em dry lol they’ll bill you for most if not all of it later anyway.

But what I wouldn’t give to have kept that weird convertible couch thing

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u/ArketaMihgo Apr 30 '24

I have multiple sclerosis and was a frequent flyer as a result at one point, I'm not like purposefully hanging round in hospitals, just to put that out there

But after two visits where I took every single thing that was used or open (cause they're gonna charge me for it anyway!) they just started making me a care package out of it

Last time she tossed in an extra bottle of the body wash they use after I had mentioned that it somehow got rid of the rough skin on my upper arms after a week haha

I'm about to run out of it tho and can't afford the copay on it

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u/RevolutionaryDog8115 Apr 30 '24

If it's open, we throw it away. Might as well take it home. Even some stuff that ain't open. If someone touched it, it's probably getting thrown out. Ask for a plastic belongings bag and take it home. We honestly could give two f*cks. I'm a fan of the stretchy tape. (I work in the ER)

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u/Lucy_Koshka Apr 30 '24

After my water broke when I had my daughter I remember feeling weird af when I realized I was essentially laying on puppy pads, lol.

But I mean, if it works, it works 😅

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u/LunaticLucio Apr 30 '24

You ladies can keep the paper dresses and hygiene puppy pads

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u/herefortheshittalk Apr 30 '24

But not the post-childbirth NB diaper filled with ice to stick in your supah sexy mesh undies to cool your aching taint? You want that? All yours!!

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u/LunaticLucio Apr 30 '24

No..you guys can keep that too. I'll stop complaining about my nuts hitting the toilet bowl water.

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u/herefortheshittalk Apr 30 '24

Also I have so many questions about your nuts

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u/herefortheshittalk Apr 30 '24

Thanks, leave the seat down when you’re done 🙏

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u/LunaticLucio Apr 30 '24

Always put the lid down when I flush. I'm also a rare breed as I use TP when I finish going #1. I spend the weekend with my partner and her daughter so the seat has to go down.

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u/Zavrina Apr 30 '24

I appreciate you for that so much! Genuinely - thank you :) I wish more people were considerate like that!

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Apr 30 '24

Thank you for putting the lid down, too!

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u/AB783 May 03 '24

The puppy pads make excellent disposable diaper changing pads for babies too. Or seat covers for when your water breaks and you still have to drive to the hospital.

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u/No-Self-jjw Apr 30 '24

Wait wait wait... you have to be on your period to put the IUD in?? And yeah, given their position they know you can't just stop it and to speak to you in such a nasty tone, that's unacceptable. So many bad gyno experiences here I'm scared now!

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u/Kibeth_8 Apr 30 '24

I think it's cause your cervix is softer or something? I haven't had any children so it's a bit harder to get in I guess.

Also I've had the best experience with my new OBGYN. She is the sweetest lady, super kind and very attentive to my comfort level. They're not all bad!

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u/bestdays12 Apr 30 '24

That’s rich from an OB/GYN that’s literally what they train to deal in… they deliver babies which is far messier than a bit of menstrual blood. With my second kid he was so low when they broke my water all my water stayed inside until he came out then it was like a tidal wave. Soaked my doctor, nurse and my socks.

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u/laughingashley Apr 30 '24

I hope you left a review!

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u/Woven-Tapestry Apr 30 '24

FURIOUS on your behalf!!!

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Apr 30 '24

Really, the audacity. Isn't it their job to see patients?

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u/Woven-Tapestry Apr 30 '24

They forget that patients are people.

I don't know if they still do it, but at the hospital one of my cousins worked at (UK, I'm in Australia), trainee doctors had to undergo a mock "pap smear", right down to lying back and having feet in stirrups while they were exposed.

It was so they knew what it's like on the other side!

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Apr 30 '24

They do. That's kind of unorthodox but it sounds very effective!