Are you sure you have the right person?????

  Alright so I guess I have a Pulmonary Appt on the 7^th of Oct at 1:15 p.m.!  Here’s the thing though, I don’t have any idea why nor do I have any idea what Pulmonary even means or how it pertains to me.

  Here is exactly what happened………I was sitting in the Opthamologist office waiting for the doctor to return after dilating my eyes (that was awesome and unexpected) when all of a sudden I hear my phone vibrating, now normally I would not answer the phone but I was so bored with not being able to read my magazine or book , and I couldn’t even text or use the Internet on my phone, I felt like I was going stir crazy.  Anyway, the phone is vibrating and it says unavailable….uh oh now I definitely wouldn’t normally answer this phone call for sure, ( I hate unknown calls) but I pick it up and it is the referral management office for the base and they need to make an appointment with me for PULMONARY?

  Now I am expecting referral management to call me because I need to make an appointment with a Sleep Specialist, Neurosurgeon, Endocrinologist, and a Psychiatrist, but not the Pulmonary clinic.  And now normally to see anyone on base you have to wait WEEKS if not longer, (for instance, my MRI’s aren’t scheduled until 27 Oct and the Neurosurgery clinic is scheduling in Nov at least…Now maybe I am naive but how many BRAIN SURGERIES can be going on at Travis AFB?) Anyway, they say on the phone our first available for you is 7 Oct…Ok now I am freaking out! But I can’t ask the person on the phone anything because she doesn’t know why I need to go all she knows is that I need to be seen.  This is not good news.

  So then I start asking my husband and my mom well why do you think I have to go? And what does Pulmonary even mean because since my eyes are freaking dilated I can’t even research it on the Internet.  Both my husband and my mom are in agreement (that is a rare moment in itself) that it is probably from my lab results, something had to be going on in my labs that would make me need to see the Pulmonary clinic.

  Now am I crazy for wanting at least a PHONE CALL if something shows up in my labs that makes me need a referral for another clinic?  I mean even if it doesn’t have to do with my lungs or any other ORGAN from my body, I would at least like a phone call saying this is why you need to be seen by another clinic.  This way I don’t start freaking out for no reason, or so I don’t act over dramatic and research the Internet see the worst  possible cause to need to see them and automatically think that of course that’s the reason I need to see them.   But maybe that’s just me?????