I had cancer as a kid and now I get MRIs q3years. My surgery, treatment, and follow-up have always been in Boston, and I have always just flown in for my MRIs over school breaks.
Now though, I'm living and working in LA and it's hard to get time off to fly across the country, so I've been trying to get a referral to an oncologist in LA for my next MRI. It's been about a month since I asked for the referral, and I keep calling, like at least once a week, to get an update on my referral, and I keep being told "someone will call you back" and nobody calls me back.
This appointment is increasingly time sensitive because I'm 25 years old, turning 26 in January, and I lose health insurance on Feb 1st, so I need to get this MRI before that happens. But MRI appointments book up FAST and EARLY.
I FINALLY got a call back today from Boston. They said that my dr contacted a colleague in LA about my referral, but they haven't heard back from LA, so they just gave me his name so that I could contact his office directly.
I call LA onc's office, they tell me that I can't make an appointment without a referral. I tell them that they should have a referral from my ped onc in boston. They don't. They tell me to tell Boston to send the referral and then I will be able to make an appointment. Now it's past 5pm in Boston and nobody is there.
So I'm just laying in my bed crying because I have no idea WTF i'm doing and I was SO HAPPY to finally get a name and now I'm back at square one and I'm very quickly running out of time to make this ****ing appointment.
JUST SCAN MY BRAIN YOU TURNIPS
