Well I ended up going to the appointment without my wife just to see what he had to say for himself. Was kind of hoping that he would say how sorry he was for all the mistakes that had been made in his office. I know wishful thinking from a doctor.
He was a bit shocked that my wife was not there. I explained to him why she was not there and that she would not be coming back.
I explained to him about all the mistakes that had been made. Not even a sign of compassion in his face. Even made a statement that we would prefer to keep lawyers out this because nobody comes out ahead on it anyway. Then he had the audacity to say, "I'm not afraid of lawsuits". That pretty much sent me over the edge. but I kept my composure and continued on with the conversation.
We went off to his office to discuss the results of the MRI. I asked about who we might go to for a second opinion. Then he said that we would have a tough time getting one because "there's no money to be made in the second opinion, it's only in the initial consult and surgery." But he did end up giving me the name of at least four other neurosurgeons, not that we have contacted any of them. Guess that pretty much means he's only in it for the money and not the care of ongoing patients.
He gave me the results of the MRI and suggested that my wife go in for a nerve conduction study and gave me the name of someone for that.
Tomorrow she goes in to see another neurologist that was recommended to her by the original orthopedic doctor that sent her to Wayson in the first place. Hopefully we'll find out something. He says unfortunatley the only true way to find out what happended is to open her back up and look at the surgical site. Since none of it will show up on an MRI.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Post surgery
A week after the surgery my wife went in to get the staples removed from the back of her neck.
Still no feeling in the arm.
Dr Wayson told her that he would get in a prior authorization to our insurance company to get an MRI done to see what was wrong. He said he would call us as soon as the PA came thru. We waited 2 weeks and still had not heard from the doctor. So my wife calls up the insurance company. Guess what he nor his office never called it in to get the PA. By this time my wife is pretty ticked off. It's been 3 weeks and her arm is still parlayzed from the surgery. So the insurance company calls the doctors office to find out if they want ot submit a PA for the MRI. Hmmm, don't think it should be our job to get them to do this.
So now finally we have a PA for the MRI. We get it scheduled I take half the day off work to watch the kids while she goes in. Two hours later she comes home crying and pissed off and locks herself in the room.
Apparently the office had sent over orders for the wrong MRI (they were actually order for someone else). So I call the doctors office to get this straightened out
and I get the MRI rescheduled for later that day. She goes in and finally gets the MRI, obviously she is pretty pissed by this time.
She calls up the doctors office later that day to try and schedule an appointment for the results, but she also has the results sent to her primary car physician. The office says, oh, he's out on vacation and won't be back for another 4 days. Well that pretty much sends her over the edge.
So she waits till he is "supposedly back from vacation" and finally get thru and request an appointment for the results. The doctor himself says can it wait about 3 weeks. Guess that was not the right thing to say. Guess there ain't no compassion coming from that doctor. My wife got a paralyzed arm because of him and he wants to wait more time.
Well she finally gets an appointment for Friday April 27. We get to the doctor's office and wait about 15 minutes then the office admin comes out and says the doctor was called off to emergency surgery earlier that day and is not seeing any patients today. Supposedly they had called the house to let us know this. Well we had both been at work that day so how are we to know this. Guess you can pretty much figure this was the end of her visiting Dr Kim Wayson anymore. She was out that door faster than I could keep up with her. On the way out the office admin says that she will hold an appointment the following Monday at the same time. Wife ain't coming back in for that one. She isn't going back to him any more.
Still no feeling in the arm.
Dr Wayson told her that he would get in a prior authorization to our insurance company to get an MRI done to see what was wrong. He said he would call us as soon as the PA came thru. We waited 2 weeks and still had not heard from the doctor. So my wife calls up the insurance company. Guess what he nor his office never called it in to get the PA. By this time my wife is pretty ticked off. It's been 3 weeks and her arm is still parlayzed from the surgery. So the insurance company calls the doctors office to find out if they want ot submit a PA for the MRI. Hmmm, don't think it should be our job to get them to do this.
So now finally we have a PA for the MRI. We get it scheduled I take half the day off work to watch the kids while she goes in. Two hours later she comes home crying and pissed off and locks herself in the room.
Apparently the office had sent over orders for the wrong MRI (they were actually order for someone else). So I call the doctors office to get this straightened out
and I get the MRI rescheduled for later that day. She goes in and finally gets the MRI, obviously she is pretty pissed by this time.
She calls up the doctors office later that day to try and schedule an appointment for the results, but she also has the results sent to her primary car physician. The office says, oh, he's out on vacation and won't be back for another 4 days. Well that pretty much sends her over the edge.
So she waits till he is "supposedly back from vacation" and finally get thru and request an appointment for the results. The doctor himself says can it wait about 3 weeks. Guess that was not the right thing to say. Guess there ain't no compassion coming from that doctor. My wife got a paralyzed arm because of him and he wants to wait more time.
Well she finally gets an appointment for Friday April 27. We get to the doctor's office and wait about 15 minutes then the office admin comes out and says the doctor was called off to emergency surgery earlier that day and is not seeing any patients today. Supposedly they had called the house to let us know this. Well we had both been at work that day so how are we to know this. Guess you can pretty much figure this was the end of her visiting Dr Kim Wayson anymore. She was out that door faster than I could keep up with her. On the way out the office admin says that she will hold an appointment the following Monday at the same time. Wife ain't coming back in for that one. She isn't going back to him any more.
Bad Doctors - Dr Kim Wayson
Wow! My wife had surgery for a bulging disc in her neck on March 19th. Well according to the neurosurgeon the surgery was a success and he fixed everything.
Well immediately after waking up my wife said she could not feel her arm.
Here is it more than 6 weeks later and her arm is completely paralyzed, she has no feeling in the arm and has very limited motion of just her wrist.
So much for a successful surgery. Thanks doc, for nothing.
The hospital stay was anything but enjoyable too..what was supposed to be a 24 hour stay turned into a 5 day stay.
Two days after surgery for some reason they could not control the pain so they were constantly monkeying with her pain medicine and had her so zonked out that she fell out of bed and didn't even know it until she woke up in the CAT scanner...
The Physician's Assistant was pretty much an A-hole to my wife. One day he came in and since she was so zonked out on the pain medicine decided to take her off it completely because he "could not do his job". I guess if your job is to be an a-hole taking someone off pain meds' won't change that for you cuz you're still an a-hole in the end.
Well immediately after waking up my wife said she could not feel her arm.
Here is it more than 6 weeks later and her arm is completely paralyzed, she has no feeling in the arm and has very limited motion of just her wrist.
So much for a successful surgery. Thanks doc, for nothing.
The hospital stay was anything but enjoyable too..what was supposed to be a 24 hour stay turned into a 5 day stay.
Two days after surgery for some reason they could not control the pain so they were constantly monkeying with her pain medicine and had her so zonked out that she fell out of bed and didn't even know it until she woke up in the CAT scanner...
The Physician's Assistant was pretty much an A-hole to my wife. One day he came in and since she was so zonked out on the pain medicine decided to take her off it completely because he "could not do his job". I guess if your job is to be an a-hole taking someone off pain meds' won't change that for you cuz you're still an a-hole in the end.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Cold Fusion and such
Never thought I'd be learning things like ColdFusion. When I first started learning it I thought geez, what a pathetic language not much you can do with it. Well I've been working with CF for about 8 months now and WOW I'm amazed at what YOU CAN DO with it. I originally thought oh, it's just an extension of HTML...Dang was I wrong. I am definitely liking ColdFusion MX7.
Never thought I would have to learn any form of C either, geez! Without ActionScript in ColdFusion I just don't know how you could create very useful sites.
Some sites I have come to frequent in my quest for ColdFusion-ness...
Ray Camden's Blog
AS Fusion
Their blog and examples on flash remoting have helped me immensely!
Dream in Code
I had orignally wanted to start doing stuff in ASP.NET but was told by my boss at Comcast to use ColdFusion. At first I was not too happy about it. But from the server level I have to admit I think CF is much more friendly to the server than ASP.NET ever will be.
Being able to put forms together using Flash is really cool. I know some of you out there have already been doing it for quite some time. I have been a traditional programmer for the last 12 years shunning all things web-related. Guess I was just stupid!
Never thought I would have to learn any form of C either, geez! Without ActionScript in ColdFusion I just don't know how you could create very useful sites.
Some sites I have come to frequent in my quest for ColdFusion-ness...
Ray Camden's Blog
AS Fusion
Their blog and examples on flash remoting have helped me immensely!
Dream in Code
I had orignally wanted to start doing stuff in ASP.NET but was told by my boss at Comcast to use ColdFusion. At first I was not too happy about it. But from the server level I have to admit I think CF is much more friendly to the server than ASP.NET ever will be.
Being able to put forms together using Flash is really cool. I know some of you out there have already been doing it for quite some time. I have been a traditional programmer for the last 12 years shunning all things web-related. Guess I was just stupid!
Friday, March 23, 2007
New JOB! and some old job commentary
I've now been with Comcast about 15 months and loving it every day. Anything after my last job is a cakewalk. I've forgotten/blocked out of my mind most everything about that job.
I basically get to do much of what I love again. Which is PROGRAMMING!!!!!!
I had never worked on web sites before or programmed them prior to working with Comcast. Now I'm doing quite a bit of work in ColdFusion and have been scouring sites for good techniques and have come across one that I have learned a lot from: ASFusion I never thougth that web programming was so easy. Before Comcast I just never understood it to the degree I'm finally understanding it.
I am learning to like being in IT again. I have to admit the pay just isn't what it was 5 years ago but at least it's work.
It beats the 2 years I was unemployed after working at Alcatel for 12 years and all 750 of us got laid off...That SUCKED!
I basically get to do much of what I love again. Which is PROGRAMMING!!!!!!
I had never worked on web sites before or programmed them prior to working with Comcast. Now I'm doing quite a bit of work in ColdFusion and have been scouring sites for good techniques and have come across one that I have learned a lot from: ASFusion I never thougth that web programming was so easy. Before Comcast I just never understood it to the degree I'm finally understanding it.
I am learning to like being in IT again. I have to admit the pay just isn't what it was 5 years ago but at least it's work.
It beats the 2 years I was unemployed after working at Alcatel for 12 years and all 750 of us got laid off...That SUCKED!
No longer with the WITCH
Wow it's been quite some time since I did anything at all on the blog.
Back in Dec 2005 got a new job in IT with Comcast....Yeah!!!!!!!
The day I told my witch of a boss that I was leaving was her last day just before going on a 3 week vacation! Boy did that sting when I told her. Guess I couldn't have timed that any better. So my last 2 weeks at the job were the best I had in the whole 2 year I was there. I actually got work done and did not have someone looking over my shoulder for all day.
Back in Dec 2005 got a new job in IT with Comcast....Yeah!!!!!!!
The day I told my witch of a boss that I was leaving was her last day just before going on a 3 week vacation! Boy did that sting when I told her. Guess I couldn't have timed that any better. So my last 2 weeks at the job were the best I had in the whole 2 year I was there. I actually got work done and did not have someone looking over my shoulder for all day.
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