Hospital Politics

James will be going in to Toronto tomorrow morning via Emerg.

This morning I received a called from the booking clerk that they had an appointment for James for a CT Scan on Monday. When I questioned her about him being admitted to hospital afterwards, or what happened to it being in the next couple days she had no clue what I was talking about. I asked her to please look into things for me.

Half hour later the Lung Specialists nurse called me to tell me they were still working on things. When I asked about the CT for Monday she had no idea I had been called about that and told me I should not have received a call as they felt Monday was too late and were working to try get it done tomorrow. They were still trying to get things organized but told me to expect to come in tomorrow, so we carried on with that expectation.

At the end of the day they called to say they were running into a few problems. CT could not get us an outpatient appointment for tomorrow (we would arrive as outpatients and be admitted once the results had been reviewed). The only way to get a CT Scan done immediately is as an inpatient. That meant getting us a bed, but there are no beds available. After several different attempts they were still getting nowhere.

That left one other options, for us to come to Emerg. Emergency patients have precedence and so we could get a bed that way. So the plan is to arrive at Emerg early tomorrow morning (we need to beat traffic). Our Lung Specialist is the Chest Doctor on call, so once we get thru the initial Emerg rig-a-ma-roll we'll be dealing with her. They will order the CT Scan and required blood work and we go from there. This is definitely the longer route but they did not feel they wanted to wait until Monday. We've never done the Toronto Emerg thing, so we'll see how long this takes in comparison to Mac. Mac usually took 12-16 hours to get a bed (with a few exceptions), so it will be a long day, especially considering we'll need to leave here at 5am.

We have no idea what tomorrow brings. We thank you for all your prayers, well-wishes, calls and thoughts. What a blessing it is to be surrounded by the Communion of Saints. We will update as soon as opportunity arises.