I returned to a different imaging center that had also pre-certified me for the additional mammographic views and sonogram, even if test negative, biopsy not ruled out, prescription.
LOL the previous imaging center's doctor had typed in huge letters and underlined each word FIRST MAMMOGRAM EVER. (Aren't they too much?) I had been so tempted to write after that proclamation of war in Orange AND LAST!!!! :P
I called the new center up yesterday and made an appointment for this morning. They knew exactly what tests I was to take and said I was already certified for them.
So there I am at their check in desk and they give me a whole bunch of forms. They told me I had to pay for the sonogram no matter what insurance I had. If I signed a paper giving my ok then well I would have to pay only $200, if I refused I would have to pay $400. They can just do the mammographic views.
I said thank you for the choices, however I have my own choice. I won't be taking any test today. The test has to be taken in its entirety or it is not the prescription the doctor ordered. I asked them if I could have a copy of that release form. They said I could have a copy only if I signed it.
I said thank you and headed out the door. They called me back and said wait a minute while we check on something. After their conference on my situation I was told ok you will not be billed and we will do all the tests.
Oh had I only gone out that door; I was given more mammograms than at the screening. They very every day lied to me the entire time saying that the radiation was not harmful look at them they work with it all day every day. hmm I noticed working was different that slamming someone's boob into it on the minute. They would never treat an animal this way, oops, this is the way they treat cows.
This center is way better in every respect than the other center. Sure I had a little more experience with these things. I told them every time they talked to me that I want to see the doctor when the tests are done. That I would be waiting for results, no more of this month wait stuff. They do this already. They are professional. They were kind to me in every service they provided.
The sonogram hurt. I never had one of those maybe that's why.
Anyway after some waiting I was told the doctor wanted to talk to me. I did not even have to sit down. She said everything is fine. You can go. No problems.
I looked at the new mammograms on the screen and they were perfect just like my feet, beautiful. They should use my mammograms as the standard, lol.
I called up the cancer coloring primary physician and said the doctor said there was no problem. She said well she would have to see the report.
LOL I'm firing her anyway. Not because of this fiasco but because she ridiculed my foot doctor's care. But first, I'm going to ask her for another referral for another foot doctor. A doctor who is not teaching college because today I had a hard time walking on the foot that has the bone sticking out of it. Whatever they say I am going to do, end of story.
As to the court case, its still very much in consideration. Although there was one judge in civil court that said you aren't getting anything unless you have cancer, the reality is if the cigarette smoke is so bad that it makes a tenant throwup, dizzy and get asthma, well then, buh-bye habitability and afterall that is what the case is about. The medical expertise needed for claim has already been established. The city would like to call it uncomfortable, HUD called it "administratively not feasible" (because they are too busy sitting on their lazy asses), current landlord calls the bedbugs "only annoying" and the last landlord refused to even come into the apartment.
IMHO the better, the most excellent my health, the worse it gets for you dudes. The on-the-record diagnosis of first stage lung and pulmonary, intermittant environmentally caused asthma....
Its an interesting case that, well, keeps getting way more interesting. My doctor approved my request for an esophagal doctor. Its the last item. Wheezing diagnosis is very hard to figure out. I deserve to know and I love the idea that the government that causes it, well, is the government that is going to pay for it.
Will I ever do a mammogram or colonoscopy again? Hell No!
I am glad I did them once because I know what they are about. The tests etc made me more conscious of what I was eating. I have no eating problems as I am a vegetarian who is not stuck on any one food. Ah but better, the experience made me more conscious of the damage the city, the State, the feds and of course the landlords are doing to me as well as the masses of New Yorkers.
Once is enough.
