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Monday, November 26, 2012

It's not nice to be bitchy to the VERY pregnant lady

I had, yet another, OB/GYN appointment this morning. Seriously, they make you live there during the last trimester. Up to this point, I've seen (and liked- for the most part) just about everyone in the practice, but today was certainly an exception. After waiting in the exam room for almost 35 minutes, oh so comfortably disrobed from the waist down, Dr. (shall we call her) BitchFace walked in. There was no 'sorry you waited so long' (which should be automatic), no small talk, no nothing. The entire visit, including the exam took 4 minutes and proceeded like this:

Dr. BitchFace walks in: Hello. Any contractions? (Note: no niceties.)
Me: No. Lots of cramping but no contractions.
Dr. BitchFace: uh huh. (Thank you for acknowledging the cramping...) And you're due soon, right. (Hello, check my chart oh thorough one)
Me: Yes. Saturday.
Dr. BitchFace (looking at the chart): Your blood pressure is fine and you've gained another pound. (Yes- thank you, I was aware of that when I was weighed, but definitely a helpful thing to point out...)
Dr. BitchFace: And were you dilated at your last visit? (Uh- again, info YOU should have?)
Me: Yes. 1.5 cm
Dr. BitchFace: OK, now I'll do the internal exam. ...painfully digging around in my anatomy... Nope. Nothing. I'd give you just over a cm.
Me: (crushed) OK. And... (I start to ask a question... I had several.)
Dr. BitchFace (interrupting): Make an appointment for next week. Maybe you'll go into labor before then, but if not, they've probably already scheduled your induction. (huh?) You can discuss that next week though... Have a nice day. EXIT Bitchface.

Seriously? Rude people piss me off so much, and rude people with their gloved hands painfully poking around in my inner most regions especially piss me off. What benefit, to either of us, comes from you being curt with me? I've done nothing to you. I was on time for my visit. And not for nothing but I'm a wee bit hormonal these days. Being nice goes such a long way... You would think a WOMAN, dealing non-stop with pregnant ladies, would have a bit more understanding of that fact! Instead, she just succeeded in ruining my morning...

Now for the inevitable conclusion to this story: You know Dr. Bitchface is totally going to be on call when I go into labor. Won't that be lovely...

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