Our company has 2 different medical plans, the PCN (Physicians Care Network) and something else. The something else used to have a name, but now I think it is called the Non-PCN Plan. 🙂 In the PCN you have to go to the primary doctor and get a referral for anything he can’t handle. Not that they are stingy with referrals, but they don’t want you running to the ortho guy for a hangnail. The company is trying hard to steer you towards the PCN by making the other one twice the cost. It is working too, the last time I was chatting with our HR Manager he said there are like 20 (out of 350) left on the Non Plan. The nice thing about the PCN is that you can go to your primary doctor as often as you need and it doesn’t cost a cent. No deductibles, no forms, no nothing.
Well if you read my Wednesday post you know that I was not feeling to well. After repeated calls to the doctor’s office on Thursday asking for results of my blood work and them saying they haven’t got them yet, at the very end of the day they actually got them. Seems the lab’s fax machine was sending the results, they are just not sure where they were going, outer space perhaps. The Physician’s Assistant called and told me that my results were normal, but if I still felt bad in the AM I should come in and see the doctor.
After a restless Thursday night I went back in to see the Doc. The Nurse took my pressure and pulse, 168/106 and 78, still high. The doctor showed me my results, everything was smack in the middle of the OK range (except my cholesterol which was 203.) He also showed my 4 other copies of the report! Seems as every time I called, the receptionist called the lab and the lab faxed over a copy, but it got stuck in the pipe, but eventually came out. I got another EKG, which looked better than the one from the other day. The Doc is stumped, if something bad happened to make my pressure skyrocket like this, it would have showed up in the blood work. He gave me a different BP medicine, Micardis, and said take this over the weekend and check your pressure on Tuesday and give us a call.
Took one of the pills at lunch and I’m starting to feel almost human again. I hate to brag, because I might jinx it. Shhhh!
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