Mark your calendars

We finally have a date! The baby is scheduled to be born September 14th. And all it took was a little craziness on my part. Isn't that sad, that I had to morph into Angry Pregnant Lady just to get something done that should have been done weeks ago?

Hubby called from the boat last night, and I told him the run-around I was given yesterday at the hospital. He was pretty pissed, not at me, but at how I was treated. So he suggested that instead of calling them over and over, show up the next morning and refuse to leave until the appointments are set.

I'm not really a pushy person. So it took some convincing from him to make me see that it was the only way things were going to get done. But I did it! Here's what happened:

I showed up at 8:30am this morning and marched right into the OB appointment office. I explained that I'm about to give birth and still have no c-section scheduled and that I wasn't leaving until I had a date. The guy that was dealing with me said I should wait at home to receive a call (same BS excuse I've heard before), to which I replied, no, I've been waiting for over a month and clearly no one has called, so I will not be leaving until I speak with the person responsible for scheduling the surgery. He spoke with my OB to confirm my due date, then brought in the lady that schedules the surgeries. Again, I was given the run-around, and told that the doctor who approves the appointments was in surgery until 11am. I said that was fine and that I would wait in the office until 11am... with a screaming LB.

The man was clearly agitated with me, but the woman kept her cool and invited me into her office. She said as long as I was there, we could book my pre-op. I wasn't even aware I had to do a pre-op, so I asked (quite bitchily) why they waited until this long if I needed a pre-op, SAC, and c-section scheduled. She didn't have a clear answer, and it was apparent that she was pretty new to this and was confused herself.

My OB was aware that I was there in the hospital, so by a stroke of luck, he swung by the scheduling lady's office between appointments to ask how things were going. I probably made him late for his next appointment, but he and the lady hashed some things out. First, they wanted to schedule me the 9th, but that didn't work. Then they suggested the 11th (Sept 11th!! NO!!), but that fell through, too. Finally, he pointed out that there were women on the schedule with later due dates than me (WTF??), so he told her to bump Mrs. So-and-so and put me in on the 14th, with him doing the surgery himself.

Then he had a semi-private conversation (even though I could hear the whole thing) about how confusing and backwards the process was to schedule a c-section. Clearly, he was annoyed that he had to step in, and maybe from this experience, they will tweak the round-about way things get done in that respect.

So I finally walked out over an hour later with a pre-op with my OB, SAC (surgical admissions center appointment), and my c-section. How frustrating that I had to be a mega-bitch. I mean, clearly if other women have their appointments already scheduled, mine should have been as well. Just wondering where in the past eight months I fell through the cracks, considering I'd been adamant about my preferences the whole time.

Hubby was ecstatic that I stuck to my guns and got the appointment. But he's still pretty pissed and plans to make his feelings known when it's time to evaluate the hospital.

It's still mind-boggling to me that the clinic doesn't schedule things like this as quickly as possible. If I had made my preferences clear, then it would make sense to add me to some sort of c-section waiting list and schedule me as soon as they could. I was told over and over that I was on "the list", but that list needs to be revised or changed because obviously that way is not working for them.