JANUARY 17, 2017 AND JULY 18, 2017: PROLIA SHOTS (UNDER DR. A.) BOTH ON TIME WITH NO PROBLEM. (AS WERE ALL PRECEDING ONES AT THE PRESCRIBED 6 MONTH INTERVALS).
SOMETIME BEFORE JANUARY 22, 2018 WHEN NEXT PROLIA SHOT DUE, DR. A RETIRED AND I WAS ASSIGNED TO DR. B. MY PROLIA SHOT WAS DUE THEN BUT DR. B WAS ALREADY BOOKED UP AND COULD NOT ON OR SEE ME BEFORE JANUARY 22.
THEREFORE PROLIA SHOT ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 22 OR 23, 2018 WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF DR. A'S RETIREMENT AND DR. B'S BUSY SCHEDULE AND I COULD NOT HAVE PROLIA SHOT (NORMALLY ADMINISTERED BY A NURSE) WITHOUT FIRST SEEING DR. B., WHOSE NEXT FREE APPOINTMENT WAS ON MARCH 16, 2018, THAT IS, NEARLY TWO MONTHS AFTER MY PROLIA SHOT WAS DUE!
MY BIG MISTAKE: THINKING THE WORLD-FAMOUS UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER KNEW WHAT IT WAS DOING!
IN FEBRUARY 2018, WHILE ON A TRIP, I EXPERIENCED PAIN WHICH OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS BECAME EXCRUCIATING AND DID NOT RESPOND TO REST AND ASPIRIN. I HAD NEVER HAD PAIN LIKE THIS IN MY LIFE!
WHEN I GOT HOME, IN TERRIBLE PAIN, MY NORTHWESTERN INTERNIST SAW ME AND SENT ME FOR XRAYS REVEALING THREE VERTEBRAL FRACTURES!
I CALLED THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO DOCTORS AND GOT A PROLIA SHOT MARCH 16, 2018, as noted above, two months after it was due.
I ALSO SAW THE NEW DOCTOR, DR. B., WHO ACTUALLY LAUGHED BEFORE EXPLAINING TO ME WHY THE DELAY IN GETTING MY PROLIA SHOT HAD CAUSED MY BONES TO BREAK! AND THIS, WHEN IT WAS HER OWN INSTITUTION THAT HAD CREATED THIS DELAY IN THE FIRST PLACE!
I could only think of this line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:
"He jests a scars that never felt a wound!" Glad to give you something to jest about, Doctor!
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