Yesterday (and follow up)

So yesterday was a little traumatic for us (Shell and I, Elliot was a champ through it all). We had our first appointment with the pediatrician. Shell was going to look for a ped for us with the few weeks she was going to have off from work before the due date. Since Elliot couldn't wait to get out and join this crazy world Shell wound up working until his birth and we were stuck using the ped suggested by her ob/gyn. This ped was way too far from our house so we new we weren't going to stick with them but had to them for the first visit.

Now that you have the background here's the timeline.

We had an appointment with the ped at 11:15 am and had to go back to the hospital before hand to get bloodwork done for a Jaundice test. We left around 9:30 am allowing for a half hour to get to the hospital, an hour to get the blodwork done and 15 minutes to get to the ped. Sounds like a good plan, right?

At the hospital - couldn't do the bloodwork because of insurance problems.

At the ped - nurse and Dr. were idiots (I won't go into details but trust me after speaking with many friends and family this is confirmed and not just over protective parent analysis). They totally freaked us out about the Jaundice, didn't answer any of our questions, didn't take Elliot's temperature and told us to come back in a month. This is a baby that was born three weeks early and may have Jaundice. I was revved up pretty good on the drive home.

Went home and ate some lunch and fed Elliot.

Went to a private lab for the Jaundice boodwork. They didn't have the correct thing to prick his foot to make him bleed so they stuck him a bunch of times in both feet and finally got a tiny sample. Took 3 technicians 30-45 minutes to complete this.

What a day!

So the follow up is that the blood results came back ok (score was 14, they don't start to worry until it is 20). We got a good referral for a ped around the corner who is accepting new patients and they are supposed to call Monday to get all the info at which point we'll try to set up an appointment early next just to make sure everything is on the up and up (which it seems to be).