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which_chick) wrote2026-04-17 07:42 am
which_chick) wrote2026-04-17 07:42 am
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Patience with patient portals
I apparently have two patient portals. One is for UPMC and one is for the doctor office. These are not the same patient portal -- different websites, different log-in credentials, somewhat different information.
Lab results are available at the UPMC portal, which I now have bookmarked (yes, yes, I am slow and apparently smart people would have bookmarked it right away but I'm not that guy because ragequitting and resentment are not particularly functional methods of dealing with shit) but if I want to read the doc's thoughtsand prayers about the lab results, I have to log into the doctor office portal which, shocker, does not have the lab results numbers visible unless the doc chooses to post them there for me to see. So, I need to have both portals and be able to log into both portals and this is... a lot.
This is not a great system, let me just say. It could be so much better. (The adult response to a shitty system is not to throw all the toys out of the sandbox and pitch a fit. The adult response is to navigate the shitty system to get the information that you need, regardless of how shitty the system is. I will note for the record that the adult response does not put any pressure on the system authorities to fucking do better and this, too, pisses me off. There may be some anger issues in play, here.)
Doc's suggestions are to do an ultrasound of the thyroid (it says "US thyroid" but since the thyroid is located in the US and hasn't really left the country, I'm assuming that means UltraSound) and recheck blood work in three months to try and get a trendline. I assume they will try to call me again (note says they tried once and I didn't answer the phone, completely reasonable because I was running a mower and could not hear the phone and yet my voicemail was full, which of course it was because who the fuck checks voicemail?) but if I don't hear from them in another few days, I will call them. On the phone. And Speak To A Person.
I also, in other annoying stupid health shit, called the colonoscopy people and scheduled that for June 17. I also arranged for a driver and stuff. I spoke to a person. I answered lots of screening questions. I agreed to get all sorts of paperwork and stuff via email and shit it's like two months away, are they seriously expecting me to keep track of that between now and then? ARGH.
Still no progress on the dentist front. I don't want to deal with this. I don't want to deal with any of this. *sigh*
I will call about a dentist next week.
There has been some spinning and some knitting but not a full square yet. I'm doing more Outside Stuff since the weather is warm and this has taken a chunk out of my knitting time.
Lab results are available at the UPMC portal, which I now have bookmarked (yes, yes, I am slow and apparently smart people would have bookmarked it right away but I'm not that guy because ragequitting and resentment are not particularly functional methods of dealing with shit) but if I want to read the doc's thoughts
This is not a great system, let me just say. It could be so much better. (The adult response to a shitty system is not to throw all the toys out of the sandbox and pitch a fit. The adult response is to navigate the shitty system to get the information that you need, regardless of how shitty the system is. I will note for the record that the adult response does not put any pressure on the system authorities to fucking do better and this, too, pisses me off. There may be some anger issues in play, here.)
Doc's suggestions are to do an ultrasound of the thyroid (it says "US thyroid" but since the thyroid is located in the US and hasn't really left the country, I'm assuming that means UltraSound) and recheck blood work in three months to try and get a trendline. I assume they will try to call me again (note says they tried once and I didn't answer the phone, completely reasonable because I was running a mower and could not hear the phone and yet my voicemail was full, which of course it was because who the fuck checks voicemail?) but if I don't hear from them in another few days, I will call them. On the phone. And Speak To A Person.
I also, in other annoying stupid health shit, called the colonoscopy people and scheduled that for June 17. I also arranged for a driver and stuff. I spoke to a person. I answered lots of screening questions. I agreed to get all sorts of paperwork and stuff via email and shit it's like two months away, are they seriously expecting me to keep track of that between now and then? ARGH.
Still no progress on the dentist front. I don't want to deal with this. I don't want to deal with any of this. *sigh*
I will call about a dentist next week.
There has been some spinning and some knitting but not a full square yet. I'm doing more Outside Stuff since the weather is warm and this has taken a chunk out of my knitting time.
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I'd worry more but thyroid things, even thyroid cancer things, are very fixable. (I've had multiple family members with thyroid issues, not just my cousin on dad's side but also my mom and her sister and grandmas on both sides.) It takes a while to get through Thyroid Candyland, but even if they have to totally murder your thyroid and make you glow in the dark (not really), you will very-probably not die and they'll give you fake thyroid that works OK.
I would be way more upset but I've seen other family members navigate Thyroid Candyland and it's... annoying but very likely nonfatal.