So last month, my missing period returned. I haven’t counted myself as ‘cured’ since that was just once in six months, ya know?
When we left off, Debbie gave me 4 trial packs of pills for the summer. I realized this week that I’ll be out of pills before school starts back. So today I called to find out if she can write or call in a prescription for me. The asshole I hate to talk to answered the phone, here’s our conversation with some of my parts abridged:
Me: Spoke with Debbie before school ended, the script she put me on for bc runs out before school starts and due to the nature of the problem, my body can’t handle skipping two weeks and throwing me right back off again.
Him: She’s gone for the day.
*huge silence as apparently he thinks this conversation is over…*
Me: Will she be given that message when she returns? This is kind of important….
Him: She won’t be back until school starts again.
Me: Can someone else there write the prescription; it’s just birth control.
Him: Well they prefer that the doctor who prescribed it originally write the prescription.
Me: She’s not the only doctor there who’s prescribed the exact thing for me there, and that’s on file.
Him: Well they’re all gone until school starts back.
So I hung up.
His end of the conversation was all with this terribly annoyed tone for having to answer the phone, which is what his job is. I really need to figure out who to complain to because if I just send an email to the department, it’s likely he may handle that correspondence as well. He really shouldn’t be answering phones at a health center if he’s going to be annoyed every time someone has a question and if he can’t process how to be helpful and give pertinent information upfront without someone having to dig it out of him. That’s a job where when you have to say no, you offer explanation and alternatives, you don’t just leave people hanging–which is what he’s done every time I’ve ever called.
I’m upset. I may have gotten this problem straight, but now either direction I go it’s gonna get screwed up again. If I wait, I’ll be going at least a week, more likely two without birth control. I’ve also still got refills available on the pill I started taking when my period disappeared. Either way, I’m going to throw myself off schedule again.
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