I don't exactly understand which medical providers access my Patient Portal which I activated through my Nephrologist, but I checked it and found that my labs from yesterday's pre-surgery Samaritan visit have already been entered: my Blood Type is O Pos, which is the most common, and all 25 of the lab reports are in the normal range. That could be the bad news part; the "good" part being that there are still 2 factors that could prevent the surgery.
One is the urinalysis that was not done yesterday because I am on antibiotic; that will be done on the morning of the prospective surgery. The other potential deal-breaker is the clearance from my Primary doctor, who has been sick, so another doctor in the practice had to sign the form. She evidently takes her job very seriously, insisting that she receive medical reports from all the doctors and hospitals where I've been treated over the last year, including the cardiologist's clearance (which he signed in less than a 10-minute visit) and even more extreme, the findings of the hospital's pre-admission test from yesterday. She wants that report faxed to her before she signs the clearance form: they said no one has ever asked that before. She also wants my blood pressure, which is labile, to be stabilized before the surgery. That will be impossible, I'm quite certain, so I don't know how much veto power she can exert. I hope my primary doctor returns to the practice, so I won't even visit her again. But she said she would come to my house if I ask her to. I should have known this wasn't going to be easy. Life is not a victory march.
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