03-3-2009 - High Risk Doctors.......WTF

My mood while writing this blog: confused

OK...So I am considered high risk for premature labor, my 1st daughter was born at 27 weeks (right about now) that was almost 6 years ago and I was 16 at the time of birth. I'm now preg again. I've been seeing my doctor every month now...mind you it is about a 35 min drive to see her. OK so earlier in my pregnancy she refered me to a high risk dr in the town that I live in....Went and seen him and everything was great he told us that he honstly didn't know what i was sent there. OK well that is just good news all around right!!! thats what we thought!!! So, we go back to my regualar DR....and she isn't satifisied with the results she said that the high risk dr didn't have any 'common sense' OK WHATEVER HE IS THE SPECIALIST RIGHT!! but anyways that was about a month ago.......so I did go and see her high risk doctor that she thought i should get a second opion with. . and this is an hour and 15 min drive away!!! (let me mind you my regular dr has never touched me, she has never seen an ultrasound of me, never excimaned me nothing, all she does is check the heartbeat and ask me questions) and I asked her if ther was any way i could go and see someone in my home town....because I DIDN'T WANT TO GET STUCK DRIVING THAT FAR EVERY WEEK!!!! and she promised me that the only way I would have to go every week right at the 1st was if something was wrong.......ok hope everyone is following..............well my fience has went to all my appts. so far but I wasn't expepcting him to get to go to this one it is an hour and a half away so me and my friend drove up there at 6:00AM yesterday morning to go see this lady, we went and seen her, and I am so happy I got the chance to see this lady, she was the best Dr. I've ever been to, I was in my appt for over an hour and a half, and the whole time I was getting more info than I ever have and GOOD NEWS AGAIN......baby is great, plantica is great, fluid is great, cervic is great, baby weights 2.4 lbs, and is measuring a week early, weight gain is great, EVERYTHING EVERYTHING is good and normal......well i was super happy, which isn't like me, I cry at every dr appt, because I just get mad at the doctors....well all of a sudden she tells me "well we will see you again next week!!!" I"m like WTF everything looks good, why should I have to take my day off and drive over here and see you....you know... i mean i know i need to get great care and need to be montoried a little closer but if everything is fine i can not be driving this far every single week you know.....so i asked her if there was any way that i could be looked at in the town that i live in and she gave me this crazy look and she was like you are from Joplin?? WHAT ARE YOU DOING OVER HERE?? thats a long drive hunny.....so she went and made some phone calls and got me in here....so i will be going here in my home town once a week, to the high risk dr (hour and half away ) once a month for now, and to my reg dr (35 min away) every month for now too.....it just sucks becacuse with all the other appts I have it seems like i'm going to the dr every single day.....I know that i need to get the best care, I KNOW, but is it really in my best intrest to be driving all around the state all month to all these different drs that haven't even been with me from the start???

it just seems like everytime i get told everything is OK AND GOOD there is some dr bringing me down again, the 1st time i seen a high risk dr, i was super happy that everything was fine, then go back to my reg dr and she just isn't satifisted, i'm like..OK so everything isn't good?? why can't everything just be good like they say????