{"id":1412,"date":"2008-06-23T22:16:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T22:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/escaped\/"},"modified":"2008-06-23T22:16:14","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T22:16:14","slug":"escaped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/escaped\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I escaped &#8212; not really &#8212; was discharged.<\/p>\n<p>Catherization showed no blockage, but then again, there is Tim Russart.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I feel about the original cardiologist. <\/p>\n<p>Ive  gone from wanting to kill the bimbo nurse, to just wanting to throttle her,  down to just wanting to see her fired ?? &#8212; though I am going to fire her and  her whole practice and find another cardiologist.&#160; I will probably go back  for my followup, but then move to the new cardiologist. <\/p>\n<p>This is the second time this medical practice has scared me  and my family.&#160; I have been getting routine stress tests from this  practice every two years since I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. <\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, they said there was a shadow and that I had  to have a particular test, which my primary care physician said wouldn&#8217;t happen  due to insurance.&#160; Sure enough, insurance denied and they said ?oh, It?s  not a problem?.&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p>This round, I promise I got a call at 4:30 Friday, saying I  had a 70% blockage in one artery, was probably going into heart failure and get  to a specific emergency room immediately.&#160; This was after I said that I  would said until next week as this week was booked up.<\/p>\n<p>She also said, call her anytime and she&#8217;d be happy to answer  any questions.&#160; When I tried to call back a few minutes later, got an  after hours message, and she left no way to reach her.&#160; &#160;That should  have been my first clue as my Endo left me his pager in case I needed  help.&#160; And she still hasn&#8217;t called. Very typical. <\/p>\n<p>The other good news.&#160; The whole experience should cost around $550.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I escaped &#8212; not really &#8212; was discharged. Catherization showed no blockage, but then again, there is Tim Russart.&#160; Here&#8217;s how I feel about the original cardiologist. Ive gone from wanting to kill the bimbo nurse, to just wanting to throttle her, down to just wanting to see her fired ?? &#8212; though I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}