Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Poop and Scoop

I am so mad at the labs and my dr's office right now. Madelyn was suppose to have her stool checked again for giardia to see if it's gone now. I was given containers yesterday at her visit. Today while I'm dropping off Logan at school, she poops. Most of her poops seem to be in the mornings or evenings when I can't get the samples to the lab in time. Since it had to be there in an hour, I loaded up my other kids in my van (I had to take them all in to go view Logan's preschool graduation pictures), a friend of mine takes the containers and scoops poop for me. How many friends do that? Then I run home, grab a neighbor to ride with me so she can stay in the van with my other kids so I don't have to unload to take everyone in just to drop off labs. I registered her, left the samples and took off. When I got home they had left a message that they could not test it b/c her name was not on the containers.

They knew who the containers belonged to. I registered her. I did everything but mark her name on the bottles. Turns out it's a liability for them to test if the parent doesn't write the name on the container or it was not written on prior to the sample being put in. I even called the dr's office to see if they could do anything and they said no. The name could not be written on there by anyone in the lab even though they knew who it belonged to b/c they didn't take the sample. They couldn't even take my word over the phone to write her name on it.

I was furious...still am. Even if I worked, how do they think a parent is suppose to get poop to them in one hour time? I live 30 minutes away from the lab so that means leaving the house pretty much as soon as she poops. I don't work outside the home but I do have three other kids to have to load up and be able to leave or have someone available to come here. Am I suppose to get Madelyn on a pooping schedule so it's convenient for them to test it? It was a miracle I was able to do it today and all b/c her name was not written on the container even though they had her registered and took the containers from me, they could not test it.

Now, if we want to make sure this is gone, I have to make another trip to the dr's office and pick up containers, then wait on her to poop, collect it and hope it's during office hours within one hour time frame and take it there. I think they are asking a bit much and they need to come up with another way for this test. I'm pretty sure she is cured. She took the antibiotics for it and her poop has definitely changed since this.

And for those that know me, changing diapers is not a specialty of mine. I've been known to gag at the smells if not vomit. Scooping into a container is definitely not something I can do without gagging. I was lucky a friend was available to help me out today with that.

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