Fun Day at the Doctor

Cyst is the black circle in the heel.

So I went to the doctor last week to get the results from my x-rays and WOW what an adventure that was.  I hate going to the doctors for several reasons but a big pet peeve of mine is when I have to sit and wait...and wait...and wait.  Well of course on this journey it was no different.  After calling them several times on Thursday and Friday and getting nowhere I called back on Monday while I was on my lunch break.    I was told that the doctor would look at the film and call me back by the end of the day.  At 5:03 as I'm just about to leave work I get a call from Janet.  She pretty much has no information for me except that I have a bone cyst...that was it.  Then she asked if I'd like an MRI as if I knew what the hell she was talking about.  I said I'd like to talk to the doctor and so I set up an appointment.  But of course she first tells me there are NO appointments in the afternoon until Wednesday February 15th...yeah lady that'd be perfect.  OR maybe we could try and fix this problem NOW!  So I got an appointment for Tuesday morning at 11:00.

I walked into the office, told the girl with the accent I'm unfamiliar with I had an appointment and sat down to wait.  Immediately after I sat down I heard the three girls whispering about how one girl didn't put me into the computer for Tuesday but instead for Wednesday, but she'll just put me in for today anyway.  Now I'm not being told any of this I'm just overhearing it.  11:20 or so comes along and finally I get brought into the actual room where I supposedly was going to see a doctor.  11:30...45...seriously?  11:50...12:00...12:10 she finally walks into the room and hurriedly starts to tell me what's wrong.  The only problem is that I don't speak a word of doctor, I speak fish and I made it quite clear to her that she needs to explain this to me as if I do NOT work with people and bones.  

She goes through the information and tells me I have a bone cyst in my heel, not my ankle and by twisting the ankle I could have aggravated the cyst and that could be why I'm still feeling so much pain and discomfort 6 weeks later.  The cyst in the heel radiates pain along the outside of the foot (check), across the ankle (check), and up the achilles (check).  But I also have pain on the inside of the foot...lucky me!  Her recommendation was to get an MRI to see if I did any damage to any muscles or other soft tissues before she can figure out what to do with it.

Before I left though I had to bring up with her my experience of waiting for over an hour and how ECSTATIC that made me!  I told her I didn't appreciate the whispering and that they should have just told me they screwed up and that when I was told on Friday that I was getting a call by the end of the day but that didn't happen and that her "being in a meeting" was a bunch of b.s.  I also told her that sitting in a room for almost an hour didn't put a smile on my face either and as she proceeded to tell me she had an emergency I told her that's fine but somebody should have told me I'd be waiting for that long as I was ready to walk out.

Anyway...now I'm just awaiting an MRI appointment so I can figure out what happens next.