too many docs

[mayalaen]

Decided to start catching up on the doc visits/procedures I haven't had my parents do for the past 3 years now that we're more confident about mom's health and how to go out safe-ish-ly with Covid/other shit.

I scheduled no more than 1 doc/procedure per week and alternated between parents.

All in all it's 3 months solid of once-a-week shit.

I thought once a week wasn't bad and totally do-able.

But holy shit I forgot how frustrating it is to do shit for old people.

The medical industry (bc lbr it's an industry) is such a joke when you're over 60.

Everything is super hard, super long, and super frustrating. I've complained about it here before but it still blows my mind.

My shit gets taken care of fairly quickly (it's still America so don't get too excited) and I get referrals and authorizations within a somewhat reasonable period of time.

Mom and dad? Nope.

Everything is a struggle and nobody communicates with each other so with every specialist, every office, every pharmacy, and every SINGLE insurance issue, it's like starting over.

I'm so fucking tired, and I'm 25 years younger than mom and 35 years younger than dad.

Yesterday I spent 4 hours in the ER with mom after she started having spots in her vision (she had a stomach procedure 2 days previous).

FOUR HOURS and there were only 4 other people besides us there only to find out she had her first ocular migraine.

Like thanks dude both my dad and I get them and if you just would've ruled out super dangerous shit with a CT in the beginning we could've been out in 1 hour.

I swear they hope old people will just go home and die instead of trying to keep themselves healthy. Old farts are too tired to do this shit and their kids are too busy with their own lives and kids of their own.

Why not just let them live out the rest of their lives easily? Let them have meds without jumping through hoops. Authorize procedures their docs ask for without a fight -- bc like who is going around getting this shit done for fun?!

Can't tell ya how many times I've gone in for an endoscopy just for funsies amiright?!