Thursday, January 17, 2008

Yurinator

It's hilarious that Elijah's urologist's first name is Yuri. Back in college, you know his fellow frat boys were yelling, "The YURINATOR!! WWOOoooooooHHOOo!" Actually, maybe not, because based on the way he treats us, one might think he didn't have many friends. We realized today how lucky we are that all of Elijah's other doctors have COMPASSION and BEDSIDE MANNER. It is obvious that this guy is very good at what he does. He does not falter in his knowledge at all and is obviously a confident, skilled doctor and surgeon. This is the only reason we will tolerate waiting for an hour in his waiting room only to spend 90 seconds talking to him, at which point he says to me in a very degrading manner, "We want what's BEST for your child," as if I don't want what is best for my child!

He had told us after Elijah was born to come back when he was 11 months old so that we could do his hypospadias surgery when he was 12 months old. So here we are, in his office when Eli is 11 months old, just like he asked. He asked about Elijah's upcoming heart surgery and we said we don't have a definite timeline but that we're guessing it will take place June-ish. He said, in a very you-should-have-known-this tone that in order to get his hypospadias repaired, we first had to get clearance from cardiology. Uh, ok...sure, we can do that, but why did we drive all the way to downtown Minneapolis just to hear that? This is when he said, "We want what is BEST for your child. Why would we do surgery now if cardiology doesn't clear him for it?" Angry Mommy responds with, "That's why we're here! We do want what's best for him. We're here because you told us to come back at this time." And he exited the room like a lightning bolt.

So now we'll call cardiology and figure out whether his hypospadias can be fixed now or if it will have to wait until next fall.

If only ALL DOCTORS treated their patients like our dear Dr. Gremmels does. We love Dr. Gremmels! And Dr. Snook! And Dr. Moga!

I have to share one funny thing from our appointment today. As we sat for ONE WHOLE HOUR in the cramped waiting room, we were able to entertain the other people sharing the waiting room with us. Elijah was soooo loud, jabbering and grunting non-stop. There were a few other babies just staring at him like, WHY ARE YOU TALKING SO MUCH, YOU CHUBBY, CURLY-HAIRED BABY? It was really funny. Other parents kept chuckling and saying to us, "He likes to talk!" It seemed like he really enjoyed having an audience. If someone got up to leave the room, he would look at them as if to say, WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!? I'M ALMOST TO THE FUNNY PART!


I know I've probably worn out my welcome for prayer requests, but we need more prayers for Baby Isaac, who is having an unexpected heart surgery tomorrow. Poor little guy, he and his family have been through so much. There has been so much going on this week with my heart babies! :( It has been a really sad week. Thanks for praying for and following the angels Madeline and Kate. They are in Heaven now and watching over all of us!

4 comments:

Samantha said...

Okay, that does it...come to Dallas and see our urologist...he is the BEST...and I mean that quite literally...he has the BEST bedside manner and he is known to be the very best in town...so you need to come down here...we can hook you up with a place to stay...as long as you don't mind sharing a kids bed...Noah will be more than happy to share and seeing that Micah has never slept in his crib, Eli could crash there! Seriously though...that stinks that your doctor was such a jerk...you so do not need that, especially when you really do want what is best for your chunky monkey! UGH!!! The nerve!

Hugs!
Samantha

P.S. I am praying hard for our sweet Isaac...I just know that tomorrow will bring them what they need for that sweet boy...a fix to the problem and a quick recovery.

Tiffers said...

I am sorry you met a not so good bedside manner doctor. If you want to see a different one Harrison's urologist was Dr. Aliabadi. His office is at Children's Minneapolis in the Specialty Clinic. We were assigned him when H was born. He looked familiar and thought he had seen our other son 2 years prior. Turned out that he did.

Anyway, we loved him. He was just as nice and sincere as Dr. Moga, Dr. Gleason, actually all of H's doctors were amazing when we lived up there; and we had 9 specialists.

If you don't like the doctors attitude it is not to late to find another one. Look up Dr. Aliabadi. He did both of Harrison's urology surgeries and we love him. He took out H's kidney and reconstructed his bladder at 7 months old. He also decompressed his cysts when he was 2 days old.

Good luck and Elijah is so cute. Harrison loves guacamole. Try it with Elijah...I am sure he would love it.

Wanna_B_slimmer said...

Isnt it sad how some Dr's just cant be nice at all... Some you could just take home with you ...but others...well are like the yurinator... terible manner... but unfortunately we need these guys also...
Take care...

Unknown said...

Maybe its a urology thing cause our urologist was very short with us too. I don't know much about Elijah's condition but will be researching it to find out. I hope you get some answers from the cardiologist. I wish all our doctors were like our cardioglist, hes the best!

Well take care and give lil' man a big hug from us in Arizona!