Seriously, my doctor is a useless git.

Remember how I've told you that I need to see a perinatologist for an ultrasound around 12 weeks to find out the sex of the baby. My doctor was supposed to make that referral. I know what you're thinking..."she didn't make the referral, right?" But no, she made the referral and heard back from the local peri's office within a few days. The response said that the doctor was out of her office indefinitely and that my referral would have to be sent along to a different specialist in the province. This is where my doctor dropped the ball. I had to call the perinatolgist's office to find any of this out. My doctor didn't contact me to tell me that I would have to see another doctor in another city to have this ultrasound done.

When I called the specialist's office today, her administrative assistant was very apologetic about the whole thing and offered any sort of help she could provide. After calling my doctor's office, only to find it closed, of course, I called the admin assistant back for the information of the specialists I might have been referred to so that I could contact them to see if my referral had been sent.

She took my request one step further and did all the leg work for me, calling the other offices, discovering that my referral had not been sent and doing up a referral for me on the spot to be sent to the nearest peri with a note of "URGENT" on it. She was an absolute doll! So helpful and kind. I wish that this office could be my primary one when I am preggo.