Thanks! The good news is that I was able to sweet talk a helpful receptionist into getting me an appointment with the doctor tomorrow instead of a week from Thursday. She agreed it did not make sense for me to have just a sling for a week-plus given that the doctor who read the x-rays described my elbow as “unstable” and said that things “might possibly tear apart.” So she pulled a few strings and here we are! I have to travel across the county for the appointment but it’ll be worth it.
Sorry for the loss of your friend. It’s never easy.
Despite having a PPO (not an HMO). They gave me a list of places I could go; I chose the closest one; was told by the doc’s receptionist they had to do some precertification & that they would call me with the code. When she called me later & gave me the code I then called the hospital/outpatient scheduling & gave them the code & they had the rest of my info already in their system. Once I heard a month I thought about hanging up & calling somewhere else but wasn’t sure if it was a generic code or tied to that location so I just scheduled it for ASAP.
Just looked at my calendar, went to the doc on Tues Oct 28th so actually a little bit more than a month.