Oh, wait. No they didn't. Here's how they f'ed me this time.
Back around the first part of February, I contacted the Blairsville VA clinic and spoke with my provider, a P.A., not an M.D., and she said she wanted me to have a CT scan w/ contrast. About 5 days later, I get a call from the Cobb VA saying the earliest they could get me in was 4/17. Awesome, as usual with the VA. I went ahead and accepted the appointment. A couple days before the appointment I call to reschedule the appointment because I had something come up at work I couldn't get out of. I asked for a location a little closer to me, but would go to Cobb if necessary. They told me I needed to reschedule with Community Care and sent a message to my provider. Her witch of a nurse messaged me with an incredibly snarky email asking who ordered this in the first place and why did I need Community Care? I replied "Your boss ordered it, and I have no idea why Cobb VA said I needed Community Care. She said she looked it up, and her boss, in fact, did order it. She said she would contact Cobb VA and find out why I needed CC.
Cobb VA called me last week and said "The reason you need CC is #1, we don't do that test in this clinic, so had you driven all the way here, we would have turned you away. #2, if you have it done at the VA hospital in ATL/Decatur, they're now scheduling for November, so you need to go to CC." How F'ing crazy is that? 7 months out, plus the original 2 months I've already waited.
Still haven't heard from CC to reschedule yet either. I cannot express to y'all how much I absolutely hate and despise the VA processes. I will say my care is actually good, but getting in to get the care is absurd.
When I called the National Archives back in October for copies of all my military records, including medical, they said there were about 35,000 requests ahead of me.
Back around the first part of February, I contacted the Blairsville VA clinic and spoke with my provider, a P.A., not an M.D., and she said she wanted me to have a CT scan w/ contrast. About 5 days later, I get a call from the Cobb VA saying the earliest they could get me in was 4/17. Awesome, as usual with the VA. I went ahead and accepted the appointment. A couple days before the appointment I call to reschedule the appointment because I had something come up at work I couldn't get out of. I asked for a location a little closer to me, but would go to Cobb if necessary. They told me I needed to reschedule with Community Care and sent a message to my provider. Her witch of a nurse messaged me with an incredibly snarky email asking who ordered this in the first place and why did I need Community Care? I replied "Your boss ordered it, and I have no idea why Cobb VA said I needed Community Care. She said she looked it up, and her boss, in fact, did order it. She said she would contact Cobb VA and find out why I needed CC.
Cobb VA called me last week and said "The reason you need CC is #1, we don't do that test in this clinic, so had you driven all the way here, we would have turned you away. #2, if you have it done at the VA hospital in ATL/Decatur, they're now scheduling for November, so you need to go to CC." How F'ing crazy is that? 7 months out, plus the original 2 months I've already waited.
Still haven't heard from CC to reschedule yet either. I cannot express to y'all how much I absolutely hate and despise the VA processes. I will say my care is actually good, but getting in to get the care is absurd.
When I called the National Archives back in October for copies of all my military records, including medical, they said there were about 35,000 requests ahead of me.
