Dang, I got an incomplete from the meanest old journalist in the Woorld...I thought that meant everyone gave them out.

Connie, it'll drop my overall to a 3.25 IF I get an A in my class I have the final for tonight.

I sent her a follow up email. If that doesn't work then I'll go to the department head. Which I'll feel shitty about, but like you say, I've nothing to lose.

Hil - can you have a conversation with your department chair before writing the letter? Then your chair might give you an idea of how you should state your intentions.

I think that this professor thinks that I'm trying to pull some shit. She's being a total hardass. Which, I get. I really do. But fuck. I'm tring to fix a mistake. If I can't, I can't. But maybe a little leeway? I've never asked for an exception before in my school life.

Oh well. Guess my idiocy stands.

Aims, did I see in Natter that you can retake the class and replace the grade?

I called in itchy and sleep-deprived. Feel better now, having slept some more, but my face looks worse. Blisters all around my mouth. Looks like I participated in a poison ivy pie-eating contest.

And I know ya'll HATE entitled students crying over their own spilt milk, so I'ma shut up now.

smonster - the original advisor was wrong. I would get a better grade, but it wouldn't replace this one.

Oh my good god. I just had the most frustrating conversation with one of the receptionists at Awesome Doctor's office. I'm seriously thinking about writing a letter of complaint. I was calling for 2 refills -- the first one she said wasn't in my chart. I said "I've been taking the drug for THREE YEARS, so I'm sure it's in my chart!" She said that no it wasn't, and she'd have to talk to the doctor. She put me on hold, came back, and said okay, it would be called in.

The second refill was for my albuterol inhaler -- again, she said it wasn't in my chart. I almost asked her if she was sure she was looking at MY chart. So she said she'd have to talk to the doctor. She came back to the phone and said "Okay, we'll call in the ATENOLOL."

I said, "WHAT?!? I don't take atenolol! I need a refill for an albuterol inhaler! A-L-B-U-T-E-R-O-L!" Oh my god. She almost gave me the wrong drug (one which I've never taken, so I don't know where she came up with it).

There's a second prong to this clusterfuck. My pharmacy was supposed to call Awesome Doctor's office last Friday about the albuterol, but when I went to CVS Friday evening, they did not have the inhaler for me. So I assumed that CVS forgot to call Awesome Doctor. So, when I talked to the dipshit receptionist, I asked her if CVS had called about the inhaler. She said no they had not.

So after I got off the phone with dipshit receptionist, I called CVS to give them a piece of my mind -- because if they said they were going to call, they should follow through on it. Well, the pharmacist said that not only did they call, they had the inhaler ready for me to pick up. So the dipshit receptionist was wrong about that, too (because she said that CVS did not call, when obviously they did).

That is WAY too many mistakes, and getting that one drug totally WRONG -- that could seriously harm a patient if they didn't know anything about drugs. A lot of patients just blindly trust that their doctor is prescribing the RIGHT drug. A patient who doesn't know anything about drugs wouldn't know to check the label at the pharmacy, and they could take a drug that *might* kill them.

Atenolol, by the way, is a blood pressure drug. I already take a different blood pressure drug. So if I doubled up, it really could have harmed me. That is unacceptable.

I know the doctor's office has a Web site, so I'm going to see if there's contact information for an office manager or someone. I hesitate to write directly to Awesome Doctor, because I'm sure he has an office manager for a reason. So I should follow that chain of command. But I am pissed right now. She got everything about my prescriptions wrong. Everything.

I am sort of curious if there will be 2 inhalers waiting for me after work. (I'm sure there won't be, because insurance wouldn't pay for that, and CVS will straighten it out -- I now have more faith in them than in the dipshit receptionist.) But it would be funny if there were 2 inhalers.

Tep, you should absolutely call and complain to her supervisor. Is this person new, or very young? Because it sounds like a series of first-job-out-of-college mistakes to me (and also like she should start looking for her second-job-out-of-college-maybe-something-not-in-a-doctor's-office).