Missed Psych testing appointments w/ Dr. Manley

I got a call from Wendy at Dr Quiason's office. In the conversation, she told me that Mom has missed her second scheduled psych testing appointment with Dr. Manley on Monday, 3/22. (Both Wendy and I had understood from Mom that the appointment with Dr. Manley was supposed to be Friday 3/26.) I called Mom and left messages on her cell and home answering machine, telling her that I had learned she'd missed the appointment, that Wendy had been kind enough to reschedule it for Wednesday March 24 @ 11:45, and that I would pick her up and take her to the appointment. She called me back and told me she needed to reschedule it, because she hadn't been eating properly to prepare for it. She thought she was supposed to be fasting for it. I asked if she was referring to her colonoscopy appointment, and pointed out that there was no dietary preparation for this appointment to my knowledge. She got angry with me, asking if I thought she was so stupid that she didn't know the difference between a colonoscopy and a psychiatrist's appointment. (NOTE: I later discovered that Dr. Q had advised her to eat blueberries (as a memory help?) and she was concerned that she wouldn’t do well on the test since she hadn’t been eating blueberries!)

She grudgingly agreed to go to Dr. Manley's appointment, but wanted me to agree to take her to and pick her up from the colonoscopy she had scheduled for this Friday (3/26.) I told her I could drop her off, but asked her to arrange pickup from the Groves scheduled medical transportation, as I would be at work at that point. She became very angry with me, saying that riding in the Groves van was too rough and she couldn't believe I expected her to do that. When we hung up, she was still agreeing that I could pick her up Wednesday morning for Dr. Manley's appointment.

However, she called me back within the hour and left 2 voicemails. The first said she was NOT going to Dr. Manley's appointment on Wednesday. The second (left less than 5 minutes later) was calmer, telling me that the GI's office had called to reschedule her colonoscopy that Friday. Since they wanted to push the start time back to 9:30 (which she felt was unreasonable to ask her to fast until), she rescheduled the entire appointment for April. I called her back (in less than 10 minutes from the FIRST voicemail!) and told her that I would agree to take her both ways for the colonoscopy if she would agree to go to Dr. Manley's appointment on Wednesday. She seemed surprised, and said that of course she would go to that appointment! I reminded her of the first voicemail, and she seemed to have no idea what I was talking about! Sigh....

I'm picking her up this morning. I'll let you know how it goes.

Lisa

P.S. During the first conversation, she switched her story to say that she had not MISSED the appointments -- rather, she had rescheduled both of them, and she had no idea why Dr. Manley's office would think otherwise.