egg retrieval at Shady Grove

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why you're trying to dictate the time of your egg retrieval. SG will tell you what time to arrive. End of story. This is hopefully a one time thing. It's not a hair appointment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why you're trying to dictate the time of your egg retrieval. SG will tell you what time to arrive. End of story. This is hopefully a one time thing. It's not a hair appointment.

Because in some cases there are scheduling issues that come up. Like DH can't stay the entire 3 hrs, and they won't let you take a cabbie back. It's not a hair appointment, but at what it costs, they can get a second freaking operating room and have some flexibility with scheduling. I find the entire business model to be very anti-customer, starting from the 40 people waiting like cattle in the morning for monitoring. Financial people who are clueless, and these OR gods who do whatever they want. I once refused to have a procedure (that was not an egg retrieval) because they gave me a 3 pm appointment - no, I will not starve myself all day because they are cheap a-holes. I told them either to put me on a different day in the morning, or I'd get it done elsewhere. It was not a cycle related, but of course an additional revenue for SG that they didn't want to lose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why you're trying to dictate the time of your egg retrieval. SG will tell you what time to arrive. End of story. This is hopefully a one time thing. It's not a hair appointment.

Because in some cases there are scheduling issues that come up. Like DH can't stay the entire 3 hrs, and they won't let you take a cabbie back. It's not a hair appointment, but at what it costs, they can get a second freaking operating room and have some flexibility with scheduling. I find the entire business model to be very anti-customer, starting from the 40 people waiting like cattle in the morning for monitoring. Financial people who are clueless, and these OR gods who do whatever they want. I once refused to have a procedure (that was not an egg retrieval) because they gave me a 3 pm appointment - no, I will not starve myself all day because they are cheap a-holes. I told them either to put me on a different day in the morning, or I'd get it done elsewhere. It was not a cycle related, but of course an additional revenue for SG that they didn't want to lose.

Good luck to you on this, let us know how it works out
-signed the mom of two SG conceived kids giggling just a little

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why you're trying to dictate the time of your egg retrieval. SG will tell you what time to arrive. End of story. This is hopefully a one time thing. It's not a hair appointment.

Because in some cases there are scheduling issues that come up. Like DH can't stay the entire 3 hrs, and they won't let you take a cabbie back. It's not a hair appointment, but at what it costs, they can get a second freaking operating room and have some flexibility with scheduling. I find the entire business model to be very anti-customer, starting from the 40 people waiting like cattle in the morning for monitoring. Financial people who are clueless, and these OR gods who do whatever they want. I once refused to have a procedure (that was not an egg retrieval) because they gave me a 3 pm appointment - no, I will not starve myself all day because they are cheap a-holes. I told them either to put me on a different day in the morning, or I'd get it done elsewhere. It was not a cycle related, but of course an additional revenue for SG that they didn't want to lose.

I'd understand if having egg retrieval a was a regular occurrence. But it's not. It's most likely a one time thing for you. I'd just accept whatever time they assigned me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why you're trying to dictate the time of your egg retrieval. SG will tell you what time to arrive. End of story. This is hopefully a one time thing. It's not a hair appointment.

Because in some cases there are scheduling issues that come up. Like DH can't stay the entire 3 hrs, and they won't let you take a cabbie back. It's not a hair appointment, but at what it costs, they can get a second freaking operating room and have some flexibility with scheduling. I find the entire business model to be very anti-customer, starting from the 40 people waiting like cattle in the morning for monitoring. Financial people who are clueless, and these OR gods who do whatever they want. I once refused to have a procedure (that was not an egg retrieval) because they gave me a 3 pm appointment - no, I will not starve myself all day because they are cheap a-holes. I told them either to put me on a different day in the morning, or I'd get it done elsewhere. It was not a cycle related, but of course an additional revenue for SG that they didn't want to lose.

I'd understand if having egg retrieval a was a regular occurrence. But it's not. It's most likely a one time thing for you. I'd just accept whatever time they assigned me.

It's not a one time thing for many of us, sadly. People can accept it but still be unhappy about it due to how they are treated in the process.

[Anonymous]

OP. I wasn't even going to chime in again, but thought I should just clarify that it is actually my 5th retrieval, so not a one-time thing. I'm not sure why you'd assume that. I was with another clinic previously and never needed to dictate the time of the retrieval before, in case it helps you judge me differently.

There are plenty of different situations and important circumstances that can make arrival in the very early a.m. hours extremely difficult. I don't need to go into what those might be or outline what's going on in my particular case, but I can assure you that this is not simply an effort to make things more convenient for myself. Laugh at me all you want, but it doesn't hurt to at least explain my circumstance to them and see what they do with it.

In general my experience with Shady Grove has so far been very different from the way many others here describe it, so maybe I'll have a different experience with this also. Here's hoping! Good luck to you all.

[Anonymous]

Oh, and all of those four other retrievals involved driving 2 1/2 hours out of state, sometimes as early as 4:30 in the morning, to get there at particular times. Then I spent another 2 1/2 hours in the car coming home afterward--not really convenient at all. It's just a different situation at the particular time ER is scheduled this time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP. I wasn't even going to chime in again, but thought I should just clarify that it is actually my 5th retrieval, so not a one-time thing. I'm not sure why you'd assume that. I was with another clinic previously and never needed to dictate the time of the retrieval before, in case it helps you judge me differently.

There are plenty of different situations and important circumstances that can make arrival in the very early a.m. hours extremely difficult. I don't need to go into what those might be or outline what's going on in my particular case, but I can assure you that this is not simply an effort to make things more convenient for myself. Laugh at me all you want, but it doesn't hurt to at least explain my circumstance to them and see what they do with it.

In general my experience with Shady Grove has so far been very different from the way many others here describe it, so maybe I'll have a different experience with this also. Here's hoping! Good luck to you all.

Pp here. I can't imagine going through five. Wow. I only had one and that was enough. I hope you have success this time. I understand the timing is more frustrating for you.

[Anonymous]

You can request a specific time if you have a reason for it. For example, if your ride can only be there certain hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can request a specific time if you have a reason for it. For example, if your ride can only be there certain hours.

No, you absolutely can't do it at Shady Grove. I tried and the options they gave me were: either time they assigned to me or go F yourself.

[Anonymous]

I'm at Dominion and they were very accommodating for retrieval time so my husband could be there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm at Dominion and they were very accommodating for retrieval time so my husband could be there.

They also do far fewer retreivals...

[Anonymous]

I do know that they save their earliest time for their diabetic patients as they can't be without food as long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can request a specific time if you have a reason for it. For example, if your ride can only be there certain hours.

No, you absolutely can't do it at Shady Grove. I tried and the options they gave me were: either time they assigned to me or go F yourself.

I was at SG, and I did. I needed an early appointment for one retrieval because that's when my ride could do it, and they gave me early. I didn't ask for a specific time -- I gave them a several-hour range of time and asked if it could be in there. They said they'd try, and they did.

[Anonymous]

This is pp. I also had 5 retrievals, and I suspect they are more accommodating when you have to do that many.