One-sided Phone Tag

Trying to schedule my surgery for my foot has been crazy this week. Scheduling surgeries in the first place is hard enough, but this has been damn near impossible. See, Last Thursday was the appointment to say verify the fact that my foot is f'd up and I need surgery. They said to talk it over with my parents about the surgery and stuff, so I did which was pretty much walking up to them and saying "I need surgery on my foot" that was it. After being in the middle of nowhere Indiana with the better half until Monday, I call Tuesday morning before work, I told them I need to schedule a surgery. They ask me what kind and stuff, to make a long story short, I was told that I need to talk to so and so, who schedules the surgeries done at "out of office" a.k.a. at Kettering Hospital. So and so would be in on Wednesday, so I needed to call then. I thought, OK, I'll call then. Wed. morning rolls around, and I call, and get the so and so isn't here you need to talk to her. No shit Sherlock, that's why I called and asked for so and so. They tell me they'll call back later that afternoon. 10pm Wednesday rolls around and no phone call, so I called yesterday before work. They put me on hold, and I'm thinking Whee! I finally get to talk to so and so. Nope, she's not there, they take my phone number and say they'll call back in the afternoon. Well, this morning rolled around and still no phone call, so I call today and get a recorded message saying that the office is closed until next Wednesday because of summer vacation! WTF!?!? I'm about ready get trashed and have my brother cut open my foot, break a metatarsal and shave off some bone. I dunno if the doc. knows this or not, but having sharp shooting pains in my foot 24/7 really sucks ass.

I also need to get this damn surgery scheduled because it pretty much decides the remainder of my summer work plans. See, PKI isn't a big deal, that's not what I'm worried about. It's the being on 'Boro's band staff starting at the end of July. Something tells me that showing kids how to march with a goofy ass boot thingy on my foot isn't going to be that easy, therefore, the sooner the surgery the better. I also don't wanna go back to school with that goofy ass boot. We all know that unless you're dying they schedule surgeries months in advance. So, that being said, here's hoping that they can schedule my surgery sometime during the week after Gatlinburg. I know what the answer to that is already. Good Luck.