Rather Bummed About This

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Most of you know that I dislocated my right shoulder October 6th. Was seen in the ER and had it relocated. On October 19th I was finally able to get in to see the orthopedic surgeon. This took so long after having to go through being drugged up pretty good for several days and then having to go through my regular doctor's office to get a nurse to come out to help me. The orthopedic surgeon wanted to have me get an MRI to check and be sure I didn't rip my rotator cup. So I made an appointment with an imaging place for October 26th. Unbeknownst to me it was a 'closed MRI' and I was too claustrophobic and couldn't stand it for 30 minutes in this close tube type thing. Ugh! (I didn't even know there was both a open and a closed MRI until that day.) That was embarrassing and so I had to schedule another appointment for today, November 3rd, at 1:30p. with a different place that does the open type MRI. I called the taxi in what I felt would be plenty of time. Waited. Waited somemore. Called the taxi at 10 after 1p. to verify everything. They said they were just real busy. I called the MRI office and they said if I was going to be late, even just a little, I would have to reschedule. So, I cancelled the taxi, went upstairs where my calendar was and called them to reschedule. I am not real happy. I haven't really even had a real examination of my arm to see what is going on with it. The orthopedic surgeon was only able to look at the x-rays the ER took. It feels like it is healing and I hope that it is in the right way. It is rather frustrating. It aches sometimes but isn't as tender as it was a week or so ago. It has been five weeks now. Still waiting. In doing some research on how long it takes a dislocation like this to heal I found it takes about 3 months. So, by the time I get in to see the orthopedic surgeon again it will probably be close to half way to healing time. Geesh!