This is one of those weeks where everything seems to be malfunctioning. In addition to all the crap with my car–they cracked the exhaust manifold while replacing the catalytic converter, by the way–my new phone is over two weeks late from Verizon and my clinic has managed to screw up my cholesterol test for the second time in a row. (The frosting on the cake this evening is that Firefox crashed while I was finishing up this entry, meaning this is actually the second time I’ve written this.)

The cholesterol test issue is especially annoying. My cholesterol was found to be a bit high last time it was checked, so my doctor told me to have it tested again six months down the road. When I did so the results were over two weeks late, and when they did eventually arrive lacked any information about cholesterol. I called the clinic to find out what the deal was, and they said that there must have been some oversight and that I’d have to be tested again. I did that about a month ago, and when my results hadn’t arrived by the start of this week, I started making phone calls again.

This afternoon I got an absolute gem of a voice mail saying, hey, we mailed your results on the 16th, no, wait, the 19th, so you should’ve gotten them by now. “It looks like it was your kidney function tests… I will resend these out to you. They may have been held up in the system or in the mail, but I’ll put another copy in the mail for you tomorrow. Thanks Mark! Bye!” Of course, this was despite me explicity referencing the cholesterol test when I called them on Tuesday.

Lisa has been telling me for some time now that I should find a new clinic, and the more crap like this happens, the more I think that’s the case.