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My mom just had surgery and started noticing something wasn't healing right. When she called the office, the front desk told her there were no appointments for six weeks, until September, and only the surgeon who did the procedure could see her. She's eighty two. She was worried, she was doing everything right, and the system still told her no.

So we pushed back. I explained exactly what we did, from getting the photo the office had requested (something she couldn't do herself, since it was a spot on her own shoulder blade she couldn't reach or see) to what happened when the callback silence started again just days later. This episode walks through the whole thing in real time, because if you're the one watching your parent heal and hitting a wall with their doctor's office, you need to know it's not just you, and you don't have to accept "no" as the final answer.

If there's one thing I want you to take from this, it's that advocating for your parent, or teaching them to advocate for themselves, isn't optional after a certain age. It's part of loving them well. You don't need a medical degree to push a door open. You just need to keep pushing.

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