After encountering the worst neurologist during my diagnosis (his name is Mark Silverman out of Milford, by the way), through word of mouth I found an amazing doctor. I loved this man and the way he ran his practice and his amazing office staff. In fact never told anyone I knew about him because I didn't want him to get too busy. He was my little neurology secret. Then my perfect doctor decided he wanted to retire, which is a patients nightmare. His replacement didn't knock my socks off. He was nice, did his job but didn't really do it for me. So I decided that since I was "in between" doctors that now would be a great time to find a specialist. Who knew what a freakin chore that would be.

I did a little but of research and found this website http://www.msneuroratings.com/, which I encourage ALL of you to use and update. It could be a great resource if more people use it. I also have a friend who sees a local neuro at the University of Michigan MS center, whos name is Dr. Irani. I work by this hospital and decided that U of M is pretty renowned and that he was the one I wanted to see. WELL...U of M lives up to its name and is snobby as ever. Not only did I have to have a referral, but there was also a process in which they could accept or deny you into their center for treatment. So from my files, they were going to decide if I was cool, or interesting, or messed up enough to see them? WTF. I was pretty pissed about this, how dare they consider denying me treatment...but then I realized...they can't treat everyone. I never found out what the grounds for denial were, but there is still a small part of me that thinks its pretty shitty. Not to mention that the wait time was over 3 months to get an appointment. Nevertheless, I still decided that I want to see this doctor so I send them all my files and information and waited.

In the mean time I called 2 other specialist both out of Detroit, Dr. Elias and Dr. Khan. I had read a lot of info on Dr. Khan and decided that he knew his shit enough for me to get an appointment with him. When I called there it was a totally different experience, more like "ok what day can you come in". I made an appointment, 2 months out and called it a day. When I was scheduling all of this it was far before my recent medical disaster, and while I was in the hospital I got a letter from U of M telling me when my appointment to see Dr. Irani was. Nice of them to call and see if I had availability that day, but who am I kidding, I'm not busy. So I called Dr. Khan and scheduled them for the same day to knock them out at the same time and get all of my little MS errands done. Once I got the U of M appointment, I canceled the one with Dr. Elias, he was a 3rd string pick anyway, also looked like he could be old, and further perpetuated my fear of my doctors retiring.