My primary care provider is retiring after 51 years in practice. He has been my doctor for about 20 years of that. We had what we thought was our last appointment in May, complete with petties with his standard poodle Murphy, but then with all this and with the swelling in my legs before my surgery I was referred back to him the other day post-surgery, since I haven't met with my new doctor yet (that appointment is next week with the lady at UK whose is an internist who's been handling my weight loss journey, who has graciously agreed to take me on). I signed my paperwork while I was there to have my records transferred over. The other day. I received a message that they went to upload the records to UK's portal, but the file was too large, so they were providing them to me as a password-protected PDF so that I could take them to UK myself either before my first appointment or I could take them with me.
Folks, that PDF is 91 MB and 1,949 pages long.
I can't e-mail it (even if that were possible securely with their system, which it is not), and I can't print it. I can (after inquiring) burn it on a CD and they can read it [I wasn't sure, as a lot of places don't have computers with disk drives anymore]--if I provide the password. I did just check, and we do actually still have some blank CD-RW discs (and I have a portable drive that hooks up to my laptop for just such occasions, yay!) It's good to be a techie/gadget girl who hangs on to everything. And I didn't even have to go to my storage unit. :) So that is the way to go.
Whew!
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