I have a question that perhaps someone could shed some light on who is more in the know than me.

I just completed my scheduled quarterly scan followed by appointments with my MO, RO and ENT. It never works out to where I can see all 3 Docs on the same day which, including the scan, means 4 separate 82 mile round trips usually within a week or so. I was blessed by having another clean quarter but now, here is my question.

Why is it that now, one year post TX, is it necessary to have follow-up appointments with the RO and MO? This is assuming that my scans keep coming up clean. My ENT has always seemed to be the one at the top of the "pecking order" throughout this whole battle, beginning with her original Dx in April of '06. I certainly feel that it is important to maintain follow-up appts. with her above all else. The now routine seems to be that I first have the scheduled scan followed by the appts. with all 3 Docs. If scans stay clean I just don't see the purpose of having to meet with the RO and MO. They seem to spend maybe 5 minutes with me, look down my throat, probe and squeeze my neck, ask a few questions and then they are out the door. Am I really getting anything out of them at this point?

Bill D.