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wychwoodTime has been tearing away from me lately. This was a busy week (something on every evening!) and next week's a concert week so mostly full of choir, so I'm looking forward to the week after that for a rest... I've also been indulging in aaaaaaall the doctors' appointments - annual reviews for things, blood tests for annual reviews, overdue unpleasant screening I've been ignoring, prescription renewal that needs an appointment first, not to mention the four pre-appointment questionnaires (three of them for the same appointment... I ignored it the third time, and kept getting sad reminder notifications) and multiple phonecalls trying to book me in for appointments I already had in the calendar - and five separate bookings later I am, hopefully, done for six months.
My doctors seem generally pretty good, and I appreciate their willingness to provide me with services, but I think I'm done now! I can only imagine how much worse it would be if I were also having to worry about associated paperwork and arguing with insurers and so on. And I do miss having my doctors on my doorstep - my current surgery is a 10-15 minute walk from here, which is extremely doable, but "opposite your house" was just such a winner. Although being able to do some of it over the phone is also extremely good - of course there are lots of times when you do want to see someone in person, and pushing people to phone-first when it's not appropriate is a bad idea, but I personally do appreciate being able to e.g. have the conversation which is just checking that no bits of me have fallen off in a way that make renewing this prescription a bad idea as a ten-minute interruption in my working day rather than a 45-minute round trip. I was less keen on the call which required me to be available "in the morning" (unspecified, but based on previous experience this usually means something like "09:00-13:00") - the receptionist was surprisingly unhappy that I had to push the date back several days in order to find a day when my work calendar had absolutely nothing in it; surely it must be a fairly common situation??
Anyway, so far I appear to be in respectable working order allowing for my various chronic health conditions, and just one set of test results warranting a watchful eye. That's the sort of news I like to hear.
My doctors seem generally pretty good, and I appreciate their willingness to provide me with services, but I think I'm done now! I can only imagine how much worse it would be if I were also having to worry about associated paperwork and arguing with insurers and so on. And I do miss having my doctors on my doorstep - my current surgery is a 10-15 minute walk from here, which is extremely doable, but "opposite your house" was just such a winner. Although being able to do some of it over the phone is also extremely good - of course there are lots of times when you do want to see someone in person, and pushing people to phone-first when it's not appropriate is a bad idea, but I personally do appreciate being able to e.g. have the conversation which is just checking that no bits of me have fallen off in a way that make renewing this prescription a bad idea as a ten-minute interruption in my working day rather than a 45-minute round trip. I was less keen on the call which required me to be available "in the morning" (unspecified, but based on previous experience this usually means something like "09:00-13:00") - the receptionist was surprisingly unhappy that I had to push the date back several days in order to find a day when my work calendar had absolutely nothing in it; surely it must be a fairly common situation??
Anyway, so far I appear to be in respectable working order allowing for my various chronic health conditions, and just one set of test results warranting a watchful eye. That's the sort of news I like to hear.
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Date: 2023-02-23 08:20 pm (UTC)There's a Dr. Seuss line, "you're in pretty good shape, for the shape that you're in".
Hurrah for respectable working order; long may it continue!
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Date: 2023-02-23 08:21 pm (UTC)