Rush hour at the surgery
Sep. 26th, 2021 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustMost years autumn is well advanced before our GP summons us for our flu jab. This year is not most years, and last week durham_rambler received a text inviting him to make an appointment. He made appointments for both of us, in fact, so we shall never know how the surgery would have contacted me - I don't give out my mobile number, because it is ao rarely switched on.
Appointments were being booked at one minute intervals: ours was for 10.24 yesterday morning. I thought this precision was optimistic, but when we arrived at the surgery there was a steady stream of people going in, past the two reception points (under or over 65) into one of several rooms and then out through the back door, so that traffic flowed one way.
A day later, I have a slightly sore arm - my left arm, because the nurse asked nicely: We have to record what we do, and if we do something different it takes longer... - and, I hope, immunity to this year's flu variety (it usually works).
durham_rambler received a text inviting him to make an appointment. He made appointments for both of us, in fact, so we shall never know how the surgery would have contacted me - I don't give out my mobile number, because it is ao rarely switched on.Appointments were being booked at one minute intervals: ours was for 10.24 yesterday morning. I thought this precision was optimistic, but when we arrived at the surgery there was a steady stream of people going in, past the two reception points (under or over 65) into one of several rooms and then out through the back door, so that traffic flowed one way.
A day later, I have a slightly sore arm - my left arm, because the nurse asked nicely: We have to record what we do, and if we do something different it takes longer... - and, I hope, immunity to this year's flu variety (it usually works).
