Awful. Horrible. Wicked Bad. All of these adjectives pretty much sum up my day. Yesterday I mentioned how I went to the doctor – well, what I didn’t tell you was that I had an unexpected procedure performed that wasn’t supposed to be a big deal but ended up being borderline traumatic. Maybe I’m being a bit hyperbolic, but I was incredibly uncomfortable for the entire day and night. Even now, I’m a bit better, but not all better.
When I woke up this morning, still in pain, I decided that I really didn’t feel like going to the doctor again today – to be poked and prodded and needled up – so I went on to the doctor’s office’s website and rescheduled the appointment. Isn’t technology great? I can go onto my doctor’s office’s website and make appointments, cancel appointments, reschedule appointments, refill prescriptions – GREAT! Except they forget to tell you on the appointment page that you’ll be charged $200 if you cancel/change the appointment within 24 hours of the scheduled time. Yup. They were nice enough to call me about 45 minutes BEFORE the appoinment to tell me that – when I had no time to get there. I would’ve gone if I had known. At 7AM I had rescheduled with them for next week – so I’ll fight with them when I get there.
Then I went out to run, which was good while I was out there, but now I’m in pain again. And I still have tons of work to do.
To top it all off, I’m about to the part of my CPH where I have to split and then I’m going to have to start on some Knitty Math. I hate Knitty Math.
Suck suck suck suck suck! My day SUCKS! I’m going to go take a nice hot bath and crawl under the covers and close my eyes. Hopefully it will be tomorrow when I open them again…..
How’s your day going?
Well I’d tell my day is great because, I’m first, but that doesn’t seem fair.
I’m sorry your day is going so badly. I would do your knitty math for you. But it sounds like you need a comfort sock.
*hugsmuch* I’m sorry today was so bad for you. Think about it in perspective though, tomorrow will most likely be better (what with baths and sleep working miracles and all)
My day is ok. Not great, not heinous, just boring.
I’ll do your knitty math. I like knitty math 🙂
You need brownies. And in lieu of those (which, given our geographic proclivites, are difficult for me to deliver) allow me to offer all the math you need for CPH. Or legal words to toss into your doctor’s office arguement, because a $200 fine is beyond ridiculous.
Horrible. My car would not start this morning and we called to have it towed. It turns out it was just a loose battery cable, but I was 2 hours late for work. I’m an accountant, and busy season has started for us tax people, so that 2 hours that I was late needs to be made up sometime this week. And I’m taking the CPA exam next Wednesday and I’m not even close to being prepared. I think the only bright spot so far has been the fact that I got to knit while I was waiting for the tow truck.
{{hugs}} The day is sucking north of the border too. Boo.
I’m sorry you had a bad day– mine’s been bad too! Last night in step class (yes, I had finally made myself go), I fell down on the side of my ankle. Now I’m elevating my left foot and trying not to walk anywhere.
Yuck! I hate it when you have a pisser of a day. I hope it starts looking up :o)
Ok, my day is SO fantastic that I feel greedy.
So I’ll share some with you! After all, your beautiful photography, knitting, and linguistic skill certainly do lots to cheer me!
Let’s see.
Honey comes form honeybees.
Where does milk come from?
Boobies! HA! Get it
I take no credit/blame for that joke.
Ugh. I hate those kind of days but I do want to give you props for going out for a run. I would have used my ickiness as a reason to talk myself out of it. And I love your Jaywalker banner. Beautiful.
I’m sorry about your craptacular run of bad luck. I had a weepy, miserable day yesterday. I got a few hours of extra sleep last night, and that made all the difference in the world! I hope that things start to improve for you too.
Today? Great!
Tomorrow? Sucky. We have to be at the hospital by 6.30 which means leave the house at 5.45am. The good part is that we’ll be home by lunch. And I have tequila for lunchtime margaritas!
Suckity. I’m sorry your feeling bad and that you’re getting charged to do it. My day sucked at work. Some people apparently think my function is just to fill time until they get to do their very important jobs. Let’s hope tomorrow is better for us all!
TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS??!! you have got to be kidding me!? that’s insane! you tell them that too next week! it’s insanity!!!
ugh, doctor’s appointments are so annoying sometimes! i can’t believe that they charge THAT much for a reschedule! $60 i can understand. $200 is just ridiculous.
my day today is much better than yesterday, that’s for sure! sorry to hear you’re in the dumps.
p.s. i know i have to return email to you! i will soon!
For all that school— dr’s sure can be stupid.
Sorry for a rough few days- hope it’s better—- ummm maybe cast on a bit of STR medicine?
love- and knitterly hugs
Sounds like Cara’s having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. I’ve had that before! I hope snuggling under the covers helps. Hot chocolate? Cold chocolate? Coffee, Tea, or Me? That’s it — ME. I’d help!!! Wish I could, hon… I hope you feel better soon.
You went for a RUN!!! Hooray! I just got back, and mine was not too bad, ran a little farther than I planned, and ran my hilly route, so that was good. Considering I don’t run as much lately-you know, shins, hips, blah, blah-I have been trying to run outside at least once a week and doing the rest on cardio machines until I feel really good, so this was good. The rest of my day? Work. Not knitting. Not spinning. Not reading blogs. Not posting to my blog. But I ran. And so did you. And that is good.
I hope you feel better quick. Tomorrow will be much better.
OH-I am to the sleeve caps on my current sweater in progress. Knittymath time for me too. And I am really looking forward to wearing this sweater so I must do it. I’ll probably spin instead. Hee.
That sounds like the kind of thing my doctor’s office would pull. These are the people who can’t give me my test results over the phone, they want me to come in, get charged for another visit, and discuss them. Uh, no.
Hope your day has improved.
My day? I’ve just spent over half an hour trying to wrangle a 0.025mm thick piece of teflon into a flat position while wearing gloves that cause too much static electricity, into a piece of equipment that is highly staticaly charged. It’s like the ulitmate exercise in futility. I want to break things.
Hope you feel better soon.
that blows… i’m having a so so day but could so use a nice warm bubbly bath! i truly hope it helps 🙂 i’m pretty good at math too if you need a second opinion! (i’m almost done with sleeves, it could be an equal exchange, my math to your excellent seaming skills!)
Poor baby. Cyberhugs and cyber-sympathetic-raging – $200 is nuts. Their system shouldn’t let you reschedule if they don’t want to let you.
Someone at work was just telling me the same thing about canceling an appointment. She had to cancel because she was sick (which is totally ironic, of course) and they said they were going to charge her $50 for canceling at the last minute. Such service.
If they’re going to allow you to change appointment times online, they should at least remind you of the 24-hour charge on the same page. I’ll bet you did feel worse after that call.
Hope your evening’s better than the start of your day.
Ya know, if someone is just arbitrarily cancelling an appointment that someone else REALLY needed, maybe $200 might be appropriate BUT if they give you the ability to cancel online it should state very plainly ONLINE what the penalty for doing so within “whatever” period of time is.
Hope you’re feeling better – I feel good just having WALKED 2 miles at lunch time!
Yuck! Be sure to pour yourself a nice glass of something before you crawl into that bath. I hope your day is better tomorrow.
B*stards! Just tell them where to get off. $200? Look, doctors, we know you had to work hard to get where you are, but that’s just sodding ridiculous! Besides which, you know damn well that they’ll have filled the spot with someone wanting an emergency appointment anyway! I guess we’re lucky in the UK. They rant and scream at us for wasting their time, but they can’t take our money for it! It’s all taken out as tax before that…
on the down side, I have no STR to cheer me up and I have an essay to finish tonight before I am allowed to go to sleep. Gotta go!
Cyberhugs! And a cyberpurr from Willow.
Just so you know, Monday was officially The Worst Day of the Year (Blue Monday). It was so horrible for me that I can’t even go into it in public here. Get yourself a pie. I really hope you have a better one tomorrow.
If it makes you feel any better, mine is going bad, too. Possibly even worse. But the grass is always greener…
Your day rivals Alexanders — a horrible, terrible, no good, very bad day!
Even in Australia.
Gosh, I’m almost afraid to comment! My day’s going pretty normally, except for their installing a new phone system at work that *I* get to figure out how to work . . . hope your day’s getting better!
Oooh sweetie – I’m sorry you’re having a shitty day. I hope the bath and the comfy bed made it all so much better.
Bath and bed should do the trick. One day at a time is how I live, but sometimes the day just needs be over!
Maybe it will cheer you up a little to know that I was so inspired by all those hilarious comments to your blog (800+!) that I ordered my very first skein of STR. It’s on its way now and when it arrives I pledge to name my first born STR after you (my January Ones!!). Feel better!
My day sucked big time too. I was also at the doctor’s getting poked, although it wasn’t anything scary…but it still hurt.
I hope you’re warm, cozy, and feeling better.
My day sucked too, but apparently not as hard as yours. Sorry, dude. Better luck to both of us tomorrow.
oh man I’m with you hon… my day was one for the record books on craptastic.
I hope it’s nothing serious… keep your chin up.
I’m sorry, sweetpea. The worst thing about my day is that although I was on television teaching a morning show host to knit, which was very good, the makeup artist got hold of me first, which was very, very bad. Tammy Faye bad. I kid you not. My lips could have auditioned for a p*rn film. Blech.
I hope you’re okay, lovey. You know where to find me if you need a venting shoulder 🙂
My day wasn’t near as bad as yours, but I did have to drive 40 minutes out of my way (for the 2nd time in 3 days) because my oldest got the flu shot on Monday night and woke up on Tuesday morning with a 103.2 degree fever. It was still over 101 this morning so I packed him and the 7 month old into the car, drove up there where they tested him for flu by sticking a long sponge covered Q-tip into the back of his nose (which hurt, and I felt bad for okaying it because I didn’t know it would hurt), then made him use a breathing treatment, twice, because the first time the nurse didn’t tell him to angle it up so that his saliva wouldn’t run into it and make it impossible for the medicine to get into his lungs. Then they wrote 5 scripts for him to take at home. So my day was fine but his blew.
Hope it works out with the doctors office and the 200.00 fee. Seems like there should be something about that on the webpage.
I’ve only posted here a few times, so I’m feeling a bit guilty. It’s my fault you (and my step-father and mother/father-in-law, and several others I know) had a a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day. The cosmos requires balance, and since I got TENURE this morning, many,many others had to have a bad day. Once again, sorry (sort of).
my day is totally heinous, but i’ve definitely had a gyno experience much like this … i just assume i’m a wimp though. it’s probably much easier to handle than what you had to go through. i cry at the doctor all the time … especially the dentist. it’s ridiculous.
Sorry your day was awful, but I’m glad you don’t feel like you have to be all fake and perky and cover it up. My Annie-obsessed 6-year-old would start singing “the sun’ll come out tomorrow” to you about now, but I’ll spare you. My day was pretty good. Nobody called me Miss Hannigan and I only had to hear that it’s a hard knock life about 9 times.
Hope tomorrow’s better for you.
No unexpected procedures, but I got slammed by campus parking. Not one ticket but TWO! One for not having a decal, one for parking in the wrong lot. $25 EACH. Sh**! The catch is, it DOES have faculty registration on it—in the form of a little metal tag on the license plate, not a decal. So I was in faculty parking with a faculty tag. Except… I’m not Faculty. I’m Commuter. Dad was Faculty. But Dad died last year. But my classes are this year. And the car is still registered to the parents. I can’t even appeal this for fear of getting into worse trouble. *sigh* Back to the Commuter lots out in BFE and right as the weather turns to below zero wind chills.
I’m sorry your day was crappy and hope that the morrow is better by far!
I had a rotten day yesterday.
But not that rotten.
Hang in there.
If the doctor makes you wait to see him/her, tell him/her that your fee for them having wasted your time int the waiting room is $200, and everyone comes out even. Tee Hee 🙂
‘Coldest day of the winter – almost new furnace is stone cold dead – repair guy can’t come until tonight; Dishwasher leaked its entire contents in sufficient amounts that clean laundry hanging to dry in laundry room below is now wet and dirty again.
This is also my week of medical meddling with my well being and the only mammogram appointment available for the next six months is at lunchtime on my Birthday!
Sorry that you had a bad day…..how bout some new yummmy yarn to make you feel better……
Diane
Sorry ’bout your day! I had an argument with a co-worker 15 minutes into my day, I actually told him to shut up! 😉
i don’t know whether to associate and commiserate or comfort and support.
i, also had a crappy migraine filled day. where work sucks.
however, it will get better, and i totally want to give you props for making the run happen. well done! especially on a bad day.
$200 is bullcrap. You should charge them for every minute of your valuable time that they waste while you sit in the waiting room or fill out paperwork that you know they already have on file. When you call them and have to wait for them to call you back. When you walk up to the counter and the receptionist takes her sweet time recognizing your existence. What a racket, like they’re going bankrupt because of patients needing to reschedule. It’s part of the program, doc, it’s what you signed up for. Now I’m mad! Cara, I just sent you happy, warm thoughts. I had to pull off some knitty math and I am so terrible at it, but I did it! So if I can, you can, and that’s final. It’s going to be good. And so is tomorrow!
Jeez, if $200 is the cancellation fee, what the hell do they charge you for a visit??? Are you going to see House ?
Just wanted to say I’m thinking of you. I hope the coming days will be much better.
I have doctor week coming fast too, including the gyn, and we’ll probably have to talk about surgery. I hope we won’t have to go there, I really don’t want to, but I’m afraid we’ll have to. I’m scared.
Sorry, that wasn’t supposed to be about me. Just wanted to say I’m thinking of you. And I wish I could offer a hug.
$200? That is obscene. I’m sure they will see the error of their ways — it’s highway robbery to begin with, more so because they failed to state their policy. Once they cave in the face of logic, take the $200 and get treat yourself to something nice — a massage, a fab dinner, yarn…You deserve it!