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This vaccination lark is becoming a more drawn out and lengthy process than is necessary, I think.
See - I made an appointment for this Wednesday for my travel injections, listing the vaccinations I needed when the receptionist asked me - she said the nurse would have them prescribed and ready. All good.
Then I was called on Tuesday, saying that the nurse wasn't avaliable for Wed, and that I had to reschedule for Friday - today - so I did. I rescheduled, and re-listed what diseases I had to be vaccinated against.
Then I arrive today, and the nurse is late. Fine - I'd decided to miss this morning of firm anyway, and I have stuff to read. She arrives 45 minutes later and I've read all about Steven-Johnson's syndrome in the waiting room in the meantime. She takes the list from me again, and then asks, "When can I make an appointment for you to have them?"
Apparently, she doesn't have the vaccines with her, wasn't told anything about it, and so still needs to get them prescribed and get hold of them etc.
So I'm due to have my jabs on Monday now. I wanted to say something more to her along the lines of, what is the point of me having repeated dialogues with the receptionists about my travel plans if nothing is relayed to you/what sort of service are we running here/etc., but that wouldn't've made anything better, really. I still have to return on Monday.
It's silly. I WANT to be jabbed. I just want all of the 'health' part of this planning process to be over, and it seems to be never-ending. I'm also missing a LOT of this firm - I haven't been in the oldies' ward since Tuesday afternoon - and I feel guilty. I'm going to miss the delights of Monday afternoon, whatever they may be, as well as bloody all of today.
An addendum to this is that they don't offer cholera jabs at my GP's, so I think I'll have to go to a specialist travel clinic or something of that ilk to get them. Another appoitment = another missed session of ward rounds/oldie-learning.
And I have to return to the GP's this arvo to pick up my mefloquine malaria prescription and then buy them and take one. Mefloquine's side effects include paranoia, depression and nightmares. Yay.
See - I made an appointment for this Wednesday for my travel injections, listing the vaccinations I needed when the receptionist asked me - she said the nurse would have them prescribed and ready. All good.
Then I was called on Tuesday, saying that the nurse wasn't avaliable for Wed, and that I had to reschedule for Friday - today - so I did. I rescheduled, and re-listed what diseases I had to be vaccinated against.
Then I arrive today, and the nurse is late. Fine - I'd decided to miss this morning of firm anyway, and I have stuff to read. She arrives 45 minutes later and I've read all about Steven-Johnson's syndrome in the waiting room in the meantime. She takes the list from me again, and then asks, "When can I make an appointment for you to have them?"
Apparently, she doesn't have the vaccines with her, wasn't told anything about it, and so still needs to get them prescribed and get hold of them etc.
So I'm due to have my jabs on Monday now. I wanted to say something more to her along the lines of, what is the point of me having repeated dialogues with the receptionists about my travel plans if nothing is relayed to you/what sort of service are we running here/etc., but that wouldn't've made anything better, really. I still have to return on Monday.
It's silly. I WANT to be jabbed. I just want all of the 'health' part of this planning process to be over, and it seems to be never-ending. I'm also missing a LOT of this firm - I haven't been in the oldies' ward since Tuesday afternoon - and I feel guilty. I'm going to miss the delights of Monday afternoon, whatever they may be, as well as bloody all of today.
An addendum to this is that they don't offer cholera jabs at my GP's, so I think I'll have to go to a specialist travel clinic or something of that ilk to get them. Another appoitment = another missed session of ward rounds/oldie-learning.
And I have to return to the GP's this arvo to pick up my mefloquine malaria prescription and then buy them and take one. Mefloquine's side effects include paranoia, depression and nightmares. Yay.