What a fuss over a cancelled dental appointment!

I just rang the dentist to cancel my appointment for tomorrow and they refused to make me another appointment because they didn’t have 24 hours notice. They have to send me a letter first!

The thing is they had a little under 23 hours notice and I think that is being pedantic.

The reason I cancelled is that my husband had to have a minor operation on his arm on Tuesday and can’t drive. I suffer frequent migraines and can’t drive on the days I get them because of my medication. Normally I just make an afternoon appointment and if I have woken with a migraine I can usually make it by then if he drives me, but I didn’t think it was a good idea to risk my being ill when he couldn’t drive either.

I would have cancelled earlier in the week but I have been ill all week and he kept talking me out of it when I brought it up.

"See how you are on the day." he’d say. If I hadn’t been feeling so ill and there hadn’t been so much going on I wouldn’t have listened.

We also had to cancell an appointment for our daughter Cat to see the GP yesterday. She hasn’t been for a long time but was going to make a real effort and go. Then she slept all day the previous day (she has a sleep disorder which means she finds it really hard to keep a regular sleep pattern ) which meant she couldn’t be ready in time. It’s difficult to explain but she has OCD and everything has to be done a certain way or she can’t get out. Normally I would have woken her but it was the day Hubby was in hospital and I had a migraine and I was coping with the dog and feeling rotten. I just didn’t think.

I guess the dentist’s system is not unreasonable in most circumstances, but sometimes I feel they should try living my life. I mean they are pursuing their career, earning good money. I am living with chronic health problems with a husband with ADD a daughter with multiple mental health problems and on a low income but I have to be treated like a naughty schoolgirl if I am one hour late cancelling an appointment.

Well I’ve had my little moan and I feel a bit better now!