More Professionals Who Can't Be Professional

Last week, The Pony asked to go to the casino on Thursday, his day off. Farmer H thought he had an appointment that day to get his eyes dilated. They do it every 6 months at his exam, because of his glaucoma, and only having vision in one eye. We were all set to wait until after the appointment. Farmer H drives himself, and says he has no problem seeing after the dilation, while wearing those weird Batmanlike black plastic wraparound sunglasses. 

Anyhoo... the night before, Farmer H was looking at his phone, mystified because he hadn't gotten his appointment reminder phone call, and saw that his appointment was actually for MONDAY the 18th, not Thursday the 15th. So it all worked out, I notified The Pony at the last minute to get here earlier the next morning.

 

Sunday night, Farmer H was still mystified as to why he hadn't gotten his appointment reminder call. I checked the landline for messages, but there was nothing from the eye doctor.

 

"Are you SURE you have an appointment?"

 

"Yes, HM. I put in in my phone so I wouldn't forget it. It's at 9:00 on the 18th. But they always call."

So now as I type this, it's Monday afternoon, and Farmer H sent me a text from his eye doctor's office at 11:43.

"I'm still at the eye doctor. They forgot to put me down [heh, heh, the fun I could have with THAT statement!] but she looked on my last appointment and saw I was supposed to see him in July so got me in anyway. Always takes long time here"

Well. It could have taken an even longer time, since they didn't write down his appointment.

There are many things I accuse Farmer H of, but messing up this appointment is not one of them. No way is Farmer H creative enough to put an actual appointment TIME in a mistaken notice of an eye appointment on July 18.

Furthermore, you know that WORKING HIM IN while he was there was an admission of guilt on their part. I rest my case. Medical offices don't just "work you in" if you show up on the wrong day. In fact, they deny you service and charge your insurance anyway if you're more than 15 minutes late for your scheduled appointment. 

You might want to make a note in YOUR phone! The day FARMER H WAS RIGHT!