So as you may have worked out, life with Ulcerative Colitis can be annoying and inconvenient at the best of time but today I find myself being aggravated that things I feel do not need to annoy me.
As a person I am an organised person and as such I have all of my blood tests that I have to have booked well into the future meaning that I am able to plan around them where possible. I am lucky in that my work are incredibly understanding, allowing me to go to a blood test every Monday morning even when I am working.
Anyway, I had a blood test booked in for this morning, 8:15am at my doctors so that I could have it done and get on with the day (a day in work as it so happens). I had told my manager yesterday that I would be in late but was probably looked at being there at around 9am.
At 8am this morning my doctors surgery texted me, saying that my appointment was cancelled. When I rang them to discuss the fact that I needed to have the appointment today, they gave me 11am as the next option. Helpful when you are meant to be in work at 7am (technically)… this was after being in a queue of 17 people on the phone line
My next option was to call the hospital and go there. Again, I called at 8:30am as their phone message tells me to, and they didnt answer until 8:40am. When I did finally get through, I was offered to go in at 10:20am. I took that appointment as it was slightly earlier.
I understand that staff sickness etc happens and this is totally just a whine and a moan (need to vent) but when I was first diagnosed they went on and on about how I needed to be organised and have appointments set up and talked about how life with Ulcerative Colitis could be difficult and it would change how I worked.
I am an organised person and I had everything set up to work for me with my life. Life is made so much more difficult by changing appointments and all of that.
On a side note it is also difficult when you have an IBD line that works Monday – Thursday and not Bank Holidays and you are having symptom of a flare up.
Anyway. Vent for the morning over. Needed it off my chest. Now to do some other work while I wait patiently for my appointment and then to go to work for the day.