Well it's that time of year when the local doctor's surgery sends out letters to the ancient, dribbling crumblies and those with compromised immune systems to hobble along for their flu jabs. Why they have put me in that category I really can't imagine!
Anyway, I dutifully rang and made the appointment (they won't let you rest until you do because the phone call comes next!), then I trotted briskly off to the surgey like any fit young thing.
When I arrived the queue was out of the door and I can honestly say I have never seen the surgery so busy. When I got inside the door, I could see the place was heaving because I suppose all the doctors were seeing patients as well as the ones who were waiting for the treatment room for blood tests or bandages and then there were those for the flu clininc.
I also needed to make an appoinment for a blood test and another to see my nurse manager because they had sent me another letter for that too but the queue wasn't moving. We have a computer touch screen where you can log yourself in so I used that as it's much quicker. I can only presume that every one else was scared of it as they were all mumbling and holding on to their various sticks and zimmer frames.
After I had logged myself in, I stood looking for a chair but they were all full and everyone was looking at me as though I had just dropped in from another planet. The nurse came out and saw me then called me so I went straight in. Last time I had to wait for half an hour.
The other nurse confirmed my name and date of birth and as she was giving me the jab I asked her if we were due to have any others this year such as pig flu, bird flu, cat flu etc. as we had to have two last year. She laughed and told me that this vaccine had some swine flu in it too, so I enquired as to whether they were using it all up before the 'best before date' especially as they had stock piled it in readiness for an epidemic that never came last year! Neither of them were sure of the reason for the 'two in one' vaccine as they told me that this was a new idea. Great! They're testing it out then?
Oh well! I am now fully covered against flu, but which ones I couldn't say and when I came out the queue had gone so I made my other two appointments and skipped home!
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