thoughts on the news of the day: late

hmmm…..

            I am a day late; did you miss me?  Yesterday the blog just didn’t happen.  I had a running streak of 375 days in a row, which more than met my goal of writing a blog every day for a year.  But yesterday sinus headaches, phone calls and meetings got the better part of me and the blog didn’t get written.

            I don’t like to be late and I really don’t like to be a day late.  It’s really kind of rude.  It says to the person waiting, “I am more important than you; you don’t matter.”  Doctors who are late really annoy me.  I understand a few minutes – everyone runs behind, but really, sometimes it gets ridiculous. 

            It was really refreshing, though when I went to a doctor in Springfield recently.  I filled out a form, turned it in, waited about three minutes, and the nurse called my name.  Then she took me back to a little room I affectionately call the “stall room”.  It’s where they put you until the doctor has time to get to you.  After another three minutes, though a nurse came in and took my history, vitals, etc.  Then she said, “The doctor will be in shortly.”  Ah, I thought, now comes the wait.  I was wrong, the doctor almost immediately came in and I was out of the office in 30 minutes.

            I felt that I was valued, that I mattered and that I got good care.  It instilled my faith in the medical profession.  It made me want to do better; to try harder to be on time.  Like now.

            hmmm…..