Of all the medical appointments I’ve had since the heart surgery, I have not missed any. That is also including my 3x/week dialysis treatments. At some point however, I was going to miss something. Well, today I missed my dental cleaning appointment. I was eating lunch, waiting for a 2:30 pm work call, when the dentist office called me at 2:15 pm. Turned out I had an appointment at 2:00 pm but for some reason, I thought it was tomorrow. I apologized profusely and we rescheduled for two weeks later. Ugh. I even marked the date/time correctly in Google Calendar but must have read the date wrong.
For context, I have the following appointments coming up:
- Cardiologist: 10/22
- Podiatrist: 10/26
- Dentist (again): 11/2
- UCLA Transplant Social Worker: 11/9
- Endocrinologist: December something
- Nurse appointment for shingles vaccine
I also got my referral to see a specialist for a colonoscopy. No date has been scheduled yet but I’m going to make it ASAP.
Life with chronic diseases 