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dental appointment, and rescheduling psychiatrist

2024-08-01T21:06:11Z

Well, I have an appointment with the dental surgeon, in Brookline (rather than out past 495), at which he will extract two more teeth, place implants, and then put on the partial that I was originally supposed to be getting in early July.

Vitaliy [the dental receptionist] called and asked whether I could do 2:30 on the 13th. I said yes, hung up, went to enter it on my calendar, and saw a conflict: I was scheduled for a telemedicine appointment with my psychiatrist at 3:00 that afternoon. So I called Vitaliy back and asked about rescheduling. He said that the surgeon is difficult to schedule with, and asked if I could reschedule the other appointment.

After a couple of conversations, I am now scheduled to see Dr, Awad on October 9 at 9 a.m., telemedicine. Yesterday her office offered me August 19th, but when I got around to looking at MyChart I saw it was with a different doctor (and also that I still had the appointment I asked them to reschedule. (The other doctor is probably as good as the one I'm seeing now, if not better, but switching psychiatrists can be a pain.)

I asked Vitaliy whether this dentist and office are in my insurance network, and he assured me that they will charge me the somewhat lower with-insurance fee for the upcoming dental work (which doesn't mean it will be cheap). I have no money left on my dental insurance for 2024, so the question of whether this practice takes my insurance in general is less urgent than it might be.

Interestingly, Vitaliy called me from his cell phone, and urged me to make a note of the number in case I need to reschedule. So I added him to my phone's list of contacts, with "dental receptionist" in the "company" field.

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wrong date

2022-09-14T17:24:46Z

I wrote down the wrong date for my upcoming dental appointment, for a routine cleaning. Fortunately, I won't need to reschedule, because the actual appointment is for next week, rather than today

Also fortunately, I discovered this before I left the house this afternoon. I just got an automated email reminding me of my upcoming appointment. I thought "that isn't much notice," and then saw that yes it is, they sent the reminder seven days in advance, for an appointment on the afternoon of the 21st. Also fortunately, I have nothing else scheduled for next Wednesday.

I have updated my calendar with the correct date and time, and am now going to listen to the message from my occupational therapist, even though I think I know what it says.

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dentistry

2022-06-15T22:47:41Z

( cut for description of a pretty routine dental cleaning )

I have an appointment for my next cleaning on September 21st, at 4 p.m. I'd asked for midday, in the hopes of less-crowded transit, but I don't yet know what the travel patterns are on the relevant bus, the 57.

I was looking at my phone on the way home, and saw that I had effectively double-booked myself for July 14th, because google calendar no longer speaks to Thunderbird. I have an appointment for a physical that afternoon, in person, and I was looking at my calendar on Thunderbird when I made the appointment with my psychiatrist. I may download the google calendar app; in the meantime, I have made duplicate entries for appointments, one in the Thunderbird local calendar on my desktop machine, and one in Google calendar (which I look at on my cell phone, and is thus what I consult when I'm away from home).

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A bit grumpy about changed plans

2013-01-08T23:37:32Z

The last time I saw my trainer, in December, we agreed that I would be seeing her this evening, Thursday evening at my usual time, and Tuesday and Thursday of next week, to make up for missing two weeks' sessions, and that I would call or text her to remind her for today. (I normally see her Thursdays, so a reminder for the less-usual day makes sense.)

( in which I grumble about being stood up )

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