Yesterday I took our cats to the vet for their annual exams rabies vaccines, which meant standing around on the street for about 3/4 of an hour, because the vet is still having people drop the animals off and wait outside (or in their cars, or at home if it's close enough) rather than going into the building. fortunately, I got two very helpful Lyft drivers, one in each direction. (We're still taking the cats to the vet a few blocks from our place in Somerville, because somehow with the pandemic we haven't gotten around to finding somewhere more convenient.)
Today I went to the dentist for a cleaning; given my (lack of) immunity, I called Lyft to get there as well, rather than taking the bus.
I discovered when I got there that the restrictions on how many patients are in the room at once were lifted sometime in the last few months. I discovered this because there was a patient in another chair, several feet away but in the same physical room. I was considering getting up and leaving, but the hygienist asked me to wait a moment, and came back to say the other person would be done in three minutes.
I let her convince me to stay, and am not at all sure if that was the right decision. But my teeth have been cleaned, quickly, and I let her apply the fluoride varnish after she assured me that it would take less than a minute (which it did). My next appointment will be at 8:30 a.m., that being when they open, sacrificing convenience for what I hope is greater safety. I may postpone it by a month or two; I've been getting my teeth cleaned every three months, after needing the unpleasant deep gum cleaning in 2020.
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Today I went to the dentist for a cleaning; given my (lack of) immunity, I called Lyft to get there as well, rather than taking the bus.
I discovered when I got there that the restrictions on how many patients are in the room at once were lifted sometime in the last few months. I discovered this because there was a patient in another chair, several feet away but in the same physical room. I was considering getting up and leaving, but the hygienist asked me to wait a moment, and came back to say the other person would be done in three minutes.
I let her convince me to stay, and am not at all sure if that was the right decision. But my teeth have been cleaned, quickly, and I let her apply the fluoride varnish after she assured me that it would take less than a minute (which it did). My next appointment will be at 8:30 a.m., that being when they open, sacrificing convenience for what I hope is greater safety. I may postpone it by a month or two; I've been getting my teeth cleaned every three months, after needing the unpleasant deep gum cleaning in 2020.
The post title is a slight exaggeration: I've also been going to see
adrian_turtle. But visiting her is the only non-medical indoor thing I've done in a couple of months..Tags:
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