Tuesday morning I had a physio appointment, but due to the wet weather bringing peak hour traffic to an almost stand-still, I arrived 15 mins late. Therefore the session became more of a quick consultation with no work being done for my injured back or knee. This experience highlighted how important it would be to arrive on time for the MRI this morning.
I allowed an hour's traveling time, which should be ample considering the early appointment time of 7:15am. However when working out what time I had to leave home, I had a complete brain meltdown and somehow thought 6:45am was 1 hour before 7:15am.
A sudden sick feeling entered my stomach when the 7:00am news bulletin came on the radio and I was less than half way there. At first I was in disbelief, still believing I had left so early, but after redoing the time calculations I soon realised my mistake. I could not even ring the MRI centre because my phone had frozen up the night before (now fixed).
Luckily I had decided to allow 1 hour's traveling time. So even though I left 30 mins late, I arrived only 15 mins late. Unfortunately this would still be too late to keep the 7:15am appointment. But fortune was shining upon me, because the 8:00am appointment had arrived early and in my absence had taken my 7:15am timeslot - I wonder if they miscalculated their departure time in the opposite direction.
So after a stressful morning, I ended up getting my MRI after all. Of course they never tell you the results - you have to wait until you see the Physio again.
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