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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giant shemozzle with the vaccination rollout in the public hospital system, surprise surprise.
\nI first got my email inviting me to make my appointment on Monday. I didn\u2019t see the email for half an hour, and by the time I looked at the booking system, all the appointments were already taken at my hospital for March. I couldn\u2019t get the system to roll over to April so in a rush of panic and FOMO, I made an appointment for Friday night at a satellite hospital out of town. By the time I got the confirmation email, I\u2019d decided that was a dumb idea, but luckily there was a system embedded in the email to change your appointment. Incredibly it seemed some new appointments had opened up in my hospital, so I grabbed one of those. \u201cYour rebooking has been successful!\u201d According to the website but strangely I never got a confirmation email about the newsletter date. So, did I now have two appointments, or one (and where??) or maybe even none. Never mind – there was an email address to write to if you had any trouble with the booking process. I wrote, explaining my problem. And boy were they prompt and helpful! All sorted by return email! Ha ha as if – possibly in a parallel universe, but not this one. I waited for days for a reply, while all my colleagues talked about their easily made appointments that they\u2019d made for next week.
\nI finally got a reply yesterday. The supposed new appointment was merely a mirage – the only booking I had was for Friday evening across town. I decided to try and change for another appointment at my own hospital next week, but of course by now there were no slots left for weeks. Even worse, my husband started bragging that he had an appointment for next week, so he was the winner in the family. Obviously I couldn\u2019t be having that. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m competitive, it\u2019s just that I like to always be first.
\nSo here I am, spending my Friday evening in the bowels of an unfamiliar hospital. However, I\u2019m considering myself lucky – the woman who pushed ahead of me in the queue has just been told she doesn\u2019t have a booking, and she\u2019ll have to leave without her vaccination today. Apparently a large number of staff got an email last night saying their booking date had been changed and they should just turn up today. They\u2019ve all been sent away as there just isn\u2019t enough of the vaccine here. That would be just infuriating.
\n…<\/p>\n
Done! I win!<\/p>\n
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