There was a lot of road work on Hesperian this morning, and so I was 15 minutes late. When I got to the Hearing Center, one receptionist was on the phone and the other one came rushing out from the back room toward her phone, after saying a courteous “I’ll be right with you” to me. I overheard her say to the person on the other end of the line, “Yes, you can come in today and we can try to fix it. But if your unit needs re-programming, we may have to make another appointment for you as our computers are down today.”
“Ooh,” I commented after she had hung up, “that doesn’t sound good!”
She rolled her eyes. “They said it would be fixed in an hour, but who knows?!?”
“I’m late for my nine o’clock appointment,” I told her. “There was a lot of road work.”
She picked up her phone again. “I’ll let Dr. Ahuja know you’re here.” Then, “Your nine o’clock appointment is here,” she told Dr. Ahuja. “There was a lot of traffic on the road.”
Close enough.
I sat down to wait, which wasn’t long. Dr. Ahuja always walks very fast, almost running. I wonder if that’s just because she’s short. She seemed in a hurry, but–after all–I was 15 minutes late! She ushered me into her office and asked me to removed my hearing aids.
She picked up my units and told me she would be right back. And she was.
“I’ve cleaned them for you,” she told me, “and replaced the domes” (the little plastic pieces that shield the parts that go into the ear).
She told me to put a note on my own calendar for five months from now to make an appointment for six months from now.
I totally forgot to mention to her about the few times that my right hearing aid stopped syncing with my phone! Maybe if I had been there on time and Dr. Ahuja wasn’t so rushed I would have thought of it. Well, I can’t worry about it now, just a week before leaving on our road trip!
