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oops, I did it again

TheCatWoman

I went to the doctors earlier and used thier screen thingy to say I was there, only after doing it all right, I was waiting ages so I went to reception to ask how many people were in front of me in the queue as people who were coming in after me were being seen. Only the screen hadn't worked, it hadn't confirmed I was there and had put me down as a no show, luckily the recpetionist told the doctor that I'd been there all along and I was seen. Why does this sort of thing happen to me?

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Another bug bear was finding out that I have a floating lump in my shoulder joint that could be seen on the x-ray I had a few weeks ago, but the hospital had put it down as no further acton! Now I'm being refered to the hospital, to see what it is and if they can remove it. It's causing me quite a lot of bother, you know when you hit your elbow and your arm goes useless for a few seconds? Thats happening often when I've not hit my elbow, I keep dropping things as my arm's strength suddenly fails and I have to use my left hand to lift things like pots and kettles, luckily I'm fairly ambidextrous.

  • And I somehow managed another weirdness, somehow my brightness setting got turned onto 100%, I don't know how, all of a sudden it was so bright I couldn't see anything properly. I actually managed to put it back all by myself with no mistakes....so far.

    I'm not sure if its me or the phone, but my new doro dumb phone is making life difficult about sending texts, I can't seem to get the number in the right bar. I'm not enjoying this new phone, I can't find zero, I just get spaces and it seems to have semi predictive text, hte things nearly been frisbeed a few times.

    This post is almost entirely for the amusement of O&U, who finds my issues with tech so funny!

  • I'm sorry that happened to you. This is why I hate these digital screens because the touch doesn't always register and it can just bug out, but doesn't tell you or show any signs that it's not worked. Annoying much! My GP surgery does at least have a huge monitor that tells you who's next, which does work pretty well actually. It also tells you how long you're expected to wait, depending how behind the GP is.

  • I had the same happen to me with the screen , a few months later I looked on my phone, my appointment history showed that I hadn’t attended. It quite worried me, I thought they would think badly of me.

    I fully understand the washing machine situation, mine tries to do the ‘Hokey Cokey’ when it’s on spin.

  • Hello,

    I have the same issue at my local rural GP's but asked very nicely if I could speak to a person instead as touch screens do not work for me at all. they have had issues with people getting quite nasty at times but could see I was not going do anything like that so agreed I could use the front desk.   

  • I haven't had that experience at the doctors, but I still don't really trust the screens and prefer to tell a person that I've arrived.

    Sorry to hear about your shoulder. I've had shoulder and neck problems over the years so I can empathise, plus I'm also a bit ambidextrous.