I made an appointment with a doctor who specializes in cysts and tumors at TriService General Hospital two weeks ago. Without any previous knowledge about the doctors at TriService, I read the bios of all the doctors there before making an appointment. Long story short, after I clicked on the button "make appointment now", my head was filled with different pieces of information about different doctors and all I wanted to do was to jot down my appointment number (#24) and never look at the computer again.

Two weeks flew by.

Even after celebrating Halloween for two days straight last weekend, I still remembered that I had an appointment on Tuesday afternoon. I arranged a substitute teacher and gave the lesson plan and materials to him Monday afternoon (being a responsible teacher that I am). I stayed up late Monday night watching Six Feet Under (yes, I'm hooked) thinking I wouldn't have to get to work until 5pm the next day. Tuesday morning, I stumbled out of bed at 10:30. I figured I might as well check out the schedule of the shuttle bus that travels between the two locations of the hospital. While online, I noticed an icon called "Doctor's progress", which is a real-time display of the appointment number of the patient that a doctor is seeing. Thrilled, I checked out my doctor's progress and learned that he was with patient #65. I took a second look and wondered how it'd be possible. Turned out, my appointment in the MONRING!! By then, it was already 11 o'clock, one hour before the doctor's office closed. I called the hospital and they said the only thing I could do was to make another appointment.

So there. I gotta wait for another week to see this doctor, and this time, I don't think I'll mess it up again.