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AIBU?

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Original poster

To be angry my husband booked my flu shot?

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Bankingswitch · 30/09/2020 17:01

Been at my desk since 7am. I go to the toilet for 10 minutes this afternoon to find Dh has booked my flu shot for a time I didn't want 

Phone rang, he picked up and it was surgery on behalf of NHS to book this year's flu shot for me.

He had the choice of 2 appointments 9am and 10.30am. He picked the second one. I always make medical appointments for first thing if I have a choice - he knows this!

If there was no choice in appointment I could accept that but there was!

Also annoyed because I am a high-risk patient (hence the flu shot) and now another 20 people will have been through the room I have to use before I even get there!!

He says it will be fine. He's so laidback all the time. He thought we could go for a walk afterwards if we went later... I am more interested in not catching COVID right now.

I am happy to hide out from COVID and flu but don't like having to go into situations like this.

Am I being unreasonable?

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DueNumberTwo · 30/09/2020 17:02

Why didn't you book it yourself?

Lockdownseperation · 30/09/2020 17:02

Just ring up and book a different appointment.

Ohalrightthen · 30/09/2020 17:03

Yes, YABU, 10.30am is still pretty early in the day!

Proudling · 30/09/2020 17:03

YABU and OTT

OneFiveFour · 30/09/2020 17:03

Yup. I think so.

Original poster
Bankingswitch · 30/09/2020 17:04

We were told not to call surgery but await call from NHS Scotland.

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Brogues · 30/09/2020 17:04

YABU all of those people before and after you will be vulnerable. What makes you the one that should get the first appointment?

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Bankingswitch · 30/09/2020 17:05

@DueNumberTwo

Why didn't you book it yourself?
I normally do but it's all different this year with COVID.

I was told not to call surgery but await call from surgery with date and time.

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OverTheRainbow88 · 30/09/2020 17:05

I would be grateful my OH booked it.

My sister is desperate to get one and can’t boom one at the GPS.

FubsyRambler · 30/09/2020 17:05

You sound hard work, how long have you been married?

AvoidingRealHumans · 30/09/2020 17:06

I was with you on the fact that it's annoying he's taken it upon himself to choose what time suits you but then you said about people in the surgery before you and I realised you are over the top and so that makes you U.
Give him a break, he was trying to help

hesaidshesaidwhat · 30/09/2020 17:06

Frankly I am surprised they let him book it for you - didn't they ask to speak to you? at my surgery it has to be the person the appointment is for booking it. I am equally surprised, if you were there, that he didn't just had the phone over to you. I would be calling the surgery and making sure they have your mobile number and telling them that they need to speak to you re appointments, isn't this a GDPR breach?

QuestionableMouse · 30/09/2020 17:07

You're being a bit unreasonable. The chance of catching covid from a two minute visit has to be tiny.

HeddaGarbled · 30/09/2020 17:07

He did you a favour and I think you’re being ungrateful and fussy. I think you can expect the procedures at “the room” to be Covid-safe.

Florencex · 30/09/2020 17:07

YABU. You are not going to get covid because your appointment is 10:30 rather than 9am.

Original poster
Bankingswitch · 30/09/2020 17:08

@OverTheRainbow88

I would be grateful my OH booked it.

My sister is desperate to get one and can’t boom one at the GPS.

I have to get it every year because I am high-risk so I'd definitely get one - just wish DH had picked better of two options or told them I wasn't available to take call.

Happy to do it myself.

It was a fait accompli by the time I got out of the toilet Hmm

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OverTheRainbow88 · 30/09/2020 17:08

So is my sister and she also gets one every year... but is struggling this year to get in for her and her DD

SueEllenMishke · 30/09/2020 17:09

Wow. What an overreaction on your part.

AlternativePerspective · 30/09/2020 17:09

Yes YABU. Presumably if he had said you weren’t there they would have had to call back and then you would have had to wait longer.

Dr’s surgeries and hospitals have strict sanitation practices. The area will be sanitised between every patient and there won’t be a risk you will contract COVID.

lioncitygirl · 30/09/2020 17:10

Yabu and OTT. Perhaps he was being nice? Ungrateful to be honest.

Original poster
Bankingswitch · 30/09/2020 17:10

@HeddaGarbled

He did you a favour and I think you’re being ungrateful and fussy. I think you can expect the procedures at “the room” to be Covid-safe.
He did tell me what the protocol was and it does sound excellent I must say.

Like most high-risk/shielders I guess I have a bit of health anxiety about all this 😩

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PlonkItDownNOW · 30/09/2020 17:10

You are seriously overthinking this.

Hopoindown31 · 30/09/2020 17:10

I suppose you've got ask yourself why such a relatively trivial thing has got you angry enough to start a new AIBU thread. What else is getting to you?

SinisterBumFacedCat · 30/09/2020 17:11

Yes, you sound like hard work tbh. I feel sorry for your DH.

Original poster
Bankingswitch · 30/09/2020 17:12

@SinisterBumFacedCat

Yes, you sound like hard work tbh. I feel sorry for your DH.
He will love to read thisGrin
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