Now before I start, yes, I am well aware I made a mistake here and could have avoided this whole scenario by not doing that. However, there was a very simple solution here which would of course have made too much sense.
I have treatment at a hospital which requires me to phone the morning before to confirm I am coming in the next day. I think this is because the medicine is very expensive, and once it’s been ordered it goes out of date quickly, and can’t be reused for someone else iyswim. Anyway, I forgot to phone. I actually remembered by the afternoon of the day before but the phones are only manned first thing in the morning and the rest of the time it goes to answerphone, so I wouldn’t have got through anyway.
So I turn up on the day of my appointment and I get sent through to the nurse who essentially tells me off and says that they don’t have the medicine for me. Fine, I accept it was my fault not to phone. So she rebooks me for next week.
AIBU to think this is is a waste of everyone’s time. Mine, the nurses, and other patients who could have had the appointment instead. Someone could easily have phoned me the day before when they realised I hadn’t confirmed just to check I was still coming. The receptionist could even have phoned on the day to say that they had cancelled my appointment, which would have saved me the journey to the hospital. It feels like I’m being punished. Well you didn’t phone so we’re going to make you turn up anyway then just send you away. A 2 minute phone call from one the nurses/ the receptionist could have sorted everything out. Now I have to make a 2 hour round trip again.