See you in 6 weeks... er... make that 5 months

When you leave a hospital appointment with them requesting to see you again in 6 weeks you somehow imagine that is what will happen. Apparently not if somebody goes on holiday/resigns/gets fired. They are seemingly incapable of redistributing the workload amongst the remaining staff or hiring a replacement.

My original appointment was for July 18^th. The rescheduled appointment is for October 24^th and apparently there isn't anything free at all between those dates. My only alternative is to ring up once a week to see if there are any cancellations; they don't have a standby system at all.

I'm not that fussed that I can't have an appointment in 6 weeks. That's not a long period of time and as long as my medication is vaguely stable I've got no concerns about stretching that a bit. 20 weeks, however, was more than enough time for me to develop the condition, have to give up my career and start a new career. My hope is that this medical trial is going to start soon as that's the only way of getting timely treatment.