Close scrape

I was just sitting back down at my computer at 8:55 this morning when my calendar popped up a reminder that I had a dental cleaning scheduled for 9:00.

I took a sip of coffee. "Well, that's not going to happen now, is it?"

I knew that I had an appointment coming up, but I'd thought that it was closer to the end of the month. Also, they always text out automated reminders a couple of weeks, and again a few days in advance.

I called their office to explain that I probably wouldn't be there on time, and the receptionist assured me that I did not have an appointment for this morning, but she agreed that it was odd that I'd have set a reminder, so she put me on hold and did some digging.

It turns out that the hygienist wrote today down for my next appointment, but it never got entered into their system. Fortunately, they'd scheduled somebody else into that slot, so she wasn't standing around waiting for me. Earliest they can get me in is the end of October. No biggie, I guess. Might mean a bit of extra scraping when I finally get in there, but I'm not having any dental issues at the moment.

While I'm tangentially speaking about health issues, I seem to have somehow buggered my right knee. It has been bothering me for the past few days, and is getting progressively worse. It hurts as if I overextended it, and it feels like if it's not swelling now, it's on the verge of doing so. I'm taking it easy and trying to rest it, but if it doesn't start clearing up in a few days then I might need to hit up a walkhobble-in clinic and get it checked.