A Shout-Out To Julie
Now, Christine the Curmudgeon spends most of her time on this blog complaining about assorted crap. But it’s nice to give credit where credit is due, so I’m going to do so now. See, I’m not such a Negative Nellie ALL the time!
Mr. Curmudgeon and I were out and about today, and one of the things we wanted to do was get flu shots. The Hamthrax vaccine is now widely available, as is the seasonal flu shot. Mr. C was able to get the seasonal vaccine through his work, but I had to go without for a long time because NOBODY had any. It’s seriously a miracle that I didn’t get sick this year, as I have in the past before I wised up and started getting flu shots. When I catch the flu, I get it BAD, I’m flat on my back for WEEKS. No fun at all.
The commercials on TV tell us that flu season is NOT over, people are still at risk, and doctors are advising everyone that it’s still a good move to get vaccinated now, if you haven’t already. With my kind of luck, without the vaccine, I might end up getting sick right when baseball season is about the start. I’ve been waiting a long time for it to start up again, I’m not about to miss out on any of the fun if I can help it!
So we decided to go to the CVS Minute Clinic to get the shots. I misread the website and thought they closed at 7PM, but it turned out that they closed at 5:30PM on weekends. We had first gone to eat, at the 99 Restaurant up the road, and thought we had more time.
We got there at about 5:20PM, and figured it was too late to sign in to get the shots today. But Julie, the nurse-practitioner on duty, told us that since we were just getting flu shots, that she’d take us anyway. At first, the computer would not let us sign in due to the time, but she took the time to make it so that we could. She spent a good amount of time typing gobbledy-gook into her computer, such as ls2208, etc. We did offer to leave and come back tomorrow, but she said no, she would be happy to give us our shots today.
It was really nice of her to do this for us, she didn’t have to, and we would have left and came back the next day if we’d had to. But it was very much appreciated that she did, and now it’s over and done with.
CVS emailed me a survey about the services we received at the Minute Clinic, and I filled it out, giving the Tewksbury, MA location top marks, and putting in a note for Julie, thanking her again for going out of her way to take us, even though we showed up late.
So, definitely let people know when they screw up and you are not happy…but don’t forget to give people praise when it is deserved!
