Post #2545151

I have now made the opthalmologist appointment I have been putting off making. It's for the mildly blurry vision I have in my right eye, due to side effects from cataract surgery a long while back. I have been to this doctor before, but not for seven years, the last time they tried to fix the blurry vision with some very modern laser zaps I could actually feel detonating my floaters. The process involved the usual: 1. a prolonged wait on the automated telephone line. 2. providing my birth date and my various health insurance numbers to confirm I am who I say I am. 3. Getting an appointment for three months from now. 3. Receiving an email that I should join their new patient portal. Going to the patient portal. 4. Creating a new and fiendish password. 5. Fielding four more emails informing me (a) I have an appointment (b) I have a code for getting on the patient portal (c) welcome to the practice (d) I forget what. 6. Scanning my ID and insurance cards, and uploading them as if they did not already know I am who I am and have insurance that has not changed. 7. e-signing two documents by typing my name, which appears in a sort of vague cursive font as if I had, in fact, signed something. 8. informing my friend Rebecca that I made the damn appointment and they don't have to nag me any more, Perhaps the office will have some new, fancier lasers by the time I go.