Bro would have arrived before the procedure started. Not good enough for them though. This company is one that did not allow for work arounds. They gave me 45 minutes for processing my incoming status. Plenty of time for bro to arrive before the procedure started. But no. So sorry dental company but no to you as well. I agree that there are sound reasons to protect the patient involved. But their inflexibility towards my situation cost me an extra day off work, money for the ride home, and my brother money spent on fuel. This was not the first time this corporate dental chain screwed with me. But it certainly was the last. I now go to an independent dentist and am very happy with her.
In the summer, I took a day off to accompany my dad for a colonoscopy. While he’s recovering afterwards, the doc comes in and tells us that he found a polyp that he couldn’t removed. Had a hard center, so he biopsied it.
Week later, the results come back: cancer, and malignant. Imaging shows that it’s a small mass, but has to come out. Dad schedules surgery for the next week.
Surgeon can’t cut the tumor out laparoscopically, so he makes two small incisions, cuts out about a foot of the old man’s large intestine, and stretches the rest to cover the gap. Reports that he’s gotten all the cancer.
Dad spends two weeks on the sofa with a sore abdomen, eating broth and soft food. Recovers fully.
Now, my mom spent the better part of three years beating breast cancer. Dad became a cancer survivor in about a month and a half, at the cost of a sore abdomen and soft food.
TL;DR - get your pooter rootered, y’all. It can save your life.