Today’s 43 was another move from Nellie at Brooklyn Active Mama. This was last week’s Wednesday Workout – the dumbbell jackknife. A regular jackknife is a hard move for me and adding the dumbbell just made it crazy!!!
From the start position – fold your hands and legs together in the middle.
I only used a 5 pound dumbbell and even with that I struggled to finish all 43. This move could definitely be done very effectively without a weight!!!
Today was Boot Camp!!! However, we did it in the garage because it had been storming and I didn’t want to take a chance with lightening. It was like being back in Florida because it was so muggy!!! Today we did the resistance band boot camp – I figured it had been awhile on the boot camp thing so we eased back in with more toning and just a few cardio bursts!
I also did my 2nd round of the weekly challenge with Taylor. This week is Tabata and I like it but the tuck jumps were brutal after my 12 miles of speed work yesterday!!! I was happy to improve my reps on all of the moves -hopefully I can still improve when I do round #3!!
Yesterday I took Jordan for his well-check. We had to rush to get there because I picked him and a friend up at 10:00 from Band Camp, dropped the friend at his house and was supposed to be at the DR’s office by 10:15 for a 10:30 appointment. Well, we made it but….
Then we sat and waited and waited and waited! We watched other people come in, check in, get called back, check out and leave. Finally at about 11:15 (45 minutes past our appointment), I went up to the desk and nicely (I was still trying to be pleasant) asked how far behind our DR was running.
The ladies at the desk were a bit rude in their response and said she was just running a little behind – DUH!!!! I said, I realized she was behind (she is always behind but this was getting excessive) I just wondered how much longer.
I actually got a response similar to the one above because they didn’t want to deal with me. Jordan and I continued to wait and finally at 11:55 (1 hour and 25 minutes late) the nurse came out to get us.
I said something about how far behind they were and asked how much longer we were going to have to wait in the little room – she said it would be awhile and that they had “had a morning.” I told her we would wait about 5 minutes and then we were done! I also said that when they are running that far behind they really should let people with appointments know what’s going on – she said they would never do that!!!
The nurse actually got quite snippy with me and said that if patients knew they were behind and then came late it would throw everything off. Basically she told me that my time was not nearly as important as their time!!!
The only reason we haven’t switched doctors (we have always had to wait – but yesterday was excessive – 2 hours for a visit that took less than 15 minutes!!) is because I really like our DR (when we finally get in to see her). She is very personable and knowledgeable.
However, yesterday might have been the last straw. The fact that I tried to be very polite in asking “how much longer” and both the desk people and the nurse were extremely rude after we were the ones who had been waiting FOREVER did not go over well with me!!!
What are your thoughts? How long after a scheduled appointment are you willing to wait? Would you switch DRs if your’s was always running behind?
Happy Wednesday!!!
Kim