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skippy1712
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My endodontist's office sent me a text with instructions. Some of them seem odd and out of the ordinary.
There is a set of four commands...here they are exactly as they were given to me.
"DUE TO ALLERGIES, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM WEARING COLOGNE OR PERFUME. Eat before you come, drive yourself and resume normal activity afterward."
I asked about the perfume thing previously and someone said it isn't that I will become allergic to it, but that maybe the dentist is. I feel bad if he is, but couldn't they say specifically what not to wear? It seems odd that we are expected to make him comfortable. I hate the thought of not being able to. First it is a familiar comfortable smell to me. I will miss it. But also, I already feel so gross and disgusting there, that I can't imagine feeling even grosser by stinking. It feels like just more control and power being taken from me in this situation.
Eat before you come. The lady insisted on this. Why? What if I gag? What if I am sick? Wouldn't it be better to have no food in my stomach? I know for a fact that hospitals tell you not to eat anything for a set amount of hours before coming in for anything. Why is she giving me opposite directions?
Drive yourself. Why are they demanding that I come alone? Why do they need the privacy? I don't have any option but to drive myself, but it just seems strange that you are forbidden from having someone with you to protect you from them unless they are planning to do something they shouldn't. This one concerns me greatly and sounds very fishy.
Resume normal activity afterward. What concern is that of theirs? Why can't I do whatever I want after? Who are they to make such a demand and how would they even know if I didn't? This also seems a very strange command.
Any insight into these would be helpful. I have several red flags going up. I hope these are nothing and that there are simple explanations for them, but they seem very out of the ordinary and I would like to understand them before I subject myself to these people.
There is a set of four commands...here they are exactly as they were given to me.
"DUE TO ALLERGIES, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM WEARING COLOGNE OR PERFUME. Eat before you come, drive yourself and resume normal activity afterward."
I asked about the perfume thing previously and someone said it isn't that I will become allergic to it, but that maybe the dentist is. I feel bad if he is, but couldn't they say specifically what not to wear? It seems odd that we are expected to make him comfortable. I hate the thought of not being able to. First it is a familiar comfortable smell to me. I will miss it. But also, I already feel so gross and disgusting there, that I can't imagine feeling even grosser by stinking. It feels like just more control and power being taken from me in this situation.
Eat before you come. The lady insisted on this. Why? What if I gag? What if I am sick? Wouldn't it be better to have no food in my stomach? I know for a fact that hospitals tell you not to eat anything for a set amount of hours before coming in for anything. Why is she giving me opposite directions?
Drive yourself. Why are they demanding that I come alone? Why do they need the privacy? I don't have any option but to drive myself, but it just seems strange that you are forbidden from having someone with you to protect you from them unless they are planning to do something they shouldn't. This one concerns me greatly and sounds very fishy.
Resume normal activity afterward. What concern is that of theirs? Why can't I do whatever I want after? Who are they to make such a demand and how would they even know if I didn't? This also seems a very strange command.
Any insight into these would be helpful. I have several red flags going up. I hope these are nothing and that there are simple explanations for them, but they seem very out of the ordinary and I would like to understand them before I subject myself to these people.