Rescheduled

Urgh!! I am beyond frustrated and irritated. Yesterday, Tony had to switch his work hours around (and ended up losing an hour) so that he could drive me into Boston for my appointment with the specialist at Brigham & Women's Hospital. Of course he ended up taking a wrong turn somewhere. So, we had to turn around and sit in ridiculous, typical Boston traffic. I called the office to let them know I would be about ten minutes late for my appointment. The receptionist told me, "Okay, that's fine. I will let them know." Well, when we finally got there and I checked in at the desk, a girl came out to the waiting room to tell me that I didn't have an appointment. Immediately, I pulled out my life book (my little 79 cents day planner/appointment book) and saw it written there in blue ink - June 8th: 1pm B&W. I said to the girl, "Umm, yes I do. I have it written down right here." That's when she tells me that they rescheduled my appointment for Friday, June 10th. Supposedly they called and left a message back in April about the change and supposedly an automated voice recording called the house on Tusday at 6:21pm to remind me of my "Friday" appointment. Tony was home all day on Tuesday (while I had to work until 7pm) and said that the phone never rang. I was extremely close to telling them to just cancel Friday's appointment and don't book me for anything else. It's not like I haven't been dealing with this for the last three years now or anything. However, I have promised a few people that I would go through with this and get things figured out and treated. I never make promises and break them. If the word 'promise' comes out of my mouth then you know it's etched in stone. I had the receptionist type out a letter for me, stating that I was booked for an appointment yesterday but it had to be rescheduled for tomorrow, so that I could give it to my work. I just don't want my managers to start thinking that I'm lying about all of this so that I can have days off from work. I am not that kind of person by any means. I specifically requested to have yesterday off from work because I knew I had the appointment and I didn't want to have to call out of work and leave them short handed. I guess I can throw those intentions out the window since I will have to miss work anyways tomorrow to go back to Boston. Tony can't come with me this time because he has to work a full day and he just recently got a small promotion. I don't want him to get in trouble or lose his new rank. Thank God for my neighbor, Annmarie, she has offered to go with me tomorrow and it's a blessing that she's even willing to drive me in since she knows Boston better than she knows the back of her own hand!! (Love you long time Annmarie!!)