Okay so almost a week after I hurt my ankle I still could NOT see my ankle bone aka I still had a cankle and it still hurt. I had been debating about seeing a doctor just in case when ahhhhhhhhhh "such and such walk in clinic" was literally right in front of me. I went to grab a coffee before work on Thursday and as I turned into the parking lot there was a clinic right there in the same plaza! After a few "I'll be late today" calls I walked in. The doctor was an older gent with a lovely demeanor and after examining my bloated appendage he sent me on my way for some x rays. Now I don't live in the city where I work and while I know the roads well enough, there are a lot of one way streets and buildings can be a pain in the ass to try and find. One of the addresses stuck out at me as I used to work across the street from the place, perfect I know where I'm going!


Behind the building there's a parking attendant that requires a $9 deposit and the cost is $2 per half hour (place is right across from the hospital) I ask if this is 304 Victoria to which he replies yes but doesn't think there is an x-ray place in the building. I'm gone for literally 3 minutes, I leave him, walk into the building, find out the x-ray place has in fact been gone since October and I walk back out to him. He hands me $7........WTF??? I'm shocked that I did not say anything, I couldn't believe it! He charged me $2 to park for 3 minutes.........knowing full well the place I needed was gone cause there I was back sooo soon AND ummm hello obviously something must HURT if I'm getting an x-ray!! Ugh I was livid!


I found another place not too far from my work which was convenient as I was in a bit of a timecrunch. I had a volunteer coming in and a bunch of clients to see so wandering around the city in search of a bloody x-ray place was not an option. Of course I had to pay another $2 at a parking meter on the street and guess what......I was in the place for all of 15 minutes. There was no line up, no waiting, the place was like a ghost town which I suppose was good as I really needed to be on my way. I was probably the 1st patient the technician had had in who knows how long! There were no chairs in the waiting room, the equipment was super old and the wall was covered in floral wallpaper! She was also lovely though, quite chatty and sent me on my way in record time.

So a bouquet to the x-ray tech and a brick to the parking attendant!