The actual date was Thursday November 11th, 2010. It marked the first time I have used texting to contact a patient as an emergency. I had finished work for the day and had come home, when I was rung by the surgery and asked to contact a patient who had just experienced a traumatic delivery. I rang her mobile number and got only an answerphone message. Next I tried her landline, but this proved to be unobtainable. It was then that my wife suggested I text her and invite her to call me back. And within 2 minutes she had done just that and I was able to assess her situation.
Then this morning I used it again. At the concert we attended in Manchester last week, I had taken a couple of covert pictures of the girl in action with her clarinet. When she later learned of this, she asked through my wife if I could email them to her as jpegs. This I duly did. After over a week I had received no acknowledgement, so this time I conceived the idea of texting her about it. And dammit it if she didn't text me back in less than a minute to effuse her apologies for not getting back to me earlier.
I am glad I can say I have embraced the texting culture before I reached retirement age. It would perhaps be a tad embarrassing to have missed that little deadline..
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