Just a Day
Sometimes when I check our schedule for the day, it is totally broken up with “hurry up and wait.”
Dennis knew he was going for coffee this morning. It was a slam dunk . . . literally for him.
I knew that I would see the eye surgeon at our eye clinic up town at nine this morning, I would see my regular eye doctor at 11:30 to have the prescription for new lenses. At 1:45, I would be out to physical therapy.
All of the appointments went well with no surprises.
What has been playing email tag with me all day is a request for one of Dennis’ prescriptions that we should be able to do via a computer portal. That request is to go to our family doctor and he will forward the prescription to the Lewis Drug Store. Somehow a nurse practitioner opened it on the clinic end and it has been a monkey wrench of a ride with her emailing me and asking me questions. Grr! I finally started from scratch and at four this afternoon, our family doctor’s nurse emailed me with the message that Dr. Eatwell reviews his portal messages at the end of the day and will be taking care of having the prescription sent to the Lewis Drug. Good grief! It sure is a good thing that I started this process in advance of the last pill being in the container. This portal idea is good as it saves having to make an office call, getting charged for it and having to have insurance get involved. It is not what Dennis could easily stroll through. He will continue strolling through his day and his pills will be right where he always finds them . . . just as if by magic.
Schedules are great when I have made them with the people on the other end who have the ability to work with me one on one and there is no middle man or in this case a nurse practitioner trying to play God.
By the way, my new glasses with lenses that allow me to see 20/20 in both eyes are in process and I should have them within a week. There were no problems with what the eye surgeon saw. Physical therapy is also going in a positive direction.
Nothing that I can actually point to here in our home that indicates I did show up for the day. Just a day of items that needed to be addressed and taken care of so I am physically able to do my local effort here on Stauffer Avenue.