Catek2652
Yesterday
Oct 23, 2015
I felt like I spent the day on the phone with hospitals and nurses yesterday. First, I had to figure out what to do about the vitamin issue. After finding out that Tricare Prime will no longer pay for vitamins from the one place I had been told they would; there was a bit of a panic. But thanks to hubby, and doing some on-line research, we were able to sort it out and I've ordered my vitamins from Opurity. Hubby has been collecting all of these medical receipts, special food, special vitamins, travel to and from doctors, co-pays, out of pocket costs for stuff like liquid tylenol, and says we can deduct it all from our taxes because they are a medical need. I THINK it has to reach 10% of your income (and I've had the misfortune in years past when one of my kids had heart issues and I was poor and it DID)... but I'll let him figure that out.
While I'm on the phone with a client a little while later, Dr. Spangler's Office called. It was the NUT with information about how to get vitamins using a discount. I thanked her for calling, did a quick cost comparison and even with the 30 percent discount, I'm going to stick with the Upurity vitamins. I'll still save money. Not as cheap as when Tricare was covering, but still under $100 a month.
Then, my guts decided it was time to purge. I felt no warning signs at all, but stood up from my desk and my backside exploded. I moved as quickly as could down that LOOOONg hallway to the bathroom but it was way too late. If I have too many incidents like this, I may have to ask for an office closer to the bathroom. I called Ken and, bless him, he brought me a change of underwear and took away the soiled ones. I will keep extra pairs and some large ziplock backs in my desk from now on. Hope that was just a last purge and not a peek at my future.
The worst of that was knowing that one of my coworkers (a secretary whose office is near mine) claims she can smell it everytime someone on our hallway even farts or eats something smelly for lunch and she will literally hold her breath when that person comes near her desk with something they need done. She's incredibily rude about it and frankly, I think she just says this stuff because she has decided she doesn't like someone for some reason. I have never smelled anyone in my office (other than my clients) smelling less than professional.
As bad as my blow out smelled, she said nothing. So, again, I think she makes this stuff up.
Then, I get a call from the hospital where I'm going to have my surgery and she's going through all the prework and confirming this or that and says, "Oh, you haven't got your chest xray yet. You need to come down here today and get that done." Just matter of fact Mary... I said, "hold on. No one told me I needed a chest xray or I would have had it done already and I met with Dr. Spangler Tuesday and she didn't say anything about a chest xray. I have a boat load of work to get done here before I leave for 2 weeks and clients scheduled to come in today and tomorrow. I can't just take off and drive 2 and a half hours for a chest xray that will take five minutes." She said she understood and said something about maybe having it done the morning of the surgery right before the surgery and I told her that would be just fine, hubby and I will just have to leave at 3 am instead of 3:30 a.m. She seemed shocked that this seemed like a good solution to me, but said okay. I assured her I am healthy and do not have pneumonia or other lung issues and nothing unforeseen will be found.
An hour later, I get a call from Spangler's nurse with the same issue. She wants me to go to my local hospital (where I got my blood work) and get them to do it today and they would send in the order. I explained to her that I could not leave my office like that (good gracious, I'm busy enough I had to call my husband to bring me clean underwear and didn't have time to get it myself!). I also pointed out that our itty bitty local hospital does not do routine work like this on the weekends and the results would not be read until Monday or Tuesday if I went on Saturday... if I could even get in on a Saturday. She agreed and I suggested again that the xray (which I think at this point is unneccessary) be done at the point of surgery right beforehand. Dr. Spangler can look at it herself. She said she would look into that possibility. She didn't call back, so I will call her back myself today to make sure this is what is going to happen. I hate to be a problem child, but come on!
Then I had to chase down the doctors/nurses of several clients who had previously promised to send me diagnosis, lists of prescriptions, etc (I have the special needs caseload with mentally ill, handicapped and terminally ill people). I try to be understanding because I know everyone is super busy, but if they want to keep their patients on the street so they can continue to be their patients, I would think they could sort of make getting me the information a littler higher in the pile. These are cases in which I've been waiting for a week or more for a report. I'll be glad when I can go get the training for pharma tracking and look the stuff up myself.
Still no resolution on the job interview thing. It's scheduled for Thursday the week of my surgery. Ken said he will just put me in the car, bathrobe and all and take me there. I have to chuckle at that visual... but will play it by ear. I think it would impress one of the panel members if I showed up that soon after surgery, but another person on the panel I know would be alarmed. Hard call. I don't know who the third person is. I also don't know how functional my mind will be on Thursday. It's not an interview I want to blow. I'm thinking of sending one of the members I know an email today explaining the situation so they know. I honestly do not fully trust my boss to tell them.
