Music Man had two doctors appointments around our anniversary. We chose to go to the coast for the day of our anniversary, since we had a rental car, stay the night, and then go to his first appointment.
Let me start with the coast. It was so heavenly. It was only 80. That was refreshing after near 100 on our mountain. Which is hot anywhere but on our mountain that's really hot. So the coast was wonderful. We went to our favorite pizza place. We laughed. We teased each other about the tacky 70's style hotel room. We went to the dollhouse store. It was a great break in the middle of a long and exhausting term in school not to mention the stress from Music Man's injury.
On to the doctor, the day after our anniversary. He was kind of, well, I don't want to say a jerk and I don't want to call him incompetent, but he didn't look at my husband's file and he did mention the state of another patient calling her Miss _________ and then showed us her x-rays. Now, it is possible that's a fake name and phony x-rays showing a condition much worse than my husband's but I'm pretty sure it's still a HIPAA violation.
In any event, Music Man got a cortisone shot, I did not faint at the sight of the needle sticking in his knee, I did want to vomit but managed to contain myself, and for about a week he had almost no pain. He's back to having some but it's much better than it was.
We came home through the big town at the base of our mountain and decided to go to the movies and dinner. We saw Central Intelligence and it was hilarious. We enjoyed ourselves a lot.
The next day he had another doctor appointment. This one was an initial health assessment as required by our new insurance. I'm sad to say that the incredibly sweet LVN from my appointment was yelled at that morning. Not by a patient. By the Nurse Practitioner. For writing down too much information in patient charts. Apparently, it's supposed to be the Nurse Practitioner's job to get the medical history. But like I told our sweet nurse, I'd rather something I say in passing that she thinks might be important get written down. I'm not a medical professional and don't know what's important to tell the doctor or nurse but something I may say offhand, could help them with whatever I'm being seen for. So, I will be writing a letter to the doctor of the facility and the insurance company and expressing my displeasure.
In addition, the Nurse Practitioner was abrupt, rude, and loud. She wore a hearing aid and I doubt she could tell how loud she was but I was concerned other patients and staff could hear her speaking. Where is the privacy in that? We will not be scheduling when she's on again.
One day last week as Music Man was letting me know dinner was about ready, I happened to move the keyboard for my computer and discover ants under it. They were under the monitor too. So I sprayed the crud out of my desk, and hopefully took care of it. I saw a few after dinner so we sprayed some more. Music Man was very helpful and sprayed where I couldn't reach. They seem to be gone now. I hope. Although the Grumpy Old Man had a ton of them in his room the other night and didn't spray cause he didn't want to do it while the a/c was on. Something about it going all over the house. Frankly I don't care if it does, I just want the ants gone.
We've had a couple of days where it has only gotten up to the low 80's which has been very helpful to the electric bill. And to my sense of hearing. The fans going all day and the house closed up winds up hurting my ears after a while.
Well, that's all the news from the mountain. Ours isn't the one on fire right now. I'm sure it will be at some point this summer though. There's a lot of brush and a lot of stupid people.
Remember, California is in a drought, everything is ready to burn. Be careful out there.
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