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maystoneI'm going to be by the numbers because my brain's not working in a linear fashion. Or not much at all, really.
1. It's been a ridiculous weekend. It turns out that I've been overloading my system with potassium, so consequently I've been either nodding off to sleep, or stumbling around in a lot of pain with leg cramps in my calves and neurological spasms in my shin bones. And my brain seems to be phoning it in from another dimension. It's starting to ease up, but the past week has not been fun. I was living on ritalin so I could stay awake to drive and do the other stuff that needed being done.
2. One of those things was getting Dar to the hospital for her iron ifusion last Friday. My poor honey had a very tough time of it with this week's infusion, but the good news is that it's been so effective she won't have to go back for another three or four months. I'm hoping that the infusion did the trick and she won't need this toxic procedure again.
3. We had six kids last night for Halloween. Last year we had about thirty. The weather wasn't cooperating because it was wildly windy; even if we'd managed to get it together to carve a pumpkin or two, the wind would have blown out the candles and bowled them over. Plus, as Dar pointed out, there is a fear of H1N1 in the area. Two previously healthy children, 10 and 13, died suddenly from H1N1 last week in southern Ontario, and it sent parents into a panic.
4. I'd contacted my rheumatologist about my concerns with the vaccine; she replied that she really wants me to get both the H1N1 vaccine now and the regular flu vaccine when it becomes available. Now the trick is to actually get it. The above-mentioned panic has caused all kinds of problems with the public vaccine clinics that have been set up: hundreds of people were turned away after waiting in line for seven and eight hours in some cases. Originally less than half of the population said they were going to be vaccinated or have their kids get the shot, so TPTB just weren't set up for the rush that materialized. My doctor's practice has a flu clinic scheduled for this Wednesday from 1-7; I'm thinking now that I should get there at around 9. It's a family practice with a large Mennonite base, and those guys consider four kids to be a starter family. If they all decide to show up for vaccinations, I'm out of luck.
5. Have I told you about the saga of trying to get my insurance policy number out of my insurance company? Five days so far, and I still don't have it. I need it to get a temporary pass for my Mazda so I can have it safety tested and registered. (It's been off the road for almost a year, so we didn't bother with the registration when it came up for renewal last May.) It turns out that my policy - all of our policies - were bought out by another company. For some reason, they never rolled mine over. Just mine. They still took our money to pay for the coverage, mind you. So when that finally came to light, the battle was entered. Every day it was another hoop to jump through. The last one was that they needed a Letter of Experience from my last insurer in the US. Even though I've had insurance in Canada for five years already through the company they'd bought out. So I called my old insurer. Their records don't go back that far; they'll call the head office. The head office needs a signed letter from me requesting the LoE. Can I fax it? Sure - but they won't fax it back to me because I'm in Canada. OK, I make arrangements for them to fax it to my brother in the States, and he'll forward it to me. Great. I get it all done on Thursday and call on Friday to get the insurance policy number . . . the agent is out of the office until Monday. And who knows what nonsense she'll come up with this time. Dar has done most of the calling because my policy is wrapped up in theirs, and she's reached the end of her rope. And if you know Dar, you know she has a freakin' long rope.
6. I could use a dose of silliness in my life. I have plenty that's absurd but little that is silly. OK, at time the cats are silly and the alpacas can be silly, but you know what I mean. I need to get silly again. I used to dance in stores to the Muzak or break into song. Once my friends Robin and Carol and I started samba-ing through a K-Mart, and we had someone leave her cart and join us. Because life is too short to put off being silly. I gotta get back to it.
7. Ooh, The Amazing Race is coming on. I'm really enjoying this season, and so far I'm liking most of the teams and loving the race itself. It's one of the few TV shows that I'm keeping up with, because I have to go to bed so early lately. I stopped watching Flash Forward and Dexter and Glee, but I've been following the recaps on TWOP, so I hope to catch up again once we get the car situation settled. Anyway, TAR!
1. It's been a ridiculous weekend. It turns out that I've been overloading my system with potassium, so consequently I've been either nodding off to sleep, or stumbling around in a lot of pain with leg cramps in my calves and neurological spasms in my shin bones. And my brain seems to be phoning it in from another dimension. It's starting to ease up, but the past week has not been fun. I was living on ritalin so I could stay awake to drive and do the other stuff that needed being done.
2. One of those things was getting Dar to the hospital for her iron ifusion last Friday. My poor honey had a very tough time of it with this week's infusion, but the good news is that it's been so effective she won't have to go back for another three or four months. I'm hoping that the infusion did the trick and she won't need this toxic procedure again.
3. We had six kids last night for Halloween. Last year we had about thirty. The weather wasn't cooperating because it was wildly windy; even if we'd managed to get it together to carve a pumpkin or two, the wind would have blown out the candles and bowled them over. Plus, as Dar pointed out, there is a fear of H1N1 in the area. Two previously healthy children, 10 and 13, died suddenly from H1N1 last week in southern Ontario, and it sent parents into a panic.
4. I'd contacted my rheumatologist about my concerns with the vaccine; she replied that she really wants me to get both the H1N1 vaccine now and the regular flu vaccine when it becomes available. Now the trick is to actually get it. The above-mentioned panic has caused all kinds of problems with the public vaccine clinics that have been set up: hundreds of people were turned away after waiting in line for seven and eight hours in some cases. Originally less than half of the population said they were going to be vaccinated or have their kids get the shot, so TPTB just weren't set up for the rush that materialized. My doctor's practice has a flu clinic scheduled for this Wednesday from 1-7; I'm thinking now that I should get there at around 9. It's a family practice with a large Mennonite base, and those guys consider four kids to be a starter family. If they all decide to show up for vaccinations, I'm out of luck.
5. Have I told you about the saga of trying to get my insurance policy number out of my insurance company? Five days so far, and I still don't have it. I need it to get a temporary pass for my Mazda so I can have it safety tested and registered. (It's been off the road for almost a year, so we didn't bother with the registration when it came up for renewal last May.) It turns out that my policy - all of our policies - were bought out by another company. For some reason, they never rolled mine over. Just mine. They still took our money to pay for the coverage, mind you. So when that finally came to light, the battle was entered. Every day it was another hoop to jump through. The last one was that they needed a Letter of Experience from my last insurer in the US. Even though I've had insurance in Canada for five years already through the company they'd bought out. So I called my old insurer. Their records don't go back that far; they'll call the head office. The head office needs a signed letter from me requesting the LoE. Can I fax it? Sure - but they won't fax it back to me because I'm in Canada. OK, I make arrangements for them to fax it to my brother in the States, and he'll forward it to me. Great. I get it all done on Thursday and call on Friday to get the insurance policy number . . . the agent is out of the office until Monday. And who knows what nonsense she'll come up with this time. Dar has done most of the calling because my policy is wrapped up in theirs, and she's reached the end of her rope. And if you know Dar, you know she has a freakin' long rope.
6. I could use a dose of silliness in my life. I have plenty that's absurd but little that is silly. OK, at time the cats are silly and the alpacas can be silly, but you know what I mean. I need to get silly again. I used to dance in stores to the Muzak or break into song. Once my friends Robin and Carol and I started samba-ing through a K-Mart, and we had someone leave her cart and join us. Because life is too short to put off being silly. I gotta get back to it.
7. Ooh, The Amazing Race is coming on. I'm really enjoying this season, and so far I'm liking most of the teams and loving the race itself. It's one of the few TV shows that I'm keeping up with, because I have to go to bed so early lately. I stopped watching Flash Forward and Dexter and Glee, but I've been following the recaps on TWOP, so I hope to catch up again once we get the car situation settled. Anyway, TAR!
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2009-11-02 03:05 (UTC)*big hugs and lots of love love love*
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2009-11-02 10:15 (UTC)And my doctor is already completely out of the regular flu vac. (and has been for about a month)
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2009-11-02 13:38 (UTC)I was just thinking maybe H1N1 wasn't the big scare they were making it to be, then I hear about healthy kids dying. Anyone who has an immune disorder or complications due to illness should be first in line for the vaccine. I'm always wary of vaccines, but when a person's system is already compromised ... it just shouldn't require that person to stand in line for seven hours either. Not sure what the solution is exactly, but good luck with getting what you need.
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2009-11-05 03:19 (UTC)