The busy afternoon

Yesterday morning I asked my mom if her rash was getting any better (as she had taken that 2nd dose of diflucan on Sunday) and she told me "oh, ya, it is." I thought ok, good. She must have needed that 2nd dose (and the dr said it would most likely be a week before she started seeing improvement). Then an hour and a half later she calls me and tells me it's worse. I have an appt on the 30th to get established with a dr. where I go, but that is too long to wait to have this looked at again, if it's worse (or even if it's not better). So, I decide to take her back to the walk in clinic yesterday afternoon. We had a bit of a longer wait this time and I had to keep explaining to her that this office is part walk in (one dr for that) and then there are a few other dr.'s that see established patients by appointment, so that is why they are going back before her and she was here before them.

Anyhow, when I got to her place and looked at it, it was not worse, but definitely no better at all. There is a big area that is still like an open sore and very red. To me it looked same as when I took her to the dr. 10 days ago. It was a different dr who saw her. He said it's not infected but not healing at all and kind of sounds like a lot of that is probably due to where it's at....with her excess weight and her stomach folded down over her thigh, she's just got skin rubbing on skin and the area just can't breathe at all to heal up. He referred her to their "wound care clinic" to have it treated to get it to heal. He then put this medicated type big bandage dressing to cover the area and to just leave on it. He said it can be left on 4-7 days and he gave her an extra, depending on how long it takes to get into the specialist. He said he had called the referral in and they would be calling her in a few days to schedule. After I dropped her off I called the office to give them my # to call to schedule it and they called me right back, but can't get her in until next Thursday.

I was glad that he put that on and that she, for now, doesn't need to be applying anything to it. I can tell she was having trouble remembering to put the Lotrimin on it and yesterday when I got there she got confused and didn't know if she was putting Lotrimin or Cortaid. (pretty sure she was using Lotrimin, as she had used up that first tube and was now using the 2nd one). Depending on what the wound care clinic does, if this needs to be "dressed" or anything applied to it, I'm just going to bring her to my house to stay, at least until her regular dr. appointment that next Tuesday. I don't feel she is capable enough to take care of it herself, with her memory. I checked her pill box and she had remembered to take all her doses, so I think the alarm system is helping with that.


Our sprinkler system is finally all finished and working. The guy didn't show up until 2pm (it was one of the employees of the owner). So, of course DH ended up spending the 3 hours helping him and half of the time it was pouring rain. Haven't received the final bill yet, which should only be for the section of 8 sprinkler heads we added to our initial bid. I told DH I sure am sick and tired of paying others to have you help! Now if the fence guy would ever show up.............

On Sunday I ordered a microwave cart online from Walmart, for my mom. Was having it shipped here, so DH can put together and then I'll take it to her. The order said arrive on 17th, but what I didn't realize until Monday was it said JULY 17th. Well, I'm not waiting that long, I'll just order it from someplace else or order a different one, so I went in my Walmart account/orders and canceled the order. During the cancel process it popped up list of cancel reasons to check off, so I chose the one about taking too long. I was going to place a new order, but decided to give it a day or two to make sure cancellation was finalized and my mom's credit card was refunded, as it was already charged. It's a good thing I did wait, because then the next day I got an email from Walmart saying it had shipped and will be here on 6/22.

My replacement lightbulbs came so now my kitchen is bright again. I was down to 2 working lights left. They say they are warranty for 5 years and are supposed to last 10 years/11,000 hours. These ones darn well better last more than 1 year. I have kept the receipt and if they do not, I will be returning.

6 of those nice steaks I had received awhile back are a really thick cut (not sure what cut, doesn't say on the package). I took 2 and marinated in teriyaki sauce. I had a hard time cooking them, as I expected. I'm not very good with steaks, especially if super thick like these ones! I hate using the outdoor grill, I suck at it. I don't like using the broiler in the oven, it just smokes up the kitchen. With our normal and thinner cuts the past couple of years I have just been using my flat griddle! I tried it with these but could tell it was not getting all the way done and also (I think because of the marinade) it was getting too crispy on the outside, that I don't really like. I had tried cooking each side 15 minutes. Then decided I'd better just put in the oven on the broiler setting for a bit. But, I've never used the broiler setting on this new oven yet. In all my years of broiling something I've always left the oven door open a crack. You know, where it will stay open a couple of inches for you? But this oven does not have that! You either have to leave it almost all the way open or shut all the way. This is also a convection oven, so I have no idea if that makes any difference in how you broil. After a few minutes I took them out and we ate them. I gave DH the one that was a bit thinner, so I know was cooked more and ate the other one, which I would day was medium rare.  Maybe for the rest of those thick (like 2-3 inches) I can slice down in half.