The incompentency

The doctor's office finally called around noon yesterday to say they sent over the orders for the blood test. I waited about 45 minutes and called the hospital to make sure they received it. I could just see us driving the 11 miles into town, getting there and them saying "no, we don't have anything yet". And there would be no way to call the dr office from there and get it resent, because they never answer their phone.

But, they did get it, so we went in to get that done. We sat there outside the lab for at least 20 minutes. No one else waiting for lab work and no one came out from there. Finally, a guy in a lab coat comes out, looks surprised to see us there. "Are you here for labs?" Yes... he looks around the corner at the lady we checked in with at the main desk and starts to ask her and she says "oh, I was waiting for your phone light to go off, before I called you and told you he was here". OMG. I think she just totally forgot. Annoying. Then we still had to wait another 10 minutes before the guy came back out again, and got dh. Anyway, that's done and they took 3 vials of blood from him. Of course dh didn't think to ask him about how long it would be before his dr. has the results. This dr office (nor the hospital) doesn't report things to MyChart, which is a bummer.  But, then I just remembered the hospital does have a patient portal log in, so his results should show up there. I'll watch for it,

At least it was a beautiful sunny day for the drive to town. After we got home I got another call from the EUS scheduler from the day before. She thought she had talked to me the day prior to set up his appointment, but apparently she then didn't enter it in their system! Can you imagine if we had waited a month for this, get to the hospital to check in, and they say "we don't have you on the schedule"?!

I've been wracking my brain trying to come up with one more gift for dh. For years he's been wanting some towing mirrors for his old pick up. I asked SIL if he knew what he wanted (of course he did LOL), but he said dh wants original OEM and they are going to be really hard to find (and expensive) so if dh can't find those it will have to be aftermarket ones (MUCH cheaper). I decided to just have SIL send me a link to a picture of some mirrors so I can print it out.

Dh likes to wrap presents as soon as they get here. He put this really big box under the tree the other day and says this is going to be the best present, LOL. I was going to find another big box and do the same, but all the boxes are out in the shop, up in the loft and I'd have to ask him to get me one. He'd say "why? nothing that has come in deliveries is that big??" So, I found the tiniest box I could. A box of matches. Took out the matches and printed the paper with the pic of the mirrors and folded it up small to fit in the box. Wrapped it with a tiny bow I have and put it under the tree. Waiting to see how long it takes him to notice. It will drive him absolutely nuts to wait until Christmas to find out what it is, LOL.

I need to fix that tree light cord, LOL. DH put the skirt under the tree and didn't put it over the cord. It's all in the details ;)

My long time side job, is fully coming to an end next month. The owner and his wife (who is the one I communicate with 99% of the time) are 70 now and he is having a lot of health issues and she has finally convinced him to completely retire. I've been working for them each month, the last year and a half, on a much smaller scale, as he has just been doing consultant type work and I have been keeping track of that income and expenses. She and I have become pretty good friends over all these years and that will continue.