the long afternoon

Yesterday turned into a long afternoon, thanks to Walmart. I'm really tired of their app to check in to pick up an order not working. This time when I called the phone number on the sign it was a recording saying to leave your name and parking spot number. Ok....wait...about 10 minutes or so into my wait one of the workers stopped at my window, looked at my spot number and asked me my name and looked on his little hand held machine and said ok, it'll be just a bit. Wait and wait....finally at 35 minutes wait I called again (after people pulling in after me getting stuff, not to mention I was now halfway into the next hour delivery time frame) and got a live person and was told my name and spot didn't get logged in. By the time I got my order and got out of there I had been there close to an hour. That isn't the first time I have supposedly checked in and waited, only to find out I wasn't checked in.

Back up to first stopping in to see my mom. I need to change her mailing address with her health insurance company. They also mail out a ream of paper for each prescription filled (as does the pharmacy company). Plus she had some papers from her apartment about the covid booster shot. She would pickup of of them and ask me, set it down and pick up the next one, then set it down and pick up the first one we just talked about and repeat. No wonder she can never throw anything out. Her table was covered in magazines, newsletters and such from where she lives. BUT.......miracle of miracles, I counted her pills left (she should have taken 17 of each since I counted them) and she had taken the right amount! So, for now I'm just going to keep watching it that way and see how she's doing.  I totally forgot that I should have stopped at the bank and gotten her some cash out (not sure where her $20 ended up, most likely in the wash) and just before I was leaving I remembered I have 2 $20 bills in my wallet. I tried to give her both, but she only wanted one, LOL. We put it in her wallet, but I'm sure it'll end up bank in her pocket soon.

I got to my dr's office and was checked in quickly. There is a provider filling in for my PA, who is on maternity leave. She was awesome. I just loved her. I don't think she normally works at this office, but I think I'm going to try to find out where she ends up after she is done filling in. While I liked my original provider fine, I just totally clicked with this lady. Everything looks good. My BP was normal, etc. I had brought that printout of my blood and urine screening from my life insurance 3 months ago, so she went over that. There were 2 urine screens that were just out of the normal range and she explained those to me. That if I had high BP or diabetes it would be a concern, but since I don't she's not worried about it. She also mentioned she's usually worked with elderly patients, so I think she'd be great with my mom, too.

Back to Walmart. Boy, the Glacier Freeze Zero Gatorade dh likes and is trying to drink instead of Mountain Dew is hard to find. They ended up outing me, so after spending almost an hour there, I then had to stop at another grocery store to try to find some. I only found 5 bottles and ended up just buying another darker blue kind of the sugar free for him to try.  Hopefully, between that, 7 up and some smoothie drink I got, he has enough to drink for a little while now.

After stopping at the 2nd grocery store (which was packed because it was everyone stopping in as they head home from work) I still had to stop in the co-op place to pick up the lawn fertilizer. That place is nice. They have a drive through building. Pull up by the fertilizer pile. Tell them what you need, they load it and then go up to the register they have set up out in the drive through building and pay. I didn't get home until almost 6pm. I should have been home like at 4:45. Ugh.

And now my log in for my health chart is messed up. I had just set up dh with a user name and log in. I used different user name but apparently used same email. I logged into mine yesterday morning to do an online check in for my appointment. Now when I try to log in, I end up in dh's account. Either log in and password (different passwords) take me to his. Weird.

One of dh's insurance claims is finally showing online. It's his GI specialist visit last Wednesday, but all his hospital claims are still all showing zero dollars and no detail. Odd.

DH is kind of back and forth with how he seems to feel. If I ask him, of course he's not feeling well. But, there are often times he "acts" totally normal.......like when he's on a rant about this that or the other. This morning it was about that guy across the river starting to do shooting again. He has his total voice then, acts totally normal. Then later he'll act like he can hardly make the effort to talk and acts like he's dying. But, I guess the good sign is that he is having times where he acts normal, LOL.