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What's been going on
Mar 30th
Some and nothing.
So I’m on an antibiotic for chlamydia.
Stop laughing, it’s not that kind of chlamydia!
Chlamydia pneumoniae. Not that I have symptoms, just that recent blood testing shows I have some of the bacteria in me and it could develop later.
So… Sunday:
I love Max-and-friends rental house. It’s a really nice huge house, but it’s in one of those developments where they’re all on top of each other with no yards and NO PARKING. There’s never any place to park and what there is is parallel. Little tiny 2-car parallel parking spaces interspersed throughout the complex. SUCKS. I’ve got a BIG (2001 gran marquis) car. SUCKS.
Anyway, we get there and boom the perfect parking space right across from their house. Only took me 6 tries to get my boat in there. We changed in the house and headed over to their park/playground/pool area. They were done at the pool and were all in the open space playing frisbee and football.
I sat in the sun for about 10 minutes when I started feeling weird. I made it up the hill to the playground, found a bench in the shade, and proceeded to damn near pass out. Sat there thinking about which way I’d fall – either into the sand (yuk) or headfirst onto the concrete – and even Kira knew something was wrong with Grammi and went to get help.
How fucking embarrassing and annoying. No I didn’t pass out, I drank a lot of water (I always drink a lot of water) and Casey moved me to a picnic table where I could put my head down. Eventually the dizziness passed enough for me to trudge back to the house (with a fucking escort) and rest up.
I’m blaming it on the erythromycin and the heat.
This too did pass and eventually we were all playing Flip Cup. Their kitchen has a huge island perfect for beer pong type games. (video from a previous evening with the kids) And because Shane can’t flip a cup to save his life, I ended up downing an entire can of Strongbow in about 6 minutes, so I quit. Didn’t want to press my luck.
I’ve also noticed a general tired / low-energy feeling. The pharmacist said the antibiotic doesn’t play well with my theophylline so I went yesterday for another blood test.
Tonight is Ignite Phoenix#6, this time at Mesa Art Center to which I’ve never been. Looking forward to seeing the venue as much as the event.
Annoying little beaurocrats
Feb 25th
I completely understand one mustn’t bitch about services one gets for free. Tough shit.
Over the years that I’ve been going to the VA hospital here in Phoenix things have majorly improved. There’s no longer throngs of smelly homeless vets with their missing body parts. I dunno where they went, whether they were helped or shipped out, but they are gone. Let’s hope they were helped out and are all better off now. Anyway, the smell of the place has improved. Also, the speed of service has greatly improved! Where you used to expect to spend the entire day down there waiting to see a doctor or get x-rays done, now you can be in and out in an hour. And because of that the parking has gotten better too.
But – the pharmacy services suck giant permanently flaccid dick. Seriously.
If you get a new prescription, you wait at least an hour. So unless I need it to keep me alive I have it mailed. You can order refills online to be mailed, so I guess that’s an improvement.
But – when your refills are running out, you have to wait until they’ve shipped the last refill before you can request more refills. And for some-odd reason I have three “in process”, three more that have ONE more available refill, and two I can order and yet I can’t just call and have them ask the doctor to give me another year on them all. They have to keep bugging him, he has to remember to allow, and THEN they’ll send them to me. No fucking wonder it takes them so long. It’s not like I take amphetamines or anything, these are asthma and high blood pressure meds. No big deal.
Originally, you could set your appointments up a year in advance. I’m required to come in for a yearly update with my primary care doctor and another yearly appointment with my Gyno every April. I used to set those appointments up yearly and get a reminder letter and it worked fine. Now you have to remember a year later to set up your own appointment (which doesn‘t coincide with when my medication refills run out dontchaknow) and now I have to remember to make an appointment in May.
My memory sucks. I’m assuming it’s an issue with years of not getting enough oxygen with my asthma or maybe the years of steroid use. I used to have a fantastic memory and I’m not old enough for it to be senility, so I’m blaming health issues. Whatever.
AND THE HOLD MUSIC! This deserves an OH MY GOD. The same crappy jazzish song over and over for. ev. er. We hates it yes we does. I really wish I could record it and share. After being forced to listen you’ll have that shit looping in your head for days.
Okay, bitching done. I feel better now.
