When I woke up this morning for some reason I thought "today isn't going to go the way I have it planned out". Well it turns out I was right. I hadn't had a good nights sleep and woke up sleeping with one part of me one way and the other part of me another direction. If you can imagine a pretzel that's what I felt like. Needless to say my back hurt real bad and any extra movement made it worse.
I unlocked the door in anticipation of my home health aide, Monica, coming at 8 am. That also entailed moving Dumkupf, who for all of you not familiar with me is my , now 30 lb, baby boy cat. He likes to lay in front of the back door and make things hard for people who are coming in and going out that door. I can move him and 5 minutes later he's right back there. Usually when Monica gets here he moves into the bedroom till she goes in there to make the bed or get the laundry to do. Well by 8:30 she hadn't shown up or called so I called the agency to find out where she was only to find out they didn't open till 9am. I patiently waited till then and that started my phone tag with them. I found out after 3 phone calls that Monica's mother had an emergency and she had to take her so that was why she didn't show up. From what her boss told me they were slammed with phone calls this morning and that is why I had to call 3 times to get an answer. I asked them to send me someone else as this was to be my last day with them till I get back and I REALLY needed someone to come and do laundry and generally clean up before I leave to go on my trip. I was assured that someone would come but no on showed up by 11 and I didn't want anyone to come any later than that in the morning because I had a doctor's appointment in the afternoon. I started to make calls to the agency but something was screwy with the phones and I couldn't hear them and when they called me they couldn't get though. I think it was on their end because I was making other calls that I had no problems with. Finally Monica's boss got back to me and said that someone would come this afternoon. She asked me to call when I got back from the appointment to let her know I was home so they could send someone.
One of the other things I was dealing with was a disastrous trip yesterday. I had 2 appointments yesterday, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. I was picked up just fine in the morning and only had to wait 35 minutes to get picked up to go home. That's about 30 minutes longer than I should have waited to go home. I guess when you set a return time it means that the cab company can come any time after that time. Well 2 calls to MART later the cab showed up. No apology or anything. In fact the driver didn't say one word to me the whole ride home except to ask which parking lot to drop me off in. He was pissed about something and his driving showed it. He drove to fast and tailgated every car that got in front of him. So when my next pick up time came I went outside to wait 5 minutes before the cab was due. I figured I have my Nook so I can read for a few minutes before the cab got here. Well 10 minutes later still no cab and I didn't have the companies number on me so I called MART to find out where they were and got MISS ATTITUDE on the phone. She called the company and they said the driver was in the parking lot and had been there for over 5 minutes. I explained to the woman I was outside looking at the parking lot and the only cars there were residents. She said I must not be outside looking because the company said the driver was there. I suggested that the driver may not be in the right parking lot because if they use GPS it won't bring them to the right parking lot in the complex. I decided to walk down to the parking lot where GPS take people because the woman from MART said the driver was coming around to look for me again. Well I walked to the other parking lot, which wasn't an easy thing to do and it was raining and I had no umbrella, and when I saw the driver wasn't there I called MART again. Well I got MISS ATTITUDE again and explained to her that I decided to walk down to the other parking lot to look for the van and she got pissed at me for leaving the front of my building. I tried to explain that you come in on a main road and the parking lots came off that and if the driver was in the complex he'd see me on the road but there wasn't any van anywhere in the complex. She called me a liar and said the driver was there driving around looking for me and if I didn't get back to the front of my building I wouldn't get my ride. I was already doing that and when I was walking to the front of my building talking to her when she hung up on me. About that time I heard a car skidding to a stop and turned around to find the cab parking in the parking lot and the driver jumping out to open the side door. Turns out it was the same driver that had taken me to my appointment in the morning and he assumed that he was picking me back up at my doctors in Auburn and that's where he was and where he was telling MART he was. He made a mistake and when he looked at the schedule to see where I was getting picked up he drove real fast to get me. I am not upset with him but I'm royally pissed at the *itch I had to deal with at MART. She had no reason to call me a liar and hang up on me. Yes my voice was raised but that was in response to her yelling at me. I got to my appointment on time and that's all that matters.
So to get back to today. One of the many phone calls I made was to MART to talk to the supervisor of this woman from yesterday. I have made 2 calls to her today and still haven't gotten a phone call back. I don't know if I can reach anyone now but I'm going to try. Once again I get someone at MART who doesn't care that an agent was being a *itch to me on the phone and I got the brush off.
It's now 4PM and I called the home health agency to find out where someone was and was told that the supervisor was on her way to come do the work that Monica was supposed to do today. I hope she gets here soon. I'm hungry and there isn't anything to eat in the house. I also need my prescriptions and a few other things that I needed, like ......................this morning.
OK time to quit the *itch session and try to figure out if I'm going to get my laundry done and other things done that need to get done today. AND see if I have anything hiding in the cupboards that resembles food for me to eat.
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