That is what my week has been. Well to tell you the truth it's been longer than a week but the past week has been worse.
I have been trying to get things straightened out concerning my move to the new apartment. One of those things was getting my transportation situated. Once I moved I was told I needed new PT-1 forms which for those of you who don't live in MA or have mass health are prescription transportation forms. Once you move, even if it's one apartment different you need to get new ones. Well if you have read any of my last posts, my doctors nurse is the one who has to do these and her normal nurse is out on maternity leave so the woman who is covering doesn't know how to do them. So today I called to set up a ride for one of my doctors and low and behold I find the PT-1 form wasn't there. Well they put it through on my old one so I can get there but it's a once only thing. Thank goodness the woman I was talking at Mart doesn't know what she's doing so I can get there. I keep getting told that they don't have new ones for my new address and the nurse tells me that she's put them through but some how Mass Health doesn't get them. My doctors regular nurse will be back in a month thank goodness.
Then there's the computer again. I did a mandatory update that Toshiba put out and now my computer is acting up again. I have spent 3 days talking to someone at Toshiba and it boils down to I think I'm going to have to send it back in again. I DON'T want to do that because that means either my son or myself will be without one for weeks again and I have a feeling it will be me.
And to top it all off my printer went offline yesterday and won't go back on even though I have re-installed the software twice. I'm at my wits end and don't know what else to do.
Then this morning I get up and fall. Right onto my face when my leg collapsed. I'm waiting to hear from the doctors office to see if they can fit me in. That is if I can find a ride.
But on the bright side, someone from maintenance just stopped by and said someone will be here around 1 to, finally, put in my grab bar for the shower.
Maybe this week is getting better.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Crazy Lazy week
It's been a crazy, lazy week here on the home front. Crazy because I'm still trying to get all my transportation in place and am hitting a stone wall with my PCP's assistant. She is new and doesn't know how to do the PT-1 forms and they keep getting kicked back for lack for lack of correct information. Well it's the medical reason I need to go that's missing. You'd think that if Mass Health got the form for my PCP they'd realize that there must be a reason I need to go but here in MA you have to jump through hoops to get anything done. The system is so abused that now they make everyone jump through hoops to get the PT-1's. Plus it doesn't help that all my service providers are concidered out of the service area, which for me is Southbridge. Worcester is closer and has a ton more doctors but I live in Oxford and the service area for Worcester ends in Auburn. Sucks for me and the temp assistant because we have been going round and round for weeks trying to get these in place. All I did was move to another apartment in the same complex but because the apartment number has changed I need all new PT-1 forms. I only moved into the building before the one I used to live in so the cabs still come to the same parking lot but Mass Health has this stupid rule that if you move even one apartment over you need new transportation forms. Sucks.
I have also found I have a mouse and beetle problem. I'm not sure how the mouse got into the house but Sunday morning I got up to Middy chasing it across the living room floor. The last I saw of it it was under the heater in front of the front window. It even grabbed my charging cord for my I-Pod and was trying to drag that under there with him. Middy goes on point every time she hears the mouse and beetles and then chases them. Terminix was here yesterday to put down bait to kill them and now I'm afraid to let Middy chase and kill them. I don't want her to get sick from eating them. I don't know, however, to keep her from eating them at night when I'm sleeping. Any suggestions?
I tried a new way of limiting how much Dumkupf was eating to get him to lose some weight. I was given a suggestion of feeding him 3-4 times a day for 30 minutes but that didn't work. He'd chow down everything that was in the bowl and I ended up feeding him more than the recommended amount for the day. So I'm back to giving him 2/3 of a cup in the morning and 2/3 of a cup in the evening. I have to make sure that I stand over the dish in the morning and evening to let Middy eat first or the pig won't leave her anything. He tries to push her out of the way if I don't stand over the dish and push him away. It's OK in the evening to do this but they expect to get fed first thing in the morning right after I get up and all I want to do is put the coffee on but have to feed them first. That is my fault because that's how I've been doing it for years and now I can't change the system. I am going to start giving them water first then I probably won't mind as much standing over the dish to let Middy eat first. I just hope that she will eat more before the pig gets in there and wipes out what's left. I have food up high where he can't get to it but she doesn't like to eat up there it seems. She's just used to eating from the same bowl as the big guy and is to dumb to realize the food up high is just for her. Guess that's because of her retardation. She is an inbreed and is a little slow because of it. It doesn't make me love her any less. In fact I love her more because of it. It makes her special.
So that's how my week has been. Hope yours has been better.
I have also found I have a mouse and beetle problem. I'm not sure how the mouse got into the house but Sunday morning I got up to Middy chasing it across the living room floor. The last I saw of it it was under the heater in front of the front window. It even grabbed my charging cord for my I-Pod and was trying to drag that under there with him. Middy goes on point every time she hears the mouse and beetles and then chases them. Terminix was here yesterday to put down bait to kill them and now I'm afraid to let Middy chase and kill them. I don't want her to get sick from eating them. I don't know, however, to keep her from eating them at night when I'm sleeping. Any suggestions?
I tried a new way of limiting how much Dumkupf was eating to get him to lose some weight. I was given a suggestion of feeding him 3-4 times a day for 30 minutes but that didn't work. He'd chow down everything that was in the bowl and I ended up feeding him more than the recommended amount for the day. So I'm back to giving him 2/3 of a cup in the morning and 2/3 of a cup in the evening. I have to make sure that I stand over the dish in the morning and evening to let Middy eat first or the pig won't leave her anything. He tries to push her out of the way if I don't stand over the dish and push him away. It's OK in the evening to do this but they expect to get fed first thing in the morning right after I get up and all I want to do is put the coffee on but have to feed them first. That is my fault because that's how I've been doing it for years and now I can't change the system. I am going to start giving them water first then I probably won't mind as much standing over the dish to let Middy eat first. I just hope that she will eat more before the pig gets in there and wipes out what's left. I have food up high where he can't get to it but she doesn't like to eat up there it seems. She's just used to eating from the same bowl as the big guy and is to dumb to realize the food up high is just for her. Guess that's because of her retardation. She is an inbreed and is a little slow because of it. It doesn't make me love her any less. In fact I love her more because of it. It makes her special.
So that's how my week has been. Hope yours has been better.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
September 11, 2012
Here it is the 11 anniversary of one of the most tragic days in US history. A day when the world stood still for a lot of people including me. A day that changed the lives of so many people and a great day of loss for so many. We all need to stop at some point today and take a breath and remember. Remember those brave firefighters, police and others who did all they could to save lives only to lose theirs. Remember the ones in the planes who never had a chance, remember those in the Pentagon who lost their lives and the ones who tried to stop something and ended up dying anyway in a field in PA.
I know where I was when I first heard of the first trade center building being hit. Do you? I know what I was doing when I heard of the second on being hit and then I remember what I saw when the buildings went down. I cried like a baby thinking of all those people not being able to get out, being on the planes and not having a chance and being in the Pentagon not knowing what was coming.
We have a tendency not to talk about the other planes that went down that day. Only the ones that hit the twin towers. We need to remember that there were 4 planes that crashed that day. Take time to remember the Pentagon and those on the plane that went down in PA. Say a prayer for them as well.
I didn't even know that a plane had been flown into the Pentagon or had gone down in PA till the evening of the day it happened. It was almost like an after thought to mention it. I spent days in the throes of depression thinking of the lose of life and in that minute I decided to change mine. I hope that I have done it for the better and I know that I have lost a lot for that choice.
I have 2 of the movies made about that day. They were from the perspective of people who lived through it and in the case of the plane that went down in PA, on what the passengers family's heard from their loved ones on the planes. They make me cry every time I watch them. I don't just watch them once a year, I watch them every chance I get as they remind me of what we have lost.
Remember also the troops that have been killed fighting a war that resulted from this immense tragedy. I know when my nephew went over to Iraq to fight how I worried every day that he wouldn't come home. He is by and far my favorite (I shouldn't play favorites on my nieces and nephews but I have a special place in my heart for him and his sister as for a while they called me Auntie Mom) and didn't want anything to happen to him so far from home. When he came home he wasn't the same easy going guy that went over there. It changed him and at that time it wasn't for the good. He has gotten better over the years but just recently I found out he re-enlisted and don't know what to think of that. He has his reasons I'm sure but I am going to worry again if he gets deployed over seas again and I'm not sure how I'm going to handle it. I hope this time to be able to Skype with him instead of writing a 3 page letter every day. For a while I single handed kept the post office in business. I bought rolls of stamps and was down there every day mailing at least 2 letters a day. I'm not sure if my nephew appreciated all the mail he got from me or not but it kept me sane. I still have the letters he sent me. Most of them contained drawings that he did for a graphic novel he wants to write. He still hasn't gotten all the characters drawn the way he wants them I guess because I haven't heard that he's published it yet. When he does I'll be the first on in line at my local book store to buy at least 5 copies. And when I get them I'm going to get him to sign all of them.
So today is a day to remember. Remember all we have lost and those who died on this day. Remember the troops who are still fighting a war that we never should have gotten into but are fighting anyway. Remember the families of those lost as they need prayers even now. And most of all remember to love everyone around you as they could be gone in a blink of an eye just like those on that fateful day.
Thank you.
I know where I was when I first heard of the first trade center building being hit. Do you? I know what I was doing when I heard of the second on being hit and then I remember what I saw when the buildings went down. I cried like a baby thinking of all those people not being able to get out, being on the planes and not having a chance and being in the Pentagon not knowing what was coming.
We have a tendency not to talk about the other planes that went down that day. Only the ones that hit the twin towers. We need to remember that there were 4 planes that crashed that day. Take time to remember the Pentagon and those on the plane that went down in PA. Say a prayer for them as well.
I didn't even know that a plane had been flown into the Pentagon or had gone down in PA till the evening of the day it happened. It was almost like an after thought to mention it. I spent days in the throes of depression thinking of the lose of life and in that minute I decided to change mine. I hope that I have done it for the better and I know that I have lost a lot for that choice.
I have 2 of the movies made about that day. They were from the perspective of people who lived through it and in the case of the plane that went down in PA, on what the passengers family's heard from their loved ones on the planes. They make me cry every time I watch them. I don't just watch them once a year, I watch them every chance I get as they remind me of what we have lost.
Remember also the troops that have been killed fighting a war that resulted from this immense tragedy. I know when my nephew went over to Iraq to fight how I worried every day that he wouldn't come home. He is by and far my favorite (I shouldn't play favorites on my nieces and nephews but I have a special place in my heart for him and his sister as for a while they called me Auntie Mom) and didn't want anything to happen to him so far from home. When he came home he wasn't the same easy going guy that went over there. It changed him and at that time it wasn't for the good. He has gotten better over the years but just recently I found out he re-enlisted and don't know what to think of that. He has his reasons I'm sure but I am going to worry again if he gets deployed over seas again and I'm not sure how I'm going to handle it. I hope this time to be able to Skype with him instead of writing a 3 page letter every day. For a while I single handed kept the post office in business. I bought rolls of stamps and was down there every day mailing at least 2 letters a day. I'm not sure if my nephew appreciated all the mail he got from me or not but it kept me sane. I still have the letters he sent me. Most of them contained drawings that he did for a graphic novel he wants to write. He still hasn't gotten all the characters drawn the way he wants them I guess because I haven't heard that he's published it yet. When he does I'll be the first on in line at my local book store to buy at least 5 copies. And when I get them I'm going to get him to sign all of them.
So today is a day to remember. Remember all we have lost and those who died on this day. Remember the troops who are still fighting a war that we never should have gotten into but are fighting anyway. Remember the families of those lost as they need prayers even now. And most of all remember to love everyone around you as they could be gone in a blink of an eye just like those on that fateful day.
Thank you.
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