It's Saturday. What are your plans for the weekend?
I know what I'll be doing - I'll be raking leaves on Sunday. NOT one of my favorite tasks. DH has let them pile up, and we're having one of our last nice weekends, so he'll be out there today and tomorrow, raking and I'll be expected to join in the "fun" tomorrow. I hope he gets the upper front yard done today, then we can work on the upper back yard tomorrow. I think he wants to load the leaves into the back of the pickup truck and haul them to the County yard waste recycling center. Whatever, it'll be a Sunday of hard labor, and somewhere in there he'll want to watch some football and I'll need to do a load of laundry.
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I'm not looking forward to raking the leaves. Up to me? I'd hire someone to do it. We have a LOT of trees, so there are a LOT of leaves. Ugh! |
Yesterday I was scheduled to see a new doctor - a step up from my standard doctor. He's a specialist in bone work. Since I have now been on Fosomax twice, and the bone scan results from my test earlier this year were disappointing, I'm moving up the scale to a specialist instead of my regular GP. I thought he was located at the clinic just north of my home. OOPS! I was seriously off base on that.
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I had never been to this location of Allina Health before. I guess I'll get used to going here if I need an injection every six months. |
Silly me, I didn't check my phone's calendar carefully enough. Instead of being a few short miles from the house, he was at a clinic completely on the other side of town in Coon Rapids (don't ask about city names in my area - they're varied, somewhat weird, and often not in English). It's all part of the greater Metropolitan area, but for me, a person from Denver where it's ALL Denver for miles and miles before getting to the suburbs, the little areas of local government that make up our Metro area is confusing. I had no idea how to get to the new clinic, and had less than an hour to get there.
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I had never used this feature of Google Maps before. It worked out REALLY well, and I arrived in plenty of time for my 8:50 am appointment. |
Fortunately, the receptionist at the wrong clinic was able to help me get Google directional maps on my phone (which makes sense - I use a Google phone), and show me how to use it. Voila! I now knew where I was going and how to get there. I was there in plenty of time. It was a large three-story building, so a major hub of my medical clinics. My new doctor was very nice, quite young (of course, everyone is young to someone of 70 years of age), and very thorough. I enjoyed both him and his assistant, Kate. They sent me down for labs, where I had to wait for 45 minutes before my name was called. The vampire assigned to me needed seven tubes of blood, but she was GOOD. No problems, no pain, and no mark. Results are in my in-box today. I'll take a look later this morning.
So it was an eventful few hours, and I was really glad to get home. I suspect I'll be shifted over to injections every six months, and if that doesn't work, they'll have to do infusions. All to keep my bones from breaking apart. I'm not a fan of broken bones, so I'll manage to do whatever is needed. I'm out of here, have a great weekend and I'll be back on Monday. Slava Ukraini
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