2020: One Day At A Time, We Will Achieve!!
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Maryanne, my retina specialist’s office was like that pre-pandemic. Now I’m not sure if they are scheduling fewer patients or if a lot of people are postponing care, but there are a lot fewer people in the waiting room and the average time for my visits is at least an hour shorter. That alone might make this the best time to go, lol!
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Maryanne--All my specialists have sent notices that the earliest we should report is 15 minutes before the appointment. The waiting room chairs have banners on them noting that they are not to be used except for the ones without banners. When I reported for my orthopedic surgeon appoint 15 minutes before it, there were three people other than me awaiting appointments with the staff. All available chairs were occupied when I took the last one. The appointment was on time with no waiting. I guess there is no point to scheduling more people than can sit in the chairs in the available appointment times for the two orthopedic doctors and the physician's assistants.0
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I think I mentioned my eye appointment last month. They had a great procedure in place. They did drive in check in under the portico. I waited about 30 minutes in the car while listening to an audio book. I was taken directly to a exam room. Each doctor had a designated exterior door for patients. Normally, everyone would wait in a common waiting room and it would be pretty full. After the vision exam, my eyes were dilated and I waited in the common waiting room. There were only 2 other patients in the room so it was easy to socially distance. After about ten minutes, I went to the doctor’s exam room so he could check for any physical eye problems. I’d guess the whole experience was about an hour and. quarter. It was very smooth and I think quicker than pre Covid visits. I”ll bet your doctor adjusts the number of appointments per day and comes up with a safer procedure for waiting rooms. If it looks like you might be in the car several hours, you could take walk breaks in the parking lot, read or work on a laptop or tablet.0
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Maryanne, my retina specialist’s office was like that pre-pandemic. Now I’m not sure if they are scheduling fewer patients or if a lot of people are postponing care, but there are a lot fewer people in the waiting room and the average time for my visits is at least an hour shorter. That alone might make this the best time to go, lol!
My one eye doctor unilaterally changed my appointment to December. I was given no say in the matter. I think I'm scheduled for the other one in November. Those I'll keep if at all possible because they're so critical.
In September I've got a bunch of vet appointments, a CT scan appointment and an oncologist appointment. I'm wondering if they might do the oncologist appointment by phone. Assuming the CT scan shows nothing it's pretty pro forma. I've also got a dentist appointment which I need to keep because I've got an issue. But I was fairly impressed when I went to the hygiene appointment. They've sent all their desk and other support people home to work, took out all their upholstered furniture and replaced it with a few straight back chairs, kept people in their cars until the last minute, work full face shields, and gave me disposable plastic sunglasses to wear. They had advertised that they have a lot of medical people as clients and that they both utilized them for advice on what to do and figured if they could make them comfortable that would be their best bet.
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You know I love my high protein packets. I thought Medifast/Optavia would be more of the sample and ordered a couple sample packs on ebay. Wow, not the same AT ALL. Most of what I've tried had a horrible "off" taste to it.
Meanwhile on the diet root beer adventure, my current rankings are:
Stewart's
Hank's
A&W
Dad's (tossed)
Unfortunately the one brand I ordered got damaged in transit and sent back so that will be one variety I don't have to try when I thought I might.0 -
This week I have met my goal of 5 days of exercise a week. Yesterday, I did a total of 30min in morning and 30 in the afternoon. This morning, I did 30 min and plan another 30 in afternoon.0
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That’s great Jean. You seem to be building up stamina. I’ll bet you see a lose after a bit. And maintaining will be easier.0
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Good tip, Pam.0
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We requested mail in ballots for our primary. It took a week to get them. I returned it in person at a drop box at town hall. The Secretary of State has a website where you can check your ballot. I checked the next day and it was marked accepted. So I know my vote will count.0
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I got in 60 total minutes of exercise yesterday and also today with 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the afternoon.
I have more or less quit watching the news except for the local news in the morning, followed by the Today show.0 -
Pam - too funny!0
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We requested mail in ballots for our primary. It took a week to get them. I returned it in person at a drop box at town hall. The Secretary of State has a website where you can check your ballot. I checked the next day and it was marked accepted. So I know my vote will count.
Our state has finally mailed out applications for absentee ballots. I am so disgusted with the governor. Why not just send out ballots like they did in the primary?0 -
We're got a plumbing problem with the kitchen sink. Plumber here yesterday but DH didn't have him install the new faucet but rather did it himself even though he admits plumbing isn't in his skill set. Well, it's worse and plumber is coming back today. Oh, joy!0
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I cleaned the glass in the front door plus its screen door, and then the windows in what used to be called a "sunporch" or an enclosed room with too many windows--four on each side of the door--its door and storm door. I also got in my morning exercise and will do the rest of the 60 minutes this afternoon.
Maryanne--I admire people who can do all those DIY projects but plumbing isn't one of mine. As a result, I have a good general purpose repairperson at my call often. Better I pay them than make things worse.0 -
My DH is quite handy, which is both a plus and a minus. His timeline and mine are rarely the same, but if I get tired of waiting and call someone to make a repair or do something he could do, it does not go well. Then there have been incidents where, in the course of repairing something, unintended consequences have cost us more than replacing the item would have. Prime example being when he was determined to repair our 20 year old microwave but while doing it he messed up his knee and needed several weeks of physical therapy which we had to pay for out of pocket because we had not met our deductible for the year yet. We could have bought 5 top of the line microwaves for what that cost.0
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My DH is quite handy, which is both a plus and a minus. His timeline and mine are rarely the same, but if I get tired of waiting and call someone to make a repair or do something he could do, it does not go well. Then there have been incidents where, in the course of repairing something, unintended consequences have cost us more than replacing the item would have. Prime example being when he was determined to repair our 20 year old microwave but while doing it he messed up his knee and needed several weeks of physical therapy which we had to pay for out of pocket because we had not met our deductible for the year yet. We could have bought 5 top of the line microwaves for what that cost.
Oh, I can relate to the pluses and minuses.
Growing up my dad did nothing handy. He just "called John Jacobs". It was a small town and John was the handyman. Except for the cars. They went down to the street to "Ducky". When I bought my first car I asked my dad what needed done routinely (I was SO proud of myself both for buying the car (a used tan Volkswagen bug for which my dad had to cosign) and for asking about maintenance. When the battery went dry I asked dad why he didn't tell me batteries need water (I mean, I ASKED!) His answer? "Ducky does that."
DH's household was the exact opposite. His dad did everything. DH expects to and pretty much does, from electrical work to the computers. He's just not very good at plumbing and he admits that. I've told him I have to die first, and I'm not really kidding. Between his fix it skills and the mounds of "stuff" I can't get him to declutter.
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Well, crossing my fingers, the second plumber visit seems to have done the trick. Still a lot of cleanup to do unfortunately. Our house was built in 1948 and parts are showing their age.0
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Maryanne, they probably didn’t have election ballots printed up yet. They’d have to wait until the primaries were decided to know who the candidates would be. We applied for primary and election ballots on the same application. We just had the primary yesterday. I’ll let you know how long it takes to get the election ballot.0
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I do feel sorry for the plumbers. DH insists on "helping". I'm sure they are thinking dire thoughts. LOL!
The second one this week admitted he'd never seen a dishwasher like ours and he really puzzled over it. When we moved in there was one that you pull up to the sink to use. We've bought newer versions but never went to a built in. The cats need the top of it to get out on the cat porch and the cats are in charge.0 -
Maryanne, they probably didn’t have election ballots printed up yet. They’d have to wait until the primaries were decided to know who the candidates would be. We applied for primary and election ballots on the same application. We just had the primary yesterday. I’ll let you know how long it takes to get the election ballot.
No but most blue states are just sending out ballots. Why this idiot governor decided instead to add a whole extra step - sending everyone absentee ballot applications - I have no clue. Some of his strange actions I can mentally tie to his obvious desire to run for president in 2024 as a republican but this election thing I can't figure out. He would seem to get him no advantage. There's no way he can suppress enough votes to swing this state to the cheeto.0 -
MA also sent out applications only. It was a fold up postcard. The ballots themselves were heavier and the postage was more for the ballot than for the postcards. I have a feeling it was cost related. Actual ballots only went out to those who requested them. I think it was more about economics than voter suppression.0
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Texas also uses a 2 step process. Those of us over 65 automatically received an application for an absentee ballot which had to be completed and returned. Now I’m waiting for my actual ballot to arrive. I still haven’t decided if I will use it or go and vote early in person. If I do go to vote in person I will have to surrender the absentee ballot at the polling no place.
DH’s sister has been driving me nuts for the last few days. She wants to take a trip somewhere, anywhere, in early October over my birthday. Of course, she doesn’t remember that it’s my birthday. Everywhere she wants to go involves flying somewhere, which I am still not comfortable with. I finally told her this morning that this just isn’t how I want to spend my birthday this year. Hopefully she will back off now. I really wish she had a friend or two she would ask to do trips with her instead of always relying on me. I feel pressured to go along with her even though I often have no interest in going where she wants to go. She’s fairly inflexible about going where I am interested in visiting but always expects me to go along with her itinerary.0 -
I haven't laid eyes on DH's sister (or his one remaining living brother) in decades.
There must be a happy medium somewhere. LOL!0 -
My email isn't catching nearly all the spam coming through these days.
Some of it is bizarre.
Subject line: Single and cold? Warm up with your Christian match
I kid you not. Could I make that up?
Christiancafe.com. Their "motto". All Christian. All single.0 -
Did an hour of exercise this morning Pouring rain with flash flood watches. Saturday and Sunday are supposed to be acceptable.
This is an example of our color coding for activities. Greeb is good to go; yellow is a cautionary with a few limitations; orange and red--forget about activities. A new one will be issued each week for the weekend and coming week. The Gov has already closed the bars again in the county where WVU students were partying and bar hopping without masks, etc. One week of WVU students raised our contagion rate to one of the highest in the nation from a previous low.
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