1. This puppy is making me crazy. Sure, she looks all innocent and sweet in this picture (and she is) but she learned how to climb up the stairs yesterday. She can not go down by herself. All day I would hear her thunk up the stairs and then minutes later she would let out a little cry because she was stuck. I got my exercise for sure!
2. My kids are spending Monday with their grandparents. Guess what my big plans are. I am going to have a chest CT. My regular doctor (not the one I am waiting for to call me back) wants me to have one to follow up on the "stuff" in my lung that we have been following since my radioactive scan years ago. At my last appointment we decided it would be my decision whether to get any more or not. I decided I would not because all that excess radiation scares me. Apparently he didn't like that decision and said he would feel more comfortable if I did get another one. I trust him* so I will go with his thoughts on this.
*I trust him except that when I called to get him to resend the orders over to the place closer to my house, there was this totally crazy message on the office machine in his voice saying the practice is no longer seeing patients. Then it left a number to call for more info. I called the number and it was another recording saying to leave my name and number and they would get back to me. I left my name and phone number, and also a message about where I needed them to send the orders. At the end of my message I said something about not understanding what was going on with the office. After I left the message, I left to take my kids to tennis. When I got home, there was a message from the nurse telling me they faxed over the orders to the new place and that it should be all set. She left nothing else in the message. Where do I go if I am sick? Who do I call? How do I get medication refills? What the hell is going on???? I am quite confused and unsure of exactly who is going to call me with the results of my CT if the practice isn't seeing patients anymore. Do I need to find a new doctor? It seems like they would have been more informative about this confusing turn of events.
I don't have time to find a new doctor and even if I did, I am pissed that I just made an appointment with this guy when I switched from his partner to him. The sole purpose of that visit was to catch him up on my history since it is so complicated. I paid for that appointment and if he was planning to close the practice, it would have been cool of him to tell me not to waste my time filling him in on everything. I don't exactly want to start all over again, especially since this doctor is someone I trusted. Something about this whole new situation makes my stomach hurt and doesn't feel right. Just a few years ago, this wouldn't have bothered me a bit. It is amazing how much I depend on/trust my doctors now and feel sort of abandoned when they leave without warning.
Thing I Can't Keep Secret For Long:
I started a pair of Gryffindor socks for my 9 year old. I plan to give them to her for Christmas. I will never make it that long without giving them to her but I am going to try!Thing That Made My 5 Year Old Son Happy:
Yesterday we picked up the bowls/mugs we painted. My son was very excited when he realized what I had painted for him. The colors aren't photographing well because I suck at photography but trust me, in real life it is pretty cool.Things Frustrating Me (not sure how that is different than making me crazy, but let's go with it here and not question things so much):
1. I still haven't heard from my doctor about what he thinks after looking over the operative notes. He will probably call either Saturday or Monday. I suck at waiting and really want to know the plan!
Thing That Makes Me Cold To Even Think About:
Today is my kids' last day of school. They have school for one hour. I had plans to take them out to lunch or something after they got home but my 11 year old and her best friend had plans of their own. My daughter is going to sleep over at her friends house tonight and wants to get there early so she can swim in their pool. That's great but it's freezing out! Her friend's grandma (she lives with her grandparents) and I talked about how kids are crazy and swim in weather that adults would never want to swim in.
Things Making Me Happy:
1.My kids
2. I want to say thank you to my good friend Sarah (no link, right?) because she gave me a link to a recipe for cold brewed ice coffee. I made some and it was wonderful. I then looked up a recipe for peppermint mocha creamer and can not wait to try it.
3. Signing up to enter some of my knitted things in the county fair next month.
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14 comments:
That puppy has you wrapped right around her little paw! Lilith did the same thing to us, pretending she couldn't get down the stairs. Leave her up there. She will figure out that if she can get up she can get down.
I hope everything is okay with your doctor, and that you get some answers quickly. I can't imagine what it feels like to be abandoned by your doctor like that!
tara-she won't fall down the stairs? I just feel like she's so little! I guess I'll try it. So far today she hasn't gone up the stairs at all, which makes me happy. I just feel like she is so little and helpless that I want to help her when she has trouble. know you are right though, she must be able to get down and she will never try unless I force her. Being a mom of a puppy is so hard sometimes!
i'm still waiting for that puppy to be cute
;-)
furiousball-I know, she's not cute at all, right? Actually, it is a good thing she is because sometimes she is a huge pain!
Fear not....my dog will be 12 soon and he STILL drives me crazy. It never ends.
I have those same petunias! AWWW thanks for the shout-out, I am so glad you liked the coffee, it's the best isn't it?
xoxo
That would bug me too about your doctor. Ugh!
I'm glad you ended the post on the positives. Those are all great things!
I like how Maya showed up on two lists ;)
What the hell is going on with your doctors? Ugh! Even I feel frustrated about it now! I hope you get it all settled soon so you don't have to stress about it.
P.S. I love the way the cup turned out! You did a great job!
Time to break out the baby gates again, eh? ;-)
Nouveaublogger-well, that's great news. Thanks (rolling my eyes here)
Sarah-I loved the coffee...the creamer I looked up? Not so great. I am still in search of a replacement for my peppermint mocha creamer that is only made in the winter. Why can't they just ALWAYS make that flavor????
Sizzle-I always try to end with positives. My kids and I do our happiest and saddest of the day each night before bed and I try really hard to have the end with the happiest. My 5 year old has started a new one called "funnest" and he always does that one last.
kilax-the doctor thing is just plain crazy. How can they just close the practice but still order tests???? I don't get it at all and uncertainty makes me crazy!
kilax-thanks! We still need to go there together sometime. Because I am a pottery addict and I need to make other people addicted too! I should get some kind of discount considering the amount of people I have brought there and the amount of time I spend there. Or maybe I should get a part time job there or something!
kapgar-we actually never had baby gates for our kids! I did have to install some for the home daycare (which seemed incredibly lame considering we never had to do that for our own kids and then we did it for other peoples kids) but she can fit under the ones I have for the daycare kids.
Yesterday she did better, we spent some time teaching her to go down the stairs. She hated it and I think her solution for right now is to just not go up. That works fine for me right now!
Oops, I wanted to at least pop in to say that the Reese's mug turned out SO GREAT! And anytime you girls want to hit the pottery place, I'm happy to reserve an I-Go car and come out. :)
great pics and great work with the bowl. hope your son is happier now!
about the doc - hopefully he was trying to say that the radiology place was no longer taking patients, or that he thought the place you wanted to switch to isn't taking "new" patients?!? hopefully it will get sorted out and is just a misunderstanding / casualty of phone tag. keeping my fingers crossed!! btw, any utility in getting the pelvis in the scan - does your OB need any imaging before (potential) surgery? something to consider "while you're there" ....
Cool mugs/cups. I like how one says Reese's on it.
And I like that last photo of the flowers. The colors are so bold.
Hope all goes well with your chest CT. I'm really hoping these health issues you are having can go away soon. You need a well deserved break.
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