Day 74
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Yesterday was a weird day with even more ups and downs. I should learn to never bother to make
plans. Any plans I try to make must, of
necessity, depend on someone else. And
that frequently doesn’t work out.
I am glad I got the heavy stuff done early at least. Other than that, I did manage piddly stuff ..
a load of laundry, finally getting candles on the mantle, clearing a bit more
stuff off shelves in the guest room.
Just odds and ends.
The guy from Dr. M’s office called to tell me that there had
been a mistake, and my appointment with Dr. J is cancelled. Turns out Dr. J *only* sees patients with “my
condition” (whatever that means) on Friday mornings! And as of right now, the soonest opening he
has is in August .. at 7:15 in the morning.
I told him not to even bother making an aptmt. I have one with Dr. M in 2 weeks and will
discuss it with him then. It appears
that this inflammation is neither significant nor urgent. Not only do I live 70 miles away, I have to
mae arrangements for someone to waste their whole day driving me up there,
waiting, and driving me home. We need a
better plan than this … especially since I can’t tell that anything they’re
doing makes any difference. The first
time I saw Dr. M he told me he saw signs of past inflammation. Obviously it cleared up by itself before ..
so why put me on all these stupid drops that actually raise my eye
pressure. Before the sterioid drops the
pressure was staying in an acceptable (low end) range. Typical doctors, wanting to fix what isn’t
broken!
Then I got some more news, much better; at least, I hope so!
LOL! In 2 weeks my DSis is taking me to
see a 2 bedroom apt … and we will discuss the feasibility of sharing with my
niece. There’s an awful lot of pros and
cons; but so far, in thinking it over (and a little discussion with DIL), it’s
looking like the pros are outweighing the cons.
Until the last few months, I never lived alone in my entire life So it’s kind of disappointing to consider
giving that up so sooon … but, how practical would it be, and how long would I
be able to manage alone? I kknow there
are blind people who manage just fie.
But I’ve got a lot to deal with all at once; and having someone to help
would matter. And yes, I know what the
biggest “cons” are . but I’ll have my own room with my own things I can fix up
how I want, so would have a bit of a personal retreat if needed. Well, except I can’t really shut the door
unless for some reason I need to shut the cats in with me!
Then later in the evening I found out that I won’t be able
to take a hoped for day trip to visit my BFF.
It already got postponed once. I
had picked a time based on what I had been told. But turns out DSS and TGF’ss plans have all changed
.. because her next-oldest has driver’s ed that week. Well, of course, we must have our priorities
right. Maybe someday I’ll get to visit
my friend, but I’m really scared to bother trying to plan anything.
And the icing on the cake .. my Hotmail seems to have
crashed or something. I can’t get my
folders, can’t get mail. Eems I can send
mail OK. But when the screens get all
screwed up, I can’t see well enough to know how to fix them. I wonder how long I’ll be able to keep using the
computer at all. I feel like I’ll be so
cut off … which is, I suppose, silly.
Once I move I doubt I’ll hear from TGF much or DSS at all. My DIL will call me.
Well, TGF will be here any minute to take me to the grocery
store. She actually **gasp** asked if I needed to go!! So I bettr post this (if I can) and be ready!
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