Just a reminder that I do use this blog to vent. I don’t necessarily need anyone to read it I just need a place to complain when the world is closing in on me and when DHR is doing its usual less than stellar work.
So good news bad news. The good news is I don’t have COVID-19. The bad news is I’ve had a virus for three weeks now. It started with fever nausea and coughing. I’ve been coughing since the power went out in February and it has kind of come and gone. It’s back and it brought it’s big brother. Recently, I’ve been running a fever in the afternoons and I’m still coughing.
I’m pretty sure I caught this virus at DHR waiting for nearly an hour for my port flush four weeks ago. As I said before there were unmasked people and people who didn’t know how to wear a mask in the waiting room even though you had to be masked to enter the building.
Last night I got the results of the Covid test back at 9:00 PM and it was negative. So I hightailed it to DHR (same building but first floor) to have blood drawn for my labs this month since I have a doctors appointment tomorrow. This much smaller waiting room had two different people not wearing masks. The first one was reminded by the registrar that she had to wear a mask. I told the registrar about the second one as I was leaving. It was nice to see a staff member policing the room. They have already called to confirm tomorrow’s telemedicine call though they tried to get me to change to in person. As if.
So now it’s tomorrow and I had the telemedicine call with the doctor. Not all the blood work made it and they didn’t get the biopsy tested. They need my signature on something to try again to get the insurance to cover the testing. The assistant said she’d email me the forms and after I carefully read to her “live the number 4 birds” she came back with ok so that’s MAL …. I gave it to her again but no email and not in my junk mail. This is the same one that couldn’t get the authorization for the drugs to the pharmacy last month
Good to have a nice long talk with the Dr even if it started an hour late when I called them to see what the hold up was … and the receptionist then thanked me for taking her call! Good news though they didn’t ask if I have ever smoked. I’ve been getting creative on my responses after almost four years of answering it once a month at each office.
