Well it has been a busy round of doctor visits and they still aren't over. I had my annual physical exam coming up and decided I wanted to switch clinics to where Sonny has been going. He has VA but got on VA Choice because we live over 40 miles from any VA clinic. He had both knees replaced last year and found out VA choice would not pay for it. Thankfully he had regular medicare so we are only out 20%...but still a hit in the pocketbook.
Well I changed to this clinic and so far like it and think they are more on top of my medical issues.
I got a partially retired NP and love her. She is only there 2 days a week but seems to be very good at what she does. Anyway since I had been having BP issues and the old clinic just prescribed another pill to take in addition to what I was already taking and it wasn't helping, she decided at my age (almost 68) I needed an echo cardiogram. Well it showed up a leaky valve so I was scheduled a visit to a cardiologist. I had prayed I would get Dr. Glynn St. John and my prayers were answered and had an appointment set up in 2 weeks. That was last week. Well he didn't seem to be as concerned as I have been and relieved my mind a lot. But I have another appointment set up for more blood work and another echo cardiogram tomorrow and then a stress test on Friday. The stress test last 4 hours and I can't eat anything before and cannot have anything with caffeine so can't have my morning tea...well then while all this is going on my clinic called and said they want me to go to a pain clinic to try to get me to quit using tramadol. I don't take one every day but when I do it is only one and then at night so never thought I was using it excessively. Not sure I'm going to the pain clinic yet. I will be calling them later today and find out how much this is going to cost me. I have an appointment set up for Monday for that. Update will be coming.
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Now for some better things to blog about...Last week we had a full moon and we had been having lots of rains so wasn't sure I could get a photo. I didn't the night it was full but did get a good shot the next night and it was still huge.
We were blessed with a few days of sun and warmer temps. I sat out one entire day just to soak up the Vitamin D. We had about 3 days of sun or partial sun. Now it is cloudy again and rain and cooler temps are predicted.
Then one morning this past week I got a terrific shot of a sunrise.
Our daffodils had begun blooming right before a hard freeze so I went out that late afternoon and picked these as I knew the freeze would ruin them by morning.
And as I often do, I have to post a photo of Kinzey. She is now almost 16 months old. She loves outside in her yard but also likes to run like the wind when we let her out in the main yard. She is so big now and is over 80lbs. She is still sleeping in her crate in the house at night and she is still hyperactive. We have had trouble her keeping play toys as she tends to tear them up after awhile. She had a huge ball like the ones that show horses playing with. It lasted a month. We had been watering her in a big plastic bucket until she started dumping it each day and playing with the bucket..She now has a huge heavy metal pan for a water bowl and the bucket is now her favorite toy. She is gradually wearing it out but we have more buckets.
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That's all folks
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