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Dec. 20th, 2015 11:50 amBoth Scott and I forgot the grocery pick up last night. I remembered at a little bit after 11:00 as I was brushing my teeth. Given that the store closed at 11:00, this was not a useful time to remember. I expect I’d have slept a lot better if I’d forgotten entirely.
Scott just got back from picking up the groceries. They assured him that they stored all of the perishables properly over night. Given that everything in the order is very, very cold, I’m guessing that they stuck all of the bags in a refrigerator for the duration. The store called us, about 9:00 this morning, to see what had happened. I’m a little peeved because they didn’t use my cell phone even though I specified that as our contact number. I’m also not sure why they didn’t call us last night at 10:00 given that our pick up window was 9:00-10:00 and their posted hours have them open until 11:00.
Our internet is stable enough right now for things like email and loading webpages, but we can’t stream video or music and haven’t been able to since around 10:00 last night. Basically, when we try, the play stops every ten to twenty seconds and buffers for five to thirty seconds. Scott wanted to show me a couple of short videos last night, both under five minutes long. Each of them took ten to fifteen minutes to finish playing. Last night, we thought it was his new laptop (which he got up and working yesterday after work), but my laptop is doing it, too. Cordelia hasn’t said anything, so I don’t know if she’s having trouble.
The current plan is for Scott to shower and then get out the door as fast as he can to catch a showing of The Force Awakens. He has to be be back here by 3:00 because that’s when Cordelia’s friend will arrive to help decorate our tree. We’ll have two hours to do that before her father picks her up again. As it’s not a large tree, an hour to an hour and a half is generally adequate. I think we take more time putting the tree together and getting the lights and other strand decorations on than we do putting everything else on.
I’m going to take one of my remaining hydrocodone at about 2:00 in hopes that that will make wearing a shirt for the time I need to more bearable. After that, I’ll have two left. I want to reserve one for Tuesday afternoon when Cordelia has a dentist appointment. We’ll be out of the house for nearly three hours, and that’s going to be hard if I’m itching horrifically the whole time.
I’m going to email my parents to see if they’re in Michigan yet. My mother’s cell phone doesn’t work reliably, but she’s reluctant to replace it. My step-father doesn’t turn his cell phone on unless he’s expecting a call or wants to make one. They don’t have a landline at the Lawton house yet. I find the combination of these three facts pretty frustrating. I suppose I could call my brother and ask him. He lives close to Lawton, so he’d know if they’ve arrived. I think I’ll call him and email them.
My primary care doctor said that she’s willing to renew my prescriptions that need it without me seeing her first. I saw her last in May or June, and it’s not like I haven’t been seeing doctors in between. I asked her to wait until January to renew the Singulair because we just picked up the last thirty day supply yesterday. If she renews it now, I will only get eleven months out of the prescription instead of twelve. I told her that I would let her know when I needed that (which is really, really easy to do through the patient portal) so that she wouldn’t have to try to remember. I asked her to renew the levothyroxine now because that will run out January 2nd. She just emailed me to say that she sent both prescriptions in. I’m not entirely pleased but whatever. It’s not a major thing.
I slept about seven hours straight through last night. I was surprised when I woke at 8:00 because I usually set my alarm for 5:00 on days when Scott doesn’t set his. That’s so I get up at the right time to take my thyroid medicine. Last night, I was so upset over the grocery thing that I set the wrong alarm, one set for considerably later in the morning. So I got up at 8:00 and took my thyroid medicine then came back to bed and counted minutes until I could get up and have coffee. I tried to go back to sleep, but I was fairly uncomfortable. I just thought it was better than getting out of bed and staring groggily at my laptop while I counted minutes.
I just have to figure out— The patient portal lists me as owing UHS about $3.50 and that as being 60-90 days past due. UHS won’t let me pay that through the patient portal (other parts of the university health system do allow and even encourage this) and hasn’t sent me a bill. I’m not at all sure what they expect me to do. It’s sheer chance that I even know about it, given the lack of a bill. There’s nothing on the UHS website about how to pay bills. That seems like it ought to be there somewhere.
Scott just got back from picking up the groceries. They assured him that they stored all of the perishables properly over night. Given that everything in the order is very, very cold, I’m guessing that they stuck all of the bags in a refrigerator for the duration. The store called us, about 9:00 this morning, to see what had happened. I’m a little peeved because they didn’t use my cell phone even though I specified that as our contact number. I’m also not sure why they didn’t call us last night at 10:00 given that our pick up window was 9:00-10:00 and their posted hours have them open until 11:00.
Our internet is stable enough right now for things like email and loading webpages, but we can’t stream video or music and haven’t been able to since around 10:00 last night. Basically, when we try, the play stops every ten to twenty seconds and buffers for five to thirty seconds. Scott wanted to show me a couple of short videos last night, both under five minutes long. Each of them took ten to fifteen minutes to finish playing. Last night, we thought it was his new laptop (which he got up and working yesterday after work), but my laptop is doing it, too. Cordelia hasn’t said anything, so I don’t know if she’s having trouble.
The current plan is for Scott to shower and then get out the door as fast as he can to catch a showing of The Force Awakens. He has to be be back here by 3:00 because that’s when Cordelia’s friend will arrive to help decorate our tree. We’ll have two hours to do that before her father picks her up again. As it’s not a large tree, an hour to an hour and a half is generally adequate. I think we take more time putting the tree together and getting the lights and other strand decorations on than we do putting everything else on.
I’m going to take one of my remaining hydrocodone at about 2:00 in hopes that that will make wearing a shirt for the time I need to more bearable. After that, I’ll have two left. I want to reserve one for Tuesday afternoon when Cordelia has a dentist appointment. We’ll be out of the house for nearly three hours, and that’s going to be hard if I’m itching horrifically the whole time.
I’m going to email my parents to see if they’re in Michigan yet. My mother’s cell phone doesn’t work reliably, but she’s reluctant to replace it. My step-father doesn’t turn his cell phone on unless he’s expecting a call or wants to make one. They don’t have a landline at the Lawton house yet. I find the combination of these three facts pretty frustrating. I suppose I could call my brother and ask him. He lives close to Lawton, so he’d know if they’ve arrived. I think I’ll call him and email them.
My primary care doctor said that she’s willing to renew my prescriptions that need it without me seeing her first. I saw her last in May or June, and it’s not like I haven’t been seeing doctors in between. I asked her to wait until January to renew the Singulair because we just picked up the last thirty day supply yesterday. If she renews it now, I will only get eleven months out of the prescription instead of twelve. I told her that I would let her know when I needed that (which is really, really easy to do through the patient portal) so that she wouldn’t have to try to remember. I asked her to renew the levothyroxine now because that will run out January 2nd. She just emailed me to say that she sent both prescriptions in. I’m not entirely pleased but whatever. It’s not a major thing.
I slept about seven hours straight through last night. I was surprised when I woke at 8:00 because I usually set my alarm for 5:00 on days when Scott doesn’t set his. That’s so I get up at the right time to take my thyroid medicine. Last night, I was so upset over the grocery thing that I set the wrong alarm, one set for considerably later in the morning. So I got up at 8:00 and took my thyroid medicine then came back to bed and counted minutes until I could get up and have coffee. I tried to go back to sleep, but I was fairly uncomfortable. I just thought it was better than getting out of bed and staring groggily at my laptop while I counted minutes.
I just have to figure out— The patient portal lists me as owing UHS about $3.50 and that as being 60-90 days past due. UHS won’t let me pay that through the patient portal (other parts of the university health system do allow and even encourage this) and hasn’t sent me a bill. I’m not at all sure what they expect me to do. It’s sheer chance that I even know about it, given the lack of a bill. There’s nothing on the UHS website about how to pay bills. That seems like it ought to be there somewhere.
