Another Long Day

I called Mr. M at 6:30 this morning so he could be ready to leave at 8:30 for a 9:30 doctor appointment.

We went to the doctor--had a good report.

I looked at Mr. M's eyes while we were waiting for the doctor--they looked worse. We stopped at the registration desk to see if he could be worked in with his primary care doctor. We could--we were. His primary care doctor referred Mr. M to an eye doctor in town--made the appointment for 3:00.

We decided to go to lunch--at Cracker Barrel. Then we went to Walmart to kill some time--and bought some stuff. Then, off to Lowe's garden center to look at plants--Mr. M bought some Pampas Grass. We still had an hour till the appointment, but decided to go ahead and go to the eye doctor's office--maybe they would call us in early if we were there.

We got to the eye doctors' office--filled out new patient paperwork--sat and watched TV for a while--finally got to see the doctor--a little early. She said it looked allergy related--gave him some different eye drops (to be given every 2 hrs. today and tomorrow--then 4x daily for a week--then 2x daily for a week).

The next stop was the pharmacy to fill the eye drop prescription--a stop at the gas station to fill up--then home. Carried in Mr. M's things from Walmart--put away the cold food--put the drops in his eyes. I came home and ate supper--filled his pill box for the next week--called at 6:30 to remind him about the drops and went to his house to deliver the filled pill box and do the eye drops.

I'll be calling him again at 8:00 for regular medicine reminder and again at 8:30 for an eye drop reminder.