Wednesday Work

I had to take Mr. M to the hospital imaging department today. While he was busy, a hospital volunteer came by with her therapy dog. It is a teacup Yorkshire Terrier--weighs 4 pounds. She is 7 years old--only has three teeth, which is why her tongue is hanging out.

We left for the hospital at 8:30--had to register--and wait. Got done--went to Cracker Barrel for lunch--then to Walmart for milk for Mr. M and a few things I forgot to get for our trip. After that we stopped and had his truck washed and waxed. Stopped at the pharmacy for a prescription that hadn't been ready the other day--got home in time for the 2:00 medicine.

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.

Work Update

Friday, Mr. M and I left about noon and went to Cracker Barrel for lunch. Then to Walmart to pick up a few things. Mr. M had a Dr. appointment at 3:00--we left the Dr. office and stopped at the pharmacy then went home. I did the usual medicine reminders and eye drops.

Sabbath, Mr. M did his own eye drops at 8:00 and noon, but asked me to do the 4:00 and 8:00 drops. I did the usual medicine reminders.

Today, I went to Mr. M's to do some cleaning. I swept and mopped the floors, scooped the litterboxes, cleaned out the fridge, took out the trash, did the dishes, wiped counters--also balanced his checkbook. I went home and cooked lunch--fixed Mr. M a plate and took it to him and did his eye drops. I called him at 2:00 and 4:00 with medicine reminders. About 4:30, I went to his house to pick him up for supper. We went to Cracker Barrel --then Walmart. We got home at 8:00--just in time for his last medicine.

More Geocaching

The cache by the side of the road.

A cache at Historic Rock Castle.

A Wal-mart cache.

T was able to find three more caches yesterday. The first was by the side of a road a couple miles from home. The second was at the entry to Rock Castle. A pine tree behind Wal-mart was hiding the last one he found.

All work, no play

At 7:10 this morning, Mr. M called to see if I had called him at 7:00 to wake him up (I was going to call him at 7:30). I called his doctor's office at 8:00 to see if we could move his first appointment up a bit so we wouldn't be pushed to make each appointment (he had three scheduled today). I called Mr. M back a few minutes after 8:00 to remind him to take his medicine and let him know that the first appointment had been changed to 10:30.



At 9:15, I went to Mr. M's house to load his walker into the pickup--checked his morning medicine and found that he hadn't taken it yet, so had him take it--put his 2:00 medicine in my purse since we wouldn't be home by then--fed the cats--gave Pepper her medicine--left for the Dr. about 9:30.



Arrived at the Dr. about 10:15--let Mr. M out at the front door--unloaded his walker--parked in the parking garage--went inside and met Mr. M.--went to the third floor to the Dr.--finished the first appointment (including a trip to the lab for a blood draw) at about 11:30.



Next appointment was at 12:45--decided to eat in the hospital cafeteria since there wasn't time to drive to Cracker Barrel and back (and eat) before the next appointment.



Went back up to the third floor for the next appointment at about 12:30--finished that appointment by about 1:45.



Returned to the first floor--went past the cafeteria to our third appointment--got there a bit before 2:00 for a 2:30 appointment--gave Mr. M his 2:00 medicine--didn't have to wait long--left at 2:20.



From there we went to Wal-mart--Mr. M was tired so I went in and got a few groceries for each of us--left Wal-mart about 3:30. Arrived at Mr. M's about 4:15--carried in his groceries and put them away--collected his pill cups to refill--Mr. M said he wanted me to take him to the restaurant in town for supper.



Got home--called the pharmacy for refills--filled the pill cups--checked e-mail--said "hello" and "good-bye" to family (T was off to piano lesson and Pathfinders with his dad). I went back to Mr. M's--brought in his mail--put his pill cups on his desk--fed the cats--gave Pepper her medicine--took out the trash (all while waiting for him to change his clothes)--then took him to the restaurant.



I dropped him off after supper at about 6:50--went home and did Algebra homework (test on Thursday night--still much homework and studying to be done) until 8:00 when I called Mr. M to remind him to take his night time pills.