If I was still healthy and teaching, today I would have participated in a GIS workshop with 9-12 year olds from around the region.\u00a0 I and other CWU folks (including, in my case, students, graduates, and a mom of a graduate) host the visitors in a program called Expanding Your Horizons.\u00a0 It is to introduce \u201cscience\u201d to these kids by having them participate in what we do at the university.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great program that I have participated in for many years (even back to being involved at the University of Idaho before coming here in 1988.\u00a0 That I choose to tell you about it says that I missed doing it.<\/p>\n
It was a wonderful night and I slept well.\u00a0 My appetite is not the best though, and that is causing concern, especially to John who, when he fixes it, has to eat what I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Breakfast and lunch were late, but John was working much of the day on the newsletter he puts together for our Kittitas Valley Trail Riders group.\u00a0 Their meeting is next Thursday night at 7:00.<\/p>\n
This was supposed to be a non-eventful day; however, we still had to deal with crazy paperwork things.\u00a0 Problems of the day meant writing correspondence to insurance companies and\u00a0 Friday\u2019s mail brought additional misunderstandings from Medicare, the State Health Board, and my primary provider of insurance.\u00a0 Referral for physical therapy was approved at the wrong facility.\u00a0 The first time we can straighten this out will be Monday morning.\u00a0 One agency has different dates for our marriage. How that happened we cannot understand.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know if we have to prove this or just state the date (July 12, 1969), which neither of us would have filled in wrong on a form.\u00a0 What a mess is all the paperwork associated with health care. We sure hope someone thinks of a way to simplify this but that doesn\u2019t seem likely.<\/p>\n
John also had to go to town to mail the newsletters and while there picked up the correct Iron Supplement I was supposed to be taking. The system somehow spit out 27 mg rather than the 325 mg the doctor wanted me to have.\u00a0 John caught the under dosage by comparing notes and pill bottles \u2013 explained his find to the doctor \u2013 and now it is fixed.\u00a0 Moral: check everything.\u00a0 So, I have had an under dose for the past week, for my anemia.\u00a0 It\u2019s no wonder I\u2019m anemic with all the frequent tests and their demand for blood.\u00a0 One young cute female tech told John it only looks like a lot but isn\u2019t \u2013 and he believed her!<\/p>\n
I continue to try to catch up on all the emails that came to me — and John saved. Thanks to all of you who were supportive all those many weeks and continue to call and check up on me.\u00a0 While I was in Yakima and EBRG my cell phone worked well, but not now from home. The best telephone line to use now is the land line (509-925-3304) because our cell phones don\u2019t work well in most of the house.\u00a0 The nearest tower is about 12 miles away through most of the house and the trees to the south. \u00a0Our best reception is in the middle of our 7-acre pasture, but that is uncomfortable in bad weather and won\u2019t do for me now. \u00a0Standing by the window in a storage room on the correct side of the house often works and often doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
After John bought his first cell phone in December he got a letter from AT&T from a vice president saying how much they loved him and how willing to serve him they were.\u00a0 So he wrote back with a few comments, including a suggestion of a small hill in our neighborhood where they could place a tower.\u00a0 The letter was returned as undeliverable.\u00a0 Either the address or the man or both are bogus.\u00a0 Go figure!<\/p>\n
Carry on and we\u2019ll talk soon.<\/p>\n
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