In Arizona the pharmacist can give all shots. In Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire and
Vermont they cannot do all this, just flu and shingles. Bill called pharmacies in the Boston Area
because we were going to be there for the Temple trip and found out that they
are limited in what they can do, as are the pharmacists in New Hampshire and
Vermont. It got to be a real zoo. We had been shuffled from one building to
another here in Maine just trying to find one that gave shots, and gave the
particular shots. Well. After a long
long time and much frustration, we ended up in one of the first offices we
visited back in December. It seems that
the problem arose over the insurance and we finally figured out that the shot
was going to cost $20.00 each more if we used the insurance than if we just
used cash. We opted for cash. The kicker is that Obama administration
insists that we carry insurance and that on top of Medicare, means that we pay
$200 each for insurance each month but cannot use our insurance just
anywhere. We have Humana insurance and
that is through Walmart and so we have to go to a Walmart installation to get
service…….and we lucked out that Bill found a Physicians Assistant in the
Walmart in Waterville when he went to have his cold/flu symptoms taken care of
over Christmas. We are out of luck in
Arizona – our Walmart there does not offer PA services. So, on Wednesday afternoon we trundled off to
the medical office out along the highway (you’d never find it in a month of
Sundays if you had not been told approximately where it is) and we now have
completed the Hepatitis shot series. The
health delivery system here in Augusta defies reason and logic and the offices
are spread out all over. It costs a
bundle in time, gasoline and energy to get your health needs taken care of.
By the time it was over, I talked Bill into going to the
Olive Garden for dinner – I did not feel like cooking for dinner after this
goose chase we went on.
One of our elders has gone home for treatment of his illness
and a new elder is here – from Guatamala.
How wonderful, he can speak Spanish for the Castillo’s………………..I hope
that this is the beginning of a Spanish Branch here in Augusta.
Today is Thursday – crept up on us again. I was greatly discouraged that we have to
re-do the oversized index books that failed.
I wrote to our supervisor and he wrote back and apparently a whole group
of people received copies of his email and one of them was not happy about the
whole situation at all. The upshot is that our supervisor is coming in 2weeks
to ‘help’ us get it right. The last time
he came he was helping us “get it right with the focusing” and he did a screen
grab and he emailed it off to Salt Lake and it was on the verge of being failed
due to being incorrectly focused – and focusing was what he was trying to
demonstrate to us. I sincerely doubt if
we will ever get this focusing thing correct.
When I ask what exactly are we looking at, I get a different answer each time. I feel like telling them “ Call me when you
can come to a consensus of how and why we focus and what do we use to do
so.” They have a part of the dCam-X
programmed to focus and we are to trust that – yet we are not to trust that –
and we have to do one thing and then another and no one agrees on the
steps that have to be taken and in what
order. After a confusing phone call from
our supervisor today, I just put on my coat and left the building and went
walking around the block. There are
sometimes one has to just walk away from the problem and clear the air etc.
before going back in to tackle the situation.
I just hope that he does not stay with us for 3 or 4 days like he did
the last time.
We had an email from Sara today that all she has to do is a
‘reflection’ whatever that is, and she is done with all her requirements for
her Masters Degree in Library Science.
It has been a long hard haul for her and bless her heart she has pulled
through it with three little people in the house and an ill husband. I have no idea how she did this, but she is
only 31 years old – perhaps that is why.
Tonight is the Chemistry Department Banquet and Sara was hoping to get
her item finished before the evening festivities.
David called up today asking if I could identify some bug
that is eating his plants in the Valley and what should he do about it. I told him to call a greenhouse or some place
like that and they will be able to tell him what the problem is and how to fix
it. I just hope that by the time he gets
whatever is needed to take care of the problem, that the bug has not eaten all
the green plants he has so lovingly put up in his garden.
We moved all the Genealogical Society of Utah stuff off the
desk that Janet is trying to use. She
now has an extra 3 feet of usable space.
Peter is still hot under the collar over her stuff and how she will
probably spread out all over the room and after all it was his room to start
with………………well, he now works on first floor and it is his ‘man cave’ down
there.
During the winter Bill bought me a Begonia. It was a very pretty pink one and it got
severely frost bitten in the car on the way home from the supermarket to the
house………………but now it has three very pretty pink flowers on it. I bought some potting soil and a larger pot for
it to grow in and I novice that we have a volunteer plant making its presence
felt. I did not think that the potting
soil would have some viable seeds in it but I guess it does. A couple of others made their presence felt,
but they soon wilted for one reason or another.
The African Violet is still chugging along. It has some new buds starting to grow.
Congratulations to Sarah, and I love African Violets and begonias, so keep on chugging.
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