Psychotomy

Soooo … when last we heard, I had gotten my psych appt.  Well, thursday before the appt, apparently he had a dr’s appt to go to in the orning, so they had to move all his appts to the afternoon.  I called friday, left a message and told them to call me back at the office with when my appt was going to be.  Apparently they called me ~10am monday …

Anyway, got my scrip, left.  Filled it last week.  Noticed the other day that it’s for the wrong dosage.  so i’m currently on half dosage.  Called the pharmacy today, and they checked and the scrip has the dosage they filled.  and that (understandably, I suppose) ends their interest.  So I called the doc’s office, told them what had happened.  They said hold on, were gone for a loooong time and came back to tell me that doc’s only in on monday’s.  I know that, so moving on.

Then they go again to check my file (seriously?  you didn’t know before that he wasn’t in?  you must be filling in, I’d not expect that was a secret from the receptionist) and tell me that my file says I’m supposed to be on the dosage he wrote.

“Seriously?  I’ve been on Y for six, nine months now”

She acknowledged that the fax’d in scrip from last month was for Y not X, then said they’d leave a note for doc for when he comes in Monday.  She didn’t ask for any information from me, like where to contact me or the pharmacy to send the correction to …

If he weren’t planning on retiring, I’d be more inclined to report him to the state board.  As it is, looking at it, it seems kindof rude to nail him to the wall when he’s retiring.

Of course, that’s if he’s really retiring.  He’s taking a three-month sabbatical to visit family out of country (“while some of them remain”), and when he gets back he might, or might not, retire.  :o

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So, after the Disney trip I quit drinking caffeinated sodas.  Don’t get me wrong, that means I’ve been drinking 2 or 3 root beers a day, but that’s way down from 6-8 diet sodas.  One problem at a time.  Thanksgiving week was my third week off; I made sure to start early enough that I wasn’t in early withdrawal for the drive :o

At kiir’s grandmother’s xmas part, I had a headache, so i had my first caffeinated drink.  No one had excedrin, which is what I usually take, which has caffeine in it.  So aspirin and a coke, very similiar.

One day at the office I had tried my cherry coke zero, and discovered that I HATE cherry coke.  OMG.  put the rest of the pack (only about 4 cans) in the shared kitchen.  They vanished, so someone must’ve taken them.

Yesterday DK brought me a pair of diet dr peppers.  Which was always funny, and usually timely, when he used to do it occasionally.  This morning I had a headache again, so I opened one up.  It turns out I can’t stand aspartame.  Doesn’t just have a bad aftertaste, the actual taste was pretty foul.  At least, I presume it’s the aspartame.  Kindof a nuisance if I suddenly don’t like DrP anymore either :o

Vanilla Coke tasted a little funny, but I don’t know that wasn’t just the aftertaste from the diet doc.  It wasn’t so bad I couldn’t drink it, which was an improvement at any rate.

Apparently in my pursuit for constant caffeine, I drank things I really don’t like :o  At least I never stooped to coffee!

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So, it’s been two weeks, and I just did my test.  45 situps today, waaay up from 15!!!  This week I determined that I wasn’t doing them quite right, I think I was lifting myself too far and using the wrong muscle groups :/

Friday’s situps were also done with the assistance of DK and Pi.  She’d crawl around my legs and occasionally stand using my stomach or arms for support.  It gets hard to do situps when you have to keep your arms from moving :o  DK spent one iteration sitting on my upper chest.  In case I needed more resistance than my own body weight :o  He spent two others sitting on my stomach.  The first iteration he kept trying to help me up, since I was obviously having trouble with it :o

Haven’t been doing squats, having enough trouble remembering to keep the situps in the loop.  May do squats after situps, although i plan to try keeping situps in a regular routine.  They’ve almost gotta be good for my health, weight, back, or whatever :o

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So, still only 15 situps, but watching Kiir hammer out 45, I noticed her breathing.  I’m not sure I was breathing.  I’m pretty confident I wasn’t breathing PROPERLY :o

So I may try one more time tonight and start tomorrow without the 24-48 pause.  Of course, every two weeks they have a test, so I’m not sure how you do 3 days and a test with 24 between any two …

OTOH, I threw up 60 squats when I tried last night.  I think I could have done more, but I needed to do something else and had to stop :o

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OK, so, I’m back up to needing a 40 waist from a 38, and I seem to have tipped over 210 again :/

So, it’s time to start working on my weight again.    Bonus, Kiir’s family is doing a 5k next fall that Grandpa’s Rotary club is dedicating to his memory.

So I decided to look up the “couch to 5k” site.  Then I realized that i don’t really have the option of going out and running for half an hour to an hour each evening.

That led me back to the 100 pushups site that our guild had started working at (I believe we all dropped out by week 3 due to missing our workouts).  But that didn’t work last time, because DK climbs up on my back because we’re obviously doing rides.  K stands under my head to see what I’m looking at.  And I imagine Pi would now come over and use my legs to stand so that whenever I move she falls down :o

So I followed links from there to 200 situps and 200 squats.  And I decided that situps I can probably do.  DK will sit on my stomach, so my abs will get a bit more workout.  K will either stand by my head and watch or just ignore me completely since I’m just laying there.  And Pi will probably use my legs still, but now they aren’t moving.

Added bonus?  My stomach is the (duh) biggest weight issue AFAICT, so this will help work the right muscle group to hopefully tone it down some.

I might add the squats in on alternate days and do both things  They’re both 6-week “programs”, and they both suggest a day off between steps (MWF basically) to let the muscles rest.  But I believe squats and situps would be different muscle groups anyway :)

Currently, when I did the initial test, I can do 15 sit-ups in a row before my abs start hurting too much to pull another off.  Not so hot :/  Better than the 5 I was expecting though :o  Will try again Friday or Saturday, for a second data-point and to validate the initial.  And Monday, 7 Dec 2009, I’ll start working on the 6-weeks situps :o

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Lately, DK has taken to shaking my hand occasionally and telling me that it’s nice to meet me.  “Nice to meet you!”

Last night at Costco he was on Kiir’s back in the carrier, having been taking a nap.  He was awake by now, just still in the carrier, and he turns to me and puts out his hand.  I give him mine, he shakes it, and says “Nice to meet me!”

The pleasure is all mine! :o

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So, as previously mentioned, my psych is only in one day a week.

Well, luckily, he was willing to fax the scrip to a pharmacy near where I was in Georgia, so I actually got my pills.  When the pharmacy told me (I was calling every couple hours, then calling the psych to poke) they had the scrip, my response was “Really?  Seriously?  Oh, uh”  I was not expecting to actually get my meds :o

OTOH, I called today to make an appointment, having decided to go to work monday instead of spending the whole day for an “emergency appointment” to get a script that I need a week prior (and already got).  Turns out that cost me 40$ for not going :/  Appt is only 50!  Well, trying to get an appt, I learned more.

Man’s last appointment is at 12:30 or so.  He leave at 1pm.  9am to 1pm, one day a week?  Man’s retired, QUIT TELLING PATIENTS THAT HE’S THE DOCTOR!!!

Oi.  NTS, tomorrow — look for and pre-book new psych :o

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So, as I’ve mentioned before, I have some issues with my psychiatrist.

Of course, both times now it’s been partially my fault.  Last time I forgot to take my pills with me.  This time I thought my meds had 1 refill left.  I swear I checked that, but apparently I did it POORLY.  Anyway, last night I call in my scrip for a refill and find out that I have none left (check bottle, well hell).  They’ll contact the doc in the AM for approval for an added refill.

This morning the Dr’s calls the house, so I call them back.  They can’t authorize the refill without a followup scheduled, so I schedule a followup.  “I have an opening on the 23rd” “I leave for vacation before that”  “Oh, how about the 24th?”

Finally schedule a followup, and she’ll give the forms to the doc and he can approve them when he gets back.  “He’s only in on monday’s, so that would be the 23rd” “I’m out of town already” (this sounds familiar) “You could try asking the pharmacy if they’d give you some pills” duh?  hello?  that’s why they called you?

And seriously?  man’s only in one day a week?  wtf?  Nice work if you can get it!  OI!  But they can’t give it to one of the other doctors (that’s there 5 days a week) because the docs don’t like to do that.  Seriously?  He’s going to say yes anyway, and the other doc can’t figure out how to read a file to verify something?

UGH!  Now I’m hoping I can find something from a previous scrip to take with me.  Because I’m just not sure that a week without my pills would be good.

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On our drive back from Disney World earlier this week, we stopped at a rest area around dusk on Monday I guess.  While I took Pi out of the car, Kiir threw away some trash, and some fries that DK didn’t want (he wasn’t feeling well).

Then I decided I’d sit in the car with them while Pi ate.  Because the shape in the parking lot had decided to come towards us.  Someone had abandoned their dog :(  Looked like she probably had puppies not that long ago, either :(

She came over and sat by the driver’s door just looking at me sad and solemn.  I can totally see why people pick up strays, she was so dejected.  Given that we weren’t that close to anywhere, I’m guessing they drove out there to ditch her so she couldn’t find her way home again.  Assholes.

I’d've given her something to eat, but the only thing we really had were the fries we’d just tossed.  I didn’t thik a coke was what she was looking for :/

How can people live with themselves after doing something like that???  *shudder*

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I know what I said in the last post, but … Shamera really IS hot on the cover here ;o

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