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More tolerance issues aka * Am I OK ?*
Well I went to the doc today and they had my letter of approval for the PAP from procrit and the nurse told me just to take it to the pharmacy and they would fill the Rx.
Soooo, I go the pharmacy 'to get mah...prescripshun feeeiiiiiled' and I was standing in line, with Mr. Jimmy... '
I give the approval letter to the pharmacy tech and she says, 'I can't fill this, I don't have an Rx from your doctor.'
To which I reply, 'His fax # is there at the bottom, if you fax him this with a request, he'll send you a Rx.'
Man she didn't like that. She leaves and sends over another tech and she says, 'We don't do that.'
And the chorus breaks out.... 'No You CAN'T... ALWAYS GET... WHAT YOU WANT !!!!
Well this just pissed me off to no end. Not having to wait but just the attitude of these people. All she had to do was dial 7 numbers on a fax machine. How hard is THAT ? So I take my letter and head out the door, get home, call the pharmacies corporate office and they tell me, 'Give us your dr's name and number, your Rx will be there this afternoon.'
More Chorus: 'But if you try sometime you just might find...You just might find....THAT YOU GET WHAT YOU NEEEED !!!'
Soooo, I go the pharmacy 'to get mah...prescripshun feeeiiiiiled' and I was standing in line, with Mr. Jimmy... '
I give the approval letter to the pharmacy tech and she says, 'I can't fill this, I don't have an Rx from your doctor.'
To which I reply, 'His fax # is there at the bottom, if you fax him this with a request, he'll send you a Rx.'
Man she didn't like that. She leaves and sends over another tech and she says, 'We don't do that.'
And the chorus breaks out.... 'No You CAN'T... ALWAYS GET... WHAT YOU WANT !!!!
Well this just pissed me off to no end. Not having to wait but just the attitude of these people. All she had to do was dial 7 numbers on a fax machine. How hard is THAT ? So I take my letter and head out the door, get home, call the pharmacies corporate office and they tell me, 'Give us your dr's name and number, your Rx will be there this afternoon.'
More Chorus: 'But if you try sometime you just might find...You just might find....THAT YOU GET WHAT YOU NEEEED !!!'
My 3 granddaughters were so adorable. We brought some great gifts I bought online and they rolled around and laughed and had an incredible time! It made my time with them so special! I have a hard time going over there b/c of the PTSD incident is very near there house (and the energy level)....but it makes me realize how special time spent with family is. I don't want to miss anymore time with them. If I have to be taken to see them, I need to do it. It is only my fault I havent' been there. It was so special!!! I woke up dreaming about talking on the phone with Kalio about all this stuff. John say, "you have so little energy, you dream about talking on the phone?" Yep! At least I am still dreaming....and am happy to be here! Is'nt it a special time to be and think about family?
You are so funny. You almost make me feel normal. You are so kind and sweet, feeling like **** for so long can really lower the patience level. I have no excuse but my irritability has a very low threshhold.Take care and hope you enjoy the g-kids this weekend.
Janice
Janice
Yeah, I doubt that tai chi book will do much good in the baggy. But that baggy could come in handy at the airport! I went to lunch with my stepdaughter today, got so angry and someone who wasn't even there that I had to excuse myself and go out and curse for a while. I'm a dangerous person, but at least I know it and try to keep myself outta the way. Maybe a cage in the car that only releases when the adrenaline goes down...
ha ha - that's funnny.
I am considering taking a tai chi class - one starts around here in a month or so. It is good for balance too. Too a class a few years ago, but if you don't keep with it it all goes away......
I am considering taking a tai chi class - one starts around here in a month or so. It is good for balance too. Too a class a few years ago, but if you don't keep with it it all goes away......
On the box it says:
Improve Concentration and Focus Your Mind
Meet Day to Day Challenges While Remaining Calm and Relaxed
LOL !!! So far it hasn't worked for s*it !!
Improve Concentration and Focus Your Mind
Meet Day to Day Challenges While Remaining Calm and Relaxed
LOL !!! So far it hasn't worked for s*it !!
I'm cleaning up around the house so I'll have a clean house when I return from the holidays and I find this plastic bag from the local book store and I'm thinking, 'What the hell is this ?' It's a set of DVD's and a book on tai-chi. I figured I would start that as a sort of exercise program while on the tx. The date of the receipt is Sep 9th. Typical.
Hang in there. You're a real trooper! I can't imagine what it must be like... to be doing this medicine every single day and experiencing the sides and the red tongue (I've heard that can get painful -so I hope it won't with you, or that if it does - you'll just keep pluggin on through) But yeah... it can create "tolerance" issues for SURE! I was embarrassed to talk to my doc because I knew that HE knew I had finally let someone at Duke "hold it" (I was pi***ed, rightfully so, but not at my doc, but at his lovely research coordinator -lol!) I'm getting ready to start soon. Last time (3 1/2 years ago), I lasted all of three weeks, and that entire time and for about a month or more after they had pulled me, I felt like I was living in doctors office, or at the lab, or at the pharmacy, or at the dentist, or at the hematologist, or at the this, at the that, and BLAHHHH -- I felt like camping out in my car because they had me going every d*** where. I was one ill woman back then (literally, ill as in sick and ill as in "gonna bite someone's head off today I think" :)
Hang in there!
Hang in there!
Ha! Your son certainly has you figured out! That sounds like my jekyll and hyde personality lately. My husband will call me at work and the minute I can get out of earshot of the others I start griping cause he's calling me and I'm S-O-O-O busy. And here he's just worrying about how I feel. I think he finds out real quick! I feel B****y! Just waiting for someone I can safely take it out on.
Bug
Bug
The pharmacist called me yesterday and told me 'Yeah, she should have just called your doctor. I talked to her about it.' Thing is, now I don't want to go in there because I'm gonna be that 'bad man'. I kinda feel embarrassed about it. I just told the pharmacist, 'I really don't have much in the way of frustration tolerance right now. I really wasn't that mad, I just needed to get out of there before it got worse.' I'm going to pick up my procrit when I get back from the holidays. I'm at 9.4 so it's not critical at this point but it did go down a full point in a little over a month so I probably need to get started before it really takes a dive here the next few weeks.
My phone was just ringin' off the hook yesterday. First my primary doc called about my blood work then my liver doc called and left a message to call about my blood work and I JUST saw him Wednesday and he didn't really say anything that was alarming. I of course was stone cold asleep as Wed is shot night and I basically have the hours of a vampire right now anyway. I have about a 2 hour window per day in which to interact with the rest of the world. 8-9AM and 4-5PM.
Anyway, it seems my glucose levels were really high which doesn't surprise me since I eat more junk food these days than I probably ever had before. So, back to watching the diet. I really don't want to come out of this diabetic.
On a lighter, yet equally as interesting note, I noticed today that my mouth was really sore so I go into the bathroom to check myself out in the mirror and it threw me for a loop. I have a lizards tongue. Don't know if I've ever seen anything quite like that. Hmmmm....31 weeks left. This could get interesting in a few months.
My skin is another story all together. Don't even want to talk about THAT.
I'll say one thing about Interferon/Ribaviron. Most drugs list possible side effects in their inserts and you pay it no mind like 'yeah yeah yeah'. With Interferon/Riba.....they MEAN IT !!! It's more of a checklist, than a warning.
So, tomorrow or rather, today, I have to somehow make my way up to Dallas for the holidays and try and do so without an arrival time of 3:00AM, waking everyone up.
Everyone have a merry Christmas and safe journey if you are traveling.
Peace
My phone was just ringin' off the hook yesterday. First my primary doc called about my blood work then my liver doc called and left a message to call about my blood work and I JUST saw him Wednesday and he didn't really say anything that was alarming. I of course was stone cold asleep as Wed is shot night and I basically have the hours of a vampire right now anyway. I have about a 2 hour window per day in which to interact with the rest of the world. 8-9AM and 4-5PM.
Anyway, it seems my glucose levels were really high which doesn't surprise me since I eat more junk food these days than I probably ever had before. So, back to watching the diet. I really don't want to come out of this diabetic.
On a lighter, yet equally as interesting note, I noticed today that my mouth was really sore so I go into the bathroom to check myself out in the mirror and it threw me for a loop. I have a lizards tongue. Don't know if I've ever seen anything quite like that. Hmmmm....31 weeks left. This could get interesting in a few months.
My skin is another story all together. Don't even want to talk about THAT.
I'll say one thing about Interferon/Ribaviron. Most drugs list possible side effects in their inserts and you pay it no mind like 'yeah yeah yeah'. With Interferon/Riba.....they MEAN IT !!! It's more of a checklist, than a warning.
So, tomorrow or rather, today, I have to somehow make my way up to Dallas for the holidays and try and do so without an arrival time of 3:00AM, waking everyone up.
Everyone have a merry Christmas and safe journey if you are traveling.
Peace
HAHAHAHA! That was funny!! (the part.... "to get mah prescripshun feeeiiiiiled'"
Don't you just love jerks with nothing better to do than see how miserable they can make your day.
Glad you got results! I had tolerance issues the past few days ago waiting (for days) to get a call back from my doc's PA or him or someone, and my "tone" around the house had gotten b**** sounding. Well, I KNEW I had to adjust that angry tone and be careful about the way I answered the phone in case it was the doc. Well, my son called, and I answered "hello" (all calm and nice-sounding) and son said "you must still be waiting for the doc to call cuz you sure sound real nice right now".
Don't you just love jerks with nothing better to do than see how miserable they can make your day.
Glad you got results! I had tolerance issues the past few days ago waiting (for days) to get a call back from my doc's PA or him or someone, and my "tone" around the house had gotten b**** sounding. Well, I KNEW I had to adjust that angry tone and be careful about the way I answered the phone in case it was the doc. Well, my son called, and I answered "hello" (all calm and nice-sounding) and son said "you must still be waiting for the doc to call cuz you sure sound real nice right now".
It izzz amazing, isn't it??? having to deal with some people is enough to make you jump out of your skin.
does anyone do there job "correctly today?" or care about how there job is done?NO,,,this country has gone down the tubes,,,people just don't want to lift a finger for you and DO WHAT THEY ARE GETTING PAID TO DO!!
the way you told your story was funnnnnny though,,even though it wasn't funny at the time.
APKhaos: that was funny, liked that!
does anyone do there job "correctly today?" or care about how there job is done?NO,,,this country has gone down the tubes,,,people just don't want to lift a finger for you and DO WHAT THEY ARE GETTING PAID TO DO!!
the way you told your story was funnnnnny though,,even though it wasn't funny at the time.
APKhaos: that was funny, liked that!
Ihorn said, 'to get mah...prescripshun feeeiiiiiled' and I was standing in line, with Mr. Jimmy... '
So here's a new word for you, straight from the Washington Post's annual Mensa Invitational, which challenges people to create a new word and definition by changing one letter of an existing word.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
They even have one for us Heppers [close enough, anyway]:
10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
So here's a new word for you, straight from the Washington Post's annual Mensa Invitational, which challenges people to create a new word and definition by changing one letter of an existing word.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
They even have one for us Heppers [close enough, anyway]:
10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
Thanks for the very descriptive pseudo-musical with the happy ending. You make me laugh. Now I got the song stuck in my head too.
Most pharmacies don't stock Procrit - it used to take mine a day or so to get it in. Not long. But Ihorn - how bad are you? What is your hgb? I hope you get it tomorrow. Remember to let it warm up a bit. It burns a little but helps so much, you won't mind it.
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