Yesterday we took mom to the doctor and it worked better than we anticipated. One problem was that the medication she had been placed on is out of stock - everywhere. I spent a good part of Sunday afternoon calling pharmacies. The doctor called the pharmacy he uses. None. But his pharmacy suggested a compounding pharmacy. If you don’t know what this is - it is a pharmacy that mixes medications as needed. For example - a child has to take a liquid medication but won’t take cherry flavor medications - they can mix up the same actual medication with a different flavor. In our case they can mix up and make pills for mom of the medication she can’t get - at a price of course, and insurance not accepted. Worth the extra money for her to have medication - plus they delivered it to her today so we did not have to get it and then travel to her to give it to her. We also have an appointment with a specialist for 2 weeks from now and that doctor will be better able to adjust her medications.
Night before last (Monday night) husband printed up the pictures of samplers that I had found for the talk I gave today. I spent last evening putting the photos into plastic holders and printing up information about them - each one had a paper in the back explaining about the picture - and a number for the order they should be in (in case I dropped them). Some had only a descriptive title and date - others had a full page of information. I then had to write up my treasurer’s report and an agenda as I was not sure if I or the secretary was going to run the meeting since neither president or VP would be there. I also printed up a membership list for the membership chair as it is renewal time for our group.
When I finished the talk this morning - which was very well received - I felt so good. I had gotten through the mess of everything one after another by staying calm and getting each day’s work done and preparing the night before where we could. We have another problem coming up with Sunday, but we have ways of working around the problem - and if we know in advance that it is going to rain on Sunday and where we are to go will be canceled - that would resolve the problem.
On my way back from the meeting today I went to the post office and picked up the mail - only one ad, as we did not get to our box yesterday. I then went to the pharmacy and picked up husband’s prescriptions as one has to be refrigerated and we also had to go and buy food that also needed to be kept cold and did not want to have either sit in the car as we bought the other. I then came home and we went out for lunch and shopping.
I had the rest of this afternoon through Saturday to catch up. I went through one of three piles on my desk - scan, enter into computer, to do. I first worked on the paperwork from some new members in our reenactment unit - two of them also joined our national group and now their paperwork is done and ready to be mailed to national.
I paid some bills for us and worked out what money has to be transferred where to pay them. I did some other small tasks that needed to be done. The to do pile is now down to one thing to do.
I normally put out the garbage from the kitchen on Sunday night for Monday morning pickup but did not have a chance to do so. I put it tonight along with our upstairs garbage which would normally go out on Wednesday night (tonight) for Thursday morning pickup.
Husband is finishing up a weaving project and has had a section of the kitchen in use by him, but he moved it all so I could go down to the basement and put in a load of laundry to wash.
I actually feel with all of this as if I accomplished something!
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK -
Tasks in general tend to work out better than one fears in advance. If one goes ahead and does what one needs to do - it is amazing how well it all can go sometimes and then one is done with whatever the original problem was. Go ahead - start the task and see how it goes. Doing nothing is generally not an option and it will probably work out better than you think it will!
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