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Good news from the quack.

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In other news, the Teacher and I had an impromptu Derby party yesterday, which went very well. We had some of her friends and some of my friends, and heaps of very Kentuckyish food were made and eaten (with gusto), conversations were had, horses raced, and mint juleps were drunk.

Today we went out and had a very late brunch (partly because we slept late and partly because it was Mother's Day, so it took an hour to get a table). It was a lovely day, so we hung out. I had started reading her part of Winnie the Pooh earlier, so she got The Graveyard Book at Borders and read me part of a chapter. We tried to pick up her new bike and to get me a haircut, but all the shops were closed. We went to two open houses on the way home, deciding we didn't like the 5 (or was it 6?) bedroom colonial (nice house, but way too big for us) but that we really liked the early-20th century Sears Craftsman house we saw later.

She's working on lesson plans. I'm typing this entry :-) and may then have a short nap (!) or read until it's time for dinner.

A nice weekend, on the whole. :-)

The CVS pharmacy that was filling my doctor's prescriptions for me insisted on refilling them automatically on their own schedule, nothing to do with how fast I used the medicine.

(This is the same place that, when I actually did want something filled--the blood-testing gear--put it back on the shelf after pulling it and calling to say it was available and then tried to sell me two refills I hadn't asked for when I turned up to collect the blood kit.)

I went into the store and asked them to stop the auto refills...and got a call the next day from their phone robot telling me that one refill was ready. I called and told them again to stop refilling them automatically and walked a very sympathetic young woman through the process of deleting the autofill from each prescription.

Then a few days later I got another call telling me a prescription had been refilled. By this point I was refusing to purchase them (having a double supply of everything I take), but I was so annoyed I called my doctor's office and asked them to take CVS off my record and add a different pharmacy (the one where I get the cat's prescriptions filled :-) They took down the information and promised to do it.

Today I called to get Busby's meds refilled and asked to make sure they had my record if I needed to get refills. They said no, they had no record of any meds for me. I called the doctor's office, and they said the only way they could actually send those records to the other pharmacy was if I had them refilled. I said, disbelieving, "You can't just send them the prescription and ask them to keep it on file?" "No, sir, we have no way of doing that."

So now I have to get another refill, even though I don't need it, if I want to have the prescription on file with the new pharmacy.

Stupid fucking waste of time and money.  Oh, and I got another call from CVS yesterday, and the doctor's office confirms that CVS refilled one of my prescriptions last week, even though it's been several weeks since I called the doctor's office and told them to stop authorizing refills at CVS. Morons.

The test results came back from the polyps they took out during the colonoscopy: hyperplastic polyps, benign, not precancerous. Follow up recommended in five years.

Back home; A. is making a a tasty dinner/tea (roast chicken, asparagus risotto). The procedure went fine. They found two small polyps that they're going to test and get back to me about, and I should do it agian in 3-5 years.

FOOD! YAY! :-)

Well, the stress test was fine. ( Read more... )