Middle America's Worldview

This evening I am tired. I really don't understand why I am so tired, but I am.

Sunday we went to church and then over to Kelli's parents house to help them finish the hall. They had painted it, but we put down the flooring. It took long enough,but I can't complain too much, they fed us lunch. heh heh. At least were able to get that far for them, regardless if it took the rest of the day.

Monday was another Murphy day. It could be worse, but why does it always seem so blasted busy? I was on support today, my one day for this week. Thank God. And it actually wasnt a bad day of support. I am also on-call this week, so here is crossing my fingers while typing for a quite week.

My mother was released from the hospital today. My wife was able to make arrangments and leave her work to take her home and run by Walgreens to drop off the scripts. But get this. The doctor wrote the script incorrectly. So here is Kelli taking off work, trying to get the scripts and my mom home around 10:00 a.m. . One of the two scripts was wrong. Walgreens makes the call to the Doc's office. They wait. I called 15 minutes later to see if they fixed it yet, while my wife runs some errands in town (staying in Fort Smith). Nope, so I called my wife back updating her and then called Walgreens back in 45 minutes. No go in 15 minutes, but they gave me the doctors office number. I made that call and low behold the lady answering the phone didn't have a clue and I could call back at 1 p.m. ( its 12:40 p.m. ). "One o'clock? where is the doctor?" "In surgery" she replied. "Do you have any notes on the call from Walgreens?" "no" "Do you have any notation whatsoever in the chart? Or is there anyone there that can get this corrected?" She sighed and said she can make a notation for them to call me when they get back. I can only assume 'they' were at lunch. I called back at 1:30 p.m. and spoke to first the lady I left a message with then with the nurse that was gone. I gave her the spill and she said she would call Walgreens. She called me back in 10 minutes to explain the doctor rarely orders that kindof med and that's why he had the wrong milligrams in it. But with this kindof med she could not order it on the phone, nor by fax. I had to hand deliver another script to the pharmacy. ( Yes you druggies, its one of those good kinds ) By this time, Kelli was at home and its nearly 2 p.m.. She tried to go into a reason of the delay, because I basically told her it was a shame due to my mom being discharged and now the correct script was written. But you know how it goes, one said they called and was waiting the other said, I didn't get the message till late, yada yada.
Anyway, I took off to grab the script, then took it to the pharmacy. Since that was going to take 20 minutes, i headed to the library to drop off 'Sleeping with the Devil' by Robert Baer. A book I highly recommend. I then grabbed the medicine, took it to my mom's house, dropped off a storage payment for her on the way back home and then hit the work again. During this little outage, my wife had to pick up our kids, the neighbor kid (she asked last night) and our lovely friends kid again. Dropped them off in their respective places, took our kids to the Chiropracter, speech therapy and finally home. Great Scott.

I will have to say while I was at the library, I happened to run across a friend of mine I use to work with long ago. She suggested the book 'Why America Slept' by Gerald Posner. I went ahead and checked it out as well as 'The Interrogators' by Chris Mackey an Greg Miller. She is a full blown Democrat and very smart. We know where each of us are on our viewpoints and chide each other when we can. She told me she was still kindof split on her decision for Nov. 2nd. I was a bit surprised. As we spoke, she couldn't really stand on her Democrat candidate. I won't go into the discussion but just wanted to note even only 36 days left before the vote, some people seem to not had made up there mind, yet. Or they have hesitation to say.

Oh one more thing, the library had 'Unfit for Command.' The book I wanted to get. It was out but I was able to reserve it.