Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 2:00 p.m. For the last 5 months, the right hearing aid has been unreliable. That is, I never know when it might stopping syncing with my cell phone. But, most of the time, re-booting my cell phone fixed it. And, if that didn’t, then charging the hearing aids overnight (and re-booting…
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Annual Physical 2019
Monday, November 11, 2019, 2:00 p.m. I wondered fleetingly if my appointment was valid, being on a national holiday and all. It was. We just didn’t get any mail today. It has been 15 months since my first annual physical with Dr. Prabaharan. Last August, on the same day I was first approved for Medical…
Individual Therapy #4
Monday, November 4, 2019, 1:30 p.m. Today’s weather was perfect! Sunny, but not too hot, and cool in the shade but not chilled. I’m fairly confident about finding a parking place in the front lot, but still leaving enough time to walk in to the hospital from the van if I should happen to have…
Group Acupuncture 2019, #8
Friday, November 1, 2019, 3:30 p.m. The traffic was light this Friday afternoon and I got to the Acupuncture clinic earlier than usual. I had enough time to schedule my next appointment and then even waited a few minutes before the Medical Assistant was ready to check us in to the room. The group today…
Group Acupuncture 2019, #7
Friday, October 4, 2019, 3:30 p.m. Today’s group acupuncture session was quite routine. When the medical assistant asked me for my pain level today, I said, “About five.” Again, I got there just in time and for a long time thought I was the last one until another person came in after me. There were…
Pain Physical Therapy #13
Friday, September 27, 3:30 p.m. Francis left me a voicemail saying that he would have to move my 3 o’clock appointment to 3:30. No problem. It gave us an extra half hour at home before leaving. We got to the Union City Kaiser facility at 3:21 p.m. and I didn’t wait more than 5 minutes…
Pharmacy Phantasies
September 13, 2019 9/13/19 – Yay for generic Lyrica! Pregabalin is now available at Kaiser! I logged on to My Pharmacy on Sunday evening, September 8, 2019, to order my Lyrica refill, since I had received hard copies of the letter stating that my Medical Financial Assistance re-application has been approved! However, when I got…
Lab Tests, Fall 2019
September 9, 2019 [Email sent to Dr. Prabaharan on 9/3/19] I got a message from your office letting me know that I need to come to the lab for my 6-month A1C test. Which I will do. I would like to know if you could order a TSH (or T3,T4) as I am having symptoms…
Group Acupuncture 2019, #6
Friday, September 6, 2019, 3:30 p.m. I woke up this morning with a migraine and I don’t know why! However, I do know that sumatriptan plus 2 Aleve will knock it out and an ice pack on the left side of my head feels pretty good while I’m waiting for the drugs to kick in….
Bi-annual Mammogram
September 5, 2019, 3:15 p.m. I got a voicemail over last weekend from Kaiser Radiology informing me that I was due for a mammogram. Well, she just said a “radiology test” but I knew which test that was. So I returned the call on Tuesday, September 3, since Monday was the Labor Day holiday. I…