Today is my fifth day with my new hearing aids, so I’m still getting used to putting them in and taking them out and discovering what I can hear that I couldn’t hear before. Last night I was hearing all kinds of strange “night noises” both inside the house and outside in the dark. Tonight…
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Thyroid Medication
December 13, 2018, 3:30 p.m. On the night of December 9, I went online to my Pharmacy record to order a refill of my current dosage of levothyroxine since I had not heard from Dr. Prabaharan about changing it. I got a message from the system that this medication could not be mailed; I had…
Hearing Aid Fitting
Thursday, December 13, 2018 I almost missed this appointment because I somehow got it in my head that it was on Friday the 13th! Good thing I checked my Google calendar before bedtime and thus was able to set my alarm clock. 7:30 a.m. came early and I would have much rather slept; but I…
Routine Eye Exams
Optometry/Ophthalmology Before I left Building B (after my acupuncture session last Thursday), I stopped to make an eye exam appointment. The receptionist found my record and said I was also due for a diabetic retinal screening. I told her I thought I had had one year before last, and she told me they are now…
Lab Tests Again
Thursday, December 6, 2018 After my acupuncture appointment today, we drove directly to the San Leandro Kaiser where I got two lab tests: one for TSH which Dr. Prabaharan had ordered three months ago to be done on December 6, and the other one the c-peptide test that I had requested. As I pulled out…
Individual Acupuncture Therapy #8
Thursday, December 6, 2018, 1:30 p.m. I have been having more pain the last two or three weeks and I don’t know why. I do NOT want to increase dosages of my pain medication! Maybe I need more THC. Or more CBD. The Humboldt Apothecary tincture I have is only 8.5 grams twice a day)…
November Gratitudes
I joined a group of new friends (originally from one of the diabetes groups I’m currently in) who invited me to participate in their tradition to post one thing you’re thankful for each day in November in a group called “November Gratitudes.” Seemed harmless enough. And doable. And in spite of various challenges of life,…
Pain Physical Therapy #8
November 19, 2018, 4:00 p.m. Linda and Emily and I had enough time at Olive Garden to enjoy a leisurely lunch and drinks. We stayed as long as we felt it was appropriate, and we still arrived back at Union City Kaiser an hour an a half before my physical therapy appointment. Linda left the…
Hearing Consultation
Monday, November 19, 2018, 11:00 a.m. This is the day when my scheduled appointment at the Hearing Center is to include my “significant other,” as they put it. So by the time we drove to Union City, through holiday traffic, found parking, got out the scooter and put Emily in her leather carrier on the…
Lyrica Request #3
November 18, 2018 Sunday night. I decided to submit a request online for Lyrica, in the hope that someone from the Pain Clinic would see it first thing Monday morning and send an authorization to the San Leandro Pharmacy. I got an automated message that my prescription would be ready for pickup after noon on…