Got the Echocardiogram completed yesterday. It took an hour to do the test. The man who did it was very kind and gentle. I should have results sometime next week. I was given permission to stop using the heart monitor. Not sure it recorded a heart event but the nurse said I could send it back. Got a different prescription for a blood thinner. This one had a free 30 day trial card. The girl at Walgreen’s had trouble getting the card to work but this time she asked the pharmacist for help and he got it to go through.
This will give me enough medication to get started before my appointment with Dr. Chow on May 3. Maybe he will let me stop taking it. If not I will have to remember to ask him what I am to do while I am in Italy as I will run out during the trip and I won’t be able to get a refill before I leave. Hopefully he will have a supply in his office that can fill in the blanks for me. Sure hoping I won’t have to be on this medication very long. If I hadn’t had the free 30 day trial card it would have cost $410 for a 30 day supply. I need to call my insurance company and see what my cost will be once I hit my out-of-pocket deductible. That should happen before I need to have it refilled. If I have to pay that much I will switch to a cheaper alternative when I get back from Italy.
Went into Emporia this morning to get chicken feed, oats, sunflower seeds, baby chicken feed, lettuce for the chickens and cat litter. Also took the heart monitor to Staples so I could return it. Stopped at the Vet Clinic to get flea and tic medication for the cats and dogs. Spent more on the critters today than I did myself. That seems to happen frequently.
Have moved the chairs and tables out of the dining room so I can get that floor cleaned. I may hand scrub it today. It has been a while since I have done that. Next up will be the living room and kitchen floors. Tomorrow I will do the hallway, entry way and the laundry room. Love a clean house!
Another beautiful day on the prairie today. Bright blue skies and little wind! Only to be 60 for the high today but without the wind it will feel warmer than that. Love days when the wind doesn’t blow!
Got a note from the guests coming Saturday. They wanted to bring firewood so they could have a fire outside Saturday evening. I had to tell them no as this area is still in a burn ban. Maybe if we get rain Saturday the burn ban will be lifted. I don’t even like to use the propane fire pit burner as dry as it is.
Got the canvas frame pictures I ordered in yesterday. I am very pleased with two of them. I hung one in the dining room this morning and it looks really good there. Need to get the other two hung this afternoon. I will order some more after I figure out how many I still need.
Going to enjoy my empty space today and tomorrow as I will have to “work” for the next nine days. Glad I don’t have to leave home to work. This will be a good test for me to see if this is what I want to do. Good news is most of the guests will be out and about for most of the time.
I realized I may not be able to go to Earth Day as I have guests leaving Sunday morning and one coming in Sunday afternoon. I will have to get a bedroom ready for him and be here when he arrives. Maybe things will line up so I can make it to at least part of the afternoon.
Grateful for a low wind day today, grateful the critters are stocked up, and grateful my house is almost cleaned.