Went to town this morning to have my blood draw. The lady did a great job – I didn’t feel the needle entering my arm. She took four vials of blood.
The Doctor’s office called early afternoon with part of the results. My cholesterol is high which is normal for me. They wanted me to try the injectable medication. I reminded her that I have been here, done that and it didn’t work before. The nurse was going to check with the doctor and see if he had any other recommendations. I can’t take Statin drugs. I told the nurse my levels have been much higher before and to take a deep breath and not worry about them. She laughed! The rest of the blood work results that are back were all normal except for the two that have been off for a long time and no one ever mentions it. The Celiac and Autoimmune tests will take a week or so to get results back on.
The scheduling department called and got my mammogram scheduled for next week.
A dear friend sent a message to me that a member of her family had received a scary diagnosis and they needed to make their end-of-life plans. They had called their attorney but he wasn’t available to help them. She came out today and I gave her the forms she needed. When they are ready we will finalize them and get them notarized. It felt good to be of service to this family during this stressful time for them. Hopefully they won’t need to put their end-of-life plans in place for a long time but it is helpful to know they are ready if it comes to that.
It is so much easier to make your end-of-life plans before someone is sick or dying. Death is hard to think about but it will happen to each of us sooner or later. May as well plan for it and have it go the way you want it to go instead of leaving it up to someone else to make decisions for you. You can always change your plans if you want something different to happen in the future.
The Hospice Volunteer Coordinator called me today. She is arranging a training class for sometime in September and will be in contact with me about it soon.
I’m going to El Dorado tomorrow to meet a client that is ready to make her end-of-life care plans. This case will be my final project for this class. I have to write a summary of how the visit goes and submit it to my instructor. It may take more than one visit to get everything done, depending on how fast of a decision maker the client is and how comfortable she feels with the process. When I get done with the visit, I am going on to Wichita to go to Costco. I need more chicken tenders among other things.
I mowed the yard today. Had to go to Strong City to get more gas for the mower. Grateful gas is down to $3.59 a gallon. Spending $36 to fill my mower gas cans seems like a lot of money.
Tonight is a Super-moon and the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower. With the full moon, I doubt that we see many meteors. The moon is to rise around 8:35 tonight. The sun sets at 8:24 so it will still be fairly light out when the moon rises. Last night the moon cast some beautiful moon shadows across the prairie.
Found out a family member has COVID for the second time. Dang it anyways. This virus just keeps going and going. Hopefully they will have a smooth course with it and not have any complications or have long-Covid afterwards.
Grateful the yard is mowed, grateful most of the blood work showed normal, healthy results, and grateful to be of service to a friend today.