Happy birthday to my brother Gene. This is his first birthday away from us with his physical presence. It felt weird not making a batch of fudge and buying some Pringles and Vienna sandwich cookies to mail to him. Maybe I will make a batch of fudge and share with some friends in his honor later today.
I feel like a slug under a rock today. No energy at all. I slept in this morning and took a chair nap this afternoon. Maybe the energy of all the chaos from last week caught up to me and slowed me way down today.
Kathy and I made four phone calls this morning dealing with an insurance issue. Three of the four people we spoke to were efficient and helpful. I appreciated their help. I don’t speak insurance and if you don’t use the exact term some of them don’t know what you want. We shall see if they send the proper forms we requested today. As slow as the mail is these days it could take several week before the forms show up.
After the phone calls were made I took three letters to the post office to mail by certified mail. Trusting I used the proper language in the letters and what I need to happen will happen.
Took Sophia to the Vet. I had two papers I needed to drop off to two different people in Emporia. It was too hot to leave Sophia in the car so she got to go in places with me. She acted like it was something she did everyday and got in and out of the car like a pro.
Sophia has a plugged sweat gland cyst on the end of her back. The Vet said it was the largest one she had ever seen. The Vet drained it and it took several minutes to get most of the fluid out. Sophia will have surgery next Wednesday so they can remove it. The Vet said since it was so large we will have trouble keeping it drained and each time they drained it the skin will stretch thinner and thinner and eventually the skin will start tearing and it will become an open wound. It is a day surgery so no overnight will be required if things go as planned.
Came home and took a chair nap. I did manage to renew my car tags on-line when I woke up. Have no other plans for the day. I only had one other thing on my to do list for the day and I will carry that over to tomorrow. Don’t have it in me to make one more phone call today.
I have a stay at home day tomorrow. Friday I have to go back to Emporia to go to the knee doctor. I need to remember to make a grocery list and pick up a few things. The cupboards are getting to be slim pickings around here. So far I don’t have any plans for the weekend unless I go to a protest on Saturday.
Next week is looking busy again. Monday Ellexia and I are going to lunch and then I am having a pedicure and Ellexia is having a manicure. Wednesday I have to go to town twice to take and pickup Sophia from her surgery, and Thursday I am meeting a friend for lunch.
Still haven’t heard from the prolapse surgeon. The nurse did call me this morning to tell me the referral had been received and that the referring doctor’s office will call within seven days to schedule my appointment. Yikes! This process keeps getting dragged out. One of these days I will get an appointment. I did appreciate the follow-up from the nurse but wish that had happened one of the other four times I had called.
I think we are getting to the bottom of the paperwork barrel. Will have more paperwork to do when forms come back and I get responses to the letters that were mailed. It will be nice to have a short break until Round Two begins.
Tagen is to be moved out of the house by next Monday. I will need to get the house thoroughly cleaned and a realtor in it to get it listed next week. Trusting it will sale as fast as the other rental house I sold last year did. It will be good to be down to only having one rental property to manage.
Paperwork is no longer fun for me. I used to do so much of it when I did the books for McDonald’s. I have gotten out of the habit of dealing with it and it can feel overwhelming at times. It will be good to have it all sorted out and done with. One paper at a time – I can do this!
Low energy type of day. My body is telling me it is time to slow things way down. I needed to schedule some fun days in and next week that is going to happen twice. Finding balance in what I do is hard to do sometimes for me. I’m grateful my body reminds me to take fun time too.
Grateful for helpful insurance agents today, grateful Sophia’s mass is not too serious, and grateful for chair naps on low energy types of days.