Done with Two Appointments; Rain!

Thursday, February 27, 2014.

Only one more day of February, and then March marches in, to the beat of evening raindrops. More rain on Sunday. Beautiful spring has not arrived yet. You know what Punxsatawney Phil had to say on February 2.

My son took me to the heart doctor for my appointment at nine o'clock. The staff there are very pleasant and sociable, with a cheerful outlook. They do, indeed, make patients feel better immediately with their warm greetings. It is quite wonderful, to think of the moods of the patients coming in.

After the first couple of preliminaries, we waited about twenty-five minutes for the doctor to come in.

He was very down-to-earth, and spent quite a lot of time with us. He explained many things, and my son took notes, thank goodness. The doctor thinks that I am in good shape, and wants to see me in about six months. He changed my medication of triamterene (it has hydrochlorozide - a diuretic) to something else, the name begins with 'n'. I was very glad about what he said, and I feel quite good now. I was a bit nervous beforehand.

Oh, I also stopped my twenty-one-day monitor late last night, and got it all back together. FedEx will pick it up tomorrow and take it back to Telerhythmics in Collierville, Tennessee. It wasn't too much of a burden to wear it for twenty-one days, but sometimes it was a nuisance. The doctor "read" the whole record on his computer in the examining room. He really is a good doctor, not impatient; he is thorough, and I like his personality.

After that, my son took me to my appointment with the chiropractor Dr.Q. I came out of that episode as happy as a lark. He thinks my neck is really coming along well. I had a couple of whiplashes many years ago. I finally began treatments before winter. He also treated my right shoulder; I had hurt it in the early 2000s in Pennsylvania, by the way I lifted a bag of groceries to the porch. So it seems I'm a queen of happiness today!

We stopped at Office Depot to get some black ink for my computer and some legal-size hanging files for the used file cabinets I bought from someone he knows. I've been eager to get those hanging folders. Then he brought me home, and did a few things for me on the computer. I had to get a new hard drive, and my printer had run out of black ink. I'll soon begin making labels for the hanging files. Many things to file. One would think I have a business place here, but it is gathering the stories and history of our large family.

I'll see you at the Corner Post ...