They have systems here for ePrescribing these, but they have a verification thing they do between the physician and pharmacy. They will also take phone calls from the practice. Super annoying for sure to have to pick up the paper script.

If I wake up early tomorrow (blah), then I can get to the doctor's office before work and pick up the script, then go to work, then bring the script to the pharmacy to get it filled after work.

I think that's a federal law now.

I think New York has eliminated paper prescriptions, actually. I know my Percocet was called in when I had my gallbladder out.

In Vermont I could only get 1 month if klonopin ...at least that's the way I remember it. And I had to take in a written prescription. In NC I can get a 3 month prescription electronically sent.

Grandma is still in the hospital. They gave her a blood transfusion and also got her an air mattress to sleep on. She's gotten out of bed with help but she's still quite weak.

My brother and nephew are down there but I don't know if my brother will be able to see her...or if she'd be up to it.

He did get stung by a cow killer ant which is really a type of wingless yellow jacket. Dad said he thought my brother had stepped on a stingray based on how much he screamed.

My nephew was there and said "Walk it off Daddy".

Learn from my mistakes. Don't Google cow killer ant. Sounds painful. Sending ~ma for Grandma's recovery. It takes a really long time for someone her age to recover.

Yeah I'm happy that everyday seems to be an improvement. She's also back to her normal levels of confusion which is weird to say is a good thing but it's a good thing.

Cow killer ant are baaad.

I hope the effects of the cow killer ant sting do not last long. And it is good to hear that your grandmother is improving, if slowly.

The doctor's have said with my mother that it takes a week for each day in the hospital to get back to normal. I see the improvement every day, but it is super slow.

There's a woman on Ravelry having a hysterectomy today. The board is wishing her Happy Spaying Day.

Tim is having a sleep study done tonight -- a few weeks ago he did a home sleep study, where they give the patient all kinds of monitors that he wears while he sleeps. They decided to follow it up with a sleep study in the actual sleep center.

When my dad started having heart issues 25 years ago (stay with me, here), I would FREAK the fuck out every time something went wrong enough for him to go to the hospital. But after a couple of years, I got so used to it that it stopped freaking me out. (Or possibly I just got crisis fatigue because I couldn't handle it anymore).

That's kind of how I feel about Tim right now. I have crisis fatigue already. I'm still worried about his pulmonary test results, but he has to wait until October for an appointment with the pulmonologist. (In the interim, he's getting a CT scan of his lungs and an echocardiogram, so that the pulmonologist will have the results for that first appointment.) I worry, but we gotta wait. So my worry is kind of burned out.

Also, I know that LOTS of people do sleep studies, and that's a GOOD thing, because the study can lead to effective treatment. And that's the goal. (Although, honestly, if he would go to bed at 11 instead of 1, and would stop drinking coffee at 8 p.m., I think he would sleep better. [He did tell the sleep doctor what his sleep schedule is, and that he drinks coffee late, and the doctor basically said, "Yeah, don't do that." But the doctor still wants to do a sleep study to see if there's another factor like apnea or something.])

I'm glad he's taking care of himself by addressing his health care issues, but DAMN, is it a lot of appointments.

Anyway, he'll be at the hospital overnight tonight for the sleep study, so -- PARTY AT MY PLACE!