I feel better

Regarding the last entry I made: I was clearly having a "moment".  

Not one ding dang thing has changed since I wrote that  .... except I am over my "moment".

I guess we are all entitled to them once in a while?

Today girlchild had a follow-up with her eye dr.  She said that often times autoimmune iritis comes with "dry eye" too.  That it is very hard to tell the difference between a flare and irritation/dryness itself (by how it feels).  She gave her a new medicine to try when she feels like she is in a flare,  since she really wants her OFF the steroid drops (except DURING an actual flare) because long term use can cause long term problems. If they do not help within a day or so or it gets worse we have to call her so she can do an exam and she will restart the durezol drops if it is an actual flare vs. irritation.    Because of the LT effects it is very important we stop using the steroids as a preventative.  She stressed the importance of the RA care because of this and asked when we'd see Dr. B again.  

I told her the issues we were having and asked for a referral to another RA.  She gave it to us, along with a print out of girlchild's chart to take with us.  She was surprised when I showed her the records from Dr. B that NONE of her visits with her were part of the chart.

The new doctor (there are only 3 on our provider list) apparently reviews charts before deciding if he will take on a patient and we'll get a call from them if they accept her.  If not ... we move on the the final doctor on the list I guess.

Last night when I took the dog outside I heard someone coughing in the very dark yard across the street from me.  Not a light in sight -- yet someone coughing.  Oh - and the family that lived there moved out last week.  Ugh.

Later on girlchild thought she saw someone pass by the front door (which would mean they were on our porch) a little after midnight (no, I didn't tell her about the coughing).   Because she wasn't 100% sure she didn't wake me up or call the police. But you have to not only be ON my porch to be visible from inside -- you also have to be on the steps (porch is lower than the house, more like a patio I guess). And with two sightings IN my yard less than two weeks ago and the weird coughing in a dark yard of a empty house just a couple of hours before ... UGH. 

I am borrowing a motion camera from boychild to use and getting some motion lights.  I really don't know what else to do for now.  The neighborhood is not condusive for a guard dog.