Rambles on a Wednesday Morn

I think the last time we "spoke" we were waiting on the new rheumy to review girlchild's file and decide if they would accept her as patient or not.  It took over a week for them to call the eye doc back and say she was too young.  They don't see patients under the age of 18 and suggested she be referred to a pedi rheumy.

Well -- there are a couple of problems with that.

1. She will be 18 in 6 months and then would have to find a new reg rheumy as the ped would no longer see her.
2. There is NOT one pedi rheumy on my insurance provider list.  If I found one willing to see her that was no on the list they would have to write a letter requesting to see her in network and it would take 2-3 weeks to be approved or denied.
3. The closest on our list are 4-5 hours away.

To make a long story a little shorter I'll just say we (the eye dr's office staff and I) called around and got the same response (no patients under 18) from everyone.  I logged onto The Mayo Clinic's website and filled out a form under the "request an appointment" link.   I did this on a Thursday night around 6pm and was called the next morning before 9am.  She took her history, etc and then told me the dreaded words:  We only take patients over the age of 18.   She said she would send a request "upstairs" and see what happened and told me to expect to hear back the middle of the following week.  Instead, she called me back less than 10 minutes later and said we were IN.  She goes in August.   

More good news:  Since she quit with the steroid drops in her eyes she has NOT had another flare.  YAY.

In less good news: SIL is not doing well.   I really don't know what else to say here other than that.  Cancer is so brutal it really is indescribable.  Those who have witnessed it understand.  Those who have not, cannot.  Just pray for her and her family.  Please.  She's a fighter and she's fighting hard!

Summer is here in SE GA and the heat is unbelievable already.  The current drought is really making the massive wildfires impossible to really contain.  The firefighters are working so hard.  So incredibly hard.  Prayers for all.

Work is work.  I remain grateful for my job.  Grateful I enjoy the kind of work but cannot deny the frustration I have for all the BS that is so abundant.  I suppose it is everywhere.

I fly to NY in August to meet up, for the weekend, with a group of wonderful women.  I am very, very excited.  :-)  

I am still working on some anger issues I have about a situation (or two) and this frustrates me.  I am not an angry/bitter kind of person but I do not know how to make it go away.  Pray?  I'm praying.