Well now

No Slime Today

Aren't you relieved?

I believe this is a purple finch. Hubby has been spotting them and I am usually too late with the camera to catch them.

Catching it in flight was completely an accident.
 

Most of the afternoon I hung out on the porch and did weeding and watering those plants that don't get much moisture because they are so close to the porch that the eaves keep the rain off them.

I was awaiting a return phone call after being shuffled around by the VA Community Care People. 30 minutes after being transferred 3 times, I got voice mail.

Community Care is sometimes frustrating. Communications between a non VA provider and the VA itself is tenuous a best. A medication was ordered for hubby two months ago. He still had a 'rescue' inhaler so it wasn't a vital medication.

However, the non VA provider followed her instructions that the VA provided and ordered the medication. It went 'somewhere'. I followed up by contacting several people and finally landed on a person who said she'd handle it.

That was 4 weeks ago. So I looked up hubby's info in MyChart and noted that the CC gal had called the local doctors office and gave the clinic the info for faxing or calling in meds.

The local doctor's office used HER name in ordering the medication. The VA pharmacy said no one by that name worked in that pharmacy. And that is where it was dropped.

So there was miscommunication between CC, the pharmacy, and the local doctor's nurse.

I need to draw them a chart on how to order meds, I think. 

Today I made more phone calls.

The solution was simple, whoever wrote down the fax number for sending in medications, wrote one digit off. A 1 instead of a 7. Or perhaps the handwriting was sloppy? Who knows?

Well now.

So it goes. 

Navigating Health care sure takes a good deal of effort on any person's part.