The word did not get out to me that the CROSS COUNTRY MEET had been canceled due to possible bad weather and being in a flash flood warning so I drove the distance to the location. No runners. No course. Phoned my Sweetheart to find out where he was and he told me he had tried to catch me to tell me the meet was canceled. I just laughed and said well I'm out of the house and saw beautiful scenery plus rock houses.
I enjoyed the country roads where I saw quite a few stone houses. Made my heart sing a little as they sure were so very cute. The weather was in the 90s with a high heat index, so it was for the best that the meet wasn't. Since I was so close to Manhattan I drove on into town to go to GOODWILL. Tuesday is Senior Discount Day. Then walked over to TUESDAY MORNING and overheated.
I know that I am not in the best of health these days. Tis awful. Difficult for me to admit that I am not in good health. Pretending it's not so does not make it vanish into thin air. I will be better off if I admit this is happening and seek medical attention. HELP.
As the weather cools off I will still be challenged as walking doesn't come easily to me. The inside of the store was warm which didn't help. Found some BLUE WILLOW Bowls with handles on them called A JUMBO MUG. 6 of them for soup, pudding, salad, chips or ice cream. So cute I couldn't help rejoice that the store had them for such a discounted price. Bought them. I don't have any such bowls for my collection, so this was a find.
TRUE TO IT'S NAME there is only a little bit of honey in this product. A small bag of BIT O HONEY candy caught my eye as these were some of my childhood favorites. HUBBY had caught up with me and took over at the check out so I could go to the car and sit with the air conditioner on. This helped. I drove the back roads HOME. Lovely drive HOME.
A forceful storm passed us in the evening as a tornado warning was in effect in a nearby county. We were blessed to not be threatened by tornadoes and had a pleasant SUPPER then watched PBS POLDARK. We have binged watched the last SEASON and saw the ending which ends well. No spoiler alerts. Well done Poldark.
The scenes are way too short and choppy. Don't like this technique. I'll have to go to the first episodes in Season One and see if these were as choppy. I don't think they were. I'll have to contact the producers of the show and complain. I know they'll listen to lil ole me. ha grins.
This afternoon I opened the backdoor to let some fresh air inside as it is raining. Presently the temperature is 65. Lovely day to sit in screened in porch and listen to it rain. No thunder or wild wind. Peaceful rain.
My middle of the week day has not gone as I had planned. Much time has been spent sitting going through paperwork, icing my heels and heating my neck. Many phone calls were made about medical appointments. The one that I choked on was by Ascension Via Christi HOSPITAL where the woman on the other end was informing me that a Vascular ultrasound is scheduled and I will be charged $1122.oo toward the insurance company and out of pocket expense will be $502.oo
This phone call was actually a blessing to receive as it caused me to remember the LIFELINE SCREENING test. This phone call prevented spending of $502.oo out of pocket for one test. ONE TEST.
I'm already up to my neck with medical bills to pay. Trying like heck to not owe anyone anything. It has been hard to pay on medical bills for so long. Slow and steady but still draining. Soon we will be retirement age and I'm wondering how this will go for medical bills.
At the Hospital payment for ultrasound is expected ON DAY of test.
I put two and two together and recalled an offer by LIFELINE SCREENING that gives 5 tests for $139.oo. that's $27.8o a test. This is very doable wouldn't you say?
CAROTID ARTERY SCREENING (Same as the Vascular Ultrasound is the Carotid Artery Scan by theHospital)
PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE
ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
OSTEOPOROSIS RISK (Bone Density)
I made arrangements for my Husband and I both to have LIFELINE SCREENING give us these 5 tests next week. I rescheduled my Vascular Ultrasound and will have this done if I'm not pleased with LIFELINE's.
12 years ago we did LIFELINE. If these results do not please us then we'll go this other route and see what they say.
When having Health Insurance causes some test to be higher priced then if you don't have health insurance makes me frown. Prices are elevated for insured peeps. Humpf. I heard of some medicines being higher with insurance. This is a racket folks. Hello?
So my evening will be spent going through more papers, feet up icing the heels and heating the neck. Lovely way to spend an evening pleasantly at HOME.
Blessings,
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