Thanksgiving hiatus
Well, it’s the day before Thanksgiving and my search for a doctor for Betty and me is on hold. So far, the last two medical offices I contacted have ignored two faxes. So, I’m widening my search, to 8 miles from home instead of 5. Next to do is to call the other doctors’ offices and ask for their fax numbers and try again with them.
‘Tis not the season to be getting things done, though. People don’t have their minds on new work, new patients, etc. When I worked at the NAD (I was publications coordinator at the National Association of the Deaf), and we went from a monthly to bi-monthly publication, I came up with a weird schedule– we combined December and January issues when most people thought we should have had Nov/Dec and Jan/Feb issues. But from experience with the monthly publication I knew that it was hard to get volunteer writers submitting articles between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. So a Dec/Jan issue gets all the copy from the writers before Thanksgiving; and a Feb/Mar issue gets the copy from the writers just after New Year’s when they are feeling invigorated and ready to change gears. It worked well. I just hope that experience doesn’t translate to doctors offices and I can get a new doctor before the new year.
I’m grateful that I’m in relatively good health and don’t need a doctor right away. Betty seems to be okay, but I’m concerned. She had a triple bypass in 1996 and has been on medication since. She hasn’t had her Tenormin for a couple of months now, though. Dr. Fedec wouldn’t renew the prescription without a lab test to monitor her liver (which I understand), but I had already started looking for another doctor and didn’t see a need to go back to Fedec. I’m feeling pressured for time, though.
