Well tomorrow we take off for the Big city of Durham NC. Youngest has an appointment at Duke Children’s hospital with a pediatric cardiologist specialist. Hopefully this will be our first and last visit.
I don’t relish the thought of my son having a specialist. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad there are specialists in the medical field. I am thankful someone took the time to study extra hard to have the extra knowledge to be able to help those around them. I just wish I wasn’t one of those in need.
I’m treating our trip as a mini vacation. After all, I won’t be cooking or cleaning, it is a road trip to a city I have never actually been, and I am a HUGE Duke fan! Stud will be driving, so I will sit back and enjoy the view, taking in the scenery as it is a very picturesque drive, and do my best not to worry.
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On another note, I am about to join Stud as anti-social, anti-the man. He is ready to become a full on hermit. I am about to join him. It has got to where there is so much red tape to do anything in this world. I went today to make a deposit in my dad’s account for him, something I have done for the past 20 years. Today, they wouldn’t make the funds immediately available, because I am not the account holder. HUH? So, that means if the payment I just made online for him for his electric bill, happens to go through before Friday, it will bounce… even though I just deposited almost double the amount. I was angry, am still miffed, and told them for their sakes it better not bounce.
Then I called the pharmacy to see how much mom’s prescription is. They informed me that I would not be allowed to pick up the medication since I am not the patient. Mom will have to call in to give permission for me to pick up her meds. I just picked the same prescription up for her last month.
What are we coming to?
It is getting to where, we won’t be able to help one another with errands and things because we won’t be allowed to, basically making each one of us our own fortress. Our own mini country if you will.
Thanks to privacy laws this and privacy laws that, it is becoming impossible to aid those who are in need. Otherwise you have to fill out a stack of papers a foot high and sign your life away.
Make me wish I was born a couple of decades ago.
