Sheep Guarding Llama

This morning, Eric and I had to get up early because we had to meet John for breakfast and then get into the hosptial in DC in time for the 8:00am employee meeting. Plus we had to pack up the hotel. So we were incredibly groggy when we finally got to the hospital.

The early morning meeting went well and Eric had some work to do while I had to go finish up my Hep B Vaccination series at the Occupational Health Center. I managed to get my third vacc shot but there was a complication and it appears that the nurse who did my second shot didn’t document it anywhere. So, now I have to return in a month to do some blood work to find out whether or not I have to start another series of shots. What a pain. This is the second time that I have attempted to get these shots. The first time was when I was first going to college in NY at MCC in Rochester. I got my first two shots from my regular doctor that I had always used. But, after the second shot, he told me that he specialized in teenagers and that he refused to finish the series. He told me to go to my family doctor to get it. So I did. But my family doctor doesn’t have the vaccination, he told me that the other doctor was responsible for finishing it because he started it. So, while they argued about it, my shots expired. So, here I am doing ther series again. And maybe I will be doing it for a third time. And people wonder why I am not impressed by medical “professionals” at all. Plus there was the time that the hospital doctor refused to treat me for appendicitus because he knew more about the type of pain I was having than I did. And then my appendix burst. Just because he had to be right, he would have let me die to make a point that I was just a dumb lay person and couldn’t understand that pains of my own body. Three strikes and you are out in my book. I have had little good ever come from a hospital experience. The only really good procedure I ever had done was in Batavia and was just work on my toe. That went really well. But even that, they wouldn’t let me do the “surgery” without pain killers but they couldn’t figure out how to give me an anesthetic that would last for the procedure. So they ended up making me take the drugs but they didn’t do any good. Kind of like when I had my wisdom teeth pulled. I didn’t want to take any pain killers after the surgery but the doctor gave me a real hassle about the prescription. So I took it but never got it filled (why would a doctor lower my degree of trust in him JUST so that he can write a prescription for pain killers? Do they get kick backs for this stuff or something?) Then, after I came back for a check up, he was amazed by how quickly I had healed. How obvious is it that my body was able to concentrate on healing my mouth because it didn’t have to work so hard pulling drugs out of my system. I think doctors may be the least well educated people I have ever met. Everyone I know has stories like this, and very few have any really good experiences.

Well, after that, Eric and I hit the road back to NY. Eric’s aunt died on Tuesday and he has to rush back home to get ready to go to the calling hours that are tonight in Oakfield. So he has a really long day. Min is going up to Syracuse this evening to pick out the counters and cabinets for the new house in Geneseo.

Eric and I got home around 4:00. Boy am I glad to be home and to get to sleep in my own bed tonight.

This morning is Eric and my one morning to sleep in a little. We didn’t get up until around 9:00am. But since there isn’t much work for us to do in the office until later in the day, that isn’t so bad. Nothing really to tell about today. Just another long day of work at the hospital. Eric and I will easily each work 50-60 hours during the four days that we are down here. Once again, we worked until close to midnight before heading back out to Annapolis to get some sleep.

Eric and my second day in Washington. We slept in a little after having worked so late and drove into the city. We were really glad that we stayed in Bowie because it is so much closer than driving in from Annapolis. But the hotel is booked for tonight so we don’t get to stay there tonight.

We worked another really long day today, we didn’t even attempt to leave the hospital until 10:00pm. And we had a terrible time finding a hotel room. We ended up just getting a place out in Annapolis. That is a really long drive when you aren’t doing anything recreational while you are there. So we got to the hotel around midnight and just collapsed.

Today is my travel day again. Eric arrived at my house in Ithaca around 9:00 am and we did a little bit of work around here before packing up the car and driving down to East Hill for some Burger King breakfast. We ate at 10:30 and hit the long road down to Washington Hospital Center in DC. We made good time and arrived in the middle of the afternoon. The trip wasn’t bad; I am really glad that I got all that work done on my car two weeks ago. It is running great and no more brake problems.

Not much exciting to tell about the rest of the day. Eric and I spent the rest of the day working at the hospital center until about midnight. We got tons of work done. Then we headed east out of town to Bowie, MD where we grabbed a room at the Comfort Inn there. We also hit Walmart and picked up some cheap movies to occupy our tiny bit of free time this week.

Happy Father’s Day. I moved the May updates out to the archives today. I can always tell when the site needs to have some content archived because my HTML editor starts to slow down dramatically from all of the text that it has to display and move around the screen. This quarter is going to be a shorter read than most of the last year or so. It has just been a really busy couple of months and has kept me from the updates.

Today I started off in Livonia for the last time this week. Every morning Eric wakes me up by having Sonny jump on my head and bite my ears with his razor sharp teeth. My arms are all cut up from the dog playing. He is a really cute puppy though.

Min and I hung out with Eric and Amanda until around noon when they headed out for Father’s Day celebrations in Rochester and I hit the road to go back down to Ithaca. Tomorrow, Eric and I are heading south to DC for the entire week (maybe we will get lucky and get to come back on Thursday.) So I have a bit of work to do this afternoon to get ready for the trip. It is going to be a really long week; we have a lot of work that needs to be done before we can come back.

Dominica is studying hard today for her Real Estate exams. She has to take the first test on Monday (tomorrow) and the State exam on Tuesday. So Min is planning on returning to Ithaca on Tuesday night and then going back to work at Advion on Wednesday. I am sure that she is really looking forward to being able to spend some time at home.

Nate, Bob and I decided to head up to Cortland for some dinner from Garcia’s. We have really started liking that place. That is about our third time there in the past two weeks. They did mess up my order and gave me a Taco Salad with chicken instead of extra beans. So that was kind of gross (I made them get me another salad… many of the people there really don’t speak English very well so it can be pretty hard to place orders correctly.)

Andy got home at 10:30 tonight. This is about our first time seeing each other all week. So we have tons of catching up to do.