Yesterday, Thursday, was a busy day but then, any day that involves a Dr. Appointment, is a busy day. They did a blood draw and then had the lab run all of the tests they wanted. When that was done Bruce, Dr. Litton's PA, said things looked pretty good but he wanted Jeri to see Dr. Barklow, a kidney guy, tomorrow. So I called his office and was told that Dr. Barklow wasn't' taking any new patients so I called Bruce and he called Dr. Barklow and viola we had an appointment tomorrow at 12:45. It is mind boggling what a difference it makes who does the calling. Jeri was not up to the usual place she likes to be but she has been worse. That is me talking and not her. (Most people know this is dangerous territory to be on.:)
Today Lee showed up at our place shortly after eleven and shortly we were on our way to Dr. Litton's office for some papers to take to Dr. Barklow. We arrived at Dr. B's office about 12:20 and waited until 12:45, which is the time they open after lunch, and then we were invited into the innards of the office. Dr. Barklow and a resident came in and talked to us and then Dr. Barklow left and left the resident to do her thing, which was fine for us. When she was through she left and conferred with the doctor and then they came back. The doctor was concerned about Jeri's blood pressure and I tried to tell him there was a lot of things going on as we entered the exam room that could cause the the pressure to go higher; such as getting out of the wheelchair and pulling her self up on the scales but he was concerned about the BP. He talked to Jeri what the results of kidney failure, no, she doesn't have kidney failure, and he doesn't want her to have this trouble so he gave Jeri some instructions and some blood pressure pills to make sure that pressure comes down into the normal range, so we came home and then I went back and bought the meds. When I got home we checked her BP and it was normal but we are not really sure how accurate it may be, however, we checked Chris's pressure and it was just like it was Thursday when he had his physical therapy; we are going to have ours checked Monday.
The weather is on the warm side for me but that will change in the few weeks and we will be complaining about the cold.:)