What's New or Where have I been?

Well despite the best laid plans to post everyday it seems a whole month has gone by again! An old dear friend once told me "Jojo if your life were a movie it would be a soap opera!" LOL how right she was! It seems things are never dull for even a day around our household! With that said will just have to fill you in on bits and pieces as I go.
Dh's knee injury is NOT improving at all so they are sending him to a specialist in Pittsburgh ....however we cannot just call and make an appointment like we can around here..nooooooo that would be too simple! We had to have all his records sent to this particular dr and he reviews it and then decides if he will deign to see us! Go figure! It's now 3 weeks since all the info was sent to him and despite numerous calls from us and from the local dr this dr there has not made a final decision! Now I grant you Dr's are busy people but ya know what..we have lives too and our time is just as precious and valuable as his is! I KNOW he is a wonderful specialist but you would think he could take some point in 3 weeks to make one simple phone call! We got a call yesterday from someone there who dh did not get his name ugh and was told to call scheduling to make an appt. SOOOOOOOOO i call the number he gave dh and they have NO CLUE who to schedule him with and will not make an appt with us until we find out. I called the number back to the person who called and of course nobody can help as " we have hundreds of employees for about 60 dr's here and if you cannot say who called we cannot help you!" So we are in a vicious ring around the rosie! One lovely girl did FINALLY take pity on my frustration and spoke with the secretary of the Dr we were requesting and she said she will investigate it as the Dr. was still working on dh and had not made his final decision so wants to know too who it was that called and why. At any rate she is SUPPOSED to call me back today..we shall see if that happens!
DD is still in pain and we had a trip to the local ER AGAIN this week but at least this time they gave us a better idea of what is causing her so much abdominal and back pain..it seems she appears to ahve some HUGE cysts on the ovaries they left after her hysterectomy so we will be trapsing off to the GYN dr again for her!
Dh had his annual checkup with his regular dr ( he normally sees the dr's at VA hospital since he has no insurance) and our reg dr was NOT HAPPY!!!!!! Dh's blood pressure was so low they could not get it standing and when laying down or sitting they had one heck of a time. It turns out that the VA dr that is no longer with VA had him on TOO MANY blood pressure meds at one time!!!!!! The woman was nuts. We told her before there was something not right and all she did was add more meds!!!!!!! Talk about dangerous and wasteful! Our dr took him off the latest one and we had a bp recheck yesterday(two weeks time passed) and it appears to be back in normal range altho the resident who checked him said he thought it was a little HIGH lol ! We are about ready to smack them all and wonder how we can have so many differing opinions within 2 months!!!!!!!!!!!! It is totally absurd!!!!!! We saw the new VA dr last week and told him what our dr did and he was okay with it and said obviously our dr knows what he is doing but agreed that dh's color was very pasty and white. He felt we should increase his diabetes meds going by their blood work and I said NO WAY until I talk to our family dr. Our family dr hit the roof again and said dh 's bloodwork is marvelous and he is doing VERY well with his diabetes control and there is no need to double meds again! I swear sometimes VA does it just to make money or something. It's just a mess! Without health insurance dh doesn't have alot of choice but half the time I am afraid they will do more harm than good for him!

My sister is coming up this way the weekend of my birthday HOORAY!!!!! I haven't had any of my siblings here for my bday in years so it will be wonderful!!!!! The bad news is our oldest sister is not doing well and her malignancy is non operable which means she once again must go thru intensive chemo which she is dreading. Brother dear is going to see her this weekend to convince her she needs to do it but I know that there is a part of her that does not want to go thru it yet again. We love her and want her with us as long as possible and I pray she listens to him as they are very close. While I do not see her often she is my sister and I love her and worry about her. Please keep her in your prayers and thoughts!

Let's see what else drama wise I can pass on lol
Hmmmmmm time out for now..will catch up a bit later in the day with hopefully more fun type stuffers. I just needed a vent for now THanks for reading!