An all around Rant day

Remember my problems with Allstate...the "you are in good hands with Allstate" people?  Well they are really beginning to piss me off!  It turns out that even though I had requested three times to have my address changed to Del Rio, then having paid the premium in full to avoid penalties...I now have to pay a $25.00 reinstatement fee, grrrrrrrrrrr!

Funny thing is that back in March the last time I went home and removed my mail box...I also filled out a change of address with the US Postal Service. Why is it that they never forward this very important piece of mail to me?

This bill was sent to me by my Houston agent because the policy still has the Houston address!  What a bunch of incompetent imbeciles.  If that was not bad enough I tried to pay it online only for their web page to prompt me that my policy number is not valid...WTH?  I am definitively dumping these idiots even if I have to pay more to go with another agency next year.

Got a call this morning from Val Verde Regional Medical Center with an appointment with the neurosurgeon that will be handling my mother's case.  He travels to Del Rio once a month to the see local patients at his office in the hospital.

Two hours later I got a call from his San Angelo office advising me that the doctor had reviewed her MRI. Was told she had a compressure fracture of the lumbar spine and will need surgery.  Asked her a lot of questions but was advised a nurse would have to get back with me as that is all she could tell me.  Had to cancel the errands I had to run today waiting on the nurse to return my call.

Needless to say it hit me out of left field as I was not expecting this. Surgery in my opinion as well as hers....is a last option.  I had all kinds of scenarios going through my mind.  Luckily the nurse answered all my questions and most importantly reassured me that she would NOT be cut open and then fused together.

I have never been to San Angelo, have no idea how to get around the city, nor where his office or the hospital are located.

The idiot Time Warner Cable guy that installed the Internet messed up the only computer that I could print from so I guess I will be spending time at our local library to get ready for this trip.

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.

MRI

Drove my mother to Val Verde Regional Medical Center for her MRI this morning.  Have been to the hospital so many times this month, I am on a first name basis with the admitting office clerks.  Hopefully this will be the last trip for a while.

I was a little apprehensive after I had read some things on another blog regarding this procedure. Fortunately my mother is not claustrophobic and today her pain level was low...unlike last week when she had her Cat Scan done.

Only the person having the MRI and the radiology technicians are able to cross through the door due to the strong magnetic field.  Even her cane had to stay outside.

While I have not had the best experience with the Emergency Room personnel...I have nothing but praise for the Radiology Department staff at Val Verde Regional Medical Center.  They are very professional, compassionate and caring individuals who are very considerate of my mother and her special needs.

Her doctor has referred her to a neurosurgeon.  The choice was one in San Antonio or in San Angelo, Texas.  If we chose one in San Antonio we would have to drive there for every appointment.  If we chose the one in San Angelo it is a surgeon her doctor is familiar and has worked closely with.  I would only have to drive there for the first appointment if her pain level rises again or we could wait for him to come to Del Rio which I believe he does so once a month.

If you are wondering why I did not consider a Houston neurosurgeon it is because she absolutely HATES Houston.  Besides her doctor does not personally know anyone he could recommend nor do my friends or acquaintances.

Read up on a lot of them but I have had prior experiences when my dad was alive and I chose one with impeccable credentials...yet had the worst beside manner, some whose English was very difficult to understand, others who were full of themselves and/or were pretty much AH's.  I apologize for my French but I call it as I see it.

I have received a couple of e-mails and I apologize for not being able to reply to them.  This month has been pretty hectic and I am pretty much beat come night time when I usually go online.

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.