Pre-registration / 30% Discount / Warm winter day

I got a call this morning that my appointment at the Radiology Department of the VVRMC (Val Verde Regional Medical Center) scheduled for Thursday would have to be re-scheduled as they were going to be closed this Thursday and Friday. They offered me tomorrow or next week but I opted for tomorrow so I can get it out of the way along with my labs.

Like I have mentioned before it is better to pre-register so that is what I did this afternoon. I was pleasantly surprised that there were few people and that I did not even have a chance to sit down when they called my name. I suppose people are busy at home getting ready for the holidays.

I also decided to go visit their billing department in person as I can not seem to resolve a charge that I paid back in August online and they keep on saying is delinquent. Sure enough, I had in fact paid it but I had three new invoices that I have not even received...Ok, local post office I thought you were making progress! 😖😡

She told me that if I paid them today I could get a 30% discount and that seemed like a mighty good reason to get them out of the way. The issue was resolved in ten minutes.

On the way to town, I passed HEB and gas continues to be selling for $2.569 for unleaded gasoline. Could not help but notice how packed the parking lot, the area for curbside pick-up, and the pumps themselves were.

I am down to almost half a tank but if you know me you know that I avoid lines at all cost...it will have to wait until next week or next year.

Since this blog also serves as my Cyber Journal I need to document that I got my Pfizer booster this past Friday, December 17 at the local mall. I had no idea this was a weekly event until I read about it in El Zócalo (Ciudad Acuña's local newspaper) or I would have gotten mine sooner. I tried to make an appointment last November at HEB but they were booked solid. Due to the holidays, this was the last vaccination drive of the year.

That little girl in the above picture was TERRIBLE...neither her mother nor her grandmother disciplined her...they were too busy on their phones. Note the lady in front of me is not standing six feet but more like 10 feet away from her. She was so bad a little boy with his parents in the back of me decided to go sit at some dining tables further down the line to get away from her. Much to his chagrin, she decided to go sit next to him.

This Covid vaccination drive was in charge of the Texas National Guard. I could not for the life of me find my original card but since my first two were also administered by them they found me with no problem. If there is ever a fourth booster I am going to take a small folding chair as my feet and back were killing me. I had no side effects just the usual soreness in the injection site.

On this first day of winter, it was a chilly 41 degrees this morning and the wind made it seem colder. This afternoon at 5:36 p.m., it was 72 degrees.

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.

Aunty Acid

It was hot today...87 degrees and it's March!

I have absolutely no faith in weather forecasters.  I therefore took with a grain of salt when I heard that the temperatures were going to be in the high 80's. This morning it was cool, in the 60's and I had a doctor's appointment this afternoon.  Our electric bill these past four months has been very close to the $300.00 dollar range even though mother's house is small.


I got up early but decided to give the weather guy the benefit of the doubt and wait till noon to take a shower so I would not have to crank up the heater.  I also had this strong sensation that my appointment would not come to fruition.


I was correct on both counts...they called this morning to re-schedule said appointment and this afternoon it reached 87 degrees and it is only March!  Tomorrow they are predicting more of the same.


In the past decade I have taken a step backward.  The heat bothers me immensely now, which is odd when one has been raised in Texas.  Is this something that I have to chuck up to the aging process?  Oh well...there is no other state I would rather live in.


Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.

Re-scheduled appointment

Last night the phone rang at 10:41 p.m. (yes, we still have a landline telephone) thought it was rather late for someone to be calling but picked it up nonetheless.  It was the local hospital letting us know that the machine had broken so our appointment for this morning had to be cancelled.

This morning the telephone rang at 7:56 a.m. it was the hospital again letting us know that a technician was on her way from San Antonio to fix the machine and if I could bring my mother in this afternoon.  I told her definitively not!  Her tests require fasting and I was not going to let my mother go without eating until then and what was to guarantee me the machine would actually be fixed?

I believe she must have still been asleep and I snapped her out of it...she agreed to have someone call me back AFTER the machine was actually fixed so we could re-schedule her tests.  I really did not mean to yell at her but sometimes I wonder what the heck some medical personnel are thinking!

In a way I am glad the appointment was re-scheduled because my legs in particular my right leg hurt more than usual since the pain began a couple of weeks ago.  The pain begins in the upper thigh and it feels like my veins are stretching and I have a burning sensation.  Today even the back of my leg hurt and it was a struggle to walk.

One of the reasons I began this blog was to document my day to day life due to my CRS (if you do not know what that is look on the upper right side of my blog).  I remember this happening to me but only on one leg back in 2009 or was it 2010?  However, I do not recall on which leg it occurred since I did not have a blog then :-(

That was the main reason I decided to have a Del Rio doctor.  My doctor was voted the #1 in Del Rio in the local newspaper survey...so it is difficult to schedule an appointment with him.  By the time he was able to see me, the pain was gone.

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.