We also had our international immunizations this week. Now that the hubby is feeling better he was cleared to get the shots. (ones that he probably needed a while ago) Luckily, little E only had one to get. They give a lot more shots now with childhood immunizations than they did when we were kids. I had 2 and the hubby had 3 shots. We are also taking Typhoid pills over the next week and the hubby has Malaria pills ready to take when he travels to India. I didn't think the immunizations would be a big deal, but let me tell you, the day after I felt like a train hit me! I dosed up on Tylenol and within 24 hours I felt better. Thank God, for I still had a lot to do!
Not only has my week been filled with immunizations, sorting, purging, and packing up, I have been busy with gathering documentation and paperwork. I have gotten the medical records for both the hubby and E. Me on the other hand, I decided that I will have to use my own mind as my medical record. Being in the healthcare industry, I should know how this all works, but to my demise I never really realized how proprietary everyone's data is. Honestly, it is my data, but I guess they own it since they collected it. I thought that the EMR (electronic medical record) would change that, but from what I understand it doesn't. What I didn't know, was that each healthcare provider must release their own medical records. That doesn't seem like a big deal till you realize how many doctors you have seen over the past 22 years in a city. I couldn't possibly get records from everyone I have seen.
Speaking of 22 years, that is how long I have been here in the Queen City. Amazing isn't it. Am I really that old? It doesn't seem that long ago that I left college and the small town I had lived in all of my life and pulled up in front of my new apartment with a small UHaul containing everything I own. I had no furniture except a bed. I was 21, young, naive, and wide eyed with a huge world in front of me. That first summer I met some great people, some of which I still keep up with. I love friends and I like to collect them like favorite books on a bookshelf. I like to go back to them and read them every now and to reconnect. And, when I have lost one of my favorites I am sad and long for that book so that I can feel it's comfort and enjoy it's company.
22 years of a life well lived in a great city!
This past week E and I visited a pottery painting studio. We each painted something to take with us on our Singapore adventure. And we surprised Daddy with a cool mug that E painted. I made my own mug to commemorate my years spent here. Now every time I drink out of it I will be reminded of the place I became an adult; where I learned to be a nurse, a banker, an IT specialist, a gardener, a scrapbooker, a cook, a handyman, a pet owner, a homeowner, a girlfriend, a wife, and a mother. And became the adult I am today.
Life is a sum of all your choices. ~ Albert Camus
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ~ Robert Southey
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