One of THOSE Days - 10/16/07

Picture: My Grandcat Dinah looking at little fishies swimming across the computer screen at her house

I guess its going to be one of THOSE days where everything that you try to do is impeded. I tried calling Georgetown Hospital again this a.m. and got the same message as yesterday, so I called the Department instead of the specific person I was directed to on Friday. The person answering the phone in the Department told me that the specific person was returning her calls, but that each call back requires a lot of information intake. They can't just make an appointment for someone to come in for a consult; they must evaluate up front whether or not the patient would even qualify medically for this treatment. She said give her 48-hours from when I left my message so if not today, then by tomorrow early I should hear from her. I suggested that they might want to put that on her phone recording and it would save a lot of angst to the people trying to contact them. I really, really, really, wouldn't want her job. Can you imagine talking to people all day long for whom the treatment really is a life or death issue? So now I am tied to the phone line until I hear from her I guess. I think there are only 3 local hospitals that have this treatment option and they must be swamped (Georgetown Hospital, Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, and MedStar Hospital in Baltimore). To be honest, I don't think Warren will qualify for this treatment anyway because of all of the previous radiation he's had to this area, but we have to follow this lead where it goes.

So I thought, while I was waiting this morning for a call back I'd look at my emails...WRONG! I couldn't access my incoming mailbox. Verizon said "Its on a different server" and it wouldn't read my password. Oh great! Well I looked around and tried to find a phone number to contact them, chatted with my Son briefly about it, checked the account on line and decided that it wasn't me, it must be THEM. I waited an hour and now I can download my new email (so far only ones I've sent me), but the test message I sent earlier hasn't come through and neither have any of my overnight junk emails that I always get. If you sent me an email between about midnight last night and noon today, I didn't get it, please re-send.

I wonder if Mercury has gone retrograde again? That would explain all the screwiness with communications today. I can't leave the house, so I'm going to have to find something to occupy my time today so I don't go nuts. (I know, I know, its a short drive.)

I think I'll check out the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) on-line (OMG, don't try to call them, talk about impediments!) to see how I go about getting the title for my car. I thought once you paid off the lien that they mailed you the title. I paid the car off in July '03 and I still just have the "Maryland Notice of Security Interest Filing" showing the lien and the letter from Chrysler releasing the lien...no car title. I'm thinking about trading the car in the Spring so I thought I should get the title ahead of time.

Yea! I just got my first "JUNK" email of the day! I guess they're resolving their issues. Now if I could only resolve my issues :-).