Saturday, December 27, 2008
5:53pm
This is my first journal entry using my “new” Microsoft word program.
When my dad got this laptop computer for me last Christmas I wasn’t really sure how to install this program so I didn’t really use it.
I would try to open the Microsoft works program but then it would ask for some sort of verification number that I didn’t have or know where to look for the number so I didn’t really use my laptop for what I wanted to use it most for.
I asked for a laptop for Christmas so that I could use it to write my first novel and so I look at porn on the internet.
A couple of days ago I noticed this icon on the desktop of my laptop for the Microsoft trial software and it gave me a link to follow to purchase this software from the Microsoft website.
So last night I went to the Microsoft website and purchased the software for my laptop and then I downloaded a bunch of updates for the software as well.
Yeah I know that’s retarded of me to hold off for so long before installing this basic software.
So now I will begin creating my journals and my writings of fiction from within my laptop computer instead of using one of my email accounts to write in and then sending it to myself.
I have another hour before I go to get my dinner so I have some time to kill.
I am going to save this and then I am going to try and see if I can somehow put a lock on the folder that I will store this in.
A little while later...
So I can’t put a password onto anyone of my folders but what I can do is add a guest account onto my computer.
That way when my dad has to borrow my laptop I can set it up to where he can not access my journals or all of the dirty pictures I have downloaded from the internet.
To set up the guest account I have to go to the start up menu and click on control panel and then click on the icon that says ‘user accounts’ I think.
And then I have to click on the icon that says ‘add user accounts’ and then it will bring up a screen that has two accounts, the guest account would be the one that I would have to select.
I had to work this morning.
I was there from eight a.m. to one p.m. but I didn’t have any patients.
I took care of the pull sheets for Monday and Tuesday and then I put away the charts from yesterday.
After that I helped put the Christmas decorations away and then after that I thought I would be able to leave. Nope.
I still had to call the patients for Monday to remind them about their appointment which wasn’t that big of a deal, but I just didn’t want to.
I wanted to go home and go back to bed.
The very last patient that I had to call was kind of a pain in the butt.
So while I was on the phone with him, he’s middle eastern but he speaks good English, he said that he had an allergy to shellfish.
Usually if your allergic to shellfish or seafood then that means that your also allergic to the iodine contrast dye that we use on most of the cat scan tests.
So he’s asking all these questions about whether or not we’re going to give him the dye and I tell him yes.
He then starts saying that he has a really bad allergy to shellfish so he’s telling me that I have to call the doctor.
So I ask him if we gave him Benadryl or if the doctor gave him a prescription to take before the test the last time he was here and he’s saying that he doesn’t remember and that I should know that because I have his records there.
So at this point I’m thinking, he has had a cat scan at least once a year for the past two years and each of them are the type of ct’s that we would usually give the iodine for but he can’t remember whether or not the doctor gave him steroids and Benadryl or if we just gave him some Benadryl.
So at that point I have to call the doctor.
so I call the doctor and the first phone number I call is to the office that the doctor is not at on Saturdays so they give me a number to one of the other offices.
I tried to explain to the girl who answered the phone that I needed to know whether or not this patient that will be in on Monday will be getting the dye or not because the patient is allergic to the dye.
So the girl on the other end of the line says she’ll give the note to the doctor and then she’ll call me back.
I call the patient back, I think his first name was Jamal, and I explain to him that since the doctor gave him medication to take before the test last time that he will have to have the same medication again if we’re going to do the test with the iodine.
But then I go on to explain to him that if the prescription that the doctor gave to him in order to have the test says to have the cat scan without the dye then we don’t need to worry about contacting the doctor.
I also explain to him that I did speak with the doctor’s office but I was still waiting to hear from the doctor.
Jamal was like, “well then we have to wait to hear from the doctor and I will give the doctor a call to see if we can have this taken care of.”
At this point I was like well I don’t really want to wait to hear from the doctor but then a couple of minutes later the doctor called.
I explained the situation to the doctor and she said that she would give the patient the medication to counteract the allergy, so that was taken care and then I realize that the patient’s insurance required a authorization number so I had to call the doctor’s office again.
The girl that answered said they would have to take care of it on Monday morning so hopefully they’ll be able to get that before the patient comes in on Monday.
After that I went upstairs to the filing room to help Teresa do some of the purging.
I think at that point Teresa and I would of left but she was waiting for the computer to copy the images from the cd of ct’s from some hospital.
After that I left and got lunch.
After lunch I took a nap and then I went to the bally’s on eight and harper to get my membership card.
I tried to get a membership card last night at the bally’s on mound but their computer was down.
I think that is it for now.
Reflections...
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It's a long way down
and you missed a spot
on the window.
It's a quiet balance
washing away the
circles of my reflection.
16 years ago