Last night I didn't sleep well, mostly because I was concerned about Maria. It was rumored that she was becoming a hurricane. This morning when I checked on line, she was, in fact a category 1 and that made me very....uncomfortable.
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| Yay!!!! Maria is now just a tropical storm, not a hurricane!! |
For your geography lesson of the day, Puerto Rico is the largest island on this map (up toward the top left). Just to the right of PR is a small narrow island, which is Vieques (also part of PR). Just north of Vieques is a little pin-dot island. That's Culebra!!! As you can see, Maria is southeast of us and her course is predicted to come either right over us or east of us. We'll see! But at least she's not organized, right???
Despite hints of inclimate weather, at school this afternoon the kids worked very hard on their rainforest projects. They are all focused on a particular area: water, land, or people. I'm leading the group that's learning mostly about the people, but I don't teach on Thursday afternoons so my group was on their own, but doing an outstanding job! The kids are all working together to make a mock rainforest and today they began working on building things like huts, a river, flowers, butterflies, and other things the rainforest offers. During that time, I gave a piano lesson (another highlight!!), went off to check the mail (none) and have that "me time" at Mamacita's.
After school, I had to take Hannah to see the doctor at the clinic. Here's how it goes on the island: 2:40 we left school and arrived at the clinic about five minutes later. We waited about five minutes for someone to come to the front desk and get her signed in. We also paid the bill, which is twenty dollars (that's our co-pay in the States). We then sat in the waiting room with a young mom and her two children, one who was in a stroller and another who was pushing the stroller all around the waiting area, running most of the time and yelling. We waited. And waited. And waited. There were a couple of other people who wandered around the office and some who wandered in and out of the building. We continued to wait. The mom went somewhere down the hall and eventually disappeared.
At about 4:00 most everyone who worked there left. We were waiting. Finally, we were called in to have the nurse take Hannah's vitals and ask why we were there. That took about five minutes. The nurse told us we could go back out and wait for the doctor. Although we didn't see any other patients around, we were still waiting. The air conditioning was causing us both to be very cold (even though Hannah is never cold) so we took turns going outside to warm up.
Finally, we were called in to see the doctor, who is great, by the way. He's very thorough and thoughtful, so we feel totally confident with him. However, Stan sent a prescription refill to us via USPS for Hannah more than ten days ago and it still hasn't arrived, so she's been out of it since this past weekend, which isn't good. They don't have this drug on the island, so to get it we'd have to have it flown over from the main island. However, only the major drug stores carry it so it's quite a big deal to get it. Plus that, since we just had it filled in the States it causes more hurdles to get it covered by insurance. It was almost comical because the doctor was talking to the pharmacist who was talking with the pharmacy on the main island while I was talking to the insurance company about whether they would even cover it. Man, what an ordeal!!! You'd think I was asking to walk on the moon or something!!!
When we walked out of the clinic, Hannah said something to the effect of, "Man, THAT sure took a long time for nothing!" It was after 5...
So today I'm thankful for the doctors who make appointments and the availability of prescriptions we have in the States!!! And for Maria's disorganization!! Thank you, God!
Despite hints of inclimate weather, at school this afternoon the kids worked very hard on their rainforest projects. They are all focused on a particular area: water, land, or people. I'm leading the group that's learning mostly about the people, but I don't teach on Thursday afternoons so my group was on their own, but doing an outstanding job! The kids are all working together to make a mock rainforest and today they began working on building things like huts, a river, flowers, butterflies, and other things the rainforest offers. During that time, I gave a piano lesson (another highlight!!), went off to check the mail (none) and have that "me time" at Mamacita's.
After school, I had to take Hannah to see the doctor at the clinic. Here's how it goes on the island: 2:40 we left school and arrived at the clinic about five minutes later. We waited about five minutes for someone to come to the front desk and get her signed in. We also paid the bill, which is twenty dollars (that's our co-pay in the States). We then sat in the waiting room with a young mom and her two children, one who was in a stroller and another who was pushing the stroller all around the waiting area, running most of the time and yelling. We waited. And waited. And waited. There were a couple of other people who wandered around the office and some who wandered in and out of the building. We continued to wait. The mom went somewhere down the hall and eventually disappeared.
At about 4:00 most everyone who worked there left. We were waiting. Finally, we were called in to have the nurse take Hannah's vitals and ask why we were there. That took about five minutes. The nurse told us we could go back out and wait for the doctor. Although we didn't see any other patients around, we were still waiting. The air conditioning was causing us both to be very cold (even though Hannah is never cold) so we took turns going outside to warm up.
Finally, we were called in to see the doctor, who is great, by the way. He's very thorough and thoughtful, so we feel totally confident with him. However, Stan sent a prescription refill to us via USPS for Hannah more than ten days ago and it still hasn't arrived, so she's been out of it since this past weekend, which isn't good. They don't have this drug on the island, so to get it we'd have to have it flown over from the main island. However, only the major drug stores carry it so it's quite a big deal to get it. Plus that, since we just had it filled in the States it causes more hurdles to get it covered by insurance. It was almost comical because the doctor was talking to the pharmacist who was talking with the pharmacy on the main island while I was talking to the insurance company about whether they would even cover it. Man, what an ordeal!!! You'd think I was asking to walk on the moon or something!!!
When we walked out of the clinic, Hannah said something to the effect of, "Man, THAT sure took a long time for nothing!" It was after 5...
So today I'm thankful for the doctors who make appointments and the availability of prescriptions we have in the States!!! And for Maria's disorganization!! Thank you, God!
I kept singing, "How do you solve a problem like Maria....." while I was reading your post. HA!
ReplyDeleteGlad you got Hannah's meds straightened out. Makes you wonder what happened to the original drugs, and who is using them right now, right?
Love you!!
Hope