Glasses and visit

On Monday Jacob and I went to the optometrist. What a difference a prescription can make! As he was being tested he missed a few letters on the wall but after the goggles were adjusted (it took a long time, very thorough) Jacob could read the smallest line of letters on the wall! Bravo. So we have the prescription, now the frames. We looked at everything and he finally found one pair that fit him well and that suited him. So we put those on hold and will go looking this weekend in Ottawa. Just to check out other places. It is hard because the kid glasses are too small and the adults are too big. I am glad we have a pair on hold. Jacob was really good about it too which made everything easier.
Jason has another bout of gout in his left toe. He just got over one episode last week and it is back. We went to NDMC yesterday and sick parade was pretty good, not a long wait at all. I wonder if the "how did we do?" survey that was new had anything to do with it or do they finally have some extra staff to help? Anyways, the doc said yes it's gout and prescribed another round of prednisone - hopefully this takes care of it. She also prescribed Lid Care for his left eye which has been red for quite a while, not pink eye like it was first diagnosed. The doc thinks it is blepharitis which may have been caused by his hospital staff, or the drugs he is on. All he has to do is wash his eye lid 2x a day and that should help. She said the military covered it but they do not.
At the pharmacy while waiting for pills the pharmacist told me that she still ahdn't gotten the misprescribed pill situation figured out about his ramipril (he is taking them 2X a day (which is normal) but on the pill bottle it says once a day and we were not told of the change. She had problems contacting his cardiologist so I marched down to his office and asked his technician about it and he got right on it. Eventually asking me about it with his heart doc and the heart doc thought it should be 2x a day too so he fixed that up. Then he asked about Jason and I told him about the gout so then he cut his spironolactone in half to see if that was the culprit causing the problem and tols us to come back for a follow up in May. I hope this works.
So back to the pharmacy I go with a new presciption and then I suggest Jason gets his INR test done, seens he is waiting so long for his drugs. He goes and gets that done (comes back 2.6 which is great). From entry to exit we were 3 hours in NDMC. Whew. But things got fixed or partially resolved anyway.
Then I went to Stella's spa and got my hair cut and eyebrows waxed (which has not been done since last May) - that was a treat. I love my new do, I really needed a treat. Then I headed over to the Snooks to visit with Nan and Pop Stacey and Heather and the kids! They came and surprised Denise and Tony! She had let me in on the secret and I was so excited to see them all. Last night we all went over and it was so good to visit with everybody. A better evening.