Thursday, March 10, 2016

Where Oh Where Has Peg Been?

Same old, same old here. Medical issues.
Rick had a severe reaction to one of his shingles medication.
Tremors, dizziness, loss of coordination and a few more thrown in for fun.

Yes, it's been a wild ride. The pain has not really subsided but the swelling in his foot is a lot better. It is still a funky looking foot, but at least now it looks like a foot. now that this medication for shingles is causing him more harm we will have to see what the dr. says about this.  I don't think he can just stop, has to ween off this one.

He had a clean bill of health for his heart. We were thrilled. He is to take it slow for a little while longer. No heavy lifting, no heavy work, no climbing stairs with heavy equipment. So basically no work unless he drives around and does estimates. 7 more days and we'll be in Florida, that is as slow as one can get.

Our dog has a limp and the vet says it's just age and joint pain. So now Miss Izzy had a supplement that is glucosamine and a few other things for aging joints, cartilage and the like. Izzy thinks they are treats so she gobbles those down like they are candy. We got them from the vet, however, they are much cheaper on Amazon so we'll go that route next time.

Yesterday Rick was showing Gary how to install and cut that tub for the tub conversion. Originally these folks ordered the one with the door. They decided that wasn't what they wanted so we ordered for them the one without the door as in the photo I posted.

It was in Woodbridge, which is a town not very close to me. I got a call that they put the wrong one on the truck. Could I please drive down and bring the right one.  Oh, I was not a happy woman.

I put the correct one in my car and drove an hour and 10 minutes to give them the correct one and drove immediately back to the office to find 16 voicemails that I had to return.

Yep, I worked late yesterday. I was so damn angry at him.  First of all my GPS cord got smashed in so it does not plug into the outlet in my car. I gave it to Rick to fix while I had the rental from the accident. He did not fix it. Even though every damn day I would mention it.

I used my phone and used google maps. It took me to a street similar. Same name but the word Road instead of Avenue. When I got there and saw no vehicle of Rick's I called him and asked where he was.
He said, "I'm in front of the house"
I said, on such and such road?  No, such and such Avenue.  
I look at my phone and even though I put in Avenue it came up Road and took me that route. I wish I had noticed that before.

I try to put that info in my GPS but Road kept popping up instead.
It automatically changed it to road no matter how many times I closed out the app and did it again. So I tried another idea, I took out my battery.
Restarted my phone, put in the new address and it was thankfully only 13 minutes away.

I was livid. The horrific traffic, the mess I knew I'd come back to, and the fact that his head was up his butt and he took the wrong one. C'mon if Gary had done that he would be mad that he didn't check it all out before he put it in the truck.

I pulled up beside his truck and he got out and took it out of the back of my car. He apologized and I just Hmmm'd. I knew if I spoke I would regret it. He knew I wasn't happy and I knew by the time I'd see him at home I'd be fine and cooled off.  And that is exactly what happened. He came into the office and asked if it was safe to enter. I laughed and said it was because I have cooled down.
He apologized a few more times and I let him.
I told him that was karma for all the times I have sent him to the wrong house by typing the wrong numbers down on his work order.
Karma can sure be a bitch can't it?

8 comments:

Mike said...

I did GPS toons today. Did you see them?

Barbara said...

Oh my goodness. Karma probably did get you and it is never pleasant. Glad you got over it. Just remember 7 more days.

Anonymous said...

That Karma surely can be a bitch, and it can be fast too. Didn't John Lennon have something about "Instant Karma"?

Margaret (Peggy or Peg too) said...

Good one Brian!!!

Julie H said...

Man what a wild ride. I hope he starts feeling better soon.

I had a weird problem like that with the GPS on my phone. I had done directions from point A to point B but we took a detour and it WOULD NOT stop trying to get me to go back to point A. So annoying.

Margaret (Peggy or Peg too) said...

Julie, technology is frustrating. I wish I still had maps in my car!!

LL Cool Joe said...

I've had Shingles and it ain't no fun at all. And I didn't take any medicine at all!

Margaret (Peggy or Peg too) said...

LL- well you tough dog you! Actually he stopped taking all meds because of side effect. He's just dealing with the pain. How long did it last for you? He still has a pretty larger than normal foot and the pain has lessened to an 8 on a scale of 1-10. (he'd tell you he was a 15 and now an 8)