No sign of Summer ending here, yet! It's still nearly 80 when I get up in the mornings. UGH. Have I mentioned that we don't ever intend to get stuck down here in the summer again??? If we ever get out of here, that is! Filled up the tank on the rv hauler yesterday--$118!!!! That would get us about 400 miles up the road--not even to Atlanta! On the other hand, we could be in the midst of the exodus from New Orleans! Katrina is a Cat. 5. Those folks have known for a very long time that it was just a matter of time before one came right at them and swept 25' waves into their 'bowl'.
Hubby is still fighting sleep just to go to work and spending the weekends sleeping--while we play the doctors' games... He and I know that he has a sleep disorder called Periodic Limb Movement, because we know that so many things AREN'T causing it, but we have to wait for help until everyone has run all the tests over and over! I understand that doctors know way more than the people they are supposed to help, but there's a line between that and admitting that the patient might NOT be an ignorant moron! The 'frustration level' is way high! You'd think that they'd believe us when we say that he sleeps ALL THE TIME and needs help to stay awake NOW. The civilian doc he saw not only didn't want to hear what we had to say, he didn't even want to see the medical records...HE isn't going to take anyone else's word for anything! Gotta run his own tests. (I'm pretty sure it has a little to do with kickbacks down here. NO GP treats anything anymore. If you are due for a colonoscopy, they send you to a specialist instead of ordering the test. Need a pap test? They send you to the gynecologist. Something in your eye? Opthamologist, of course.) I've never seen anything like it anywhere else in the country. Must be a "Florida Thing". Soooo, the VA has him scheduled for an EEG on October 18 and a visit to a neurologist on October 31. But, that's just the VA. There's always a 2 month wait with them... I promise, if my hubby falls asleep driving to work, I'm going to sue everyone he's been to see for the last 6 months! Not one of them has offered him any temporary treatment! They all act like he's exaggerating.
There, I guess I've vented!
