Friday, October 24: Mike’s issues! Trip to Silver Spring

Good day everybody I think I slept pretty well, but I’m still a little bit tired of course. It’s a cool partly sunny day here in Philadelphia. I went back to Mike’s. He had to move from the bed and then the 

physical therapist came over. Tony encouraged Mike to get out of the bed. He asked Mike a series of questions and Courle and had the doctor call him back. The doctor called back and Mike managed

to get a 11:30 AM doctors appointment at 800 Walnut the place with the funky elevators and the security guards. I guess this was better than shipping them off to the emergency room. So 

We got there early and they saw him pretty quickly and they dosed him with OxyContin and some kind of heating pad thing. I don’t know. And then Mike has to make an appointment to get blood 

work done and possible x-ray to look at his neck. So there’s another stop at Measure so it’s now 2:58 PM and the pharmacy isn’t done with the OxyContin yet and Mike’s lobbing out in his bed doing

Mike things. I’m trying to get out at 3:30 so I can pick up the rental car at 30th St. I just thought of something maybe I’ll just take an Uber to 30th St. sounds like a waste of money when I can just catch

the Broad Street sub to 15th and then go to 30th. I don’t know it’s a bit funky. Looking forward to taking a nice road trip. I think I might just take myself another super coffee since I’m not doing yoga today. Mary has her

First act together and everything’s ready on her end. I’m just trying to clear up my end of things. Well, I came back to Pharmacy at 3:30 PM and they tell me then that the OxyContin isn’t available and I asked

them why they couldn’t have had it. They couldn’t have told me earlier making some ham-handed excuse about a secret lockbox for the OxyContin. So they also told me that the doctors office phone line wasn’t working 

and I tried it myself and lo and behold. It wasn’t ringing or anything. It was absolutely absurd, so I got back to Mike’s phone the bad news and we tried calling the doctors 

Aoffice and they did pick up and some guy answered and said he would contact the pharmacy. I also went back to the pharmacy and told them 

to call the doctors office since it wasn’t glitching anymore. I then dropped off Mike’s heart monitor thing at Staples where they have UPS drop off and then finally caught the train and headed

to 30th St. now 4:20 PM. I’m supposed to pick up my Rental at four. Yikes. Well, I got to pick up and Hertz gave no problem in picking up the car it went very smoothly. Anyhow, I went to Mary’s 

got last-minute provisions and then we headed down towards I-95. We then talked to Alice about our artwork and geezers are giving which was cool. After that, we had it on Down Penrose Ave.,

South Philly really slow and then we finally got on 95 we then got off at Newark Delaware to avoid the toll and decided we’d have our dinner at the Wawa on the way cause it’s a good time and it’s already 7:13 PM. We 

probably won’t arrive at the hotel till at least 8:30 PM. We arrived at the Marriott and checked in with much ease. We got ourselves organized and decided that we weren’t gonna watch any TV and stuff but the Toronto Blue Jays did whip up on the Los Angeles Dodgers game One 11–4. That was a good thing. They did play at Toronto in Toronto has to win its home games to have a chance to beat the Dodgers.

Thursday, December 28: More Fun w/ CVS Caremark Pharmacy

Well this morning I got up and got a little bit late to Mike’s. The

 ride from SEPTA was uneventful which is always good and then I just merely went to Mike’s and dida  little sweeping and then went on an errand. Mike found out 

that the Rite Aid is officially closing on January 11, 2024. I had a feeling it was closing so it’s not a complete
shocker. After I got back with Mike Mary  

 said she went to Ray and found out the prices of one of the activities. She figured it would be close to $500 an extra expenses once we got there. Then, got a notice from CVS that

 they’re going to mail my prescriptions over. I called them up and found out that they didn’t approve. The prior

 is the authorization and I told the doctor and I went back-and-forth 



with them. I have a nice dossier. The woman was very nice on the phone. It’s a prior authorization group that’s incompetent
mean I have a whole thing on my Notes app about this bullshit so I left it that , that would either be 24 hours for the pre-authorization or 48 hours for the preop authorization

 before they would mail it in. I did give my credit card information so when they’re ready to mail it to just bill me and it’ll be mailed hopefully sometime before January 14 when I’m off to Costa Rica. It’s still drizzly outside even though weather doesn’t show any rain.  it’s 3:45 PM heading over to yoga class.  
Class was very hot! Good thing I brought Gatorade and water with me because I drank that stuff right up. I then took a shower and got some more water and drink half of that water before 

Vinyasa class. Asia don’t take Vinyasa class on Thursdays but today was the last class so I did. Mary did as well. I got my third thing of 

water today just now it’s 654. I have CODA wish I could go there early and sleep upstairs for a minute, but there’s an AA meeting 
but anyway hopefully the rain drizzle stopped. I went over to Mary’s 

and just relaxed and skipped the CODA meeting because I was tired and 

it felt good. Just lying down and resting. I left there around 10:30 and 

called to 21 and came home. That resting was really clutch. then to the final week of 2023 is closing out.