Rehab treatment centers in california seem to advertising themselves as if they were luxury vacation spots where people can address their problems in posh accommodations and comfort. When I think of a person going to a spot like that I think of them going to a spa to get facials, manicures and pedicures. I often wonder if allowing people to be in such comfort while they are trying to fix their problems is really going to be as effective as it would be if the accommodations were a little bit more spartan.
Category: General Life
We have a customer that calls our pharmacy every day as soon as it opens. She talks to one of us for at least thirty minutes. She is a very nice lady, but her timing is really bad! When the pharmacy first opens it is slammed with customers wanting to pick up the prescriptions that they called in for refills overnight. No one worked overnight, so the opening crew needs to hustle and fill them all as soon as possible.
Well, today we received a huge gift basket full of fruit, crackers, cake and snack foods delivered to us. The card said it was from the lady who calls us every morning, thank us for our patience! Wasn’t that nice of her! I think accepting it is a violation of the company’s policies, but I’m not the one the basket was addressed to, and I’m not the one who accepted it, so I won’t get in trouble. It would be interesting to see if anyone DOES get in trouble for it!
Post contributed by Hilton Miranda
My sister and I have been talking about our energy providers a lot recently and trying to decide if we want to go green. We were using Stream Energy Comparison to see how much her provider differed. We both thought that making more green decisions would be harder than it is. Everyone keeps talking about going green, but really I did not know what people meant when they said it. It just sounded like a catch phrase to me. I think it started with my sister always following me room to room and turning all the lights off. I thought it was annoying at first, but she explained to me that we should conserve energy and lights were a part of that. She convinced me we needed to do it with the lights, the water and even with how much trash we threw away. Now the next step for us is choosing a provider that will allow us to keep saving energy and making green decisions. My sister says that no matter who the provider, it really comes down to decisions like turning out the light.
Last night a woman came in for some medical advice. I find it interesting how many people come to the pharmacy to ask for medical advice before calling their doctors!
This woman was concerned that her bi-polar daughter might be pregnant. She had her tubes tied a few years ago, but was now displaying all of the symptoms of pregnancy. So the mother came in to ask if it was possible she was pregnant. Knowing that I’m not allowed by law to give medical advice, I was skating on thin ice. So I told her that I had a girl friend who had her tubes tied and got pregnant a few years later anyway, so yes it was possible.
So then she asked what should she do. I told her to buy one of the early pregnancy test kits and use it to find out if the daughter really is pregnant. I told her that there are other medical conditions that could mimic pregnancy, but she should do the test kit and then call her doctor. She thanked me for my advice and told me that she hoped it was one of the other medical conditions and not pregnancy. I kept my mouth shut at that point, other than telling her to consult the doctor. To the best of my knowledge the other medical conditions that can mimic pregnancy are not good at all. I think pregnancy would be preferable!
After the woman left I apologized to the pharmacist for not asking her to come and counsel the patient. She was within earshot the whole time. She told me that I told the woman exactly what she would have told her, but next time to call her into the conversation. She was nice about it, but I felt bad anyway.
Thank goodness my kids have finished their college education and we no longer have to search for financial aid information to get them to have enough money to sig up for their college courses. It was becoming extremely difficult to get the help we needed for one of my sons that struggled with his grades. But now we are in the stage of repaying his student loans, which is another challenge on it’s own right.
When I was talking with Madeline about how we had to search far and wide for the financial aid, she was telling me that she had heard that her son might qualify for a scholarship for left handed students. I had never heard of any scholarships based on something like that! What will they think of next!