Even though we don’t really see doctors any more – unless it’s an immediate emergency – we do write a lot of posts. i now know exactly what medications i need to take, and fill in the forms on line – and sometimes i actually get all of them. the ideal is to get 3 month prescriptions so i don’t have to endanger myself too often, but sometimes I forget to ask for all of them, and sometimes a situation comes up where i need something i haven’t used for a long time. But often I get the answer that my needs have been met. lately, however, since my doctor is also head of a ward that seems to be converting to corona (or maybe they’re just more than usually overcrowded), he doesn’t have too much patience for my little itches and pains, and mixes things up a bit. So when I remembered I’d forgotten to ask for something i take twice a day, and i was running out, i made a special request. i got the answer back in an hour, but it was for one month only. Okay, I needed it right away and didn’t have the strength to go back to my computer, so i went out first thing in the morning and arrived at an empty health clinic drugstore before everyone else. Except of course the pharmacists who were getting themselves ready for the usual Jewish daily onslaught.

Lately my friends and I have been getting from welfare offices, health offices, and even the municipality to ask if we need help with anything. I’m almost going to ask the next one I get if they can straighten out my medications. Not really. There are so many greater problems to solve – and with me, it’s just a little irritation. it’s pretty amazing how well so many of us are doing in this situation. When I think of it, my grandmother probably had a kidney infection in Stuthoff and for that reason, she was carted off to be made into soap. when I had a kidney infection – at a much more advanced age than her – I was in the hospital here getting iv’s before I could even feel sorry for myself.