UPSET

I am so upset right now.  My clinic I go to is closing on the fifteenth.  Plus a number of other doctors in this frigging cow town are retiring or moving.  Its throwing approximately another ten thousand people out there with no doctor and now there are basically two clinics in this town with 40,000 people using them.  I'm not doing this.

Also there is no cardiac clinic or cancer clinic.  If you need hip, knee replacements, heart surgery, cancer treatments and probably other stuff I don't know about, you have to climb on a bus and go to Kelowna.  A friend I was talking to last night has a bone spur somewhere on her that needs attention.  She needs to see an orthopedist.  In this town its a four year wait.  FOUR YEARS!!!!  So she is being referred to one far away.  So, I have made the decision, the only decision that makes sense really, that due to my age and my diabetes, and high blood pressure etc... I need to blow this popsicle stand.

First though, I need to see a doctor every three months, lab checks and pill renewals.  So I am going to start by going to North Van and start the process of finding a family doctor.  There are lots of clinics there as well THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO LINE UP AT 7 IN THE MORNING FOR.  

I had planned on moving to North Vancouver to a senior place, probably renting in a cheaper one, in about five years.  But I am not going to wait until something more serious, like heart or cancer comes down the pipe, then plan the move and going to north Van and finding a place etc.  I am going to get a jump on it now.

First things first though I need to get Monte settled.  Where he lives now is temporary. I need to help him figure things out in Port Alberni.  Then I shall figure out where to live cheaply in North Van and gitter done.  Fortunately being a senior helps.  If I were twenty years younger there would be no way I could move there.  But there are quite a few senior places, full apartments I can look into.

I have always figured that eventually I would end up back in North Van.  I have always loved living there and I have friends and my girls nearby.  It will probably take a while though.  Waiting lists, applications, selling the condo, I have a dog, any number of things will just take time.  Gee I have a mortgage on an apartment in North Van.  Maybe she will quit paying and I can kick her out and take ownership!  Haha!!  Just kidding.  TTYL


FAMILY/FRIENDS:  This is an easy one.  I am so blessed and grateful for my family, every single one of them.  I have a sister who is fun and such a good companion and urges me into doing things that I would never do...and its sooo good for me.  I love her to bits!  And I have a brother who has more integrity in his little finger than a hundred good people put together.  He has the most awesome sense of humour and I love telling him funny stories, his laughter is so infectious.  And he has my back like no one else in the world.  And every singe one of my kids...well....I would simply lay down and die for them.  And the hundreds of awesome cousins, nieces, nephews and extended family.

And I have two very best friends.  What more could one ask for.  Seriously!  They are two of the most incredibly amazing and loyal people on the planet.  

I am so grateful for every single one of these people.