December 19th

What a day!!  It started out great.  I met Pam's ladies at the Good Eat Cafe in downtown Vallejo.  It was wonderful food and we had a lot of fun.  All except the Power going out for a couple of minutes that I gasped and remembered the 4 days I was without Power during Sandy.  It came back on and we got our food.  What a relief and all was back to normal.  I left after I ate but before all were ready to leave.  I was off to Julie's.

Julie was on the phone trying to get her prescription for her pain medicine which she discovered would run out before tomorrow.  I too was on the phone and finally we were both ready to do some Christmas shopping.  Julie did do well though getting in and out of the car was a bit rough.  We stopped at Kohl's first and picked up everything we could find there.  At the check out Julie finally got the call back from the doctors office where they said she had to pick up the prescription in Stanford and of course we were in Alameda.  Needless to say Julie was all up set and I said I'd make the trip.  

I got Julie back to the house and I was off.  It was a long ride down with lots of traffic.  I finally pulled up to the Valet at 5:33 pm and they said Valet closed at 5:30.  I had to drive back to the parking garage and walked back to the hospital.  I went down to the Pharmacy in the basement and found Deepak, who was the director of the Pharmacy.  He didn't have any idea what I was talking about but said he'd help me.  He called the doctors office and asked to talk with the doctor on call.  He then had the idea to go to the nurses station where Julie stayed.  Sure enough the prescription was there.  Deepak took me back to his office and gave me a gift card for Starbucks for all of the trouble I was having.  He was so very kind. Deepak's assistant took me to the Walgreen pharmacy which was located in the Cancer Center, It was a long line but finally got up to the counter to find out that they were out of the medicine.  The assistant said I could go to another Walgreens close by but I asked if they Alameda Walgreens had it since that was where I got it filled for Julie before.  They did have it and they were open until 9 pm.  The lady was so very nice and double checked that the prescription was right, changing Julie's last name and checked in the computer to make sure that she had it filled before.  All was in order.

Now to get back to the car which was quite a ways away.  The attendants said that the shuttle wouldn't  be back by for another 10 minutes but as I started to walk I saw the shuttle coming up the drive.  I knew everything would be alright.  I talked with Julie and of course she was upset but happy I had made progress.  I got back to the garage to find the machine wouldn't take my money.  The attendant said to bring the ticket and the money and he would take it.  I was on my way and my gps said I'd be in Alameda by 8.  Traffic did get sticky and I took a wrong turn so drove around the 101 interchange a bit but got back on track and arrived at the Walgreens by 8:30 pm.  Again I had great people helping me and I soon had my prescription filled and I arrived back a Julie's.  She had a nice slice of turkey with a great side dish all ready for me and I felt such a relief that she had her medicine.

Now for the trip home to Pam's.  I arrived home about 10 and it took another hour or so for me to relax and get ready for bed.  I am so grateful that I have such a great place to relax and be part of.  It felt so good to finally crawl into my bed.

Though tiring it was a good day and I got to spend a lot of time with Julie.