To sleep, perchance to dream.....

 This past week, the insomnia has been BAD.

But last night, at last, I slept, and I slept for nearly 12 hours! 

Hopefully, the fatigue I have been experiencing will start to wane a bit with quality sleep coming back.

Tomorrow is scan day.  

OU health is already billing me far more than my out of pocket, and now they will be sending another $21,000 claim to my insurance (the nuclear bone scan is $20K, the CT around $1K).

I am waiting to pay the bill they keep sending until my insurance finishes processing all of the line items. Apparently, they have not completed that yet, and OU should NOT be billing me for items not yet processed.

I have not received any denial notices, so I will not pay more than my out of pocket unless my insurance denies something, and then, only if they denial any appeal my provider might send.

Anyway, scans are at the big hospital again, which is not my preference, but the good part is that their bone scanner is more modern than the one in the physicians' building, and it only takes 20 minutes, where the one in physicians' takes 40.

Often, though, at the hospital, I have to walk for miles, depending on where they put me in for the CT.  Last time, we had to go the entire length of the hospital to use the CT scanner in the emergency department, so I will be wearing my walking shoes!

It's going to be very hot here for a few days.  We did get a good soaking rain on Friday morning, but it only amounted to about a half inch, officially.

My re-seeded garden box already has beet and radish sprouts!  The fresh seeds were the key, but now I will have to remember to water every evening during this ridiculous heat.

Our yard was very overgrown when we got back from our trip, so we had to hire the lawn crew to mow it. Then, it took a whole week for the lawn crew to show up, so some of the stuff in the back yard was knee high.

They came yesterday, and, even after being specifically told NOT to, they mowed down my herb garden AGAIN.  We even had a barricade in front of the herbs and he stuck his weed whacker BEHIND it.

I was furious.... my oregano plant was gorgeous.  Dave texted the boss, and all he said was "Okay, sorry." We are never hiring them again....that's twice they've done this.

That being said, Dave wants to start mowing the yard himself, anyway....which we DO, unless it's too overgrown, or the weather is too hot.  I often do the back yard, which is larger, and he does the front, but now he wants to do it all.

(Dave saw his regular doctor last week, and has suddenly decided that he needs more exercise, and to reduce his alcohol consumption.... things I have been telling him for years, LOL....

Whatever it takes, and Thanks Doc!!) 

Our electric mower is older, and doesn't have the power to do the whole yard in one day, so Dave wants to get a new mower, and we will give this older one, which still works, to a friend who has a much smaller yard, and who needs a mower.

All good!

Other than my scans, Dave has another appointment this coming week, and we are getting our summer time tune up done for the HVAC system, and that friend is coming to pick up the mower at some point.

I have started doing my workouts again, and managed to lose the 3 pounds I gained (on vacation) over the course of the past 8 days.

Yay!

Sadly, it will be too icky outside for several days for us to take walks (for me, mostly, as I have zero tolerance for hot weather), but we have the pedal machine, and I have been using it since the wellness study.  Will have to rely on that, and maybe some dancing around the house, for my cardio.

Wishing one and all a good week!