Concierge medicine, Rug routine, Secured
Yesterday when I got home I had a letter from the endocrinologist I had been going to. The letter said that one of the nurse practitioners had left the practice and as a result the doctor was going to have less time to see patients, unless you want to pay extra, of course. For the tiny sum of $2500 annually the doctor was willing to be your concierge physician! For this money you get 30 minutes of time per visit instead of 15, same week appointment scheduling (instead of two months), and you even get the doctors personal cell phone number! What a great deal, not.
I was already planning to not go to this guy anymore. I just wasn’t impressed with the interactions I had with him. I actually was more impressed with the NP that left, she actually seemed more concerned with asking questions to see what the hell has been going on with me. The doctor was more about just shotgunning tests and treatments without a lot of discussion. Needless to say I won’t be taking him up on this tremendous opportunity. The letter said to act fast, there are only limited spots available! Health care in the US blows.
Last night I decided I needed to shampoo the carpets. Actually I felt that way for awhile but I took matters into my own hands. The carpet shampooer we have has been problematic for awhile. Unless you have everything lined up perfectly it doesn’t generate good suction. I wasn’t able to completely finish the work because I could not get suction at all after a water change. After f’ing with it for a good 15 minutes I had enough. It’s a Bissel unit and it acts like all the other Bissel units I have had, after a couple years they stop working well, likely a feature engineered into the machine to generate future sales. I jumped on Amazon and bought a lighter, smaller, and well reviewed Hoover cleaner. Since we replaced the main living area with tile we have much less carpet to clean so the big Bissel was not needed anyway. It will get curbed this weekend where someone will surely pick it up. Let it become their headache.
This weekend has tasks on the agenda, lots of tasks. I keep thinking it would be nice if somehow I could find the time where Cindy and I could just go down to the beach for a couple hours and chill out. For some reason that seems incredibly difficult to make happen.
You likely have not noticed but the blog is now running a SSL certificate. (https instead of http) You should not notice any difference other than possibly a slighty longer load time. I didn’t have to do this but it is good practice nonetheless as some modern browsers will warn you of ANY sites you visit that are not encrypted.