Krogering on Doctor Days

October opens with two Doctor Days (heart, eyes). At the same time daughter Barb is gearing up to check on our Medigap and prescription insurance status. Love that name: Medigap. As for prescriptions, our cardiologist’s staff asked that we bring our actual medications and vitamins to the office (suspecting, perhaps, that I can’t spell levothyroxine). Two Kroger shopping bags were needed. That’s for B’s Meds. My own (not needed in October yet) would only require one, but, alas, represent about three times more money to buy. I might add that my own inventory of our meds is quite meticulous; call it a Nogap list with every microgram and milliliter (of eye drops) neatly captured. When Dr. K’s staff saw my list, they no longer wished to see my bags. So I trailed B to her various exams dragging my weary Kroger bags along until we were at last dismissed for another six months. I kept the bags kind of hidden behind my legs lest other patients wondered why this old man needs to carry his groceries to Cardiology…. April 2019 thus will open with another Doctor Day. That phrase always with leading caps. As one lady said to me, referring to her parents, “If they didn’t have Doctor Days they’d have no social life at all.” Today it’s eyes. So, if the crick don’t rise, we’ll see you.