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Mom said she felt exhausted for 4 days and had tightness in her chest and had me drive her to the emergency room on Monday, then take her home at 02.
Tuesday morning she read that she had a serious heard condition--and immediately felt tightness in her chest.
She had me drive her back last night.
As soon as the doctor said she doesn't have that condition she felt better and wanted to come home.
She had us retrieve her at 03.

When I was leaving Show Low to see my client there was a Camry with California plates stopped in the left-hand lane for no reason.
When I was approaching Snowflake a Previa with I think Minnesota plates passed a vehicle and then swerved towards me.
I served out of the way and then slammed on my brakes because I was halfway info incoming traffic.
Then the driver and passenger flipped off me.

I needed to explain to my client again that I am moving to the valley and will need to work with her through Zoom, probably at a different time.

She thoroughly dislikes change.

Imagine if the Previa driver had knocked me into incoming traffic!

With the hospital trips and taking care of my brother I had not signed up for utilities yet. So far I have electricity being turned on Friday, but water and gas not being turned on until Monday, and 140 mbps dialup next Thursday.

I still don't know how to sign up for garbage or sewage, both are through the City of Gilbert, but I cannot find any links.

I tried searching, but all of the relevant links were purple, because I already visited them.

I asked Bard and ChattGPT they also linked pages that I had already visited, although they claimed that I could click on specific links, which, of course, I could not find, even when I searched for specified words.

However, twice Bard made that "I don't know" sound without looking, much like my client in Holbrook.

I need to sign up for a mailbox in-person, since I need a key.

Maybe I mentioned it elsewhere, but the school gave me 7 days to get my doctor to sign a form stating that I have received a physical in the past year and am up-to-date on immunizations.

That nurse I took out said something like this, which is exactly what she wrote when I asked I asked the VA "Have I had a physical in the past year?"

"I will alert the MSA to make you an appointment VVC at 1130 slot and will ask them to convert appointment to CVT so you come in person to the clinic."

Okay, okay, I don't know any of those acronyms, but they want to schedule me for several weeks after my program starts, so that will not work, which I informed them, and they ignored it.

They kept having the same guy call to schedule even though I kept telling him there was no way the SLP program would wait that long.

I called the nurse line just to ask if I had received a physical in the past year.
It said the average wait time was 13 minutes.
After 14 minutes it sent me back to the main menu claiming the average wait time was 14 minutes.
After 15 minutes, another scheduler said they would relay a message to Nurse Wretched.

I downloaded a text file of my medical history, which is 620kb and 360 pages in Word, put it on Mom's old iPad, and tried to schedule an appointment with the closest urgent care clinic, but apparently the hospital chain that bought out the urgent care chain not only jacked up the prices for the same services, but closed the closest location.

The local hospital has a clinic down the street from the closed competitor, but they don't accept appointments, and the wait time was 90 minutes.

I scheduled an appointment with the urgent care in the next town, past the hospital, and they said they cannot do school physicals, but they gave me the number for a clinic in Show Low that scheduled me for yesterday.

However, then and only then the VA called and left a voice mail that was exactly like the previous several, but when I called and asked for them to cover a physical from that clinic they said "We tried calling you to schedule for Thursday, but you didn't answer. I guess it wasn't important to you."

I picked it up after one ring and they were already gone.

They kept saying September, but when I mention a community care clinic, suddenly they are available within 48 hours, but I am the obstacle?

They kept saying I needed to come in for telehealth from the Show Low clinic, but now I can do it from anywhere.

Fantastic.

Now I am sure that some nurse will answer the video call and ask if I am experiencing a mental health emergency.
"Yes, the VA is specifically designed to cause those."

Presumably the doctor will say "I see that you had a physical in November and are up-to-date on immunizations, why did you demand this appointment?"
"Please fill out the form, Doctor."

Day 2: Electric Boogaloo.
I wasn't able to see any clients. Bank of America isn't working. I needed to call 3 times to talk to a human, who hung up on me after 23 minutes.

Hours later I received a useless e-mail.

The VA isn't working. I waited 30 minutes for my doctor to connect, it automatically disconnected me, and I thought that we finally got on-track, but I don't have any idea when my doctor will sign my form.

Mom and my brother aren't working. I unloaded both lockers, almost singlehandedly, dropped off the dolly in front of the gate, and backed into the driveway with the 20' truck.

Mom claimed that she wanted to donate a great deal of the stuff from her locker, but she didn't go through it then, and she didn't go through the stuff the guys from Church helped me move into the driveway.

The thrift store doesn't open until 10 and I plan on donating all of my old Army gear, but I cannot imagine Mom coming to tell me what to donate.

I need to get her and my brother to pack for an extended stay, meet the landlord at a reasonable time, and then unload when it will be over 100‎°.