Rosy dawn, Textiles and Tea

Today I woke to a bedroom full of pink light. Rosy-fingered dawn, thank you, Homer.

This lasted only a few minutes, lucky to have caught it.

Yesterday's Textiles and Tea was a high energy production weaver who designs and sells towels and blankets, with occasional clothes. She shows with the American Craft Council, too, high-end stuff.

And does a lot of yarn dyeing, where she and her husband are a production team. Great presenter,  more technical than I could keep up with, but get those yarn colors!

I seem to have a permanent achy shoulder, maybe irritation from knitting, so I'm alternating with stitching in the hope that helps. Meanwhile Sock One of Pair Seventeen of the Sock Ministry is done. 

I'm running low on the donated yarn, so only a couple more pairs to do before I ask for more supplies.

Yesterday I spent an entire morning online trying to complete the pre cataract surgery information. 

I had all the relevant cards and numbers ready to go, and went to the website following the directions on the sheet.

But  The sheet I'd been sent, created by the surgical center and forwarded by the eye doctor's office, gave wrong information on how to access the info site. 

The link did not go to the screens they illustrated, and after a number of fruitless searches of their site, trying every link, I called to ask if I could process by phone, which they'd offered as an option. 

The nice lady who answered said oh no, that's not the right link, you need the medical passport link. Which I explained was not on their website, insist they ever so much. So I followed the right link she gave me, and found I already had an old medical passport on record, dating from years back.

Fine. But my now outdated password didn't work. And my user ID was refused on the grounds that it was already in use. Well, yes, by me. Eventually they let me create a new password, and finally let me in. 

The actual filling out was pretty simple, once I'd got in there, and I had to make updates and corrections. But now it's done, and acknowledged and sent to my doctor. So far so good.  

After my procedures are done I hope I get the chance to evaluate their coordination. It looks as if the website was changed without regard to the paperwork they'd sent to patients, and without anyone checking they were still sending valid material out. 

Likewise one of my Rxs was different from the listing I'd been sent with instructions. But I checked with the pharmacist, who pulled the rxs and confirmed they'd put up exactly what doctor had called in. She reviewed the directions for the rx, confirmed them, too. Evidently another place where they do something different without catching up the paperwork. 

This is not good patient care, when it involves leaving patients struggling with outdated information. So there! They'll hear about it once I'm safely done.

Different doctor this afternoon, rheumatologist. She'd better be good, since this patient is prepared to take no prisoners!

But a few minutes' painting last evening with a big flat brush cheered me right back up.

To get a palette with bright clean color, I sprayed the dry pigments. Old trick, works nicely.

Happy day everyone. Reports on the rheumo recommendations later. 

Meanwhile, please don't despair. Good people are working to repair the damage done by a few bad ones. We still matter.