I’m at the mall (“The Towers Mall”, as true Charlottetonians will call it, even though Towers hasn’t been here in decades, superseded by Zellers, Target, then a bunch of little stores).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mall is next to our new “medical home”, the teaching hospital connected to UPEI, where I had an appointment this morning: We finally got a doctor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Okay, well, not a doctor (PEI can’t hold onto doctors), but there’s a team of LPNs, RNs, physios, and social workers available to us. Good enough: I’m pushing 60 and have had nothing approaching a medical in over a decade, so having blood drawn this morning was such a relief — not in a medieval blood-letting sense, but because I know there’s a host of maladies that can be detected by a blood test. Hopefully I don’t have any of them, but better to be informed, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The person who took my blood asked me what I do for a living, and I thought of my mom as I waded into telling her my life story. (She seemed interested and kept asking questions, so…)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m sat in the food court with a coffee. Grey-haired people keep doing laps around me. I guess this is how folks get their exercise these days! It’s like Day of the Dead<\/em> but with sports footwear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m at the mall (“The Towers Mall”, as true Charlottetonians will call it, even though Towers hasn’t been here in decades, superseded by Zellers, Target, then a bunch of little stores). The mall is next to our new “medical home”, the teaching hospital connected to UPEI, where I had an appointment this morning: We finally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}