2. In lieu of going on a statin (which I do not want to do), doctor and I compromised on me having a CT scan to determine my Cardiac Calcium Score before making a firm decision. He warned me that I would probably have to pay out of pocket for it, but it wasn't terribly expensive. I had the scan done a couple of weeks ago, and I had a follow-up appointment with doc this week. Anything below a score of 100 was acceptable; my score was really low...like really low. So YAY no statin prescription, AND my insurance covered the cost of the scan with no OOP expense.
3. I was able to reserve two books at the library, and I picked them up when I went to volunteer there this week. Both are for the 2025 Challenge, and one of the two is also for July's book club selection. YAY for lending libraries, and also for combining two trips into one!
4. Yesterday I made another big pasta salad. This one with bowtie pasta, orange sections, red grapes, apples, blanched broccoli, celery, carrots, cucumber, red onion, chicken breast, and mayo whisked with Italian dressing to dress it...to the individual servings I added feta cheese and pecans also. There is plenty for the two of us to have tonight, and probably another day. Thank you, yesterday's me, for putting in the work, so today I don't have to.
5. Carey just got home from another week with his sister and b-i-l. They are both improving since their car accident. I'm so glad he could help them out. He was invaluable when I was injured in my rollover car accident back in 2008 (?), so he has had practice. Another brother was able to help them in between Carey's visits. And I'm also glad that he took our old car which gets much better gas mileage than his huge truck. Now whether it's wise to be paying insurance for all three vehicles we now own...we will have to get that figured out.
On the menu this week was:
Saturday: we shared a takeout sandwich
Sunday: grocery-store sushi
Monday: grazed
Tuesday: Spanish Rice
Wednesday: leftovers
Thursday: Pasta Salad
Friday: Leftover Pasta Salad
**designates meatless meal
I got rid of two cars in the last 7 months and I was pleasantly surprised to see the reduction on my insurance, not to mention not having to pay for the registration, oil change inspection...
ReplyDeleteThat is a concern for me. We lowered the coverage for the old car and truck to liability only. Now we will watch and see if it's affordable to keep all three. I wanted to get rid of gas guzzling pickup, but Carey does still use it. I told him that's what truck owning son-in-law is for. :)
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