When Mercury Goes Seriously Retrograde On Your Ass

May 6th to 30th life will likely toss you into the air and not stick around to play catch.

If you’re reading this and nodding your head, then I commiserate. Being an Aquarius, I usually step aside and just let the crap rain down, then ponder the patterns of splat. See, being an observer makes it easier to pretend it’s not your life that is being fucked with, but we both know better, don’t we?

Every day that passes, a new ordeal starts that takes me away from projects I want to finish. Today started innocently enough. Answering emails. I won’t go into the details, but it seems a certain company wants to mess with me. Just the usual mercury retrograde shit. They want to bill me double and cancel my service.

Now, normally I am a peace lovin’ type. But I have this thing about injustice. To say it really irks me is far too mild a descriptor. I also hate it when I think I’ve solved a problem, gotten a confirmation number, and find out a couple of weeks later that nothing was solved at all. Grr.

But Mercury isn’t done with me yet, or it seems, my sweet, dear old mum. The doctor kept her waiting for an hour and a half today before he finally saw her, and then only to say he is not taking her back as a patient.

The only reason the appointment scheduler put her down for the appt. was because she is new and didn’t realize mum was an old patient of the dr’s., a patient he’d thought he’d seen the last of when mum had her papers transferred to a different doctor two years ago.

So he tells her he is too busy and is not taking new patients. To which my sister said, “She’s not a new patient. She’s a returning patient.”

And he reiterated the same thing, adding that he’s sorry but he’s not taking her back. Was that a little glimmer, a twinkle in his eyes? I think it was.

So, my elderly mum sat for almost two hours in a doctor’s office for nothing. Her papers already faxed to a Dr. who doesn’t want to treat her.  Did I mention she has run the gamut of drs. here? None listen to her, or help her, or do what she wants according to her. After more than a few of these appts. I think I know why. But, without a doctor, she cannot get her prescriptions filled today and some are dangerously low.

Mercury strikes again. ::sigh::

Not sure what to do but maybe call a doctor’s referral organization, and see if anyone in the city will take her on as a patient.  If the ‘word’ about her has already made the rounds at the golf and country club,  no one will probably take her and we’ll really be screwed.  My hubby’s joke of having to move her out of state to find a Dr. may become a reality.  Sheesh.

I wonder if the AMA can help direct us? Oh, I can imagine that call.

“Hi, my name is Cassandra Curtis and I need to find a dr. for my elderly mother. She’s a real whippersnapper (she whips and man, you better snap to it if you know what is good for you — but I wouldn’t explain that part to them —   do I look stupid?)

Oh and that first appointment with any new dr. is so fun. What’s that? Oh, my mum had a little misunderstanding with your office staff. No, Dr.  She’s not cross-eyed. She’s simply practicing her evil eye, ’cause you just never know when it’ll come in handy.

LOL. Yep. Fun times. Mercury in retrograde. I can’t wait for the 30th to arrive.