A Day in my Life; September

 Ready or not; September is here!  As I always do, I'm sharing how the first day of the month went for me.

I've been trying to walk more.  I used to walk every morning, then developed a lot of pain, was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and was unable to do it.  Now that the medication is helping control it, I'm trying to get into the habit of spending time on the treadmill before I go to work.

After walking I got ready for work and was in my car about 7:40.

It was a beautiful morning!  There was a light fog and the temp was 60 degrees.  This was taken right on the corner of my street.

The fields look so pretty with this little bit of fog hanging over them.

As I drove further the fog was lifting and the sun was shining.

I got to work about 8:15.  I start at 8:30 but like to get there a little early and get things situated.  This is my office.  Our Geriatric practice is on the bottom floor and there is a family practice on the top floor.

On the first day of the month, I get to flip this monthly calendar and see cute pics of my granddaughters from the year before.  I love having this on my desk!

I also have a daily calendar, and I thought this verse was a good reminder for me as the situation in our world never seems very positive.

Here's my work computer, with the screen it opened with on Thursday.  This is the view every employee in our system got on that day, and it's special because the nurse in the bottom corner with the 45 on it, is a friend from my office; actually the person who recruited me to this job.  She was being celebrated because it was her 45th anniversary of working for Spectrum Health.  She started as a Candy Striper in high school, worked as she went to Nursing School, worked for years in the hospital and now works in our office.  Such an accomplishment!

Here's Cindy, with cake and flowers.  The article said she was a caring person, caring for people and it's so true.

We have different jobs we are assigned to each day, and my job this day was in-basket.  This is a section on our computer system, where the doctors send messages with lab or x-ray results that we call the patients and notify them and then chart it, doctors also ask us to set up referrals to other doctors, hospice, home care, physical therapy... They also have us call and check on people who they have different concerns for, talk to families about concerns or answer inquiries that are sent in by patients via their electronic chart.  It's never boring.
Of course, we are all answering phones too, and you never know what you will get with that!  I had a cute one on Thursday - an older lady called and said she wanted to inform me that there was a problem with our phone system because every time she called her friend, she got us!  I asked if she had checked to make sure she had the right number and she said "yes, this is the number I used for years.  Something must be wrong with the phones".   :)

It was a good day; not too busy, not too slow!

I left work just a few minutes after 5.

I stopped to get groceries on the way home.

You know you are on a country road when there is corn on one side of the road...

and a house with hay in the front yard on the other!

I also saw these cows on the way home.  They were too busy eating to look at me.

I got home about 6:30 and put groceries away.  I had some leftovers that I heated for supper.
Bob was working late and came home about 7:15.  I heated supper for him, made lunches for the next day and then we sat and relaxed.
It was another good day!