Well it wasn’t a med error, at least I don’t think so. I went in, got report, washed my hands, walked around, and worked up the nerve to open the orders and read what it said. It was ordered to be given monthly on the fourth Saturday of the month at 2000. I breathed a sigh of relief but that didn’t explain why the vial package label said once weekly on Mondays. I did not call pharmacy to get the story from their side.

You’re not supposed to alter pharmacy labels so I put a sticky note on the bag with the other instructions. Now I’m looking at my phone seeing that Saturday was the fifth Saturday, not the fourth, except I’m almost positive the order said to be given on the 29th which was why I was so relieved. This really is just crazy now, so I’m not going to go there and I’m letting this go. The shot did not pop up again Sunday night which means it wasn’t a reminder.

One woman asked if she should be evacuating. She said she was making plans with her husband except her husband has been dead for many years. I thought maybe she’d been hearing things about the hurricane except she can’t really hear and her TV is always turned on to movies or music. The two spouses whose significant others suffered strokes were there as almost always to feed their loved ones.

Many of the spouses live close by or in the independent living sections. One man comes and sits with his wife everyday. My husband is a cousin to his wife, first cousin once removed is what we officially found out after he looked it up to be sure. Illinois lost after whatever Big Ten game they were playing the day before. I could hear Trinity’s service replaying on the TV and he said to tell my husband he was a superstar now. We talked about the sermon.

The boys and I had the most boring day in social studies. After about ten pages we couldn’t get through the words without laughing about them. It’s like that sometimes, where you just have to get through the dates and the names. One kept pronouncing Plymouth the way it looks like you’d say it: Ply-Mouth. They thought I wouldn’t notice if we missed it today, which is very understandable, but I definitely always do.