Thursday, September 24, 2009

Harold called a little after 7 AM to make sure I was coming today. I told him that I was and that I had made an appointment with his insurance agent at 9:30 to discuss his lapsed homeowner's policy. He went ballistic! He was upset that I would make an appointment for him without his permission. When I got there he had calmed down and I canceled the appointment! I took him to breakfast at Walmart and bought a couple of items for his house. As we continued to discuss the insurance issue he agreed to have me call another agent. Jim Kaertz, a Farmers agent, will visit him today or tomorow and hopefully resolve the issue. We talked about insurance on his car at length and he agreed it was better to just sell the car! We could not find the car title in his office so we went to the DMV and applied for a duplicate title which should be sent to his home within the week. I called Steve Fail (a neighbor who gave us the valuation of the car and a car dealer) to get the logisitics set. Steve will pick up the car with dealer plates (no need to get insurance), detail it then sell it at next week's auction. We can get the signed title to him next week. Hopefully this will be the final resolution to the car issue.
Harold was also mad about the doctor appointments that I had made for his tests. I told him Kathryn had made those appointments (turns out she had asked his permission first) and that he didn't have to go if he didn't want to. I did reaffirm that he is slightly anemic and that it probably is due to a small hemmoraging internally. I Googled "hematocrit" (the test he was 3 points low) and it explained that when the RDW was high and the MCV was normal, it probably meant the patient has an acute bleeding problem. His RDW is high and his MCV is normal so we do need to follow up on this but I did not want to press my luck after getting the two insurance issues resolved. He is not very motivated in part because I think he would really rather be in the next life right now.
We also went to the bank and cashed a check for $125.00.