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It’s so dark outside it’s kinda creepy but kinda cool.

The California and Arizona fires are mixing and have been for a few weeks, giving us a red sun and eerie reddish brown “cloud” cover that has actually saved us from having a few 120F/48C plus days.

All week it was supposed to be at least 118F/47C 🥵 and yet for two of the days it was 115F/46C and yesterday was 106F/41C.

But then a storm rolled in last night, so now we’re in this weird blue+brown+red cloud cover that OOH it just started raining gotta go sniff the air! 🌧️🤗🌧️

Okay I’m back. Yeah it’s a really weird combo of colors outside and it’s super dark, but a little bit of the eerie-ness went away once everything was wet. Or maybe that’s just me 😍 enjoying the rain!

For somebody who hates extreme heat and loves rain and has a high-ish tolerance for cold living in the desert is kinda silly, no? 🤣

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I had a dream last night where I think I was Dean Winchester, but my family was still my family. I kept having tooth pain, and I had already been to this place before to get dental work done, so I knew how it worked.

This time I was in the prep area where families can still be with you, but I was already on a rolling stretcher table. My family didn’t look like my family, but three to five of them would be around me at one time.

A doctor in a lab coat came out of the back and handed me a bunch of pills out of his hand. There was lint and a few pieces of paper in with the pills and I was like ugh that sucks so I started picking through them.

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Here’s how our (my mom and I) first lab draw from in-home phlebotomist went.

• dude was covered in sweat and complaining that his car was breaking down and he couldn’t use the A/C
• i had to ask him to put a mask on
• he had to search through his car for a mask that was on the floor in the back of the car
• he wasn’t sure how many tubes he needed to fill for the tests my mom and i needed so he looked it up on his phone while we waited
• he used ONE pair of gloves for both my mom and i and kept wiping is forehead, hair, and neck to get rid of the sweat dripping
• as he was taking the blood, he was whipping the full tubes into his bag
• once all the tubes from both of us were tossed in the bag he was like “oh I guess I should’ve labeled those” pulled them back out and labeled them
• the pads he used to bandage us were in the bottom of his bag and not packaged
• he forgot that we needed urine samples, so he went back out to his car and searched the back seat and the trunk for a container, all without changing his gloves and neither the container nor the specimen bag were packaged or sealed
• he couldn’t figure out how to note on the papers that a copy needed to be sent to my primary doc so i called my doc and got the fax number for him
• after he left his car actually did break down
• he left the car there for an unknown amount of time and had his “friend” pick up the bag of blood tubes and take them to a lab for him
• he’s tried calling us a bunch of times trying to get us to give him more info because “the lab needs to be paid for this” but he lost all our information so they can’t bill our insurance company for it

I haven’t given him any more info, and when I called the company that employs him, they said very dismissively “yeah we’ll look into that.” The woman couldn’t have sounded less concerned or surprised by the whole thing, and I doubt she even did anything about it.

The second time we got it done it was with GetLabs.com, and I very highly recommend them!

They’re only in about 3 states right now, but they were super professional, very nice, and the woman that came to do the lab draw was really calm and patient with my mom, who had recently had a seizure. She also very carefully labeled everything and had me check everything before she left.

She had biohazard containers, changed her gloves frequently, wiped down everything, and packed it all so our stuff didn’t get mixed up.