We arrived on time, 10:45, and went right into the doctor's office. I told her I needed a referral for Joan for control of her triglycerides and two medicines. She wrote them, and we went to the Apteka to fill the prescriptions. They didn't have the complete amount, so I have to go back tomorrow.
When I looked at the referral, it had an address in Krakow. I wasn't about to drive for 5 hours just to have a blood test taken.
I called back the clinic, told them the problem, but the lady only spoke Polish and used many words I didn't know. So, I called my friend, Michal, and explained the problem, and he called her.
His return call to me informed me that there is a new diagnostic clinic only 3 blocks from the Apteka, and that is where I needed to go. On Monday, we will go there because they are closed on the weekend.
On the way home, we stopped at Solacki Park and spent an hour just sitting on a bench and enjoying the great weather, 78 F.
Meanwhile: Ukraine
>>A Patriot air defense system critically needed to protect Ukrainian cities from Russian ballistic missile strikes is back in action thanks to an elite team of German technicians fixing war damage the American manufacturer said was impossible to repair, the major German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reported on Thursday.
Keller told FAZ civilian and military technical staff from the German Luftwaffe overhauled the US-made radar unit, working sixteen hours a day from Monday to Saturday. The radar was transported back to Ukraine in July and by early August had been used in a successful intercept of a Russian strike, he said.
>>The Netherlands will buy 500 million euros ($577 million) of US weapons for Ukraine, becoming the first NATO member to fund a full package under a new scheme to speed deliveries from American stockpiles, the defense ministry said.
The Dutch package includes US Patriot missile parts and other systems tailored to Ukraine’s front-line requirements, according to the defense ministry.
>>Ukrainian drones from the Security Service’s (SBU) elite CSO “A” unit struck Russia’s Saky airfield in occupied Crimea overnight, reportedly destroying a combat aircraft and causing millions in damage.
As a result of the Ukrainian strike, a Su-30SM fighter jet was completely destroyed, while another was severely damaged, according to the SBU’s press service on Monday, Aug. 4.
Additionally, three Su-24 bombers were hit. The strike also targeted an ammunition depot located on the base. Source-Kyiv Post
