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Bridge: What will his costume be?
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Llama, I think he’s going to be a mummy.
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Wish there was a "Mute" button that I can use so I don't see posts from certain people who complain endlessly but do nothing about the problems. They are complicit in their own misery, but won't take responsibility, most probably out of weakness and meekness. Such a turn off.
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Polar, I agree about the mute button. Some remarks a little off.

Llama, My husband was a mummy. We had 105 trick or treaters. No older kids. Just the little ones who were cute.
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Wait.... you had trick or treat today?
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CW, Our Small town always moves Trick or Treat to Saturday night, if Halloween is on Friday or Sunday. Town has Trunk or Treat on Friday night. Lots of kids who live out in the country come to town for Trunk or Treat.
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Bridge: That must have been a good costume.
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Polar: Isn't there an option to "unfollow?"
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Llama - yes I do unfollow threads that just upset me to read, but there are other general threads for everyone to share which I don't want to unfollow.
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I unfollow threads when I am sick of 10-15 responses in my newsfeed on the same question. I think having all responses on a thread to appear in my feed is absurd to say nothing of completely redundant! I prefer to see what is going on in more than one or two threads.

Two current that are in this class
Dad transferring drivers license to Florida
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Mom always having to spend Xmas with daughter and not son.
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I agree Glad!
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Bridge, I would like to see your husband 👍
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Mina, all my best wishes to you!
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glad - I wish admin would put us back to the old way of alerting us to new comments on a thread - " 'so and so' and 3 others commented" or whatever it was. I too unfollow threads as the individually posted new comments to one thread sometimes fill up my screen and more. The old way gave us a much more balanced view of the activity in discussions and questions and therefore a better opportunity to stay engaged in various threads.

Admin -are you reading this?
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The threads that fill up are almost always those that are featured in AgingCare emails, I figure if dozens of others are commenting I won't be missed when I bow out.
I'd still like to see anything posted by the OP highlighted in some way so that everyone can easily find any new, relevant information they post.
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Completely agree golden! And I wonder if admins have looked to see how many threads go unanswered and not seen because of the threads that receive so many answers.

And CW, so often OP's do not come back. It would be helpful to somehow see or be notified when OP posts again.
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When my news feed fills up with too much of the same, I not only unfollow the thread, I unfollow the posters who are keeping a thread going way past it's sell-by date.

Sometimes, I get irritated, and want to post: "Asked and answered".

Finally, I avoid the Aging Care forum for awhile, whenever I cannot be helpful, whenever people are getting mean, whenever it gets too out of whack.

I would love to have a notification when the OP comes back. We get that in our news feed, but it could be highlighted that this is the OP from a question/discussion you are following.

Anyone can contact the admins by sending an email via 'About Aging Care'.
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I've noticed a few regular posters who are guilty of resurrecting threads that in my opinion have already run their course. I can't understand why people who have been long term members still haven't figured out to check the date of the original post, or bother to scan previous comments, especially in short threads.
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Not sure, but I think that the admins do get days off.

There may be a trend that the caregivers posting here are expected to be self-regulating and additionally, appreciated for self-moderating.

We can always vote with our feet by not responding at all to certain posts.

Whenever I become extra irritated by others, I try to look to myself as to why something so unimportant irks me so. Then I log out and go have some fudge.
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Trending on AC:
Unfollowing threads.....
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Cwillie: Oftentimes as of recent someone will comment on a really old post, bringing it back in the Feed, unfortunately.
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Another thought have had is to allow the OP to close their own thread. I am sure, especially new posters, get sick of reading so many responses especially when so many are the same and might not be what the OP wants to read.
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That is another good idea Glad!
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I sent earlybird a message last night to check on her and her mom.
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gladimhere, I like the idea of the original poster being able to "close discussion". We have that on the NextDoor [community] forum.

One thing I have noticed, some will read just the Title and answer, without reading the whole post and any of the threads. That happens in pretty much in all the forums that I view.

I stopped using the feed years ago, I found for myself it was easier to just scroll and read anything new of interest. If someone has written the very same thing I was going to write, I tend to click on the "like" key.
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Worrying about my dad. He’s 95, many health problems including CHF and on Hospice. He’s eating very little but still drinking Ensure and water. His swelling is under control. His breathing is getting more difficult. I see him at the nursing home a couple of hours a day. I hate seeing him die by inches.
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Great day at the beach. Beautiful weather. Went crabbing. Caught 32 big blue crabs.
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OuterBanks74: So sorry to hear that your dad is on hospice.
Glad that you got to go crabbing. Did you a trot line or crab traps?
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Llama, String, piece of chicken neck, plastic soda bottle. Pull up two or three at a time. My husband I usually set 5 or 6 lines at a time.
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OuterBanks74: Looks like you used a trot line. Good for you.
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