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Going to bed. Goodnight all! Sweet dreams to everyone.
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Need: Yay for no side effects on day #2. That's great.

Sweet dreams - just saw your post that you were going to sleep.♥️
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Glad: That was sad.
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News, cause was resident's belief that staff had taken $200 from his wallet. Beginning of dementia? Paranoia and accusations.

Occasionally on this site we read about elderly with cognitive problems having guns. If that is the case, the guns need to be removed from the residence. These things can happen.
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Or an undiagnosed UTI causing delusions?
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Glad,

Terribly sad.
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I contacted Aging Care team courtesy of Llama providing the number to contact them . Thank you Llama. The tech people will check into why misspelled words, typed messages disappearing and so on. Hope this helps.
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Our mayor just spoke on television.

We are averaging two deaths a day. More hospitalizations too.

We have identified UK strains here which are more contagious.

Our state started off with vaccines for 70 and above.

They are going to start vaccinating on ages 65 and up soon.

The mayor was extremely opposed to our college students partying on Bourbon St. last weekend and NOT wearing masks!

She has said this is unacceptable behavior and will NOT be tolerated this weekend or next.

NO BARS, inside or outside will be open because every time people behave in selfish ways, like partying in the streets, there is a SURGE in COVID-19 with DEATHS occurring DAILY!!!

So, this will NOT be a repeat of Mardi Gras last year where we became a hot spot for COVID-19 shortly afterwards.

As the mayor said, we can have a safe and happy Mardi Gras. People still have our Mardi Gras spirit! We have our king cakes floating around. We have our houses decorated as floats in lieu of traditional parades and so on.

We shall see how this plays out.

The mayor invited a doctor to speak at this press conference.

The doctor’s final words were very poignant. She said, “Remember, you have to be alive to receive a vaccine. Please wear your masks and social distance.”

It is not easy for health care workers to see death on daily basis.
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EB: You're very welcome. Glad to be of help.
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Need: So sorry to hear of the deaths. Our Governor recently held a news conference. We are Mask Up Maryland as are all states.
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Llama,

It’s so sad that there are so many conspiracy theories on the vaccines. Some statements presented as facts are outright lies!

Even more sad that people are still not taking COVID-19 seriously.

How many more people have to die before they stop their nonsense?

I was glad to hear our mayor say that she would rather be criticized for doing too much, rather than being criticized for doing too little.
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Thanks Lllama—I needed to hear that!! It is true, we often take on too much. I am very guilty of that!

Needhelp, I hope N.O can get COVID under control. I find myself increasingly frustrated at the experts and politicians. Nearly a year in to this and it seems like they all try the same thing over and over even though it doesn’t work. I don’t know the solution myself but it seems like we need a whole different approach. I don’t know about Louisiana but in CA we know that a good majority of our cases are coming from within households! But nothing is being done to address it. Instead they continue to keep everything shut down (and I am not saying they should open everything up, I am saying that everything shut down isn’t slowing the spread so maybe we need a different approach?)
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I just got off the phone with the vet. We have a diagnosis! And a plan!! Last night I had a hunch. And I did some researched on it and diagnosed Frankie with diabetes. The vet this morning, she IMHO was trying to up-sell me on pain killers and joint supplements. I am not a vet but I know my pets. And I really did not believe Frankie was in pain. There was nothing to suggest he was in pain and he had every symptom of diabetes! But the vet thought he was in pain!!! Well $300 worth of blood work and $50 office visit later, I can say I was right!! Poor cat has diabetes!!! He has very high blood sugar. I am going to get him started on a high protein low carb diet immediately and when I am back in California, we will discuss insulin and how to administer the shots. But for now we will try to manage it by changing his diet. Also turns out ketosis is deadly to cats. Humans love it because they lose a lot of weight. But it’s not good for cats. All I can think now is “praise God. Hallelujah”. I can go take care of my mom and give her my all without being stressed and worried about Frankie! I am so thankful that this is manageable and he’s going to be ok!!!
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worriedinca: You're very welcome. It's so true about taking on too much. I wish you all the best.
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Cali,

So much of COVID is a mystery at this point in time.

Somewhere down the road I believe we will know a whole lot more.

Sorry to hear that your can has diabetes. Hopefully you can manage it.

Our fur babies are so special to us.

Hoping for the best regarding your mom and dad’s health. It’s so hard watching parents decline.
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Cali,

I swear that I typed CAT having diabetes! Not CAN!

I proofread. My phone is hexed!
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worriedinca: So sorry to read that your cat has diabetes. Our fur babies are so precious to us. Presently we don't have any, but we did. Cleocatra got lung cancer and Ozzie had a stroke. Thank goodness that your Frankie is going to be okay!
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Goodnight all! Chat later.
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NeedHelpWithMom: You're so right! I just heard about an older woman in my county (not me - LOL) who was almost scammed via the phone to have someone come to her home for vaccination. Scam. She did not fall for it.
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NHWM - sounds like you really need a new phone. This one just auto-corrects too many times.
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Polar,

This is a NEW Apple iPhone! That’s why it’s so frustrating. Grrrrr.
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Need, My new I Phone does the same thing.
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Maybe it's because I am late to the smart phone universe but I routinely look online to figure out my phone's features. I'm not an i-phone user but it's simple enough to search the web for instructions on how to turn auto-correct off, or how to make sure the phone or tablet doesn't re-correct a word that you have already fixed.
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Actually that's quite interesting. I have a Samsung phone (not brand new) and now you mention it, it started to do something strange with my AgingCare messages about 6 weeks ago, so it's not just i phones nor new phones either. I switched off some predictive text thing which got rid of the problem.
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Chris,

I am annoyed enough with my phone that I am considering looking at my settings and shutting off features too.
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Needhelp, you can turn off auto-correct on your iPhone, just go to settings>General>keyboard
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Cali,

Yes, I may end up doing that.

One more thing. Hahaha 🤣, this should probably be in the whine section BUT my other gripe is that Siri can be mighty stupid at times. LOL

For instance, we are supposed to be able to dictate text messages, then just say ‘send.’

Okay, that’s great. I decide to use this feature and send a message to my daughter.

She called me up a second after the message was sent and asked me if I had been drinking! 😂 LOL

I told her that I was NOT drinking! I asked her why would she ask me that. It was morning time! She knows that I hardly ever drink anyway.

So she told me to read the text message that I sent.

Oh my gosh! Siri barely got any of it right and the message was insane!

I hope no one sends a message to their boss using Siri. LOL
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Makes me happy I use my desk top computer for all things forum and emails :)

I still have a flip phone but rarely use it anymore because since cataract surgery I can no longer read things small, reading glasses make me seasick, and trying to hold a magnifier while texting means having 3 arms.

Regarding Siri, my late boss was the only person I knew who would actually get into a verbal fight with Siri.
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I rarely use a talk to text feature. Although the time limit on editing posts DOES get me a lot of times; then I will write "edit ........." so that the OP doesn't think poorly of me.
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This reminds me of when my DH got a new feature in his car a few years ago. He proudly demonstrated how he could state his destination and the sat nav would come up with the route. We were only driving to a town about 10 miles away which we’d driven to thousands of times and where we’d actually once lived, so didn’t need sat nav guidance. (But there’s no point saying that when your DH wants to show off his new gadget). He stated the destination and the stupid thing calibrated a 250 mile journey to some place at the other end of the country, adding insult to injury by planning to take us past the town we really wanted to go to. The name of the place it was going to take us to has now become the byword in our family for anything that goes spectacularly wrong.
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