Countrymouse Posted November 2018
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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
I loved her dinner menus and got lots of great ideas from them.
Another sad loss.
i know she wasn't well.
The pharmacy pulled an old prescription to fill instead of the new dosage. The computer missed flagging it.
I have had the wrong number of pills before also. They do notify me of it being a ‘partial’ refill because they were waiting for a shipment to arrive.
We can’t take anything for granted. Sometimes, I ask my husband to pick up my meds on his way home.
When I opened the bag, I saw that the pharmacy didn’t fill the prescription correctly. It was their mistake and I am not going to be charged for the new script.
Rest in peace Becky/Bridget. You are greatly missed here.
"This is Steve. Becky's/Bridget 66 stepson. Becky died a week ago following a heart attack."
I'm shocked. She was a very nice person and I was glad to have known her.
If you go to her profile and leave a message for her family, I am sure they will appreciate it.
Her last post on the What's for dinner was around Feb 6.
You are absolutely correct. We always have to check our prescriptions. I will look into finding a different pharmacy.
I did think about that. I wonder how many people do not notice the difference in their dosage.
I didn’t think about asking for free delivery. That is a good idea. Thanks.
I automatically check things. I guess I picked up that habit from my parents a long time ago.
Once in awhile, we do find errors. Years ago, before the scanning of items at the grocery store. The tired cashier at the end of her shift charged me $99 instead of 99 cents! I was shocked! The poor woman was so embarrassed when I pointed this out to her.
Just think if I would have just paid the bill! Geeeeeeez! That would have been expensive celery!!! 😆
I just don't have time for all the mistakes that Walgeen's can come up with.
(a missing Rx was filled and called in to the wrong location,I had to find out).
Always check and recheck your prescription.
Three times like the nurses do in hospitals.
You can ask, but may not receive "brand names only" so that you can readily identify the medication. Tell your doctor that you are allergic to the fillers in non-brand name meds, if he/she orders it that way, maybe your insurance will give you a waiver.
Always be prepared and expect errors.
If a higher dosage can be cut in half, it will be scored (have a line on it).
Then I'd look around for a different pharmacy - imagine how many people don't notice and how much harm that might cause.
I just discovered this and it isn’t the first time that they have done this.
The pharmacist is always kind and corrects the problem. She says that the computer system is supposed to flag the old dosage and then they fill the new one.
I catch it every time they don’t fill the dosage correctly but it’s a pain having to run back to the pharmacy.
I couldn’t put off correcting it. My husband’s insurance no longer allows me to get three months of pills. I can only fill one month at the time.
I have things to do and Mardi Gras parades are in full swing. and Traffic and street closures will make it impossible for me to get to the pharmacy.
The pharmacy usually tells me if my meds have a new manufacturer and look differently. Sometimes they don’t and I am on the phone calling them again. Maybe I should start looking at my meds before leaving the pharmacy. It would save me a trip back.
"This is a film where nothing happens and it takes a long time for that to not happen."
https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/ben-affleck-gigli-jennifer-lopez-directing
Almost twenty years later, and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s flop 2003 romantic comedy, Gigli, is still remembered for many reasons—like for earning only $7 million in the box office, despite costing $75 million to make. Or winning a load of Razzie awards, including Worst Comedy of Our First 25 Years during the Golden Rasberry Award’s 25th annual ceremony in 2004. But mostly, it’s remembered as the movie that brought us Bennifer, and according to Affleck, that’s how he likes to think of it as well. The actor just sat down with Entertainment Weekly recently to discuss the infamous film and reflect on how it impacted his career and life.
"How much does this movie suck? Words fail me. I took a date to this movie. She didn't like me afterward. You don't watch this movie. You ENDURE this thing, like an abscessed tooth. The most extensive vocabulary in the universe could not find words to describe the stupidity of this film, but I will try."
sometimes, i like to read movie reviews because they crack me up - and because i can apply it to my own life, about other things. here's a review i read about "Gigli" (2003). i've never seen the movie. i can apply these points to other things in my life, when i don't want to do something:
"Things I would rather do than watch this movie ever again:
1.) Smash my head on a boulder.
2.) Lick a gas station toilet seat.
3.) Be attacked by a zombie.
4.) Send my paycheck to a Nigerian "prince" I met online.
5.) Give myself a non-medicated root canal.
6.) Face off with a T-rex.
7.) Bathe with buffalo diarrhea.
8.) Swim in an active volcano.
9.) Eat aforementioned buffalo diarrhea."
🙂
Sorry about your friend. My brother had colon cancer and now has to do colonoscopies once a year.
The prep is unpleasant but the colonoscopy itself isn’t bad. It’s sad that people skip them.
The home tests won’t pick up everything. So, we may as well schedule the colonoscopy.
I lost a high school friend of mine about a year and a half ago to colon cancer. She had an aversion to doctors. She started to develop problems with digestion and just not feeling well. By the time of the diagnosis she was stage 4. She was only 67.
it continues to snow here every day, and i love it!!
Oh. well…it’s good to laugh. Will put stain remover on my shirt before washing it.
Oh, okay.
My doctor said okay to the home test at first. Hubby and I both did that. She doesn’t like only the home test. She says that a person should do a colonoscopy to have a better look.
What is the FIT test? Is that the home test? Here it’s called Cologuard.
I called him and told him that my husband had no symptoms and ended up having three polyps removed and then the weird thing where the fourth polyp went inside of his appendix. The doctor couldn’t remove it and said that it was fortunate that he saw the polyp and that it didn’t go unnoticed.
So, the only way to remove the polyp is to remove the appendix. He said that the polyp cannot stay in there. All polyps have to be removed so they can send them off to the lab. Strange going in for a routine colonoscopy and hearing that he needs an appendectomy!
Anyway, my brother said that he was having some symptoms and went to the doctor. My brother is 70 and has never had a colonoscopy! His doctor wasn’t happy about it and he scheduled one for him.
It’s upsetting because my other brother has had colon cancer.
I can’t remember what the age is for the first screening but I remember that Katie Couric brought attention to the disease because her husband died at a relatively young age with colon cancer. My younger brother nearly died with it. If caught early enough it can be successfully treated.
Schedule your colonoscopy appointments!