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I just came back from visiting a neighbor. Like everyone, he also has plenty of flowers in his garden.
The center picture: in springtime you only see a solid purple carpet.

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Some 20 years ago, I formed a neighborhood watch for 41 houses around us for the sole purpose of getting to know our
neighbors. It fell soon apart because nothing exciting happened, and neighbors don't have the time to meet other
neighbors for social purposes. But I still know all of our neighbors by name and frequently talk with them. For Christmas
we bring a plate of home-made cookies to many of them. A newly moved-in Mexican family was overly generous to return
our gift with a box of expensive chocolates. I was embarrassed. Well, they are a great addition to our neighborhood.

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packleader said:
I just came back from visiting a neighbor. Like everyone, he also has plenty of flowers in his garden.
The center picture: in springtime you only see a solid purple carpet.

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Some 20 years ago, I formed a neighborhood watch for 41 houses around us for the sole purpose of getting to know our
neighbors. It fell soon apart because nothing exciting happened, and neighbors don't have the time to meet other
neighbors for social purposes. But I still know all of our neighbors by names and frequently talk with them. For Christmas
we bring a plate of home-made cookies to many of them. A newly move-in Mexican family was overly generous to return
our gift with a box of expensive chocolates. I was embarrassed. Well, they are a great addition to our neighborhood.

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With today's mail came a letter from Southern California Edison of "how [we] compare to neighbors" about power consumption.
We: 324 kWh -- Efficient Neighbors 348 kWh -- Average Neighbors 634 kWh
When we had our house built some 50 years ago, we $2K for extra insulation. It has paid off hundredfold.
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i know those chocolates they're from Costco, they're expensive. They only sell them here at Christmas ..I buy them once a year because they're delicious
 

Usually I try to keep my difficulties to myself but today was worse than usual. I got up way too early to help out a neighbor. About mid-morning I was about to settle in for a nap when the pharmacy called. My Xarelto prescription was ready. Cost? $573.55. Three months? No, one month. Something about the "donut hole".

I spent two frustrating hours on the phone only to be told I do not qualify for a reduced rate.

I got a few samples from the doc but will have to face this again next week and additionally I fear my Farxiga prescription will be about the same.
 
Babs2u said:
Usually I try to keep my difficulties to myself but today was worse than usual. I got up way too early to help out a neighbor. About mid-morning I was about to settle in for a nap when the pharmacy called. My Xarelto prescription was ready. Cost? $573.55. Three months? No, one month. Something about the "donut hole".

I spent two frustrating hours on the phone only to be told I do not qualify for a reduced rate.

I got a few samples from the doc but will have to face this again next week and additionally I fear my Farxiga prescription will be about the same.
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OMG !!!:eek::eek:
 
I have just signed up with Uber, for the very first time... Had no idea how to do it, because I don't use cabs.. but I needed to book a cab for next week to take me early in the morning to the hospital..

Anyway I've done it, I've got the app on my computer and my phone.. so it's booked and it's paid so hopefully they turn up when their supposed to..
 
Babs2u said:
Usually I try to keep my difficulties to myself but today was worse than usual. I got up way too early to help out a neighbor. About mid-morning I was about to settle in for a nap when the pharmacy called. My Xarelto prescription was ready. Cost? $573.55. Three months? No, one month. Something about the "donut hole".

I spent two frustrating hours on the phone only to be told I do not qualify for a reduced rate.

I got a few samples from the doc but will have to face this again next week and additionally I fear my Farxiga prescription will be about the same.
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What are those meds if I may ask?
 
Babs2u said:
Usually I try to keep my difficulties to myself but today was worse than usual. I got up way too early to help out a neighbor. About mid-morning I was about to settle in for a nap when the pharmacy called. My Xarelto prescription was ready. Cost? $573.55. Three months? No, one month. Something about the "donut hole".

I spent two frustrating hours on the phone only to be told I do not qualify for a reduced rate.

I got a few samples from the doc but will have to face this again next week and additionally I fear my Farxiga prescription will be about the same.
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Try to find out when the patent runs out on both drugs and when they will then go to generic. Those are non-generics labels.
 
Babs2u said:
Usually I try to keep my difficulties to myself but today was worse than usual. I got up way too early to help out a neighbor. About mid-morning I was about to settle in for a nap when the pharmacy called. My Xarelto prescription was ready. Cost? $573.55. Three months? No, one month. Something about the "donut hole".

I spent two frustrating hours on the phone only to be told I do not qualify for a reduced rate.

I got a few samples from the doc but will have to face this again next week and additionally I fear my Farxiga prescription will be about the same.
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What about the GoodRX card? Would that help?! I hope you were sitting down when you got the call?
 
Good morning. It's a little chilly again this morning, but our high temp today will be in the upper 50s. Still chilly but not bone-chilling cold. Have I mentioned that winter is not my favorite season?

Today is laundry day. It'll take a while because I have a crap ton of stuff to wash and dry.

62 days until spring. Count 'em 👉62👈.
 
grim day again...

Had a call from the surgeons' secretary saying the surgeon has some spaces tomorrow , and do I want to go and have my operation tomorrow,

They have no idea just how much we have to organise when we're put on waiting lists... we just can't un-organise these things.

I've already booked and paid for an Uber for my admission day.. DD has arranged to come here and collect me on the day of my discharge.. and so on.
 
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On my early morning walk at 6:50 temp was 21 but with a slight breeze felt colder as I walked once around building before breakfast
Yesterday afternoon, my friend Mary called asking if I wanted to go anywhere today.This morning's 'road trip' to Target we both need a couple items,in return she'll be getting her weekly reading materials e,g NYT, last Sun's Bflo News
Tonight for dinner at 5:45,I'll be in the dining room for the 1st time since Dec 22nd, with 2 new friends Dale&his wife Barb,they moved in about 2 months ago. I met him in the elevator day before they moved in, introduced myself after meeting his wife, we just hit it off,very nice couple. It will feel strange but in a good way to be back eating in dining room
 
Doesn't fill anyone with joy and hope, this in todays' news...

Patients are dying in corridors and pregnant women are miscarrying in side rooms as overwhelmed hospitals struggle to cope, nurses say.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said evidence provided by more than 5,000 of its members across the UK this winter also showed cupboards, car parks, bathrooms and nursing stations were being turned into makeshift areas for patients.
Nurses warned such practices put patients at risk as staff were unable to access vital equipment such as oxygen, heart monitors and suction equipment, and did not have the time and space to provide CPR.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he agreed the problems should not be tolerated, but laid the blame on the previous government.
However, RCN general secretary Prof Nicola Ranger said the findings should act as a "wake-up call" to Labour.
"Patients are being stripped of their dignity and lives put at risk," she said.

Embarrassed​

Prof Ranger said increased investment was needed and "questions need to be asked" about whether this government had done enough to head off the winter pressures being seen.
Last week more than 20 NHS trusts declared critical incidents, as high levels of flu and the bad weather put huge pressure on hospitals.
But latest figures released on Thursday showed the number of patients in hospital with flu dropped from an average of just over 5,400 a day at the start of the year to below 5,000 last week on average, raising hope the peak may have passed.

Patients dying in hospital corridors, say nurses
 
Prof Ranger said corridor care, as it has become known, was becoming normalised across the UK and she warned that without action it would hamper the government's key priority in England of reducing the waiting list for non-urgent care.

The RCN published more than 400 pages of testimony, external from its members about the problems they had been seeing.

These included:

  • People having cardiac arrests in corridors or cubicles which are blocked by patients on trolleys, delaying life-saving CPR
  • Others dying on trolleys and chairs in waiting rooms with one nurse saying the NHS was "no better" than the developing world
  • Women miscarrying in side rooms, which nurses said was not only distressing for patients but made it difficult to monitor for deterioration
  • An incontinent, frail patient with dementia having to be changed next to a vending machine in a corridor
  • Cases where 20 to 30 patients have been left in corridors under the care of one nurse and healthcare assistant
  • Elderly patients left to sit on chairs for days and spending hours in beds on corridors in soiled clothing
"We permanently have corridor care now," one nurse said. "Patients don't have the dignity and care they should have. To be quite honest, it breaks my heart."

Another nurse, who normally worked in critical care but was redeployed to A&E, said: "I felt embarrassed to work for the NHS and, for the first time, I could see it was broken.

"Never in my 30-year career could I have imagined this would become a 'norm' but it is."

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hollydolly said:
Prof Ranger said corridor care, as it has become known, was becoming normalised across the UK and she warned that without action it would hamper the government's key priority in England of reducing the waiting list for non-urgent care.

The RCN published more than 400 pages of testimony, external from its members about the problems they had been seeing.

These included:

  • People having cardiac arrests in corridors or cubicles which are blocked by patients on trolleys, delaying life-saving CPR
  • Others dying on trolleys and chairs in waiting rooms with one nurse saying the NHS was "no better" than the developing world
  • Women miscarrying in side rooms, which nurses said was not only distressing for patients but made it difficult to monitor for deterioration
  • An incontinent, frail patient with dementia having to be changed next to a vending machine in a corridor
  • Cases where 20 to 30 patients have been left in corridors under the care of one nurse and healthcare assistant
  • Elderly patients left to sit on chairs for days and spending hours in beds on corridors in soiled clothing
"We permanently have corridor care now," one nurse said. "Patients don't have the dignity and care they should have. To be quite honest, it breaks my heart."

Another nurse, who normally worked in critical care but was redeployed to A&E, said: "I felt embarrassed to work for the NHS and, for the first time, I could see it was broken.

"Never in my 30-year career could I have imagined this would become a 'norm' but it is."

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I really feel for the patients needing care. It is the same in Germany. The latest scandal was Charity in Berlin.
Both of us went on Medicare and only Part B Is not inexpensive but care is outstanding in our area.
 
Bath room remodel is turning into chaos. I am telling myself over and over that all will work out. It has to!
Cold, very cold but sunny.
Cleaning out one drawer at a time. SO calls it nesting. He has a 10 day play date in February in Phoenix, AZ. I am filling a box with "do not bring back" from socks to whatever.
SO had breakfast. Coffee is gone. Time to face life.
 
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Frank, whenever I feel as you do, and I Usually Do, only one thing cheers me up: I have put a wonderful human being on this planet. I did. Me. I did that.

And so did you (((Frank)))

Yup. We're at the time of life when we know what is next. Even though other things can occupy our minds, still, we know. That knowledge is thriving in the back of our minds. It's existential. We can't feel full joy knowing what we know. Ask Sartre. Boy, he has been a forgotten figure these past decades. A shame, the Existentialists strove for the truth we try to ignore, but can't.

I love you. You have been a great friend to me.
 
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I slept in this morning. I have no plans, still can't go anywhere.....and now I'm going to be behind schedule for all of it!
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Actually, I think I over did it yesterday, and I probably relapsed.....I'm not feeling too great.

You'll have to carry on without me. And don't call me for bail money, today...I'll be resting.
 
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