Text 10933, 73 rader
Skriven 2014-03-13 15:09:45 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 10811 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: going through 308
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 11 Mar 14  18:40:00 <=-

 NB>> I'll have to go take a look-see...  :)
 ML>> I wonder if she'll be obvious.
 NB>> I took a look... but I didn't know exactly what I was looking for.. :)
 NB>> Saw lots of people (and you are correct, didn't see you)... 
 ML> If you bear in mind "crazy old lady," then she's quite
 ML> identifiable. As for me, I did find a group shot with me
 ML> in it when I looked just now.

I looked at three photos... the ones right on (I think) the page (I was
using a text browser which makes it harder to determine placement).  Was
she the one right in front in the one picture, kinda mugging...?  "old"
is so amorphous a concept at the moment..  (G)

 ML>> Unlikely, as I don't go there more than twice a year.
 ML>> They go through a bunch of customers, they do.
 NB>> And probably a bunch of waitstaff...?
 ML> Maybe not. It's a very busy and quite expensive venue,
 ML> which means that the tips are likely quite lucrative.

Lucrative not being the only thing that holds waitstaff, though...

 ML>> ... oh, right. How about a little voice recorder on one's
 ML>> keychain that one could say "green apple seven" into.
 NB>> No camera phone, no voice recorder... (nice thoughts though.. [g]) 
 NB>> Another quibble, though... one has to be sure that that was today's
 NB>> notation, not yesterday's... or maybe this is the second time in the
 NB>> same day... where am I NOW??!!  (G)
 ML> So date the note! And note the date.

yeah... maybe... and hope it isn't the second time in the same day... ;0 

 ML>> Of course, reduced dosages doesn't make them cheaper.
 NB>> Sad, but true... unless one is still buying the larger dose and
 NB>> breaking it into tinier pieces...  ;)
 ML> That would be a nice thing. I am taking the $60 a month
 ML> (that's the CO-PAY) thing that is a long oblong scored
 ML> thing as if to encourage such behavior.

Copays are crazy... my Prilosec started out this year as a $95 monthly
copay... got it excepted to the next lower tier to $45... better than
the $450+ it actually costs per month, though...  :)  (I was told that
for the Medicare Advantage plan I would have had, had everything gone
smoothly with the Medicare, that it, being not on the formulary to begin
with, was going to cost the top tier price period, if they did allow it
at all.. that would also have been $95...)

But, yes... the scored pills just naturally lend themselves to being at
least halved... :)  With a pill cutter (or steady hands, perhaps), one
might be able to break the oblong halves again...  ;)  One just has to
have the prescriber prescribe the higher dose for the pharmacy, and tell
you to take the lower dose in actuality...  :)  A "month's" supply can
go a lot farther that way... ;)

 NB>> I hear that learning Braille becomes easier when one HAS to use it...
 NB>> apparently some part of the brain kicks in to compensate for the lack
 NB>> of sight... at least that's what I've been told.  :)  
 ML> I haven't gone there yet. I've done some practicing on stairs
 ML> and trying to read braille with my eyes closed (though my
 ML> vision is quite crummy, I do get a lot of visual cues, perhaps
 ML> more than the people do who have good eyesight, because they
 ML> can just take things in and not have to do any processing.

The body/brain is capable of some pretty amazing compensatory
functions...  :)   One manages to use hearing to compensate for visual
loss, vision to compensate for hearing loss, etc, etc...  ;)

ttyl         neb

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