If you could go ahead and put the new cover page on your report, that would be great.
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My husband thinks he has a prostate infection. The last time he had one, it was difficult to get rid of, but he also let it get a lot worse before he sought treatment. Hoping this time isn’t as frustrating.
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You could have replied that it was reasonably unreasonable.
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Suddenly my email has forgotten how to flag spam; been getting flooded for the last few weeks.
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I’m annoyed that I have not been able to follow everyone else’s annoyances properly.
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my longest active email is mainly used for stuff where I don’t actually want human interaction. subscriptions and stuff (like account here is linked to it). but if I skip a day or two i have about 100 emails a day to sift through and delete. I have like 20 newsletters a week i woulnd’t mind reading but I almost never do. sigh
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went to ikea yesterday to buy a specific product. (I was going to the mall it is next to anyway, so swung through before the meetup at the mall)
they don’t have what I want in stock but do at other locations (small glass bottles with a stopper). can they ship them? yes. but not solo - they will include them in a larger shipped package. no specifics about what I can order that is large enough to allow my desired product to be included. they also won’t just ship them to the local store for pickup.
One of my favourite wineries in Lanzarote (Canary Islands) that has great dry white wine (volcanic soil) stopped shipping to the UK because of import duties that just came online.
Arrrggghh. Thanks Brexiters.
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Today I so very much enjoyed getting to instruct a TSA agent for the PreCheck line that there is an explicit exception to the liquids rule for medication (wife’s insulin). The usual, “it’s insulin” wasn’t enough for the agent.
I had vials for our holiday ordeal, our Mounjaro pens, and a freezy-thing all perfectly packed in the cannisters we use for such. Agent couldn’t repack it correctly, leaving me to carry it, semi-ajar, to the gate, where I was left to figure out exactly how I got it all in there in the first place
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My son needs Levofloxacin for his pneumonia. The doctor is pretty sure it’s walking pneumonia, but it could be regular pneumonia, and this is the drug that would take care of both bacterial versions.
The doctor sent in the liquid kind, and it was going to be $270 for a ten-day course. Kind of shocking, but that’s ok! This must be a super great drug and I’m happy to pay what it costs to make my kid better. But wait! The pharmacy was out of it yesterday, and all other pharmacies in the city are also out of it until after Christmas. So that’s no good. Pharmacist tells us that we could call our doctor back and see if they could send in the pill form instead. The child dosage is not quite 500mg a day (the tablets are 250mg and 500mg), but it’s worth a try to see if the doctor would be willing.
The doctor was closed yeaterday when we called, but they had hours today, until noon. They sent in the new rx, and we were able to pick up. The cost of 10 500mg tablets? $7.
So it’s the same drug, different form, but it’s not like one is name brand and the other is generic, and the cost is 40x. It’s really very shocking. Glad my child can swallow pills.
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Curious, because I don’t know: if the liquid had been available too, who if anyone should have told you that the bills for $7 were an alternative? (My impression is that here in PA, the pharmacist should alert you to cheaper generic alternatives.)
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My guess is that they’re both generics. Fortunately NA’s son is old enough to swallow pills.
Related: One of Dr. Glaucomflecken’s UHC videos was a skit on insurance denials, with the examples given being supplied by other doctors/followers. One was a denial for a liquid version of a medication, saying the patient should take the pill version. The patient was a toddler.
ETA video link:
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I’m not sure the pharmacist would have told us the $7 version was cheaper or an option if they hadn’t been out of the liquid kind. My understanding is that the liquid form is the only kind designed for kids, and the tablet form is only intended for adults 18+, not sure why.
Oh, and actually, my husband asked “well do you have a pill form of it in stock instead? My son is 9 and can swallow pills, he doesn’t need a liquid” when they told him they were out of stock. So the pharmacist didn’t offer up that info on their own.
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Is that the antibiotic that has tendon brittleness as a side affect? Ive taken it but it was years ago
Power went out at 3am. Battery on the thermostat went bad and sounded like a small air raid siren. Power didn’t come back till 10:30.but at least it came back AND THE thermostat works again
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I drove out for some last minute stuff. Of course I forgot to bring my wallet and had to go back home to get it. 
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Hmm, Google says the broader drug family can cause that, yep. I hadn’t heard of that before!
The only negative reaction to an antibiotic I’ve had was sulfa, which caused a rash all over my body. So they don’t give anything containing sulfa to my kids, which limits our options.
Hopefully I never need metformin!
I think I took metformin for 3 years or so, more thant 5 years ago. Never aware of any side effects
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People with a sulfa allergy can’t take metformin, that’s all I meant there.
Oooh no wait, I think metformin might be the ok one, there are other diabetes medications that contain sulfa that I can’t take.
I have an occasional habit of sleeping half-sitting up. In the past I would wake up and go back to bed or get a gentle push from my wife and that was that. But lately it caused neck pain because my head wasn’t getting any support up in the air.
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