Nurse Boo, thank you very much for sharing your experience! This is exactly what I had hoped to hear. I can’t be the only person who is deathly afraid of eye-fiddling. I keep picturing A Clockwork Orange. This sounds much better!
I’m happy your own procedures went so well and will take heart in learning about them! Thank you again.
Good to know. They gave me Don’t Care when I had my wisdom teeth removed. I’ll make sure someone else gets given the after care instructions for the eyes.
Yes, they gave me the after care instructions for the teeth. I smiled and nodded and put them in my coat pocket. Then I went home and took a nap instead of doing any of it.
If you have distance lenses implanted, you’ll still need readers. A slightly different strength for computer work will also help. Your distance vision may still not be perfect, but the difference is usually minimal. Source: yours truly.
Plus ask for them in writing because the aftercare instructions extend for over a week and vary from day to day.
Thanks.
My zits have gotten worse since my hysterectomy. No cataracts yet but my bifocals aren’t right so I still can’t see them…
Anyone else picturing teeth in a pocket?
Yes. Yes I was picturing teeth in a pocket.
After her gall bladder was removed, my Mom kept her gall stone. It is in a plastc blood specimen tube in her jewelry box. We were telling Mom it was weird, even for her, to keep gallstones. The nurse told us that many patients do it.
I used to have a container of my gallstones. They were not round. Those suckers had corners.
As you may recall, I ruined my router this past Sunday. I was able to get a human being on the phone. He confirmed that my router was dead. He said that as there was no Xfinity store in my area, he could ship me a new one. I asked how much that would be. He said it was no charge. I asked how long it would take. He said three to five business days. I said that was too long. (I work from home and require the internet to do my job) He transferred me to a supervisor to see about expedited shipping. I asked “How close is the nearest Xfinity store? I don’t care if it is not in my area. I do not care if it is miles away. How close is the nearest one?” She gave an address in center city. I asked when they closed. I told her I would be there today to pick up a new router. She gave me an order number and said I could pick up the router. It was simple to get to the store. I handed them the dead router. They handed me a new one. I thought there would be more questions.
I got home to find an e-mail from Xfinity. My new router had been shipped and was in transit. It arrived today. I tried the Xfinity chat assistant on their website. I said I had an extra router. It provided instructions on hooking up and activating a router. I called 1 800 Xfinity. I kept saying “agent”. The insufferably cheerful voice kept asking questions. It kept repeating that it understood I wanted an agent, but to connect me properly it needed more infomation. I provided more information. It routed me to another automated menu. After ten minutes of screaming obscenities into the phone, I hung up.
Then, I realized that if I called the store, I might get an actual human being who would answer the question I actually asked. They closed at eight. I will call tomorrow.
Plus, while I was on the Xfinity site I saw that there may be an outage tomorrow after two due to maintenance. That is understandable. It sometimes happens. What angers me is that I had to go their website and sign in to hear about it. With all these automated systems combined with the fact they have my phone number and e-mail, it seems like they have easily contacted me and other customers to inform us.
I wouldn’t do anything. if they don’t realize it you now have a spare for next time you spill.
Separately, I tried to call Comsuctastic one time about a safety issue not related to an acct (well, my account). You must enter your phone # / acct # in their VRU. F 'em. I contacted the utility commission & filed a complaint against them instead.
It’s the second sentence that concerns me. If they do realize I have it, will I be billed for it? Will there be a deadline to return it? I feel it would be easier to prevent an unnecessary charge than to fight the charge after it shows up on my account.
I am hoping that they tell me it’s fine and I can just hang on to it. If that is not the case, I want to know and get it taken care of as quickly as possible.
ETA
The human I got on the phone said there were no Xfinity stores in my area. The one she told me about when I asked is less than three miles away. I told her that I would pick up the router at the store that day. She made arrangements so that I could. They mailed me another router anyway.
The level of incompetence is high. I would be very nervous assuming anything at this point.
I would venture to guess if they sent you one out they don’t know you already got a new one; therefore, they won’t bill you for it. (Yanno, start a dating service - left hand meet right hand, you two would make a good pair & should get to know each other.) Just save it in the box for a month. If it does show up on your bill mail it back to them in the original box.
Update- Therapy Will Have Copay Of 0!
I finally heard back from the company that I my current psychiatrist works for. I was sure I had given wrong or incomplete insurance information. It turns out, I had not met my deductable for the year yet. Since then, I have met my deductable. All further therapy and psychiatry sessions will have no copay for the rest of the year,
Yaay!!!
Thanks! I had sent the e-mail about two weeks ago. By today when they replied, I had given up waiting and scheduled four appointments. If they did not reply and the copay for the first one turned out to be too much, I would have paid it and cancelled the others.
Not sure I have enough in me for a full Pit thread, but fuck the way USB overcurrent protection is designed on my motherboard. I get it–if there’s a short, you want to cut the power to the port. And if Windows is running, that’s what it will do. It shuts off all USB, but I can at least get a new USB card and keep things working.
But if it happens when the computer is off, or you have to restart it? It powers down the whole computer, making it a giant paperweight because of a single port. Why? hell, if you’re really worried, give it a physical fuse or something that can burn out.
But don’t tank an entire motherboard because of that crap. If it can handle just disabling the USB ports when Windows is running, build that shit into the BIOS and shut it off there, too.
It feels like an attempt to make you buy new boards, but why would they do that when, by the time this happens, new boards that fit would be so hard to come by? Do they think I’ll build a whole new computer rather than just get a motherboard?
I’m lucky I went ahead and got that laptop with the whole ACP thing before that money ran out.
Try this from the web page while logged in.
Sign in. From the home page, scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. There are a bunch of site navigation links, the customer service links are on the far right. There is one for text and email preferences, if you go to that page there is link that will allegedly unsubscribe you.
They don’t make finding this easy, and I have no idea if this works, but I hope this helps.
Like a Boss!
Thank you for finding that. Once I realized that the spam doesn’t have an unsubscribe link (legitimate promotional emails should all have that) and that so many of their promised support lines were fictitious, I gave up. But you found it, and I am grateful.
Now let’s see if they actually honor my unsubscribe request.
I got home from errands before 8 tonight. The Xfinity store is open until then and I wanted to give them a call. The Xfinity site gives the stores address and hours, but no phone number. I did a quick Google. They do not seem to have a phone number that customers can call. The only number listed was 1 800 Xfinity. I refuse to call that number again.
I have made a good faith effort to contact Xfinity and ask about the router. If they charge me for it, I will fight the charge.