I’m familiar with the concept, but this commercial seems to be presenting testimonials from the demographic that isn’t classy or motivated enough to get themselves over to Walmart to buy their stuff. It’s hard listening to their robotic mid-American accents multiple times in an hour.
Also, Subaru? I haven’t the slightest idea what you’re peddling with your “Share the Love” commercials – I’m sure there’s something heartwarming you’re trying to communicate, but the narrative escapes me. All I know is that I bought a Subaru and feel no more or less in love with my fellow beings than I was before I made the purchase. Although now that I come to think of it, it’s a manual transmission vehicle, which means that when I get stuck in traffic jams, I loathe each and every human being in the downstream direction of traffic flow.
Have you seen an orthopedist for your trigger thumb? I had that exact problem and it was cured with a couple of cortisone shots. My doctor said if the shots didn’t work there is a relatively quick surgery to fix it.
I hear you. I’ve been sick as a dog since Saturday, thanks to my younger niece (more on that in a bit). I spent a good part of Saturday and Sunday on the couch watching Doctor Who and there were times that even lifting the remote was too much effort. If I had a dollar for every time I saw those damn commercials I might have been able to win a mixer for $25 too!
My younger niece was sick on Christmas. She was recovering from some kind of little kid crud, and she was feeling well enough to play with all of her new toys. However, she still had a runny nose and a cough. I caught her several times wiping her nose with her hand and then touching the food that was sitting out. She’d pick something up, look at it, once even take a taste of something, and then put it back.
I told her nicely once not to do that and more sternly the next time I caught her and my mom went off. “She’s just a little kid, she doesn’t know any better!” She’s almost five, she can start learning. My sister and brother-in-law were nowhere to be found of course leaving the rest of the family to keep an eye on their kids… that’s a subject for another rant.
Anyways, I had already eaten when I realized what the niece was doing, pretty much killed my appetite the rest of the day. Then Saturday I started getting sick. Thanks, kid. I just wonder if anyone else in the family got it. I had to call in sick today to work because I still have a sore throat bad enough that I can’t speak above a whisper. I don’t have any PTO left for the year, I’ll have to work extra the rest of the week to make it up.
Not yet, only because it hadn’t frozen up until a day or two ago. It was painful moving it with all the cracking/popping, though.
Gah, I had to stop getting cortisone shots in my knee because I’m at the point where it no longer helps. Unfortunately I have to wait a few years before getting a replacement
Why do you have to wait for a new knee, kiz? I recommend getting it done sooner rather than later and so did my doc. For me recovery was a breeze since all my muscles were still strong.
Ummm… I’m famous in our church for being the confirmation teacher who told a kid, right in the middle of the High Church Neo-Gothic nave, to “Shut the fuck up”.
(Too bad it was said with much affection after three reminders, and elicited a golf clap from the rest of the students. Would’ve made a better story if I’d just lost it and screamed That Word).
I’ve got an appointment for an Ortho referral this afternoon. When I called yesterday they called right back and asked me point blank if I thought my arthritis was at the point where something has to be done (my docs are very conservative with treatment, btw.)
Re the leash – there’s a woman in my neighborhood who walks her dogs with one of those. Her dogs, however, aren’t OMG RUN ALL OVER THE PLACE so she has no issue using it. My dogs, however, are huskies. I hate to think what could happen :eek:
I was told it’s because knee replacements have a 20-year life span. If I had one now, they’d have to replace it when I’m in my 70s, and they’d rather not operate if possible on somebody that age.
Somebody also told me it’s because if you wait, Medicare will pay for it. I have a lot of arthritic knee company at work and nobody’s gotten a replacement yet because of this. My mother waited until she was 65 to have hers (it was a double, both done at once!) and she didn’t have to pay a single penny.
I’m sick of people saying that people who check their phones a lot are anti-social. If it pisses you off that much, how about you try being more interesting than the phone?
Anyone who gives someone a Visa, MasterCard or American Express gift card is a fucking asshole. It’s a real convenience to call and activate the fucking thing and then you almost need a mathematics degree to figure out how to use it at the store terminal. And using them online? FUGETTABOUTIT. If you must be so lazy and uninspired as to give a card in the first place, at least pick a specific retailer so THEY can figure it out if there’s a problem.
Otherwise take you fucking gift card and shove it, longways, up your ass.
A 30-year knee was released not too long ago. I’m waiting to hear of the results from it to decide what to do (I’m in the “crappy knee” club). I have a note to myself to pull down some of the studies and see how it’s panning out.
Also, if you do it under Medicare, you’ll need a secondary insurance if you want it paid in full. Medicare coinsurance and deductible still apply to joint replacement surgeries. [/former medicare employee]
Interesting! I just had my referral-to-Rheumatology appointment and the NP said the same thing. She added that the technology is so new that chances are I wouldn’t be able to have one just yet
That makes sense. My mother’s Part B probably picked up what Medicare didn’t.
