Of course, now I’m finding out all the things that aren’t as easy as the used to be. Walking around the house with a walker means I can’t carry things, so I just ordered a tray that hooks onto the walker. I also ordered a reacher bar so I can pick things up without having to bend down, and a raised seat for my toilet so i can stand up after using it. At some point I need to get a seat for my shower, but I need to measure the inside of the stall so I get one that fits.
But at least I’m back home. I’m expecting a call from Home Health Services to set up visits, and ditto with physical and occupational therapy.
You can expect that your Home Health provider will do a lot of that stuff to make your home easier and safer for you, like measuring the shower stall and ordering a shower chair that will fit. Same with the raised toilet seat/toilet assist arms (and other things you may not have thought of yet). In the meantime, you do your part like doing all your PT exercises every day, eating well, keeping hydrated, being as active as possible and, very importantly, keeping your morale and mood up being putting energy and effort into staying connected to friends and family however you can, whether that’s in person or through phone calls and texts. Stay connected with people and the outside world-download new books on Libby from your library, play online games, do the NYT puzzles and share your results with a circle of friends, whatever. In other words, spend even more time on da Dope, lots of fun threads in Cafe Society for instance.
Okay, get this. Turns out my husband’s uncles were planning a surprise birthday party for Grandma when she decided to throw this party for herself. So they had to cancel everything they had planned at the last minute.
Hair and makeup scheduled for 10am, photos begin at 2pm, ballroom opens at 4pm.
The Camry again, but this time, a rant. It has buttons up on the ceiling that transmit garage door codes. It has instructions for how how to “teach” it the right codes. All of which is fine. But it explicitly says that there is no way to clear the codes once taught. You can change them, but you can’t just clear them.
But the house is likely to outlive both the car and myself. Do I want, in some possibly distant future, to have a car towed away that is, in effect, a secret key to my house? No, I do not! There really should be a “forget this” feature, but apparently the Japanese, for all their quality virtues, haven’t caught on to this concept.
TQVM, but I will continue to use my little hand-held garage door opener.
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My iPhone has a button on the side that when pressed and held for a moment, turns off the ringer. It’s apparently really easy to accidentally use it and turn off the ringer without having any intention to (or knowledge that I did it).
Here’s an app that I would happily buy, if it existed. it would:
disable that fucking button
establish a screen-operated protocol to allow me to toggle the ringer between ON and OFF when I want that to happen and at no other time.
JFC, once again I thank my lucky stars that I was born in Canada. There are no Irmas here, nor Gertrudes or Alices. No “parts” A, B, C, and D. Just unconditional free health care. One plastic card. Which I will soon be using once again when I work up the gumption to get cataract surgery.
Surely even the brain-dead Republicans down there can see how horribly inefficient and needlessly complex this whole mess is!
From what I can tell, the garage door transmitter built into the car allows you to set it to any arbitrary code through a “learning” process. And you can teach it new codes. But there’s no way I can find to do a “reset and forget everything”.
You can change it in settings, a wonderful button that gives access to a number of actions like the ringer , flashlight, Shazam, voice memo, translate, visual intellihence, accessibility.
I keep mine on flashlight. The phone still rings, that can also be modified in sound and haptics also in settings.
The default on the action button is the ringer.
Change the action button to something else and if you unintentionally press it your ringer is unaffected.
I never have that problem, but my mom (who is turning 71 soon) does all the time. I suspect it’s because it’s just above the volume buttons, and she pushes it thinking she is turning the volume up.
I agree that it seems inferior to the old design, which you slid back and forth to mute/unmute. It also had a visual indicator when you looked directly at it (a bright orange color when on mute). Apple sometimes makes really bad design decisions with their phones.
As @chela said, you don’t need an app. Go into the Settings app, go to the Action Button settings (just under General and Accessibility in the list), and change what it does. You can change it to turn on the camera, go into “Focus” mode, turn on the flashlight, and so on. It just mutes/unmutes by default, but it doesn’t have to have that function. The last option is “no action”, which means it doesn’t do anything.
My Android phone also has annoying features, which can usually be solved with a quick online search (if you weren’t able to find it in your settings). Reconfiguring buttons (both physical and virtual) is a very common issue.
The flashlight reconfig sounds good, but you may run your battery down if you don’t realize you’ve turned it on.
Of course if you inadvertently press and hold the volume down button for a couple seconds, that also lowers the volume to zero. Which has the effect of silencing the ringer.
Bottom line being that for whatever make & model of phone, at least some physical buttons are live all the time. So we need to learn to handle our phones without inadvertently pressing them.
Maybe, I’m not sure, but I don’t want to fuck around with that. I reset the code on the garage door keypad for security reasons after I bought the house, but I don’t want to fuck around with the transmission codes even if it was possible. It’s not a big deal as the little thingie that can sit in the center console or clip onto the sun visor works just fine. Of all the car’s nice features, the built-in garage door opener is the least important.
ETA: And speaking of security, when I did a final sweep of the old Sebring before it was towed away, I found … the garage door opener thingie! I was so used to having it sitting in its accustomed spot that I almost didn’t notice it!