@wolfpup
I am on Eliquis (blood thinner) and cut my thumb on a can of some sort last year. My sink looked like a butcher shop.
Luckily I had just ordered something called Bleed Stop and it had just been delivered.
I ran to the porch with wads of paper towels wrapped around the cut to get the package.
I applied the powder to the cut and it worked very well but I had to leave it on for a couple days with liberal bandaging before the cut actually stopped bleeding.
I now carry some of that powder in my purse so it is with me at all times.
I guess it just takes more time than usual for some of these cuts to heal when you are on certain medications.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll see if my local pharmacy carries something like that the next time I’m there. I’ve been taking this medication for years and never had this kind of problem with small cuts before. It was apparently deeper and more serious than I had thought, but seems to be healing OK now.
CVS recently replaced their phone-answering robot with a more AI-enhanced robot. It won’t accept phone-entered numbers as responses, but insists that I speak them. And when I insist that I want to speak to a live person, it sends me to voicemail, so I can wait for a callback.
So this morning, I went to a Walgreens and had them take over all my scripts (or is “scrips” correct?). It’s a little bit further to drive, but it’s right across the street from where I buy gas.
One other thing: Last month I got a new prescription that called for 90 pills. My regular CVS didn’t have it in the right dose, so they temporarily transferred it to another store who had it, but only 67 pills. I took them. This morning, I phoned to refill them and the robot told me that the refill was ready for pickup. So after I left Walgreens, I went to the CVS to get them. When I got home and looked at the label, I saw that they had given me 67 pills again (instead of filling the prescription as originally written). I might have to call my neurologist and have her resend it when I need them again in January.
I have new glasses that cost (after insurance) almost $600. They don’t fit right 
Yes, I will be going back on Monday to see if they can be tweaked, but I have all of Sunday to get through being irritated by them.
Part of my problem is that I am SO nearsighted, and astigmatic, that I have stupidly thick lenses. I’m also old enough to need bifocals and wear progressives. The edges of these lenses are so thick that I can’t fold the ear pieces in flat when I take them off, and when they’re on my face and I push them up (again), the top of the lens edge stabs me in the eyebrow.
Hrmpf.
The definition of “broke” is highly elastic. “Less than perfect” is one definition. So is “Barely works right occasionally and always leaves a big mess I can force myself to ignore.”
I agree in this case I took on a too-fussy definition of “broke.”
But I’ll point out that IME most people who adopt the “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” mentality live in an inconvenient squalor of stuff slowly falling apart all around them. Not my style.
@saje
I feel your pain.
I hate when glasses are wonky.
Last night I lost an orange ear plug.
Looked everywhere.
This afternoon I found it in my belly button.
If you’re delivering two major electronic items, in their original packaging, and the people you’re delivering to are home, don’t you think you’d knock on the door, maybe?
I was expecting two Dell 27’’ gaming monitors to be delivered today. When we got home in the dark last night there were some packages on our porch and I swept them away, then once I was inside I was fishing through my e-mail and saw a notice that my monitors had been delivered a day early. There was a photo of them, right on our porch, in packaging clearly displaying what they were. I nearly had a heart attack and jumped to the conclusion that they had delivered the monitors earlier that day and they had been stolen.
Fortunately when I opened the front door, there they were.
I mean they were delivered less than 10 minutes after we got home. You think they would have knocked! If I hadn’t noticed that e-mail I might have left them out overnight.
I am in exactly the same boat! Picked up new expensive glasses on Friday, have double vision all weekend. Plus my old frames broke on Wednesday, so I’ll be wearing taped-together glasses while the new ones are being remade.
Did you order the high-index lenses they offer, which reduce the thickness of the lenses? If not, add that to the order. I’d have coke bottle lenses if not for those.
That’s an excellent point. But my recollection of this stuff is very old – I have not had new glasses made in literally about 40 years! But I vaguely recall a debate about plastic vs glass lenses. As I vaguely recall from that time, the argument for plastic is that it was lighter, although it scratched more easily, The argument for glass was that it could be had with a high index of refraction, which could end up being lighter and more attractive than thick plastic. All things worth looking into.
Yeah, the quality of plastics and their characteristics has improved vastly in the last 40 years.
I finally made it out today, and contrary to my expectations, it was damn cold! Not as cold as you report, but glad that I decided to wear my heavier jacket and not the light spring one. I am now well stocked on rum, vodka, and Caesar mix, and even a little food! 
Sadly, the supermarket was all out of the particular brand of sweet green grapes that I got last time, and also was cleaned out of the cases of sweet clementine oranges. I got a bag of mandarin oranges instead which I hope will be as good.
Next week I’m going to one of the more upscale supermarkets that is some distance away. The car can probably use a good run on the highway as it’s been sitting in the garage for weeks with hardly any exercise!
My back is killing me, I’m stressed about work, my kid’s behavior is less than ideal and if I receive another package to wrap I think I’m going to scream.
I’m right on the line of the mandatory evacuation area for flooding. There are apartments flooded out within walking distance of our house. And it’s supposed to start raining again starting tomorrow. We are at level 2, which means be ready to leave at a moment’s notice.
It has not been a relaxing weekend.
It seems the rants in the mini rants thread are getting more harrowing every month.
I don’t mean to make light of people’s rants; these are real, and serious, issues that folks are having. But maybe we need to rename the thread to the maxi-rants or the serious rants or the no-shit rants.
I sprinkled out some safe step ice melt crystals after the guy from Facebook shoveled my snow.
I forgot to change shoes when I came in the house (I have to relearn this behavior every year) and now I have random white mini balls of ice melt crystal on my floor.
Some of them stick like prickly burrs to the rug.
I can’t run the sweeper due to relentless back pain and sciatica that stormed into my life a couple months ago.
I have spent a fair amount of time plucking them up from the floor.
I presume this counts as stretching exercises.
For some reason the folks on my neighborhood have decided the sidewalk next to our apartment driveway is the place to dump their old crap (furniture, TVs, etc). On the one hand the city has a website to report illegal dumping and when I report it they haul the stuff away within a couple of days. On the other hand I think now the spot has become the de facto place for people to dump their shit and they think it gets taken away as if by magic. I had half a mind to ask the city to post a “No Dumping!” sign there but I doubt anything would come of it. (Even if they posted a sign people would probably ignore it)
Apparently I’ve collectively annoyed a skibidi trollfarm and the baby trolls have started following me around the 'Net.
Sounds like you need the services of Officer Obie. He’ll get to the bottom of this.
@Skywatcher
What is a skibidi trollfarm ?