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I can see that. It sort of makes you feel important that someone actually read what you wrote. Same way on FB when somone likes a comment or link you posted.
I have a few blogs and one is product reviews. Don has done a few of the tech reviews for me and I’d usually take notes on what he’d tell me then write it up. Around Christmas I got several things for him to review and he decided it would be easier if he wrote them up and I edited. I just had to add photos and a little punctuation here and there. He got so excited when someone commented on what he wrote. I don’t have the heart to tell him I asked for comments to his review on a blogging forum I go to. What really made him go crazy was when I had over 800 visits/views of one of his reviews in about 2 hours and found out SteelSeries (the company I got the product from) put a link to it on their Facebook page. A few weeks later they linked to it on their website.
I got tired of people texting me even after I told them I don’t do texts. I didn’t want it included in my plan and once in a while I’d accidently open a text and it would cost me so I had my carrier turn them off. According to AT&T the person sending them won’t know it didn’t go through but I won’t receive them. It’s been great not having to worry about it.
I got my first cell phone when the ones with the battery pack in the bag were popular. I was in my 20’s and was driving to an unfamiliar suburb of Chicago and got off at the wrong exit. I needed to call and let the person I was visiting know I’d be late so I went into a Duncan Donuts to use the pay phone. When I got home the next day I told my dad what happened he had a fit. He repaired the parking meters for the city and said I was in one of the most dangerous crime ridden areas of the city. That’s when I decided driving around alone I needed something for emergencies.
When I got in home care a cell phone was a must and I got in the habit of being on the phone all day.
When I quit working we went to 1 cell phone and cut our minutes to 50 a month and maybe use 10-20 minutes. I don’t want a phone with texting, internet or email. I just want to be able to make and answer calls. When we go out the phone is with us but turned off until we need to use it. If one of us goes out alone then the phone goes with and it may or may not be turned on.
It’s gotten now that everyplace you go they want your cell phone number. I get looked at crazy when I tell them you can have it but don’t bother calling because it’s not on unless we plan on using it. I feel with everthing being spaced farther apart and the large commutes to get anyplace a cell phone is a must, especially since pay phones are a thing of the past and can hardly find a working one anyplace anymore. I just don’t understand people that are on the phone 24/7.
I’d read an article several years ago that cell phones are increasing the stress in people’s lives as they can never get away from the phone or work. Use to be you could go out to a restaurant with friends or family and enjoy a quiet dinner but now your office or just about anybody can find you and you can no longer get away from it.
We have a rule in our house. No phones during dinner. If our house phone rings it goes to the answering machine and we’ll return the call when we’re done. If company comes for dinner they know we don’t like cell phones at the table and if they need to make or take a call they can either go outside or in another room but they’re not going to interrupt our conversation with their call. If we’re watching something on TV we enjoy and the phone rings we look at the caller ID and if it’s not an important call we’ve been waiting for or friends and family from out of state we don’t answer.
As my husband says, the phone is there for our convenience and he decides if he wants to talk or not.
The other day Don went out with one of his friends to play some war games. They meet around 9am and I know he’ll be home somewhere between 3-5 or 5:30 depending on who else is there. I never call unless it’s important but his friend’s wife calls constantly . When they’re doing their games here she calls him about 3-4 times and when they break for lunch he needs to call her. Friday she called here around 4 because she hadn’t heard from her husband all day and when she calls him it goes right to voice mail so the phone’s off. I felt so bad calling Don to have him tell this guy to call his wife. I’m proud of myself that I don’t need to keep checking on him throughout the day but he said one of the other guys gets 3-4 calls from his wife also. I really think that’s sad that they can’t go out and enjoy themselves without interruption from home.
Sorry I got on my soapbox here but I think cell phones are overused and making us dumber
I agree give them a cell phone with built in limitations. My niece is 28 and very irresponsible. Her parents got her the phont and added her to their plan so they’d be able to get hold of her if needed. The first weekend she went 300 minutes over the 200 they allowed her and they ended up getting her a phone that’s meant for a child that they had to program the numbers she could call into it and she couldn’t make or receive any calls other than those. The only numbers put into it were the house phone, both parent’s cells and ours. If I had a young child that needed a phone then that’s what I would get them.
BTW, when my cousin was starting high school and involved in band they required the students to have cell phones because they didn’t know what time they’d be returning from events and the students needed to be able to call parents or guardians for a pick-up.
Just read that Real Rafe can account for his time in the asylum and has his recent memories so when the residents of Salem start talking about things that went down he starts wondering. I’m sure even though he does’t remember his past he’s still got his instincts and will figure it out. Now the question to be asked; how long will it take?
I do believe if you’re psycholigically addicted to anything just the act of taking or having it near will calm that anxiety.
As far as meds under the tongue, yes that is one way to get the fastest effect to meds but you’re only to do it with a med that’s meant to be done that way. Nitro is meant to be used under the tongue. I take Vitamin B12 and some are meant to be swallowed but they do have a sublingual available which is what I buy. Some meds need to go through your system through the GI tract and can cause problems if not so don’t do that until you talk to the pharmacist to make sure it’s OK. Its the same way some meds can be cut in half for 1/2 the dose but other’s can’t and only your pharmacist and doctor can tell you if you can take it that way. Some meds you can take 2 at once for a double dose but other’s are time released and taking 2 will put too much in your system at one time so if taking doubling the dose you need to take them farther apart. I found that out with a blood pressure med. I was taking like 5 mg of something and the doc increased the dosage and wrote a script for 10mg once a day so I took 2 of the 5mg. BIG mistake as my BP dropped too low very fast. Taking it the way I did caused too much to be released in my system at one time where the 10mg tablet is slower releasing and would have caused no problems. I was told if I wanted to double up the 5mg I needed to take 1 am and 1 pm. Now I always call the pharmacist to see if it’s OK to double them when the doc increases the dosage.
Either the amount the drops contained or the fact that they didn’t go through the system the same. Don used Voltran which is an NSAID in a gel for topical application. He had no problems with that but it still carries the same warings as ibuprofen which is stomach problems and bleeding.
When I worked in Respiratory we’d put people on inhaled steroids and they were afraid to use them because they didnt’ want all the effects of prednisone. I’d have to explain to them that by inhaling it you’re able to use less and still get the full effects on the lungs and since there’s less getting into the blood stream you’re not going to have the same side effects such as moon face and brittle bones. I have diabetes and glaucoma (had surgery to decrease the pressure) and was on high doses of prednisone a year ago (started at 117mg) and it took about 4-5 months to taper off and it raised my glucose to over 200 and increased the pressure in my eyes to where I needed drops. It took about 4 months of being off of it for things to go back to normal and I could stop the eye drops. When I use an inhaled steroid for sinus problems I have no problem with the glucose or eye pressure and if I do it’s minimal even though the docs say to watch it closely. Same with topical, the eye doc said it could cause an increase in the eye pressure but so far not so much.
Doctors and hospital personnel never believe Don when he tells them he’s allergic to ibuprofen AND acetaminophen. They think he’s lying and I have to back him up telling them about the hives he gets. We didn’t realize it was all NSAIDS until we decided to try Aleive. He took one and I had the Benadryl handy. 20 minutes later he said he felt good but 10 minutes after that and his face and back were covered in hives. So much for that little experiment. He’s afraid to take any medication because it might have one or the other in and I’m surprised he can take hydrocodone because it does have one of them in it but it must be such a small amount or released so slowly it doesn’t bother him.
Years ago I worked with a girl who was taking Fiornol for headaches. We worked an 8 hour shift and she would take one at the beginning of the shift, and 3 more during the shift. Finally the pharmacy talked to her doc and she ended up in a psych ward for withdrawl. Turns out one of the effects of too much Fironol was rebound headaches so she was taking them to get rid of the headache they were causing. When the doc prescribed Fironol with Codeine for migraines (before Imitrex and the rest) I would take them once or twice a month but sometines 2 at a tme or 1 every 2-3 hours to get the edge off the migraine so I could at least sleep. I did this for 15-20 years until I had my gallbladder removed. Suddenly if I took one I had severe pain just below my ribs where the pain had been from my gallbladder. One night I was doubled up on the bathroom floor. I lived alone and told when I saw the surgeon at work the next day I told him I don’t know what he did to me but this is the problem. Turns out codeine can cause spasms of the sphincter muscles. I had the same problem when I had knee surgery and they gave me Vicodin. I spoke with a pharmacist friend of mine because I know Vicodin doesn’t have codeine. No, but they’re both opiates and it was the opiate in general that was causing the problem. When Before I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis I would take a bottle of 200 ibuprofen a month, taking 4-6 at a time because the pain in my knees, hands and back would sometimes get so bad. My husband had a script for Lortabs (hydrocodone) and I took one with the same results as the codeine so the next time I took 1/2 and was OK. I talked to my doc who gave me a script for that but he writes it for a smaller amount per bottle because it’s really double for me. As I said a bottle of 60 will last me close to a year. Don is allergic to ibuprofen and acetemaniphin (breaks out in hives, even Aleive does it to him) and he had a bleeding ulcer and gastric bypass so he can’t take aspirin. He has arthritis and can’t take anything so doc gave him tramadal which he said was like eating candy as it did nothing. He gave him the script for Lortabs and he doesn’t like taking it so he’s got to be in severe pain before he will and even then he tells me when he does and it’s maybe 2 in one day at most. As I’d said a bottle of 120 lasted him 2 years.
My SIL has Lupus and Fibromyalgia. She’s always taking pain pills and was taking Lortabs and Tramadal many times a day. It got to the point the docs office started limiting her on refills and she felt they were calling her a drug addict. They sent her to pain clinics and finally the doc gave her a script for a patch that’s got a morphine derrivitive in it and you only apply it once a day but she still wants her pain pills so they only give her tramadal. In my and my husbands opinions she is psychologically addicted because she complains if she gets a hangnail and is in the ER constantly for knee pain from osteoarthritis. Of course we can’t tell her that. Then her daughter who is an addict to anything she can get her hands on is always complaining of some ache or pain and taking her mother’s pain meds. She won’t even try an OTC she jumps directly to the narcotics even for menustral cramps.
With all the abuse I’ve seen around me I can understand the tighter controls on narcotocs.
