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07-11-2023 at 01:20 AM.
07-11-2023 at 01:20 AM.
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Which book did your son pick?

So I had my final test on Thursday and I failed it like I knew that I would. I still don't know when my surgery will be. I think that I have to be off the blood thinner for 7 days before they can do anything. I have an appointment with another doctor in the same building on Wednesday so if I haven't heard anything by then I'll find out what's going on. I really want the surgery but at the same time I really don't want it. The cystoscopy hurt a lot. More than my open-heart surgery and I know that my prostate surgery will hurt even more and I'm not excited about walking around with a catheter for at least a week.

I'm such an idiot but you all know that. I ran out of one of the urology drugs (the important one) but my eyesight is so bad that I thought that Protonix was Flomax so I doubled up on Protonix (I have 2 bottles) and wasn't taking any Flomax. I caught it on Sunday morning when I was looking at my pills and went wow, these two look the same... I went to the pharmacy and got some more Flomax but when I took it this morning it started causing me all sorts of problems so I don't think that I can take it anymore. I seeing a third doctor on Thursday and I'll tell him about my screw up. I do stuff like this all of the time now. Maybe he can tell me if I'm just an idiot or if there's something wrong.

I've noticed that all of the CVS talk has died down. Has it all blown over or is it the calm before the storm?

I think that when I have my surgery I'll bail from here. I like to post but half of the time I don't know what I'm saying and I hate waking up the next morning and going did I really write that...

Great, I just got another lab test result. Everything was fine until this one. I'll find out how serious it is on Thursday.
Sorry to hear all this!
Get yourself a pair of reading glasses at CVS!! OR 2 ! THey're easy to misplace. Wag's used to have good deals on them.
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07-11-2023 at 04:35 AM.
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07-11-2023 at 04:55 PM.
07-11-2023 at 04:55 PM.
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I can see fine walking around or driving but when I try to read something, even with reading glasses on, I'm blind as a bat. Even so, there's no way that I should've made that mistake. I know both of those pills very well and I have everything set up on my night stand. Flomax and Protonix look as different as two pills can possibly be. It would be like mistaking a horse and buggy for a Corvette. A couple of weeks ago, I forgot to take my meds 4 times in a week. I'd be out doing whatever and it would get to be 1 or 2 and I'd start feeling bad and go shoot, I didn't take anything this morning. I can see maybe doing it once (although I hadn't missed taking my pills since my heart attack) but 4 times? If you asked me what I did yesterday, I'd have a hard time telling you. Or what I had for dinner. Maybe I'm being overly dramatic but my dad passed away from a memory disorder and I'm definitely not the same since my heart attack. I used to be like a calculator when I shop and could do the math instantly in my head but now there's no way. I'm stumped with the 40% off deals at CVS. I can't ever work them out even on paper.
Sorry to hear all this. I get a small notebook and write out a checklist every day. That way I know that I have taken my morning pills and my nighttime pills. I know it's kind of a lot of work but it has worked for me for years.

I handed my son The Kite Runner, but I don't think he's even started it yet. I don't know how to motivate him. I started reading Owen Meany myself.
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07-11-2023 at 05:58 PM.
07-11-2023 at 05:58 PM.
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I can see fine walking around or driving but when I try to read something, even with reading glasses on, I'm blind as a bat. Even so, there's no way that I should've made that mistake. I know both of those pills very well and I have everything set up on my night stand. Flomax and Protonix look as different as two pills can possibly be. It would be like mistaking a horse and buggy for a Corvette. A couple of weeks ago, I forgot to take my meds 4 times in a week. I'd be out doing whatever and it would get to be 1 or 2 and I'd start feeling bad and go shoot, I didn't take anything this morning. I can see maybe doing it once (although I hadn't missed taking my pills since my heart attack) but 4 times? If you asked me what I did yesterday, I'd have a hard time telling you. Or what I had for dinner. Maybe I'm being overly dramatic but my dad passed away from a memory disorder and I'm definitely not the same since my heart attack. I used to be like a calculator when I shop and could do the math instantly in my head but now there's no way. I'm stumped with the 40% off deals at CVS. I can't ever work them out even on paper.
A couple suggestions for pill taking

- get a pill organizer; they come in many styles from daily to weekly to monthly and for one to four (maybe even more) times a day. I personally use a 7-day with both am and pm compartments. Works well for me. I keep it by my kitchen sink where I will see it many times throughout the day.

-there are also alarmed pill reminders; not really sure how they work but I think there are different varieties. Might want to investigate such a thing if you have store money to spend down.

Also, ask your pharmacist for ideas. They may surprise you.

Take care.
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07-11-2023 at 06:22 PM.
07-11-2023 at 06:22 PM.
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Sorry to hear all this. I get a small notebook and write out a checklist every day. That way I know that I have taken my morning pills and my nighttime pills. I know it's kind of a lot of work but it has worked for me for years.

I handed my son The Kite Runner, but I don't think he's even started it yet. I don't know how to motivate him. I started reading Owen Meany myself.
I know the feeling. There's no way that you could get me to read John Irving even though I know that he's a great author. I'd rather have a CVS cashier lecture me on coupon limits. The Kite Runner doesn't sound like it would be a whole lot of fun. It's more like something you'd read for a school assignment or as a punishment for talking in class. I don't have any advice for you. I'm very stubborn and it would be hard if not impossible to get me to read something if I really didn't want to. You have to find that one book that really does it for you. For me, it was The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. The story about where tv becomes reality and you can walk into the picture. Sort of like what Zuckerberg is trying to do now but Bradbury was over 50 years ahead of him.
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07-12-2023 at 08:58 AM.
07-12-2023 at 08:58 AM.
Couple of good Amz Prime deals.
You can get 50% off one subscribe & save offer - I got a 30lb bag of Iams for just under $23

There's an AmEx offer - see this thread - https://slickdeals.net/f/16777409-select-amazon-accounts-add-american-express-card-as-a-payment-method-get-15-off-15-01-ymmv?v=1

I got 150 30 gal trash bags for just under $9
They're $10.29 with a save 20% on $30 of items (saved $6.17)
Bought 3 on subscribe & save that saved an additional $1.54
plus the $15 AmEx offer (worked for my Clear card)

Paid $8.85 for 150 black trash bags (Amz basics multi-purpose black trash bags 30 gal)
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07-14-2023 at 10:07 AM.
07-14-2023 at 10:07 AM.
Today's a good day, as I found celery for 2.65 a bunch. One grocery has it for 3.99, and the other has it for 3.69.
Who knew there was a celery shortage? I'm sure I would have gotten a better bunch at Sam's, but I'm trying to limit my trips to "town" until I have to go for something else.
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07-14-2023 at 05:36 PM.
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Today's a good day...snip... but I'm trying to limit my trips to "town" until I have to go for something else.
This is great for savings AND for the environment. When I was younger I didn't think of it at all, but then during one of the times (years ago) when gas prices really spiked, I started trying to line my errands up, or to go in some kind of loop that makes sense. It really has to save you money on gas.
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07-19-2023 at 04:01 AM.
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new J&J rebate:
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07-21-2023 at 07:39 AM.
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Everything is very quiet in the couponing world. The only sound I hear is the tumbleweeds rolling by. Maybe it's the calm before the storm and all hell will break loose at CVS next week. I think that the memo thing was a hoax. I haven't heard a thing about it the real world. The reddit thread died a month ago. Suspending cards would be a very stupid way to solve a real problem. The problem is glittering, which is where you use the wrong coupons to get high demand items much cheaper than you should be able to. If you do this on multiple cards, the problem gets much worse. The rumor is that CVS has lost 20 million due to glittering. The memo said that CVS would start suspending cards for suspicious activity but there's a much easier fix - no coupons at the SCO and have the cashier actually look at the coupon before she scans it. If you suspend the accounts of people who use more than 1 card, you're going to ban the lady who shops for her family and her senior parents. Not only will CVS lose her retail business but they'll also lose her pharmacy business and she'll tell all of her friends what a crappy place CVS is to shop at. Unless the CVS head honchos are a lot dumber than I think they are, they aren't going to do this. Just stop the SCO from accepting coupons. Then you'll have to get a Eucerin coupon for Nivea past the cashier. If the cashier is letting it happen, CVS either has to train her better or fire her ass. Simple as that. Most people aren't going to glitter with a real live cashier but they'll do it all day at the SCO. The YT videos are telling people that it's ok to do this because it's only a glitch in the system. I know that CVS has the ability to get those a-holes kicked off YT and they should do it immediately. It's bad for everybody. Couponers aren't at war with CVS. We just want good deals. We don't want people using the wrong coupons and walking out the door with stuff they didn't pay for.
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07-23-2023 at 11:54 AM.
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...snip...Aldi
I noticed the Kirkwood Chicken Cordon Bleu singles has DOUBLED in price. Used to be 99¢ a piece. Saw it yesterday for 1.99.
I'll wait til Publix has the name brand on sale BOGO.
FYI that Barber's Stuffed Chicken Breasts are BOGO at Publix this week. My North Alabama price was 4.99 (ours sell at half price, so 2.49 or 1.25 each piece).
Too bad that there aren't any coupons for them.

Note that this is a post from last summer's thread.
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07-24-2023 at 10:10 PM.
07-24-2023 at 10:10 PM.
Really bad day for me. They want to open up my chest again to take out the wires from my open-heart-surgery. Then they were talking about doing surgery on the part of my heart that's blocked but one screw up and that's it. It'll make me feel better if I survive it. The doctor asked me if I had any problems exercising and I said no and then almost passed out walking to my car. I was supposed to have a CAT scan of my brain (like the 10th one) but the machine broke. It was that kind of day. Somehow I got the energy to go to Wags, RA, and CVS and I didn't screw up that badly considering. I'd love to sleep in tomorrow but my meds won't let me do that. At least my surgery is still a go for the end of August. Oh, they were also talking about a pacemaker because my heartbeat is all screwed up and my pulse dropped below 40 again. I'm supposed to start some new meds but I don't want to do it because they'll screw me up more than the old ones did. One of the meds I have to take until my surgery but it makes it impossible for me to think. And here I am sitting here trying to figure out Wags deals lol. I have a better chance of walking to the moon...
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