2020: One Day At A Time, We Will Achieve!!
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Back in the "before days" I seldom went to the grocery store nearest me. Large chain, just not one of their better stores. Even after they did a major upgrade, I just didn't go, habit I guess.
It's one of the few stores around open 24 hours.
For some reason, though, I have prescriptions there. I stocked up "before" but had two that could be refilled so I decided to call them in.
I went over this morning at 4 a.m.
Boy, talk about a strange experience. Pharmacist behind bullet proof glass (I'm kidding; I'm sure it was plexiglass but reminded me of bank tellers). All employees in masks. TWO, count them TWO, other shoppers. Shelves still with huge empty spaces. I bought DH a bunch of chocolate because he's started getting wary of including it in delivery orders (it gets to be summer early here in Maryland). To no one's great surprise didn't find the couple items I haven't been able to find anywhere.
Deli completely shut down (not that I expected it to be open at 4 am just noted as I walked by that they've discontinued it).
Lot of stocking going on, blocking some aisles. Which since the aisles are all one way now leaves the rule following shopper in a quandary (do I back up?)
All in all, not something I see any reason to do again soon but nice to know it's an option.
And the really good news? My internist, who usually won't refill my cholesterol medication without an annual visit, not only refilled it but added three refills. I wasn't expecting that.0 -
I lost 1/2 pound last week. For some reason, after 5 1/2 months of being SO good, I've suddenly got cravings again. Anyone who says this isn't like an addiction is, I think, full of it.
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Wow, look at how close to fifty pounds you are. That’s fantastic. My shopping experience is so different than your’s. The island market I shop most still has a functioning deli, bakery and butcher counter. There are very few empty spots on the shelves. Every wears a mask, the aisles are one direction and there haven’t been many other shoppers there during my visits. They have markings on the floor at check out to do social distancing. Usually there is only one shopper ahead of me in line. The second local store has discontinued there deli for now and offers pre-packed selection of the most popular items. That market has a restaurant inside. I don’t go there much so I don’t know if it’s reopened.0
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Wow, look at how close to fifty pounds you are. That’s fantastic. My shopping experience is so different than your’s. The island market I shop most still has a functioning deli, bakery and butcher counter. There are very few empty spots on the shelves. Every wears a mask, the aisles are one direction and there haven’t been many other shoppers there during my visits. They have markings on the floor at check out to do social distancing. Usually there is only one shopper ahead of me in line. The second local store has discontinued there deli for now and offers pre-packed selection of the most popular items. That market has a restaurant inside. I don’t go there much so I don’t know if it’s reopened.
My 50-lb bear is chomping at the bit. I'm not sure he's ever been out of the (literal) closet.0 -
Maryanne--You are doing a fabulous job. I haven't been in a large supermarket since March. I've been doing curbside pickup at Walmart, which does a great job on selecting fruit. I've been to my pharmacy which has a sign posted that only 11 are permitted inside. All the employees wear masks and most of the customers.
I've been doing my at home exercises and may have overdone it as I had pain yesterday evening. I go to my regular pt appointment today and I have to call the cardiologist office to set up my six month appointment. I'm hungry all the time, which I contribute to boredom. I have gained 5 pounds.0 -
Maryanne, you’ve done so well! I’m happy for your success.
Jean, I’m glad you’re recovery is progressing so well. It’s so easy to accidentally overdo when you’ve been doing well, so be careful.
I was frustrated yesterday. I had a telemedicine appointment scheduled yesterday that never happened. I made a point of keeping my phone by my side during the window I was given, but even 45 minutes later there was no call. I finally called the office to inquire and had to leave a message. Shortly afterward I received a text message asking me to call the office to reschedule my NO SHOW appointment. They claimed that they made 3 attempts and the calls all went straight to voicemail. They also claimed they had left messages. My phone showed no missed calls and no voicemails. They clearly had my correct phone number since I was receiving text messages from them. I rescheduled for later today, and this morning I received a reminder text about it. Now they are saying there was a cell phone outage yesterday, but this is the first I’ve heard about that. Usually I see mention of outages on some of the local social media platforms, so I’m a little suspicious. Hopefully we will connect later today. This appointment is with my endocrinologist, who orders my Prolia injections for my osteoporosis. My injection is due this month.0 -
Pam - that sounds like a total pain. I have a feeling there's going to be even MORE hurry up and wait with doctors for the foreseeable future.0
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Jean, I wonder if your hunger can be coming from any of the medications you’re taking. Eating out of boredom isn’t influenced by hunger. I’ve certainly eaten out of boredom myself. If you feel actual hunger pangs, something else is causing it. If that’s what’s happening, at least it will pass when you finish the medication.
Pam, that’s so frustrating about your appointment. And then to blame you as a no show is outrageous. I hope the next appointment goes smoother.
We start our drive home tomorrow. I’m not looking forward to it. It’s a long, tiring trip. We drive to Jacksonville tomorrow and to SC on Thursday. We’ll spend several days visiting with my brother. We’ll restart the drive next week and plan to be back home by June 25th.0 -
I did successfully complete the appointment today. There were still issues in connecting, but we eventually made it happen. Now to schedule the Prolia injection at the infusion center. I wonder what safety measures they will require?
I forgot to mention something we enjoyed Sunday night. Someone in our small neighborhood arranged for a couple of food trucks to come. One made personal size pizzas and the other was an ice cream truck. Everyone brought their own drinks and chairs. It was so nice to see people again and be able to talk. No one was wearing a mask and I’ll admit that our efforts at social distancing were only moderately successful. Hopefully the breeze was blowing any droplets away. There was an excellent turnout, both from our neighborhood and friends and family of people in the neighborhood. The trucks were here for about 3 hours. It was surprisingly affordable, as well. My pizza was $8 and I saved half of it for another meal. My ice cream cone with sprinkles was $2.50. There were a few other options that were slightly more, but I doubt anyone spent more than $10-12 per person for dinner and dessert. It was a lot of fun!0 -
That sounds like a lot of fun. How lovely to see your friends after so long apart.0
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I've got to get busy and make some catch-up doctor appointments. We're doing relatively well in Maryland right now so I'm thinking this may be the time to get a few things done. I feel we're sort of in a situation like the eye of a hurricane - certainly not safe but maybe as good as it's going to get for at least a year. I have two cat appointments due this summer and have both of those scheduled. Now it's probably time to schedule me. Just so daggone busy at work.
I'm really, really tired. Thank goodness for the cats who give me a reason to fight on. I try to keep reminding myself we have it so much better than many of our countrymen.0 -
Washington Post: ‘Of course not’: Fauci says he personally wouldn’t attend Trump’s Tulsa rally, citing coronavirus
Why does it feel like the voices of reason are shouting in the wilderness?
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Pam--I read about your cell phone issues. I don't know who is your provider but T-Mobile had a massive outage yesterday.
Helene--I think my eating out of boredom or whatever is because something is not satisfying me. I feel full but not satisfied.
Maryanne--If things are improving in your area, it might be a good time to get some things done. "Eye of a hurricane" is a good way to describe the situation we are in.
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My phone carrier is T-Mobile. I also read about their issues yesterday, right after I posted about my issues.
Jean, do you have any idea what it is you need to satisfy your craving? Sometimes I think when a craving persists, it’s better to give in, within reason, and satisfy it so that you can get back to healthier eating. Otherwise, it just stays on your mind and you keep trying to fulfill the craving with substitutes that don’t hit the mark.0 -
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From Reader's Digest:
Just saw a guy walking down the street eating a gallon of ice cream right out of the container. I hired him as my life coach.
My husband just bought ice cream with raisins. So, that was a fun marriage.
I'm going to start eating clean. How do you wash ice cream?0 -
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The husband where my husband ran the lab for decades has been turned into a post COVID rehab center.
www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-coronavirus-rehab-20200618-n2ft3tiukffkjb3j35ue73pufa-story.html
If this kind of thing doesn't disabuse folks of taking risks I don't know what will.0 -
We’re in Jacksonville at the hotel. We got a later than planned start on the drive so it was very late when we arrived. I was expecting they’d have a brown bag breakfast so I asked when we checked in. They are still doing a normal breakfast but scaled down. It didn’t make any difference since we were too tired to get up for it. I had brought food with me since I wasn’t sure what they’d do for breakfast. I filled our travel mugs with coffee and we had breakfast burritos in our room.0
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I forgot to say the hotel is definitely social distancing. They had removed most of the tables and chairs in the breakfast room. The desk clerk told me they only let 3 people at a time in the breakfast area. At peak times, people must really back up waiting. Maybe they serve themselves and bring the food back to their rooms? I won’t know since I slept through breakfast.0
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Helene - sounds like you're off to a good start on the journey! Best of luck the rest of the way.0
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The husband where my husband ran the lab for decades has been turned into a post COVID rehab center.
www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-coronavirus-rehab-20200618-n2ft3tiukffkjb3j35ue73pufa-story.html
If this kind of thing doesn't disabuse folks of taking risks I don't know what will.
Not sure why that link isn't clickable:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-coronavirus-rehab-20200618-n2ft3tiukffkjb3j35ue73pufa-story.html0 -
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Maryanne, I wish I had a sign like that on my front porch. I had my first solicitor this week since quarantine began. My city had banned it for awhile, but recently lifted the restrictions. The city requires door to door solicitors to get a permit first and they are given a list of people who have registered to be on a Do Not Solicit list. I’ve signed up for the list, but have been told that most solicitors ignore it, which seems to be the case. I was just thinking earlier this week how nice it has been to not have strangers knocking on my door to sell me stuff I don’t need.0
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Pam - here we can post "no solicitation" signs. Supposedly they are to be obeyed. In practice, not always. We've never opened our door to strangers but there's no way I'd do it now even if I'd done so in the past. My late mother used to complain about unwanted phone calls. I told her "Mom, they can call, but you can choose not to answer". I feel the same way about anyone at the door. They can knock but I can ignore. And I do. (Here it's mostly folks with Bibles and I REALLY don't want to talk to them.)
What really frosts me is people who knock, get no answer, and then walk across the porch and peer in a window. I mean REALLY??? Who raised you? I have no problem ignoring such rudeness. LOL!
I also got frosted by whoever from Amazon does Sunday evening deliveries here. They knock SO loudly on the door (just to let us know they left a package) it scares the cats and a couple times they knocked so loudly on a front window that they rattled the glass. I now avoid Sunday deliveries and I've tried to train DH to do the same (with a modicum of success).0 -
DH is trying to get his cholesterol down "naturally" (if by naturally you mean all kinds of weird supplements). He decided he wanted to eat oatmeal so I gave him some of my Quaker packets. Then I had to show him how to make it. Put in a bowl, add up to half a cup of boiling water, stir, add raisins and/or skim milk if desired. "How do you get half a cup of boiling water?" I kid you not.... we had a lesson on boiling water.0
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Yesterday, I tackled papers and shredded them, ending up with a 13 gal trash bag filled with confetti. Today, I started another bag but had to go to physical therapy. After 45 minutes of it, I had no desire to do anything for the rest of the day.
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Jean - other than wiping you out (which I remember all too well), how's PT going?0
