Subj : Re: FWIW - Shingrix To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Thu May 14 2020 23:43:28 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 08-May-2020 09:32 <=- BM>>> Some people can do need to do some other task while talking on the BM>>> phone (don't do videochat!), others need to sit and only talk. NB>>> Depending on the call, sometimes I can do something else besides just NB>>> talk (once in a while, I'll get started on doing a bbs run when a call NB>>> is running late; sometimes I'll be sitting doing solitaire), but NB>>> usually, I need to focus on just the call... BM>> Yes, I almost always need to concentrate on the conversation going on, BM>> though I will admit sometimes portions aren't that interesting and a BM>> game of Solitaire is popped up. NB>> Yup... when the caller is nattering on and on on the same thing.... ;) BM> That's when one sets up a random utterance generator: randomly BM> sythensizes "uh-huh", "really?". "huh!" when one goes to the bathroom, BM> makes a sandwich, .... Tempting... That tends to backfire, though.... that'll be when the one important question gets asked.... BM>>> At the apartment I would start sitting and then start slowly pacing. BM>>> It helped the phone had a realllly long coil-cord! NB>>> I've been known to do that.... haven't lately, though... And even NB>>> better than a really long coil-cord is a cordless handset... BM>> I don't know if I could afford one back then! When I first moved in I BM>> think it was still illegal or at least not allowed for people to work BM>> on their own phone lines. The phone in the apartment was hardwired. BM>> At the time answering machines had a mechanical contraption to lift the BM>> headset to answer the call. NB>> Cordless phones might not have been available back then either... The NB>> corded phone on the kitchen wall has had a extra-long coilcord for NB>> most of the time we've been living here... we'd worn out a couple NB>> coilcords already before we got our first cordless phone... ;) BM> Yes, I don't recall when cordless phones became generally available BM> either. Had to be after the public was allowed to plug equipment in - BM> so late 70's? Or maybe early 80's.... :) BM>>> The overall base diet needs to be decent; supplements are just that: BM>>> supplemental and not primary. And some may help with disease control: BM>>> when I broke my femur they found my blood serum Vitamin D was low so BM>>> said I needed to take supplements; a couple/few years later I had too BM>>> much floating through so told to stop the Vit D specific but continue BM>>> with the 'with D' (such as Calcium with D as opposed to just Calcium). NB>>> I use celery seed instead of gout medications, and cinnamon in various NB>>> forms (one also has vit D added) to help control blood sugars... for NB>>> my bones I'm taking a calcium chew which has added vit D and K... also NB>>> a magnesium supplement as my levels were low... all doctor approved NB>>> and/or suggested... BM>> Hmmm: making a note on the celery seed and gout. I don't have BM>> problems but don't recall that usage. NB>> It's one of a good list of foods and herbs/spices that could be NB>> helpful to combat gout, which also includes cherries... one can eat NB>> 4 ribs of celery a day instead of taking the usual medication NB>> (allopurinol) and get the same results... or one can get it more NB>> efficiently with celery seed extract capsules... ;) So I take the NB>> capsules daily and also use celery a lot in cooking... :) BM> Seems the best of both worlds: concentrated extract so easier to BM> consume the greater amount needed, plus from the natural source because BM> who knows what trace amounts of other nutrients is found in the natural BM> source. Exactly... and by taking the daily supplement, there's always a fairly regular amount being ingested, to be supplemented by the less regular eating of the whole food... :) BM>> As for calcium, I take the old-fashioned pill, though one looks like BM>> a mispackaged suppository!! Very elongated oval! Is the 'softgel' BM>> version which I accidentally picked up. Admittedly goes down easily! :) NB>> Never have seen or tried the softgel version, but the regular pilly NB>> didn't seem to work that well for me besides being more of a pain to NB>> swallow.... so I've just used the chews, which have worked well for my NB>> assimilation of the calcium... BM> As long as it works. I generally have no problems swallowing pills, BM> though the tiny ones sometimes don't want to go down (follow up with a BM> large one - so much for than problem!). As for the chews, never BM> really needed here but glad they're available for you. I'm ok with most pills, but the calcium ones seemed to stick for me... and like iron pill supplements, my body had trouble getting them working nicely... Iron also makes me constipated, immediately and without quick relief, so I have to get my iron by infusion... so regular bloodwork and visits to a hematologist, but when the anemia starts to get bad again, I get the infusion and everything settles back in again... ;) NB>>> I do, though, sanitize the cart handles and such as I get it at the NB>>> entrance to the store.... either with the wipes they have available NB>>> or the hand sanitizer with a paper towel... whichever is there... BM>> I would do the same except I get the cart from the cart corral in the BM>> parking lot and bring it in. Combination of helping by bringing in a BM>> cart I'm going to use anyway, the small cart which I prefer isn't BM>> always available in the vestibule (all in use or outside), and when BM>> walking in winter through slush, etc., the cart helps steady me. NB>> All good reasons... ;) If I grabbed a cart from outside, I'd be NB>> careful not to touch it much with bare hands, and grab a wipe as I go NB>> inside to wipe it down... I've noticed, also, that when the "Helping NB>> Hands" people are bringing in the carts, they're wiping down the cart NB>> handles just before pushing the line of carts into the store.... BM> Good on the wipe-down. One problem with gloves is most people don't BM> remove them properly, so ending up touching a potentially contaminated BM> surface anyway. I rarely am using gloves... I'm just using my sleeve covered arms for the short-term... NB>>> Makes plenty of sense... and as I said (probably in response to your NB>>> earlier message), when I asked here, I got a similar response, but NB>>> without any estimate of when they expect to do shots regularly again... BM>> Wegmans may not have known, or decided not to give a date as too many BM>> people heard "May 5" instead of "hopefully starting May 5". Plus BM>> you're New York and I'm Iowa and there are different state regulations. BM>> Both of us will just continue the periodic casual asking. NB>> Yes, mostly I think that there are just too many unknowns yet to even NB>> guess at when things will happen here... and yes, we'll just keep NB>> asking every so often... ;) BM> There was a sheet included with my paperwork when I picked up my BM> prescriptions yesterday indicating my second Shringrix shot was due. BM> Was auto-generated; I didn't see it until I got home but will ask in BM> the near future when they want to give the second shot. Right now BM> Iowa/Scott County is still under restrictions; I have no reason to BM> accelerate getting the shot. Just keep that auto-generated reminder... it lets you know when the effective period began, so you'll know when you are reaching near the end of the 6 months, if the second shot hasn't happened in the meantime. BM>> At Hy-Vee yesterday did pick up a bag of Fudge Brownie flavoured M&Ms BM>> -- haven't had any yet. NB>> Haven't seen those here yet... I bet you are a test market for M&Ms... BM> Maybe! The Fudge Brownie M&M's were a good news/bad news type of BM> thing: they did taste like a decent fudge brownie, not sugary sweet BM> like some of the boxed and individually packaged ones (I'm thinking BM> "Little Debbie" but don't know if they have such a thing in their BM> assortment). The bad news -- not really 'bad news' but both of us BM> thought was good for a one-shot purchase, not like the BM> coffee-flavoured ones which were a repeat occasional buy. I'd BM> recommend the Fudge Brownie flavour as a 'something a little BM> different'. So, good enough to finish the package... but not good enough to buy again... :) Sounds mostly like a riff on the Dark Chocolate M&Ms, though... ;) ttyl neb .... 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