Colorado flu survivor tells cautionary tale: 'You can go downhill within hours' https://www.coloradoan.com/story/money/2018/09/29/why-you-should-get-flu-shot-colorado/1425409002/ via @coloradoan
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I'm far too mentally exhausted to think of anything witty right now.
Given the events of the weekend, I thought it would be good to have A Talk with the folks about planning for if Mom winds up in care. Neither of them wanted to discuss it, then I aspirated a bite of food and Dad said (half-joking?) that maybe I should stop talking.
...so that could have gone better...
Bilateral cataract surgery for McDuff is ~$4000. One eye is only slightly less. [sigh] We don't really have the money for it but Dad and I want to go for it anyway. The cataracts are causing inflammation in his eyes and taking care of them may help get his diabetes under control.
...but $4000 is $4000.
Looks like I'm going to be spending a good portion of my Sunday taking Mom to and from the Urgent Care. She fell (twice) Friday and thinks her wrist is broken. Dad is golfing and H is being a grumpy shit.
Happy birthday, @kelliebob. I hope things have only gotten better today after the Kelliest start to your day!
@runes Hey, everything okay with you? Haven't seen you around except a couple replies.
Got new reading glasses today. They're not quite right and gave me an instant headache. Ordered the next step down and those will be here Thursday.
[sigh] All of this could have been avoided if anywhere around town had anything less than a 1.25 diopter.
Yesterday, my Huskers lost and my CSU Rams won. Today, it's my Seahawks' turn to make me happy. Come on boys, beat those Broncos!
Very irritated at King Soopers' lack of integration between their app and website. I spent over an hour last night making my shopping list on the site (checking coupons, checking ads, etc) and NOTHING transferred to my phone when I got to the store! All that was on my list in the app was the ketchup I'd scanned the barcode on the night before. GRAR!
I pay an extra $2.02/month on my car loan just to make it a nice round number. I wonder how much that's actually saving me in the long run?