Avalon

Have you talked to your landlord about this? If he's washing your sheets, he will almost certainly help you find someone to drive you over or do it himself.

I am not physically able to walk outside to get to a car. I am barely able to walk around my apartment.

That's good. But it sounds like you're hesitant to go see him. Is that just because of transportation? Can your landlord take you?

 

If nothing else, one trip to your GP every 6 months will save you a lot of time and hassle in getting prescriptions from the ER.

I'd love to be able to go see him. It's just a matter of my mobility and transportation. I can not walk far without my legs getting weak and needing to set down.

Ah, @marylander1940, okay … that was funny. The folks who never go to the Politics forum won't understand, but I laughed.

 

And I'll take it as an opportunity to say this to @Avalon:

 

You may not get this, so here's a heads-up:

 

Plenty of us who hate your politics, or have expressed other issues with your posts, would still drive over, load you into the car if we had to carry you, and get you to a (good) doctor if we knew you were anywhere near us. I understand your preference to protect your privacy (even though, in this situation, it is unhelpful to you), but, please, don't abuse the concern of a community you have asked for attention, and implicitly asked to care about you, by ignoring advice you must know is offered in your best interest.

I appreciate everyone's concern. These forums are about my only contact with the outside world.

Avalon, I'm not sure I understand your doctor situation. Are you seeing only a GP or specialist(s)? How did you find your GP? Have you found him/her to be bored and unhelpful? If so, you need a new one. A good GP will typically refer to good specialists. Check online reviews; you need to be wary of fake reviews, positive and negative, but the general gist is usually right. For specialists, remember that you can find them yourself and ask for a referral. The Castle Connolly list is a good place to start,

I've had this doctor for maybe 30 years. He bought the practice from my previous doctor who was retiring.

He is a GREAT doctor!!!

Well, I was thinking of sample sizes like tapas, but now I am also hoping to take my time with the eating process and draw out the time I have left to live.

:):)

Sounds good!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapas

ALL THE HEALTHY DARK GREEN VEGETABLES - brocolli, kale, spinach, Brusells Sprouts along with sweet potatoes — google “whole30 rules”

Thank-you! I had not heard of it before.

https://whole30.com/whole30-program-rules/

Interesting study about fiber and knee arthritis. It's an observation study but still pretty convincing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/well/eat/high-fiber-diet-tied-to-less-knee-arthritis.html?referer=https://t.co/Hb99JTy8P3

What fibers do you recommend for a diabetic?

Yes. In the IDF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces

Years back I had visited a friend (an hour away) and was driving home late at night. I was hungry so I stopped at Taco Bell and got a burrito. I made a mess of it!

And then there's the Kelvin scale, which makes even more sense. 0 on the Kelvin scale is absolute zero- total absence of thermal energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee

I just heard that on the radio

OTOH,a freezing point of 0 and a boiling point of 100 makes a lot more sense than a freezing point of 32 and a boiling point of 212.

I agree!

I don't wear a wrist watch or have a cell phone. One Winter the power was off for 24 hours from 6AM to 6AM. There was a warming center at the VA Hall. I was the only person who showed up. There was no wall clock. Whenever I asked what time it was people looked at the phones.

Over the years I've had several different thermostats in my apartment. Some I could not change. Not even my landlord nor his wife could change it. He had to call the installer to change the temp. The installer had set the heat for 68F at night and 72F during the day. Too cold for me. One week they had to put in three different thermostats. I now have a thermostat I can adjust. I have it set at 78F for both heater and a/c.

One reason when it comes to temperatures I prefer Fahrenheit over Celsius is because when it's 100F you know it's HOT!!! Unlike say 45C. :p:p:p

Colleen Rose Dewhurst (3 June 1924 – 22 August 1991) was a Canadian-American actress. She is known most for playing Avery Brown, the feisty mother of Candice Bergen's title character; this role earned her two Emmy Awards, the second being awarded posthumously. She married and divorced George C. Scott twice.

Thank-you! So that's where Murphy's son gets his name.

http://www.behindthename.com/name/avery

OY! You're as uninformed about TV trivia as Trump is about environmental issues.

Who do you think Avery was named after? Hint... she's in this picture:

I'm sorry. I give up. Please tell me.

General Patton married Avery Brown twice. I laid it all out in pictures above.

I didn't watch the original series. I only watch it now because Jake McDorman plays Avery. But Avery is a male plus the character would have been too young to marry in the original series.

You know his daughter is Murphy Brown, right?

 

 

MARRIED

 

 

(TWICE)

Your joke about Murphy Brown being the daughter of either George Patton or George C Scott escapes me. Sorry.

Are there still night trains? Thirty years ago, I took a night train from Paris to Amsterdam. A family member who went to Europe recently said they didn't have them anymore.

 

Gman

https://www.ricksteves.com/travel-tips/transportation/trains/night-trains

Presumably you reset the time twice a year. If you can do that, I'd be willing to bet you could figure out how to play the radio.

I'm afraid to try. I might set the alarm and not be able to unset it. One clock I bought I could not figure out how to set the time but somehow set the alarm but it was early in the morning. I thought it was the smoke detector. I was able to stop it but could not undo it. Finally I put the clock in a sack and beat it to death with a hammer and put it the trash bin behind the building.

I had a good friend who helped me with all things mechanical but he died several years ago.

You know his daughter is Murphy Brown, right?

 

 

MARRIED

 

 

(TWICE)

'The character. Because the actress is the daughter of Edgar Bergen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_Bergen

There was a plan decades ago for the US to go metric. I learned the metric system in grade school. Our teachers said it was important to learn because the US would be going metric in 10 years. Never happened, obviously.

All I know without looking it up is that a meter is about a yard.

Odd choice for a pet!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton

How appropriate that he would be born on what would become Veterans Day!

He was an Olympic athlete in the 1912 Stockholm Games.

The location of the federal capital was specified in the constitution. It had to be in an area to be excised from the state of New South Wales, but more than 100 miles from Sydney.

Thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra