My Meds

[alkan]

Then are we just being enablers by feeding void of hunan interaction by engaging him in his random thoughts? No logic or reasoning has got him to do anything except order a walker. Some of us feel bad for him and some of us have disdain/mistrust of him but either way it is really getting him no where except allowing him to stay comfortable in never leaving his home.

Yes, and I would be for leaving the thread alone except when I see things that seem to indicate that his view of his situation is distorted, like his remark about his "good" doctor. (Obviously, @Avalon, I'm not saying the doctor is incompetent. as he can only act on symptoms that are presented to him, it is your belief I am challenging.)

[+ Avalon]

Now that we know his answer what about people like @FreshFluff who is trying very hard to help him right now. How about an apology, @Avalon

 

I apologize.

[MikeBiDude]

@Avalon do you WANT to leave the house and see your doctor? Get a haircut?

Now that we know his answer what about people like @FreshFluff who is trying very hard to help him right now. How about an apology, @Avalon

He never directly replied to my post....very telling

[+ Avalon]

@Avalon do you WANT to leave the house and see your doctor? Get a haircut?

 

Yes. I'm sorry I overlooked your query.

[+ Avalon]

How I'd love a haircut! It's now on my shoulders. And I hate facial hair.

[+ StLouisOct]

I apologize.

Ah, another apology from Avalon - to be followed by another flurry of dumb threads that you know are a subject of derision? Maybe at some point you’ll be embarrassed into apologizing for that too, but probably not.

[marylander1940]

My landlord does not know who my doctor is. I wrote out the names and addresses and phone numbers of my niece and cousin and taped it to a closet door. If anything happens to me to let them know.

 

For LifeAlert I had to give the contact info for two people. I gave my doctor and landlord.

 

do you have a will?

 

[+ Avalon]

Ah, another apology from Avalon - to be followed by another flurry of dumb threads that you know are a subject of derision? Maybe at some point you’ll be embarrassed into apologizing for that too, but probably not.

 

A major gripe I have is when people refuse to apologize when they are wrong. It so simple and can ease hurt feelings. But some are so stubborn!

 

 

do you have a will?

 

 

 

No. I don't really care what happens to my stuff. I have a niece I'm six years older than she is but she has no children nor does her brother. I have a cousin my age but she has her family and own concerns.

 

Who would want my father's wedding ring & etc.?

[+ FreshFluff]

Look, I'm not that social either, and I know what you mean about being happy alone. But what about the diabetes? In the end, you don't want to wake up with a cold leg.

 

Preventing that means getting blood draws every few months to check on your A1C levels. There are mobile blood draw services that can come to you, and Medicare apparently covers it. Your doctor's office should be able to arrange for this.

 

Look, you took some action a few months ago. You chased down your doctor, and signed up for that service. Now you just need to take a little more action and get a lab done, maybe get a health care provider to come to you. Your landlord could definitely help you with this.

[+ Avalon]

Look, I'm not that social either, and I know what you mean about being happy alone. But what about the diabetes? In the end, you don't want to wake up with a cold leg.

 

Preventing that means getting blood draws every few months to check on your A1C levels. There are mobile blood draw services that can come to you, and Medicare apparently covers it. Your doctor's office should be able to arrange for this.

 

Look, you took some action a few months ago. You chased down your doctor, and signed up for that service. Now you just need to take a little more action and get a lab done, maybe get a health care provider to come to you. Your landlord could definitely help you with this.

 

I have looked into getting a home heath nurse. My doctor says he can't do it unless he sees me first. I called the County Health Department; they don't have anything. I called the hospital and they don't have any service.

 

After my two stays in the hospital - 1999, 2006 - someone did come out everyday for a couple of weeks to check up on me. However they could not give shots.

 

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

The money I would have spent on the doctor these last six months I'm buying books from Amazon.

[+ Travis69]

Avalon-Wheelchair to get to doctor. Easy. Listen to FleshFluff about tests. Last thing you want is to lose your legs. Then you'll really be up the creek!!!! Think about it!!!

[+ FreshFluff]

I have looked into getting a home heath nurse. My doctor says he can't do it unless he sees me first. I called the County Health Department; they don't have anything. I called the hospital and they don't have any service.

 

After my two stays in the hospital - 1999, 2006 - someone did come out everyday for a couple of weeks to check up on me. However they could not give shots.

 

OK, this is a yuge incentive to go see him once. Again, if you tell your landlord all this, I'm almost sure he will find transportation. Maybe he will even come along or have his wife do so. Some of us on this board would be happy to accompany you if we're nearby.

 

Was the person who checked on you after your hospital stay a nurse? An RN should be able to give shots if ordered by a physician.

 

The money I would have spent on the doctor these last six months I'm buying books from Amazon.

 

Is this what's keeping you away from the doctor? Medicare should cover the cost of an annual visit. You might have a small copay for tests he orders.

[MikeBiDude]

Yes. I'm sorry I overlooked your query.

@Avalon do you WANT to leave the house and see your doctor? Get a haircut?

Ok, you answered you’d like a haircut. You’re Still avoiding part of the question:

 

Do you WANT to see your doctor?

[+ Avalon]

Is this what's keeping you away from the doctor? Medicare should cover the cost of an annual visit. You might have a small copay for tests he orders.

 

It's wasn't because of finances. I was used to it. They first billed Medicare and then later I was told what I owed. But because I was seeing the doctor so often almost every time I went in I had to pay the old bill.

 

Ok, you answered you’d like a haircut. You’re Still avoiding part of the question:

 

Do you WANT to see your doctor?

 

I would. I'm seriously thinking about it. I really need to see him if it's just to hear him tell me that I'm okay. It took me months to get the walker. I'm glad I did.

[MikeBiDude]

It's wasn't because of finances. I was used to it. They first billed Medicare and then later I was told what I owed. But because I was seeing the doctor so often almost every time I went in I had to pay the old bill.

 

 

 

I would. I'm seriously thinking about it. I really need to see him if it's just to hear him tell me that I'm okay. It took me months to get the walker. I'm glad I did.

Thanks! Let any of us know if you need some encouragement!!

[+ Avalon]

Thanks! Let any of us know if you need some encouragement!!

 

I greatly appreciate what everyone has done. It has helped knowing I'm not alone!

[+ WilliamM]

It is a choice. I am by nature not a social creature. The few relationships I've had they were always begun by the other person.

 

One can not force a relationship or a friendship by you can certainly try to make it happen.

[samhexum]

Along w/ vaping cannibis I also take CBD oil capsules.

A 24-year-old man was killed in Texas last week when his vape pen exploded — slicing open his carotid artery and leaving his grandmother’s car covered in blood.

 

William Brown died after his left internal carotid artery was severed due to trauma from the exploding vape pen he just bought from Smoke & Vape DZ in Keller, a town just north of Fort Worth, his distraught grandmother told WFAA.

 

“He popped it and it exploded, and that’s when it shot across his mouth,” Alice Brown told the station.

 

Brown claimed the device’s battery malfunctioned, melting bits of plastic from her car to the vape pen — which launched the charred debris into her grandson’s face and neck, leaving her car soaked in blood. Brown died at John Peter Smith Hospital two days later, she said.

 

“When they X-rayed him, they found the stem, the metal embedded to where the blood flows up to the brain,” Brown continued. “I miss him already, and knowing he won’t open that door and come through it ever again is the hardest part.”

 

Funeral services for Brown, a licensed electrician, are scheduled for later this week, his grandmother said.

 

Brown, who wasn’t a regular smoker, purchased the device on Jan. 27 while on the way to the bank, the grandmother told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He suffered from asthma and was told that a specialized vape pen might help improve his breathing, she told the newspaper.

 

After the blast, William Brown managed to crawl out of the car and toward the trunk, where he collapsed on the pavement. A nearby witness called an ambulance, she said, and a medical examiner later ruled that his cause of death was penetrating trauma from an exploding vaporizer pen, making him at least the second person in the United States to be killed by an exploding e-cigarette, according to the newspaper.

 

Brown, a high school graduate who loved fixing up his Mazda RX8, was preparing to celebrate his birthday in just two weeks, his grandmother said.

 

“It just hurts so bad,” she told the Star-Telegram. “Now he’ll never see that birthday. It’s a waste of the thing he could have accomplished.”

 

She continued: “It just all seems so unreal. He was running around doing his thing at 24 and now he’s gone.”

 

Brown said an investigator in the case told her the device’s battery caused the deadly explosion. She told the newspaper she searched her vehicle and found a piece of the battery with its serial number.

 

“That’s the important part,” she told the newspaper. “That’s what the investigator said he needed … I just hope, if anything, I hope it stops someone from [smoking electronic cigarettes]. I don’t know how many more people will have to die.”

 

A store employee who witnessed the incident, meanwhile, told the Dallas Morning News that the vaporizer was not purchased at the location. Authorities told the employee not to discuss details of Brown’s death.

 

The newspaper also cited US Fire Administration statistics from 2017 showing that 133 acute injuries from e-cigarettes, vaporizers and other similar devices were reported between 2009 and 2016. Most of the fires and explosions occurred while the device was being used or stored in a pocket and none had resulted in death, according to the report.

 

But a Florida man named Tallmadge D’Elia, 38, suffered multiple injuries to his face when he was killed by an exploding e-cigarette last May. A medical examiner’s report listed his cause of death as a “projectile wound of the head,” leaving him with burns on about 80 percent of his body, the Star-Telegram reports.

 

One of the pieces removed from D’Elia’s head featured the logo of Smok-E Mountain Mech Works, a company based in the Philippines, according to the New York Times.

[Sixty]

73 years young here. I just returned home from a rehab facility after being away 3& 1/2 weeks. They wanted me to stay 3 more weeks for safety precautions and I decided to leave.I took a very bad fall here at home.

Have type 2 diabetes, 2 stents, high blood pressure, bilateral hip replacements, 2 operations on my left knee and back surgery.

I take 15 pills daily,which includes repeats and I give myself an insulin shot every night at bedtime. Discarded my walker using

my cane to get to PT today and hope to get back to the gym in 2 weeks or so. Living alone here with no one really to count on.

PHEW what a life !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[+ HornyRetiree]

A 24-year-old man was killed in Texas last week when his vape pen exploded — slicing open his carotid artery and leaving his grandmother’s car covered in blood.

 

William Brown died after his left internal carotid artery was severed due to trauma from the exploding vape pen he just bought from Smoke & Vape DZ in Keller, a town just north of Fort Worth, his distraught grandmother told WFAA.

 

“He popped it and it exploded, and that’s when it shot across his mouth,” Alice Brown told the station.

 

Brown claimed the device’s battery malfunctioned, melting bits of plastic from her car to the vape pen — which launched the charred debris into her grandson’s face and neck, leaving her car soaked in blood. Brown died at John Peter Smith Hospital two days later, she said.

 

“When they X-rayed him, they found the stem, the metal embedded to where the blood flows up to the brain,” Brown continued. “I miss him already, and knowing he won’t open that door and come through it ever again is the hardest part.”

 

Funeral services for Brown, a licensed electrician, are scheduled for later this week, his grandmother said.

 

Brown, who wasn’t a regular smoker, purchased the device on Jan. 27 while on the way to the bank, the grandmother told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He suffered from asthma and was told that a specialized vape pen might help improve his breathing, she told the newspaper.

 

After the blast, William Brown managed to crawl out of the car and toward the trunk, where he collapsed on the pavement. A nearby witness called an ambulance, she said, and a medical examiner later ruled that his cause of death was penetrating trauma from an exploding vaporizer pen, making him at least the second person in the United States to be killed by an exploding e-cigarette, according to the newspaper.

 

Brown, a high school graduate who loved fixing up his Mazda RX8, was preparing to celebrate his birthday in just two weeks, his grandmother said.

 

“It just hurts so bad,” she told the Star-Telegram. “Now he’ll never see that birthday. It’s a waste of the thing he could have accomplished.”

 

She continued: “It just all seems so unreal. He was running around doing his thing at 24 and now he’s gone.”

 

Brown said an investigator in the case told her the device’s battery caused the deadly explosion. She told the newspaper she searched her vehicle and found a piece of the battery with its serial number.

 

“That’s the important part,” she told the newspaper. “That’s what the investigator said he needed … I just hope, if anything, I hope it stops someone from [smoking electronic cigarettes]. I don’t know how many more people will have to die.”

 

A store employee who witnessed the incident, meanwhile, told the Dallas Morning News that the vaporizer was not purchased at the location. Authorities told the employee not to discuss details of Brown’s death.

 

The newspaper also cited US Fire Administration statistics from 2017 showing that 133 acute injuries from e-cigarettes, vaporizers and other similar devices were reported between 2009 and 2016. Most of the fires and explosions occurred while the device was being used or stored in a pocket and none had resulted in death, according to the report.

 

But a Florida man named Tallmadge D’Elia, 38, suffered multiple injuries to his face when he was killed by an exploding e-cigarette last May. A medical examiner’s report listed his cause of death as a “projectile wound of the head,” leaving him with burns on about 80 percent of his body, the Star-Telegram reports.

 

One of the pieces removed from D’Elia’s head featured the logo of Smok-E Mountain Mech Works, a company based in the Philippines, according to the New York Times.

I use a PAX3 for vaping dry flower and a Key Fob for vaping oil

[+ FreshFluff]

73 years young here. I just returned home from a rehab facility after being away 3& 1/2 weeks. They wanted me to stay 3 more weeks for safety precautions and I decided to leave.I took a very bad fall here at home.

Have type 2 diabetes, 2 stents, high blood pressure, bilateral hip replacements, 2 operations on my left knee and back surgery.

I take 15 pills daily,which includes repeats and I give myself an insulin shot every night at bedtime. Discarded my walker using

my cane to get to PT today and hope to get back to the gym in 2 weeks or so. Living alone here with no one really to count on.

PHEW what a life !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

It must feel good to be home. Being in the hospital sucks, but it sounds like you came out better on the other side. Keep taking great care of yourself, Sixty+.

[Rudynate]

73 years young here. I just returned home from a rehab facility after being away 3& 1/2 weeks. They wanted me to stay 3 more weeks for safety precautions and I decided to leave.I took a very bad fall here at home.

Have type 2 diabetes, 2 stents, high blood pressure, bilateral hip replacements, 2 operations on my left knee and back surgery.

I take 15 pills daily,which includes repeats and I give myself an insulin shot every night at bedtime. Discarded my walker using

my cane to get to PT today and hope to get back to the gym in 2 weeks or so. Living alone here with no one really to count on.

PHEW what a life !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Nice work!!!

[Sixty]

Thanks muchly Fresh Fluff and Rudymate. Your encouraging words are truly appreciated. I've been on my own for nearly 50 years

and do my utmost to stay healthy. I consider myself alone but not lonely.

[+ Pensant]

Thanks muchly Fresh Fluff and Rudymate. Your encouraging words are truly appreciated. I've been on my own for nearly 50 years

and do my utmost to stay healthy. I consider myself alone but not lonely.

You have friends here.

[Sixty]

HI there Pensant

Have been a loner for so long, almost 50 years, I don't know how good I'd be at sharing time with others. I would like to give it a try

at 73 yrs young. Live here in NYC, Brooklyn, NY and am an avid theater goer having a membership with the Theater Development

Fund, their Theater Access Program. When I recover from my fall I'll be returning to the gym 4-6 days weekly which should be soon.

Would like insight to meeting up with other members. Any ideas would be appreciated. THANKS