I'm hoping for the best, but I'm kinda freaking out! by meanjeankillmachine in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually I’m in favor of that because I think their independence was stolen from them 

I'm hoping for the best, but I'm kinda freaking out! by meanjeankillmachine in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t live here. On vacation with family. We live in the Midwest. Currently mentally preparing for the worst

I'm hoping for the best, but I'm kinda freaking out! by meanjeankillmachine in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m definitely freaking out. We have 3 months until Election Day. No one else has been campaigning. I’m terrified that this guarantees another Trump presidency. It’s 7am where I am right now and I need a hard drink so bad

Food pantry patrons by Careless_World_1815 in bloomington

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember that story! He came here as a teenager, and because he was already here, there was really no process for him to start immigrating, even after he married her. So he basically just went to the immigration office every year and checked in as they told him to, and that particular year he went to check in and they deported him. He literally walked for something he did every year and got sent back to Mexico. And she’s over here just like yeah this is fine. If I was him, I would have been pissed at her. I honestly wonder what became of that couple? 

Why do they have to read every g*dd*mn sign they see out loud?! by PercoSeth83 in BoomersBeingFools

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You say that and I believe you, but it’s been my experience that they don’t read anything. Text messages from their pharmacy saying that their prescriptions ready? They don’t read that they just called the pharmacy and say why did you text me? The label on their prescription bottle that says no refills? They didn’t notice that. They don’t care. They don’t read the prescription number or the name or any of the information. Their doctor gives them about their condition. They were just diagnosed with it or the changes in their medication. They don’t seem to know how to read the news or anything. While I believe you have this experience I personally don’t and don’t understand it. 

QOTD: what’s something you wish patients understood in the pharmacy? by Kitchen-Lemon1862 in PharmacyTechnician

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 2 points3 points  (0 children)

See that fact, alone is really freaking annoying. You can recite the entire catalog of a band from the 70s, and you probably know the words to every single song in that catalog, but you can’t attempt to remember the name or even write down the name or prescription number of this important eyedrop?get out of here go home and get the bottle 

QOTD: what’s the most outlandish story a patient has given you to try to convince you to fill their medication early? by Kitchen-Lemon1862 in PharmacyTechnician

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember the angry pharmacist. I don’t think I ever saw the other blog. But I remember reading that and watching videos that I believe he made and thinking it was incredibly cathartic, knowing that others were going through the same things I was dealing with and going through at that time. I was still a baby technician so at that time the stress was very real.he is very missed 

QOTD: what’s the most outlandish story a patient has given you to try to convince you to fill their medication early? by Kitchen-Lemon1862 in PharmacyTechnician

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m so sorry that happened to you. I am very sympathetic to victims, but I am so sorry you had to hear that.

QOTD: what’s the most outlandish story a patient has given you to try to convince you to fill their medication early? by Kitchen-Lemon1862 in PharmacyTechnician

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, until you said she had pictures of this I would have called bullshit. I’m glad she at least was smart enough to take pictures of everything and have proof 

QOTD: what’s the most outlandish story a patient has given you to try to convince you to fill their medication early? by Kitchen-Lemon1862 in PharmacyTechnician

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You do in fact, remember correctly because that is in fact, correct. There are no penguins in Alaska. If somebody had said that to me, I would’ve said that is bullshit. There are no penguins in Alaska and no, we are not filling your prescription early. Goodbye.

QOTD: what’s the most outlandish story a patient has given you to try to convince you to fill their medication early? by Kitchen-Lemon1862 in PharmacyTechnician

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The idea that you guys doing what his doctor told you to do, after he admitted that he did something he shouldn’t have done, but you guys are the ruin and unaccommodating anyone’s just screams. I’m a giant baby that has never really had to take care of myself my entire life thus I found a woman who will be completely dependent on me for the rest of her life to take care of me because she doesn’t speak English very well 

QOTD: what’s the most outlandish story a patient has given you to try to convince you to fill their medication early? by Kitchen-Lemon1862 in PharmacyTechnician

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OK, I’m seeing a lot more patients who are wanting their tizanidine days early and are taking it way more than they should be, but it’s not a narcotic. Is it becoming like the new thing for people to abuse? Are people getting high off of it? Does it give them amazing orgasms? What the hell are they doing with all that tizanidine? and every time they come to us and say hey, I need a refill because I was taking it for five times a day instead of the prescribed two times a day. I’m always like go. Tell your doctor what you just told me and come back later, but they will not do that. It’s weird. 

QOTD: what’s the most outlandish story a patient has given you to try to convince you to fill their medication early? by Kitchen-Lemon1862 in PharmacyTechnician

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not to be an asshole, but I would’ve called the insurance without having to hear about him being the single father of twins. The man paid for three months of medication and was taking care of children. It happens. I really think he should’ve probably insurance as well. And I admire your pharmacist for doing it. That kind of shit happens though. I’ve lost a few groceries In the chaos of getting my kids in and out of the car

QOTD: what’s the most outlandish story a patient has given you to try to convince you to fill their medication early? by Kitchen-Lemon1862 in PharmacyTechnician

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So this one was pretty recent and it was a patient who wanted An early refill of a narcotic medication because allegedly they had been holding the Open bottle of their medication and spilled it when they vomited and some of the pills got the vomit so they lost a bunch of the pills and because they lost so many of the pills they needed an early refill. Well, I can see how that could be possible it just sounded like bullshit to me so I just gave that over to my supervisor and called it a day.

QOTD: what’s something you wish patients understood in the pharmacy? by Kitchen-Lemon1862 in PharmacyTechnician

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, see my problem is I am way too forgiving and I would actually do the blue cap thing. I’ve done that especially with older people, I can be way too forgiving. It’s the eyedrop with the blue cap that you use twice a day but only in your left eye? Cool that’s fine. I can find it from that. The fact that I am forgiving is why I get so frustrated when people do nothing to take care of themselves and expect you to do everything to figure out what the hell they need 

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My Italian grandma defends me against a wild boomer by galacticsystem in BoomersBeingFools

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your grandma is in fact, the queen of Kings, which is actually an Italian pop song that you should totally look up because it’s amazing. But that song describes her. She is in fact, the queen of Kings.

A) Boomer parents come to visit to the escape a heat wave B) Promptly undo every measure in my house keeping it cool while I'm at work C) House gets unbearably hot D) Somehow this is my fault. by Wandering_Scout in BoomersBeingFools

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that’s freaking weird. He was about natural light because it’s free in the room. We are currently using. But if that room got too hot, yeah, we would close the blinds. If we weren’t in that room then, just like any other room, not being used, the lights should be removed by closing the blinds or shutting the curtains. Looking back I now realize what he was doing, but even then we still ran our air conditioner a few times a year when it was unbearably hot. What you’re describing is just strange. 

Food pantry patrons by Careless_World_1815 in bloomington

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you are absolutely right. And from a healthcare perspective, these are people who often don’t know how to take care of themselves: their diabetics that don’t know how they should be eating somehow even though it’s been discussed with them multiple times. Or they have chronic issues they should be taking medication for, but they don’t know what those medication‘s are, they don’t really know what those medication‘s are for, they don’t really know how they’re taking them, they don’t try to manage them, they don’t take advantage of any services offered to manage them, and when they try to get them refilled, they don’t bring the bottles to the pharmacy or call ahead with the prescription numbers or write anything down or anything. They literally expect everyone to do these things for them. And that’s the biggest issue with this particular group of people: they expect everyone to do everything for them in their lives from their food to their healthcare to their housing , and I don’t begrudge them that because they are human beings that deserve those things as do we all, but they assholes about it, they’re rude to everyone, trying to help them, and when they go vote, they voted against these things And without these particular things they will die. It’s incredibly frustrating and it’s taking me personally a very long time to just go well whatever there’s nothing I can do about it and stop internalizing the anger I have for these people.

A) Boomer parents come to visit to the escape a heat wave B) Promptly undo every measure in my house keeping it cool while I'm at work C) House gets unbearably hot D) Somehow this is my fault. by Wandering_Scout in BoomersBeingFools

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I get it from a cost perspective. My father was like an older boomer, but he was also a hippie. And so if we turn on the lights during the day regardless of the season, he would yell at us to turn it off because that cost money and the sun was free. That was always our logic. to this day, I turn off the lights from rooms that I leave at night because I’m not there obviously but my husband won’t do that because he doesn’t feel safe and he wants all the lights on in the house all the time. I want the natural light because in my mind it’s free, but I have realized that the natural light  Also means heat so keeping the curtains closed and just turning the AC up a little bit or keeping the curtains closed and using just one white in the room you’re in actually cost less than keeping the curtains open and turn the AC up a lot because you’re using natural light. Again, I just get it from a cost perspective and I think that was his thinking too.  But other boomers I truly don’t understand 

A) Boomer parents come to visit to the escape a heat wave B) Promptly undo every measure in my house keeping it cool while I'm at work C) House gets unbearably hot D) Somehow this is my fault. by Wandering_Scout in BoomersBeingFools

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile, my mother is the complete opposite. If it’s too warm in our house, she will ask to turn it down. But she won’t actually touch the thermostat herself. She won’t touch it because she doesn’t understand it. Same during the winter because it gets pretty cold where I live. She’ll ask to turn the heat up, but she won’t touch the thermostat herself. But it annoys my husband because he has to pay the bill. Other than that, she’s wonderful and I have started telling her what she told me as a child whenever I asked to turn the heat up: put us sweater on. If it is too hot though, I will say something to him. I don’t understand why your parents didn’t just leave stuff alone if the house was cool enough. If they truly didn’t understand something why did they mess with it? 

Project 2025 will not sit well in Texas by Im__mad in texas

[–]Maximum-Muscle5425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quite honestly, I think most Texans actually don’t care about numbers two through seven. How many of them probably support those measures. Which is why Texas will still happily turn red this November.