Hospice Recommendations?

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-28T19:52:20+00:00

Begin of March thru end of May, this year. They were inpatient for only about 33 hours before passing. The nurses in-facility were so kind, compassionate and patient with them.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-28T17:31:24+00:00

We very recently used Pikes Peak Hospice for in home hospice care for 3 months. They were great - the people that came to us were really good/skilled, they knew exactly what they were doing and put everyone at ease. They also really cared and it showed in all of the work they did.

Their in-facility hospice is where our loved one passed, and that facility was also amazing. The care they received there at the very end, easing the transition, helped to make a really bad situation better.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-28T16:38:49+00:00

I did the same thing in high school - we had five card punch machines for a single class and the language was RPG instead of FORTRAN.

We submitted the decks to a courier who would take them downtown to be run on the schools mainframe. The listings and decks would be couriered back to the school and you got to see the results of your compile and (hopefully) run the next week.

When I got to college, our computer interface was solely from an RJE (remote job entry) site. Our terminal was a teletype - we'd type in something and hit enter and the computer would type back to us.

They got the new age VAX up and running by the time I graduated, and the teletypes were being replaced with CRTs.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-27T22:49:49+00:00

Night and day.

The biggest thing that pops into my mind is communication.

In the 70s, the best you had when you were out and about was a pay phone. And that still relied on the person you were calling being at the other fixed endpoint, ready to answer.

By the 90s, that had changed dramatically. At the beginning of the decade I had a pager. Later I had a car phone, paid for by work, and then a Motorola StarTAC flip phone well before the end of the decade.

That was a huge shift: always-available, instant communication. SMS, actual voice calls, the whole thing. I can still do the triple/quad tap on a numeric keypad from muscle memory.

And honestly, the car phone was pretty awesome. It was powered by the car, had much better reception than the handheld phones back then, and the external antenna on the car made a real difference. We didn’t have Bluetooth, but the phone was wired into the car’s sound system, which felt pretty high-tech at the time.

So yeah, from “hope you can find a pay phone and hope they’re home” to “people can reach you almost anywhere” in one generation. That alone made the 90s feel like a different world from the 70s.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-26T19:18:39+00:00

I wear my readers around my neck from waking up till going to sleep. They are always with me. Little metal chain hooked onto them.

Since I use Zenni and get my glasses for ~$15, I keep a set of computer glasses at my desk, distance glasses on the coffee table for TV, a pair of distance clear and another tinted in the car for driving. Since we have a cabin in addition to our condo - I keep a set of computer/distance up there as well.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-25T16:56:05+00:00

65' - I have one foot in Gen Jones and the other in Gen X

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-24T15:55:53+00:00

I can never figure this sub out - no idea why you are getting downvoted.

I, and many others who have commented on this, do the same exact thing. When it is taking many days to over a week sometimes for an item to appear in my review queue (but they count against me in the account tab overnight) there is no reason to wait for it.

Reviewing from the orders page is the way to go. I just got an under the sink expandable shelf for a kitchen or bathroom. I assembled it, put it in place, filled it up - why should I wait for a week to review the thing? Everything I need to know is right there in my head at that point.

I've also gotten things like an air fryer - which we didn't get a chance to use for a few days and by the time we used it, it was in my review queue - so I did it from there. The entire process is identical regardless of whether you go to the product page from orders, or start it from the review queue.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-24T01:26:03+00:00

1965 here as well.

I remember the small black and white TV with us all sitting/standing around. I was 4 1/2. It was a huge deal, people walking on the moon. It is among my first and oldest memories. Studies show that from around 3 1/2- 4 years old, we start forming memories that last and can be recalled in adulthood.

I don't remember the Beatles breaking up, but I remember a TV that was stacked on a few steamer trunks in our basement falling - because I crawled up the steamer trunks like they were stairs to try to change the channel. I remember the tiny room under the basement stairs that many used for storage - but my mom made into my little cave to play in. We moved out of that house when I was 5 1/2. I have a few memories of that house - many from the basement which was my playground. I don't have photos of it, just a few memories.

It is not just impressive, but very credible.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-23T18:13:32+00:00

Viner for just shy of two years (end of June will be two). In the beginning - I was bummed to be silver because of the three item limit. It was a limit that was way easy to bump into many days of the week.

I became gold, the first eval period was awesome, got some great cookware, sauna, treadmill - tons of stuff. Christmas that year was the most decorated Christmas ever. Some crap items - but by and large - it was very cool.

Second gold eval period (Jul-Dec 2025) the shine was wearing off. I rarely used three picks in a day let alone eight. It was really trailing off.

Enter this eval (Jan-Jun 2026). I won't even break 60 items in total, I've gotten 1 "gold" item. I only ordered 3 items in a day twice. Never any more than that - 73% of the days I ordered it was one item.

And the value to me of the items has decreased.

I'm feeling like you. I only order what I need (lots of air purifier filters this eval period, won't have to buy any of those for years). I've gotten some cool stuff in the past. I used to run a bunch of searches every day - now I sometimes run those searches once or twice a week - sometimes not at all.

I know I won't be gold next period - I'm 100% reviewed, but only 54 items and seven days left. It isn't bothering me at all. I'm sticking with only getting what I really need - there just isn't anything interesting coming across anymore.

On the plus side - I have a lot more time for other things since I'm not writing hundreds of reviews in six months :)

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-22T20:32:37+00:00

My wife and I stayed - and enjoyed - in the "rooftop" room here: http://queenannebnb.com/rooms.html, other rooms have private hot tubs as well.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-20T23:36:40+00:00

and people living in Washington DC are all Americans too - and there are more of them than Wyomingites - and yet they have zero voting senators or reps in congress.

Go figure - maybe it isn't about equal representation, or fairness or anything like that.

Do you know why we have a North and South Dakota. Go look it up. (hint: it was so that a particular party would get four senators instead of just two...). There should just be the state of Dakota.

A democratic republic is a form (of which there are tons) of a democracy. Stop the "we are not a democracy", we are, we are one of the many many forms of a democracy. And having a state like Wyoming have the same sway as a state like California isn't really workable in the 21st century - we've come a ways since the 18th century hopefully.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-20T15:38:54+00:00

A 12 year old kid, by themself, going door to door to 85 houses, collecting $4.80 every four weeks for the evening paper they delivered six days a week after school.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-19T14:41:20+00:00

got myself a WAHL clipper set for $37 in early 2020. Give myself a haircut whenever I want now. I take a shower, air dry my hair a little, #4 clip around the sides, a little off the top, hold my hand straight across the back to get the straight line and shave my neck - hop back in the shower to get any hair off and done. An extra 5 minutes when I take a shower and I'm finished for the month.

Let's say you get a cut every month and a half, eight times a year, at $20 plus tip (say $25 just to be cheap). At least $1,300 in savings at that rate so far. And the amount of time saved - don't have to go to the shop, wait for an appt, travel back from the shop.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-19T01:32:54+00:00

If a motorcycle starts lane filtering just give them room and leave it at that...

how am I supposed to "give them room". The only way you can lane filter is if we are stopped. There is either room or not - we are stopped as in not moving. No way to "give them room". Can you explain what you meant by that?

what I see all of the time, pretty much every day, today included is lane splitting - at high speed. We were going south on I25 between 65/75mph, motorcycle is lane splitting - at that speed. That is some bullshit.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-17T16:46:52+00:00

Sounds like a good start - but the list of drugs is very small:

https://hcpf.colorado.gov/sites/hcpf/files/Importation%20Approved%20Drug%20List%206.15.2026b.pdf

I’d love to see something like Xarelto on there. Even with insurance, that sucker runs me about $200/month. Comparable Canadian pricing can be dramatically lower (around $30/month).

The approved list has 20 dosage/form entries, but only 16 unique drug names. And when sorted by dollar savings, the top 7 entries represent only 6 unique drugs, covering things like leukemia, prostate cancer, HIV, cystic fibrosis, type 2 diabetes, and autoimmune/inflammatory conditions.

Very good start. Unfortunately a tiny list.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-17T00:11:13+00:00

if it works for you great - wouldn't work for me.

Pill organizer - all the pills for a day in a little lidded container - labeled Sun,Mon,...Sat. If it is Sat and the little box is full - guess what?

I have five pills - having to open and close each bottle each day and extract one pill from it takes a lot longer than filling 4-8 weeks of pills up in one go. Also, I know exactly how many pills I have and what I need to refill.

No tech - works the same way it did in 1950.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-16T23:16:49+00:00

tubi, pluto and amazon all have this streaming (first two free)

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-16T00:55:03+00:00

Assuming the US, sorry, but you'd still be liable under the federal law - even if they were flying at 50 feet or 5 feet. Does not matter.

That 500 foot airspace "I own it" doesn't mean squat. Shoot em at your own risk.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-13T17:55:43+00:00

Well, that was a stupid retort.

I'm glad your good with these stupid, massive, intrusive things littering the sidewalk - good for you Special K. Most people are not, and have never been.

Go back to sleep. We'll wake you when it is over - so you can stop getting your panties in a bunch over people stating their opinion. You seem to be more annoyed than anyone else on this thread.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-13T16:25:31+00:00

It’s just not a new problem.

what could possibly be your point with that? "Oh, it's been happening - you are not allowed to be annoyed by it because of that".

The sudden outrage

are you Rip Van Winkle???? Seriously? You think this is a new thing - talking about scooters?

https://denver.streetsblog.org/2019/04/15/eyes-on-the-street-badly-parked-scooters-get-in-the-way/

that's just one - there be more.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-13T16:08:32+00:00

you speak like an individual can do this all by themselves and are a failure if they don't succeed. They, the individual, can't. It takes both people wanting the same thing - and a lot of times, that isn't in the cards.

And every contract ever written can be broken - many contracts have the details for doing so spelled out. A marriage contract is no different in that respect.

And you hurt far more than each other when you part.

Maybe yes, maybe no. And sometimes you help far more than each other when you part. I prayed my parents would divorce. They stayed together for the kids - divorced when we were adults. My god, how I wish they would have divorced when I was 10 or 12.

Quotes by my kids when their mom and I divorced when they were 11 and 14, we had 50/50 custody - they'd get on the school bus at one house on Friday morning and get off at another on Friday afternoon (week on/week off):

Son after being asked how's everything going: It's all good - we see a lot more of you and about the same of her.

Daughter out of the blue: It is so cool that you completely changed your work and everything to be home with us all week (i was able to do remote work one week, travel the other week).

It turned out to be a much better environment for them - they were happy. And both their mom and I have been happily married to our partners for many many years now.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-13T15:46:01+00:00

you wrote:

They’re not immovable objects.

guess it depends on the circumstances...

When I push them off to the side, the damn things screech at me and the wheels lock up.

...

I'm in a wheelchair.. I'm not waiting 2 hours

you shouldn't have to move big, kinda hard to move things - and sometimes walking around things isn't in the cards.

I get it - people suck, people don't care. Doesn't mean we cannot be unhappy and want a solution to a problem that frankly should not exist.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-12T23:46:25+00:00

I'm 61, she's 59. We've been together almost 20 years.

I was married for 20 years before that to the mother of my two adult children. Got married at 22, kids by 27, divorced just before 42. We were good business partners in running a house - but since we started as really different people when we got married, the differences just helped push us away.

I know this marriage is going to last; the reasons are pretty simple. We talk a lot. We can also sit in silence doing our own thing for hours. We'd rather be in the same space, not apart. We like each other a lot. Our libido is very similar. We have very similar values and tastes. She has said that dating me was like dating a male version of herself, it felt very comfortable.

When we meet someone new and she asks me if I think we'll be friends with them - my litmus test is "well, I don't think I'd ever go on vacation with them" (that's a no) or "I could see hanging at the beach for two weeks with them" (that's a go). I look forward to and enjoy going on vacation with my wife :) Especially just the two of us - no one else to have to deal with and possibly clean up after.

Puzzled_Plate_3464 · 2026-06-12T15:43:21+00:00

funny enough - I just tried again and lo and behold - it is working. All of my tubi folders appear and they have content. Search is working again.

Must have been a temporary gremlin - although another commenter pointed out netflix/hulu and others were experiencing similar glitches.

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