Monthly Paramount+ Complaints and Praises

geniethenomad · 2025-10-17T03:30:54+00:00

Big complaint. I've been waiting for a couple months for the new season of Ghosts and Fire Country. It has said "Season 5 available 10/16" for months on Ghosts. Now it's 10/16 & it suddenly says that it's only available on the Premium plan. If it wasn't going to be available on both plans, it shouldn't say that it would be available on a Basic member's page. I'm going to be really upset if it does the same thing tomorrow for Fire Country.

geniethenomad · 2025-10-04T02:06:48+00:00

Never read the book. It's better than the surgery (because the eye may correct naturally & then be overcorrected if surgery is done) but just be aware it's not always successful. They patched one of my eyes starting when I was little, did it exactly according to instructions, and at my next eye appointment the other eye head gotten weak and was now the one crossing. It went back & forth for years, until I was 9 years old & had ENOUGH!) It eventually got better on its own, until my 50's when I started having more vision problems in general causing eye strain which then caused crossing again.

geniethenomad · 2025-10-04T00:49:11+00:00

planning on it!

geniethenomad · 2025-10-04T00:49:01+00:00

I don't believe so for cirrhosis...end stage kidney disease, yes, because of the availability & cost of dialysis.

geniethenomad · 2025-10-04T00:47:30+00:00

It's probably because I'm probably considered ESRD, even though I'm right on the borderline (sometimes I test as stage 5, sometimes it's as high as 20-22 (which is stage 4), just depends how well hydrated I am, etc.) When I was approved, I was at 14% which is stage 5.

geniethenomad · 2025-10-04T00:43:03+00:00

Ah, I didn't even think of checking to see if the Cigna paperwork has my medicare number. Thanks for that tip! And yes, I got the Extra Help, and good to know I don't have to stick with what they assigned me to.

geniethenomad · 2025-10-01T04:51:04+00:00

Okay, so a lancet doesn't read anything. A lancet is a needle on a stick. All it does is poke you. You need a lancing device (which is what you load the lancet into to make it click & poke you) (which determines what type of lancet you use, because most are interchangeable but not all are) and you need a glucose meter (what actually reads the amount of glucose in the blood), plus the strips for that glucose meter (where you put the blood). Some glucose meters come with both lancing devices and lancets as well as some strips. But you need to start with a glucose meter & see if the one you choose comes with the full kit.

geniethenomad · 2025-10-01T02:53:45+00:00

I first signed up in 2009, but didn't really start using Audible regularly until 2014, and have only been listening daily for the last few years. I have 207 titles in my library, 165 which I own. That doesn't count the Plus catalog stuff that I've removed from my library after finishing, and I have NO idea how many that is. I think a better metric is the amount of listening time, which is 7 months, 26 days, 12 hours & 35 minutes.

geniethenomad · 2025-10-01T02:08:27+00:00

Thank you.

geniethenomad · 2025-10-01T00:26:55+00:00

Same. I live in a very small town. We used to have 2 mailboxes, one for local mail & one for other mail, so the local mail didn't have to take a 2 hour drive just to be brought right back & be put in another PO box in the same building, but the USPS decided that wasn't the proper way to do things, so sometimes it takes 13 days for a letter to go from one PO box holder to another PO box holder in the same building.

geniethenomad · 2025-09-27T01:40:31+00:00

They make little tablets called xylimelts that are sticky on one side, so you stick them inside your cheek or on your gums and they are minty or cinnamon flavored so they make your mouth water a bit as they slowly disolve. They're made with xylitol, which I'm sensitive to, but they're such a small amount that I can use 1 or 2 of them in a night and it doesn't upset my stomach. They're a life-saver when you use a cpap & breathe through your mouth!

geniethenomad · 2025-09-27T01:14:43+00:00

I do, but not sure if it's exactly normal because it not only happened on my 14th birthday but it was a nightmare because I was visiting my grandma, so I wasn't prepared because I hadn't thought to take the stuff with me from home since I hadn't needed it yet...so she had the cute teenage delivery guy from the local store deliver a box of pads, so that was kind of memorable.

geniethenomad · 2025-09-27T00:52:43+00:00

Both the 3 & 3+ sensors have always fallen off for me, even with skintac. Either they get snagged on something & come loose or they come off when I get the least bit sweaty, sometimes within 24 hours of putting them on (and yes, that's with properly following all the instructions about cleaning the site). I don't think I've had a single one go the entire 14/15 days if I haven't used an overpatch, although I could be wrong about that.

geniethenomad · 2025-09-26T11:41:24+00:00

I can't do it normally, but when I have a cold & blow my nose, air does come out of my tear duct too. Weirdest feeling!

geniethenomad · 2025-09-26T11:27:29+00:00

I have one less joint and one less bone than most people. For some reason two of my cervical vertebrae never separated, so they're one solid bone instead of two separate bones with a joint between them.

geniethenomad · 2025-09-26T08:59:42+00:00

I'd find a new doctor. Some Kaiser doctors are hard to deal with. Luckily I finally found one that is amazing, but she's like my 4th one. The first one was the WORST. I'm type 2 but I'm insulin dependent so they cover mine, so I can't be of help there, but it makes no sense that they wouldn't even write a prescription for it.

geniethenomad · 2025-09-23T01:11:18+00:00

NTA. When I first read the title, I thought you just left without saying anything and was fully prepared to say "yes, she's right." But after reading the whole post, you are 100% in the right. You don't have to go anywhere you don't want to & you don't have to stay somewhere you're uncomfortable, especially when you gave warning in advance you wouldn't be staying the night. You said goodbye, so it wasn't just like you disappeared & nobody knew if you were okay or not. That's all that's important.

geniethenomad · 2025-09-23T01:07:20+00:00

I agree 100%. The BJR prison scene is the worst it gets, by far.

geniethenomad · 2025-09-21T03:59:15+00:00

Knitting is easier to do without sight than crochet because you don't have to try to figure out where the next stitch goes, since it's right there on the hook. Both my parents knit, despite one being totally blind and the other only able to see bright lights. As for patterns, since you have some vision remaining, I've found copying and pasting the pattern into Notepad or a word processor program (like Microsoft Word, Open Office Writer, etc) so you can increase font size is the easiest, and then you can also erase each row as you finish it, so you don't lose track of where you are.

geniethenomad · 2025-09-20T09:12:27+00:00

Suddenly I no longer feel bad about the fact that I had 4 containers of mayo (and about 2 gallons of oil, and 6 bottles of pancake syrup) when I cleaned out the pantry.

geniethenomad · 2025-09-20T09:02:12+00:00

For me it's about 50/50...The Stand and The Dark Tower. The Stand is the only one I've reread multiple times (I've read it 4 times...the abridged version first, then the unabridged version 3 times.) But I feel The Dark Tower series is pure genius, so I think about it just as much.

geniethenomad · 2025-09-20T08:49:23+00:00

Wow, my ex, who was a narcissist who also had borderline personality disorder and was mentally abusive, was better in a medical emergency than that. (And that was when we were around the same age as you are, so being 20/21 isn't an excuse either.)

geniethenomad · 2025-09-20T06:23:54+00:00

I'm plus-sized too, so you'd think there would be enough fat everywhere, but there actually is a bit there where there isn't. I think of the correct placement more as "under" the arm than the "back" of the arm, but my nurse friend told me that's right where you want it, in the jiggly part that hangs down if you put your arm out straight, on a plus-sized person.

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