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  Friday night supper Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> - 2026-06-26 17:46 -0400
    Re: Friday night supper ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net <user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-26 22:38 +0000
      Re: Friday night supper Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne <restif@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-27 08:55 +1000
      Re: Friday night supper Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-26 17:58 -0500
      Re: Friday night supper Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> - 2026-06-26 19:14 -0400
        Re: Friday night supper ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net <user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-27 01:57 +0000
          Re: Friday night supper Ed P <esp@snet.n> - 2026-06-26 22:24 -0400
            Re: Friday night supper ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net <user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-27 02:45 +0000
              Re: Friday night supper Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne <restif@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-27 12:49 +1000
                Re: Friday night supper Ed P <esp@snet.n> - 2026-06-26 23:33 -0400
                Re: Friday night supper ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net <user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-27 04:46 +0000
                  Re: Friday night supper Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne <restif@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-27 15:22 +1000
                    Re: Friday night supper Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne <restif@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-27 17:09 +1000
                      Re: Friday night supper Graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca> - 2026-06-27 11:44 -0600
                        Re: Friday night supper Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne <restif@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-28 03:53 +1000
                  Re: Friday night supper jmquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> - 2026-06-27 09:09 -0400
                    Re: Friday night supper ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net <user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-27 17:12 +0000
                      Re: Friday night supper Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2026-06-28 23:36 +0000
                      Re: Friday night supper jmquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> - 2026-06-29 08:35 -0400
                        Re: Friday night supper Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne <restif@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-30 02:32 +1000
                          Re: Friday night supper Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-29 13:34 -0500
                        Re: Friday night supper Max Milyon <invalid@in.valid> - 2026-06-29 13:33 -0600
                        Re: Friday night supper ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net <user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-29 20:15 +0000
                          Re: Friday night supper Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne <restif@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-30 06:17 +1000
                    Re: Friday night supper Max Milyon <invalid@in.valid> - 2026-06-27 13:18 -0600
              Re: Friday night supper jmquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> - 2026-06-27 08:58 -0400
        Re: Friday night supper Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2026-06-27 04:51 +0000
          Re: Friday night supper Ed P <esp@snet.n> - 2026-06-27 18:55 -0400
            Re: Friday night supper Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne <restif@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-28 09:07 +1000
            Re: Friday night supper Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2026-06-28 23:29 +0000
              Re: Friday night supper Ed P <esp@snet.n> - 2026-06-28 21:18 -0400
              Re: Friday night supper Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> - 2026-06-28 22:57 -0400
              Re: Friday night supper Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com> - 2026-06-29 09:00 +0000
      Re: Friday night supper Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2026-06-27 04:22 +0000
      Re: Friday night supper jmquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> - 2026-06-27 09:00 -0400
        Re: Friday night supper ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net <user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-27 17:19 +0000
    Re: Friday night supper jmquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> - 2026-06-27 08:25 -0400
    Re: Friday night supper Graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca> - 2026-06-27 11:39 -0600

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#1529190

Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne wrote on 6/29/2026 11:32 AM:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:35:37 -0400, jmquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/27/2026 1:12 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:
>>>
>>> jmquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> posted:
>>>
>>>> I take a atorvastatin (generic lipitor) for high cholesterol.
>>>> Unfortunately, the Aetna Medicare Supplement plan I have for
>>>> prescriptions screwed up.  I got a phone call yesterday stating my
>>>> refills had been delivered.  No, they weren't.  So I called them.  Why
>>>> the hell can't we get someone on the phone whose first language is
>>>> English?!  "Oh yes, they were delivered to" [she rattled off a P.O. Box
>>>> number].  Excuse me, I don't have a P.O. Box!  "You don't?  How do you
>>>> get your mail?"  In the actual mailbox at the end of the driveway.  Oh,
>>>> we don't know what happened... so now, if I want to get my refills I
>>>> have to pay for them out of pocket or wait to get refills in August
>>>> because according to Aetna, I did receive them.  Arrgh!  Sorry, I'm not
>>>> having a great week.
>>>
>>> This is exactly why I refuse any home delivery service from any prescription
>>> plan and instead opt for a local pharmacy such as Walmart.
>>>
>>> Two years ago, for ONE day I had a new mail carrier and medicine was not
>>> delivered to my address.  Called postal service; yes, it was delivered, no
>>> it wasn't, yes, it was, NO it wasn't.  We show it was delivered and I said
>>> it probably was but NOT to MY address.  We show it was delivered, goodbye.
>>> The dumbass either delivered it to the wrong address or pocketed it.  This
>>> is a frequent occurrence with regular mail as well.
>>>
>>> I did tell them once I'd be happy to participate in home deliver IF it was
>>> shipped as registered mail or by UPS.  Oh hell no, that won't be an option!
>>> Fine, quit calling me about home delivery service.
>>>
>>> Jill, I'd call them back and ask to speak to a supervisor, explain the
>>> problem, and be sure and mention you've never had a P. O. Box, and this
>>> is their problem and they need to fix it pronto.
>>>
>> I called yet again last Friday, 6/26 and was told oh, you didn't receive
>> them?  (WTF have I been telling you folks for the last week?!)  We'll
>> send them out again, no charge.  It will take 5 business days.  No
>> problem, I don't wait until I'm *out* of medication to request refills.
>> Well, I didn't bother to check my mailbox on Saturday, 6/28.  I looked
>> in it when I took the trash can out to the end of the driveway
>> yesterday, 6/29.  What's in my mailbox?  The original order.  So I
>> called again and said my original order was *finally* delivered so
>> please cancel that re-order request.  This guy spoke English with a
>> decidedly Southern accent named Clint (yay! someone inside the US
>> answered the phone).  He said sure, I can cancel that; to confirm, you
>> finally got the original order and don't need us to re-send them?
>> Correct.  And from now on, let's revert back to me picking them up at my
>> original in-network pharmacy (Publix).
> 
> You want posts to be on topic right? So I guess this saga was meant to
> go to your diary, but you clicked the wrong button.
> 

This post is about her royal Majesty, so it is ON TOPIC here in this 
Royal Newsgroup!

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#1529195

On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:35:37 -0400
jmquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

>  And from now on, let's revert back to me picking them up at my 
> original in-network pharmacy (Publix).

TMI

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#1529199

jmquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> posted:

> I called yet again last Friday, 6/26 and was told oh, you didn't receive 
> them?  (WTF have I been telling you folks for the last week?!)  We'll 
> send them out again, no charge.  It will take 5 business days.  No 
> problem, I don't wait until I'm *out* of medication to request refills. 
> Well, I didn't bother to check my mailbox on Saturday, 6/28.  I looked 
> in it when I took the trash can out to the end of the driveway 
> yesterday, 6/29.  What's in my mailbox?  The original order.  So I 
> called again and said my original order was *finally* delivered so 
> please cancel that re-order request.  This guy spoke English with a 
> decidedly Southern accent named Clint (yay! someone inside the US 
> answered the phone).  He said sure, I can cancel that; to confirm, you 
> finally got the original order and don't need us to re-send them? 
> Correct.  And from now on, let's revert back to me picking them up at my 
> original in-network pharmacy (Publix).


YAY!!!  Glad you got your medications and yay for reverting back to your
original method of refills.
 
~

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#1529200

On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:15:21 GMT, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net
<user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

>jmquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> posted:
>
>> I called yet again last Friday, 6/26 and was told oh, you didn't receive 
>> them?  (WTF have I been telling you folks for the last week?!)  We'll 
>> send them out again, no charge.  It will take 5 business days.  No 
>> problem, I don't wait until I'm *out* of medication to request refills. 
>> Well, I didn't bother to check my mailbox on Saturday, 6/28.  I looked 
>> in it when I took the trash can out to the end of the driveway 
>> yesterday, 6/29.  What's in my mailbox?  The original order.  So I 
>> called again and said my original order was *finally* delivered so 
>> please cancel that re-order request.  This guy spoke English with a 
>> decidedly Southern accent named Clint (yay! someone inside the US 
>> answered the phone).  He said sure, I can cancel that; to confirm, you 
>> finally got the original order and don't need us to re-send them? 
>> Correct.  And from now on, let's revert back to me picking them up at my 
>> original in-network pharmacy (Publix).
>
>YAY!!!  Glad you got your medications and yay for reverting back to your
>original method of refills.
 
Same here. It made my day. I'll have a skip in my step today because
Jill from South Carolina has reverted to her original method of
refills. Yay!

-- 
Bruce
<https://emalm.com/?v=SQqZJ>

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#1529023

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:09:13 -0400
jmquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

> I take a atorvastatin (generic lipitor) for high cholesterol. 
> Unfortunately, the Aetna Medicare Supplement plan I have for 
 
OMG. 

You just surrendered your HIPPA protections voluntarily!

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#1528993

On 6/26/2026 10:45 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:
> 
> Ed P <esp@snet.n> posted:
>>
>> A few months ago I was donating blood and my iron was a bit low, now I
>> take an iron pill a few times a week. That brought it up quite a bit for
>> this donation, but it has been higher.
> 
> 
> Low iron levels seem to quite common with us seniors and a simple little
> pill does wonders for elevating it.
>   
> ~
Yes.  My last blood tests showed I'm slightly anemic so I need to start 
taking iron pills.

-- 
--Jill

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#1528974

On 2026-06-26, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Something has perked me up lately. I had been sliding out of shape and 
> having less and less energy. My doctor had me taking Vitamin D and B12, 
> the B12 in shots for a while and now daily pills. I also signed up for a 
> seniors fitness program. It's working. I am feeling a lot more energetic 
> and getting more done.


Fitness sounds like a lot of work. I'm taking Vitamin D, but what about
meth? It seems to hype up a lot of people. I haven't tried it yet, but I
can imagine spazzing around in bed thinking, "Wait until I get up!"
Our government failed and prescribed-fentanyl is legal. Why not meth?
All I need is a prescription. 🤪
I _did take_ maybe three Bennies in my youth. They didn't take, because
I was young, but now...? 
Our "War on Drugs" was lost, long ago.

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#1529037

On 6/27/2026 12:51 AM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> On 2026-06-26, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Something has perked me up lately. I had been sliding out of shape and
>> having less and less energy. My doctor had me taking Vitamin D and B12,
>> the B12 in shots for a while and now daily pills. I also signed up for a
>> seniors fitness program. It's working. I am feeling a lot more energetic
>> and getting more done.
> 
> 
> Fitness sounds like a lot of work. I'm taking Vitamin D, but what about
> meth? It seems to hype up a lot of people. I haven't tried it yet, but I
> can imagine spazzing around in bed thinking, "Wait until I get up!"
> Our government failed and prescribed-fentanyl is legal. Why not meth?
> All I need is a prescription. 🤪
> I _did take_ maybe three Bennies in my youth. They didn't take, because
> I was young, but now...?
> Our "War on Drugs" was lost, long ago.

You can get a prescription for meth. Seems there are other alternatives 
used more.

Ever have surgery?  Good chance you had fentanyl with it.  I had it last 
year and it worked well.

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#1529041

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:55:09 -0400, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:

>On 6/27/2026 12:51 AM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>> On 2026-06-26, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> Something has perked me up lately. I had been sliding out of shape and
>>> having less and less energy. My doctor had me taking Vitamin D and B12,
>>> the B12 in shots for a while and now daily pills. I also signed up for a
>>> seniors fitness program. It's working. I am feeling a lot more energetic
>>> and getting more done.
>> 
>> Fitness sounds like a lot of work. I'm taking Vitamin D, but what about
>> meth? It seems to hype up a lot of people. I haven't tried it yet, but I
>> can imagine spazzing around in bed thinking, "Wait until I get up!"
>> Our government failed and prescribed-fentanyl is legal. Why not meth?
>> All I need is a prescription. 🤪
>> I _did take_ maybe three Bennies in my youth. They didn't take, because
>> I was young, but now...?
>> Our "War on Drugs" was lost, long ago.
>
>You can get a prescription for meth. Seems there are other alternatives 
>used more.
>
>Ever have surgery?  Good chance you had fentanyl with it.  I had it last 
>year and it worked well.

Better be careful. It killed Prince.

-- 
Bruce
<https://emalm.com/?v=SQqZJ>

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#1529135

On 2026-06-27, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:

> Ever have surgery?  Good chance you had fentanyl with it.  I had it last 
> year and it worked well.


I had my gall bladder out about ten years ago. I swear that I was dead
on the table while they monkeyed with my guts. Never felt a thing. Was
fentanyl a thing, ten years ago, in anesthetics?
I was given demerol once for exploratory urinary tract stuff. I had
sworn to myself that I'd never allow a needle in my spine, but after the
demerol, I didn't care anymore. So, they paralyzed me, from below my
diaphragm on down, with a spinal injection.
Apparently, I'll do, or allow, anything on opioids. Now, they're selling
them on the street, and people are dropping dead, like flies, all the
time.

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#1529139

On 6/28/2026 7:29 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> On 2026-06-27, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:
> 
>> Ever have surgery?  Good chance you had fentanyl with it.  I had it last
>> year and it worked well.
> 
> 
> I had my gall bladder out about ten years ago. I swear that I was dead
> on the table while they monkeyed with my guts. Never felt a thing. Was
> fentanyl a thing, ten years ago, in anesthetics?
> I was given demerol once for exploratory urinary tract stuff. I had
> sworn to myself that I'd never allow a needle in my spine, but after the
> demerol, I didn't care anymore. So, they paralyzed me, from below my
> diaphragm on down, with a spinal injection.
> Apparently, I'll do, or allow, anything on opioids. Now, they're selling
> them on the street, and people are dropping dead, like flies, all the
> time.

Yes, my wife had fentanyl at least 12, maybe 15 years ago.
She had no pain, but the recovery a few hours later was a hoot.

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#1529142

On 2026-06-28 7:29 p.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

That was about the same time I had gall bladder surgery.  It was odd 
because I was admitted to the hospital in the morning. Having been sick 
for more than a week I was extremely dehydrated and they stuck an IV 
into me.  I thought it was just saline to rehydrate me, I started 
feeling better. Later on I felt so good I was ready to go home. Around 
4pm the nurse asked me how I was feeling, I told her that about an hour 
earlier I was ready to check myself out but that it was starting to hurt 
again. She said it was because the pain medication had run out and it 
was time for more. I didn't even know I was getting pain medication.  It 
turned out I was being being given Tramodol.

> I was given demerol once for exploratory urinary tract stuff. I had
> sworn to myself that I'd never allow a needle in my spine, but after the
> demerol, I didn't care anymore. So, they paralyzed me, from below my
> diaphragm on down, with a spinal injection.
> Apparently, I'll do, or allow, anything on opioids. Now, they're selling
> them on the street, and people are dropping dead, like flies, all the
> time.

It's funny how those drugs make you not give a damn.  When I had heart 
surgery I had been told I needed an operation. I woke up feeling like I 
had been hit by a truck and looking like Frankenstein. I told my wife I 
had no idea they were going to do that to me. She said that two doctors 
came to talk to me and explained exactly what they were going to do. I 
then remembered that two doctors came to talk to me but I had no 
recollection of what they had said.

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#1529159

On 2026-06-28, Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 2026-06-27, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:
>
>> Ever have surgery?  Good chance you had fentanyl with it.  I had it last 
>> year and it worked well.
>
>
> I had my gall bladder out about ten years ago. I swear that I was dead
> on the table while they monkeyed with my guts. Never felt a thing. Was
> fentanyl a thing, ten years ago, in anesthetics?

Fentanyl citrate entered medical use as a general anesthetic in 1968.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton

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#1528972

On 2026-06-26, ItsJoanNotJoAnn  webtv.net <user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

> I thought the burger and Coke would perk me up, especially the soft drink
> because of the sugar and caffeine.  Meh.  But I did buy a bottle BodyArmor
> electrolytes.  I think Dracula sneaked into my house Monday night drained
> me of all my blood save one pint.   🧛
 

Get better soon! Ever try a McDonald's mango-pineapple smoothie? I love
'em. If you don't like pineapple or mango, don't buy this! They also
have strawberry-banana smoothies, but I've never tried one. 

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#1528994

On 6/26/2026 6:38 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:
> 
> Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> posted:
> 
>> My wife has just headed into town to the Lion's Club fish fry to pick up
>> fish and chips.  The last few times we got it she heated up some gluten
>> free battered fish. The timing never works out well for that because we
>> don't want to wait until we get back with the fish and chips to put hers
>> in the oven, we don't know how long it will take to get back with the
>> fish and chips, and we would like to have both ready to eat at the same
>> time. So this time she took my suggestion and will get extra fish from
>> the Lions Club and remove the batter.
> 
> 
> Good idea about removing the batter and if she likes, she can add a squirt
> of lemon juice to add a bit of zip to her fish.
> 
> Nothing for supper here tonight.  I stopped at McDonald's and got a Big
> Mac and large Coke; hamburger was awful.  I've been really under the weather
> all week and today and it took me two hours to get ready for that short shopping
> trip.
> 
> I thought the burger and Coke would perk me up, especially the soft drink
> because of the sugar and caffeine.  Meh.  But I did buy a bottle BodyArmor
> electrolytes.  I think Dracula sneaked into my house Monday night drained
> me of all my blood save one pint.   🧛
>   
> ~

Feel better, Joan!  I've been drinking Gatorade (ugh, it's sweet) to 
boost my electrolytes.

-- 
--Jill

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#1529003

jmquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> posted:
> 
> Feel better, Joan!  I've been drinking Gatorade (ugh, it's sweet) to 
> boost my electrolytes.


Thanks!  The BodyArmor bottle of grape electrolyte drink isn't bad at all,
but I do wonder how they determined it was grape.  But it mixed about half
and half with actual grape juice and I don't even notice it's in the mix.

Maybe mix whatever flavor you have with the corresponding fruit juice and
it may tone down that sweetness.

~

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#1528990

On 6/26/2026 5:46 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> My wife has just headed into town to the Lion's Club fish fry to pick up 
> fish and chips.  The last few times we got it she heated up some gluten 
> free battered fish. The timing never works out well for that because we 
> don't want to wait until we get back with the fish and chips to put hers 
> in the oven, we don't know how long it will take to get back with the 
> fish and chips, and we would like to have both ready to eat at the same 
> time. So this time she took my suggestion and will get extra fish from 
> the Lions Club and remove the batter.
> 
> 
I'm glad to hear removing the batter worked out for her.

I had a bowl of barley pilaf for dinner.  I haven't had much of an 
appetite lately.

-- 
--Jill

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#1529005

On 2026-06-26 3:46 p.m., Dave Smith wrote:
> My wife has just headed into town to the Lion's Club fish fry to pick up 
> fish and chips.  The last few times we got it she heated up some gluten 
> free battered fish. The timing never works out well for that because we 
> don't want to wait until we get back with the fish and chips to put hers 
> in the oven, we don't know how long it will take to get back with the 
> fish and chips, and we would like to have both ready to eat at the same 
> time. So this time she took my suggestion and will get extra fish from 
> the Lions Club and remove the batter.
> 
> 
I cooked two lamb chops in the air fryer. Ate one with a
puck of mashed potato and some mixed veggies. I'll have the
other one cold tonight,

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