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Post by Mumsey on Dec 3, 2020 5:58:04 GMT -5
I find Lowe's and Home Depot here are comparable in service and helpful employees. I've never had to search far for someone to help me, unless it's first thing in the morning when they have their team meetings. In Lowe's someone always comes to me and asks if I need help. Maybe I just look like the helpless shopper!
We tend to buy certain things from each of the big box boys. Menards for building, repair supplies. Home Depot for appliances/paint/plants. Lowe's once in a while for other things. All 3 stores are very close to each other. I ordered some ProMix at Menard's for pickup, and they charge a fee to do this! Somewhat surprised, other stores don't but I'm sure it must be built in to overall prices. For $1.40 I went ahead and did it to avoid going in.
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Post by emmsmommy on Dec 3, 2020 6:13:28 GMT -5
The closest HD is approximately 60 miles away and I've only visited twice. One of those visits was to redeem a gift card I'd won in a contest. Employees there were helpful. There's a Lowes 20 miles away and it's a bit of a crap shoot concerning the service you'll receive. Sometimes you can't find anyone to help, but other times employees go above and beyond. Last year I needed to repair a resin fountain and determined an epoxy was my best choice to do so. On the website, a certain brand with excellent reviews was on clearance and our local store supposedly had 12 of them in stock. Once I got to the store, none of that particular epoxy was to be found. An employee asked if I needed help and I showed him the product I was looking for and the amount that was in stock. He spent twenty minutes looking and after grabbing a ladder, was able to find it stored in a box on the top shelf. He guessed that since it was a closeout item, it was put up there when the last inventory was completed. I grabbed four packages, noted his name, and gave him a stellar review on the website and at the store itself.
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Post by Mumsey on Dec 3, 2020 18:07:51 GMT -5
Lazy day around here. Didn't sleep well last night. Neighbor called with a health issue, needing to go to hospital. Due to the nature of the issue I recommended he call the ambulance. Which he did, good thing because they took him straight to the big city. I checked on the wife twice today, she is a fall risk and does have an alert necklace. Son checks on her too on his lunch time. He will be at the hospital a day or two. Took a nap this afternoon, walked 2 miles, chilly and cloudy. Not as warm at it looked. Got my next dr appt lined up, seeing someone new since regular dr is out on sick leave. She was wanting to have my visit, then order labs. After a lot of talking I more or less said this is what we do. You order labs, including A1C and TSH and mammogram, I do them before the appt. so when we have the appt. we talk about results then instead of phone calls. Done. Told her I am only going there once for labs/etc. to minimize contact. Don't mess with retired nurses. We are the worst and bossiest patients! Those were thoughts I didn't voice. I hate to border on rude.
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Post by desertwoman on Dec 3, 2020 18:34:19 GMT -5
I more or less said this is what we do. my kind of gal!
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Post by Mumsey on Dec 3, 2020 18:44:10 GMT -5
desertwoman, Gotta train them new young 'uns! I am the customer after all.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Dec 3, 2020 19:13:31 GMT -5
You do have to put your foot down, escpecially when talking from experience. Mom's a retired nurse, and she's bossy from experience, too. I listen to Nurse Mom.
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Post by martywny on Dec 3, 2020 19:16:58 GMT -5
Went to the cardiologist for a nuclear stress today. I am now radioactive but checked the mirror and I'm not glowing in the dark or anything like that. Should have results tomorrow.
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Post by desertwoman on Dec 3, 2020 19:36:53 GMT -5
Gotta train them new young 'uns haha, and I have no problem attempting to train the ones who've been practicing a while! If we can't be equal partners and work side by side, as a team, then I look elsewhere. (and it starts with being on a first name basis ) I'm a "difficult" patient. But done respectfully studies show that difficult patients tend to get better care and have better outcomes when they do need treatment.
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Dec 3, 2020 20:10:37 GMT -5
Mumsey, desertwoman, I love how you handle medical appointments! I'm glad I'm not the only "difficult" patient, but I think that patients need to be proactive and involved and not just let the doctor dictate what he/she feels is appropriate. That attitude really started with my mother's care, when I asked the then (soon to be fired) cardiologist about a specific test. He said just let him handle everything. I thought "goodbye. My mother won't waste any more time with you." It took awhile but we eventually got a very good team for my parents. Helped a lot that my sister was a nurse as well. One who really was offensive was a young woman resident, making rounds when my father was in the hospital for what eventually became his last visit. She was trying to convince him to agree to a DNR order and reverse his then current wishes. She had the audacity to tell him, right in front of me and 2 of his church friends, that he's "had a good life, and it's time to let go." Fortunately Dad couldn't hear and just stared at her wondering what she was mumbling. I heard her though and was offended. She didn't know enough about him or his conditions to tell him to agree to a DNR status. After some quick thinking and decisions, I told her that I didn't feel it was appropriate for someone so inexperienced with elder people to be telling him he should agree to die, and that she didn't know him well enough to be that blunt. Furthermore, on what basis could she conclude what kind of life he had or didn't have? She got the message and hurried out before I could finish. I later told someone (charge nurse maybe, that I didn't want her or the resident team she was with treating my father, so we got the experienced geriatric specialist I wanted instead. "Baby" doctors are far worse than "baby" attorneys - those could be handled and trained. And they listened.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Dec 3, 2020 20:42:49 GMT -5
"had a good life, and it's time to let go." I've heard that kind of thing spoken directly to myself before over the years, and cussed them right out. And when DW was in earshot, well lookout, Nelly!
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Post by Wheelgarden on Dec 3, 2020 20:57:06 GMT -5
Furthermore, on what basis could she conclude what kind of life he had or didn't have? I have ongoing issues with healthcare "professionals" that have no idea...This has really got me going and remembering the bs I've encountered since I was twenty-three. People can be so ignorant, and downright stupid.
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Post by armjr on Dec 3, 2020 21:14:26 GMT -5
Went to a pulmonologist once. He looked at the xrays and said, "You have blah, blah, blah. I want you to have an MRI." I said, "Why?" He said, "To confirm what I am seeing on the xray". I said, "And if it is that, what can be done about it?" He said, "Nothing". I said, "Then why the MRI?" He said, "Because I am the pulomonologist....".
I said, "Oh, Okaaaay" and walked out. He was jabbering about something as I left the office. Never did get a bill from him. That was too many years ago.
Alan
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Post by armjr on Dec 3, 2020 21:17:18 GMT -5
But, today, I finished two Christmas presents and got wood planed for four more. Went to the dentist, three fillings (darn the sweets and right before Christmas), and moved the 150 house plants back inside the shop that I moved out day before yesterday....
Alan
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Post by emmsmommy on Dec 4, 2020 4:29:33 GMT -5
Our doctor is actually a PA, but she is hands down the best we’ve ever had. She listens and actually cares. She’s done more to help my husband get his diabetes under control than his previous doctor, who was all about let’s just add another medicine and maybe spend five minutes with you at each appointment. My mom started visiting her as well. Now if we can only get my dad away from the pill-pushing quack he’s going to.
Yesterday was cold! 15 degrees when I woke up and the dining room was chilly enough that I dug out the space heater to warm it up a bit before school. I haven’t turned on the heat in the utility room yet and it makes a big difference in the house when it’s really cold. My daughter went to my parents while we had therapy because of the cold. Luckily they weren’t very busy and we both were able to go in at the same time. Hubby assumed we were going grocery shopping today for some reason and I told him that I didn’t intend to go back out until Tuesday and we’d do it then. As far as groceries, we could easily survive for a few months but on the last big pack of TP and hoping I can find some next week. Actually I’m on a mission not to buy anything that’s not needed this month. There’s only two to shop for that I can’t fulfill with something homemade and don’t want to dig into savings to do it.
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Post by Mumsey on Dec 4, 2020 4:42:56 GMT -5
difficult patients tend to get better care The squeaky wheel gets the oil!
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