The Old Folks Home

[drumstick diva]

 

[Pensmaster]

Drumsticks I worked a customer yesterday who works at foster farms. At first I thought this is great I can get some first hand information on chickens. Nope he's a driver for the dairy side of them. Delivers ice cream.
Thought about you. Not sure what your tie into ice cream is except maybe you like it a lot but I'm sure he has access to quite a bit of it.

 

[Alaskan]

I can't bring myself to sell eggs either, don't want the hassle. If I wasn't over a hundred yards from the road I'd sell them out of a small fridge by my mailbox on the honor system. Not running electric down that far.
What we don't eat, I feed back some, dogs eat some, pickle some, throw away some.
I really should find out if our local food banks would accept them. If the regular ones don't maybe the church ones will. IDK?

The one in my town is church run, and will accept everything. They love stuff from your garden, and will take home grown meat, eggs, everything really. They actually set up a "this stuff is iffy" table with anything that still looks good, but is maybe expired.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

The one in my town is church run, and will accept everything. They love stuff from your garden, and will take home grown meat, eggs, everything really. They actually set up a "this stuff is iffy" table with anything that still looks good, but is maybe expired.

LOVE that -- SO much food gets wasted in this country because of some arbitrary date that is stamped on the product (or other issues such as a simple packaging/labeling mistake, a "blemish" on produce, etc) -- if even half the wasted food was put to use we could "fix" the hunger issue. I am a firm believer in using common sense rather than relying on an expiration date, etc -- look, smell, trim away spots if applicable, etc.

 

[Alaskan]

I agree! Our food pantry gets all of the nasty produce the grocery store is going to toss out. Workers sort through the food, mostly like with lettuce or celery it is just the outer few leaves or stalks that are bad, the rest is good. The stuff that is bad goes into the pig box for some guy with pigs.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Just thought I would post this in case any of us "old folks" are using inhalers.
I wanted to make certain that you are using them correctly.
I care you know.

As a pharmacist, this makes me cringe. It does happen, but shouldn't.

I once had a patient call to ask if we had a different flavor of a medication because the chocolate flavor was awful. As I don't recall any medication with chocolate flavor besides some vitamin D chews that are OTC, I asked what the med was. She replied "phenergan supp."

I told her to hold while I looked into it, but it was mostly to collect myself before continuing.

You see, 'supp' is short for suppository. Suppositories usually go into body cavities, but rarely into the cavity known as the mouth.

I don't blame her for not knowing what "rectally" meant but you'd have thought the sticker with the "for rectal use only" and the pair of pants might have tipped her off. The worst part is that medication is for nausea... I don't think eating the suppository helped.

 

[Pensmaster]

As a pharmacist, this makes me cringe. It does happen, but shouldn't. 

I once had a patient call to ask if we had a different flavor of a medication because the chocolate flavor was awful. As I don't recall any medication with chocolate flavor besides some vitamin D chews that are OTC, I asked what the med was. She replied "phenergan supp." 

I told her to hold while I looked into it, but it was mostly to collect myself before continuing. 

You see, 'supp' is short for suppository. Suppositories usually go into body cavities, but rarely into the cavity known as the mouth. 

I don't blame her for not knowing what "rectally" meant but you'd have thought the sticker with the "for rectal use only" and the pair of pants might have tipped her off. The worst part is that medication is for nausea... I don't think eating the suppository helped. 

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better than the inhaler.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

As a pharmacist, this makes me cringe. It does happen, but shouldn't. 

I once had a patient call to ask if we had a different flavor of a medication because the chocolate flavor was awful. As I don't recall any medication with chocolate flavor besides some vitamin D chews that are OTC, I asked what the med was. She replied "phenergan supp." 

I told her to hold while I looked into it, but it was mostly to collect myself before continuing. 

You see, 'supp' is short for suppository. Suppositories usually go into body cavities, but rarely into the cavity known as the mouth. 

I don't blame her for not knowing what "rectally" meant but you'd have thought the sticker with the "for rectal use only" and the pair of pants might have tipped her off. The worst part is that medication is for nausea... I don't think eating the suppository helped. 

Oh my!

 

[Alaskan]

My dad said that as a med student he understood how clear you need to be with instructions.... When the patient subscribed suppositories explained that they didn't like taking them because it was so painful......turned out the patient wasn't taking the suppository out of the package first.

 

[chickisoup]

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better than the inhaler.

Yep. You topped me SCG!

Poor lady! Poor SCG! How did you ever so "delicately" explain that one to her???