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Aug. 15th, 2014 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckWhen Cordelia had her physical last month, the nurse practitioner we saw recommended Proactiv for Cordelia's acne, so I ordered some. Unfortunately, Cordelia can't use it. When she does, it burns like crazy. The Proactiv people say that's not normal, so I've told Cordelia not to use the stuff any more. It's a pity because she has a lot of pimples and blackheads and whiteheads and such. There's also a patch on her upper back that the nurse practitioner thought was acne. She scratches that, so it was hard to tell what was going on with it.
I will have to remind Scott-- The topic of e-readers came up while we were visiting Grandma, and she wondered if there was an e-reader that could read books aloud to her. She really misses reading. She hasn't experimented with books on CD because she doesn't know how to use a CD player (she didn't think she had one, but she does). She did say that her local librarian has offered to fill out the paperwork to get her into a program to get audiobooks from, I think, the government. Great-grandma used that program, according to Grandma, and really liked it. That was, of course, twenty years ago, so we don't know how the program works now. At any rate, Scott offered to do some research to see if there was an e-reader that could read books out loud. He thought there might be.
We just had to take more money from Cordelia's savings. The money in there comes from Social Security (based on my disability) and is intended to help pay for her living expenses. We try to save as much of it as we can because we know that college is going to be expensive. Unfortunately, our budget doesn't have room for the big ticket expenses we've been facing during the last year. This time, it's car repairs and the roof. Last fall, it was the sewer line. We intend to pay back the money, but I don't know how quickly we'll be able to.
While we were out, we stopped at Kroger to pick up some stuff for lunch for Scott and Cordelia and a prescription for me. I also got some Gel-Kam and was quite startled by the price which I think has about doubled since the last time I bought some. Poking around on Google hasn't clarified anything except to show that prices on Amazon are comparable (and from some other vendors much higher). I absolutely need to use the stuff because my teeth are extremely sensitive. At my dentist's recommendation, I use the stuff twice a day. That means a $20 tube lasts about a month and a half.
I will have to remind Scott-- The topic of e-readers came up while we were visiting Grandma, and she wondered if there was an e-reader that could read books aloud to her. She really misses reading. She hasn't experimented with books on CD because she doesn't know how to use a CD player (she didn't think she had one, but she does). She did say that her local librarian has offered to fill out the paperwork to get her into a program to get audiobooks from, I think, the government. Great-grandma used that program, according to Grandma, and really liked it. That was, of course, twenty years ago, so we don't know how the program works now. At any rate, Scott offered to do some research to see if there was an e-reader that could read books out loud. He thought there might be.
We just had to take more money from Cordelia's savings. The money in there comes from Social Security (based on my disability) and is intended to help pay for her living expenses. We try to save as much of it as we can because we know that college is going to be expensive. Unfortunately, our budget doesn't have room for the big ticket expenses we've been facing during the last year. This time, it's car repairs and the roof. Last fall, it was the sewer line. We intend to pay back the money, but I don't know how quickly we'll be able to.
While we were out, we stopped at Kroger to pick up some stuff for lunch for Scott and Cordelia and a prescription for me. I also got some Gel-Kam and was quite startled by the price which I think has about doubled since the last time I bought some. Poking around on Google hasn't clarified anything except to show that prices on Amazon are comparable (and from some other vendors much higher). I absolutely need to use the stuff because my teeth are extremely sensitive. At my dentist's recommendation, I use the stuff twice a day. That means a $20 tube lasts about a month and a half.
