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Good surprises and Bad surprises
Jun. 13th, 2009 08:33 pmCombination scary day and good one.
Started out, good, though. We went to a garage sale (looking for a bookcase I can paint for my daughter's room) and found this elderly couple selling all sorts of things out including antique microscopes. So my parents and sister still being in town for a few hours, I called to see if Dad wanted to come look. The guy not only showed us the microscopes...turns out he has one of the biggest collections of those in the country, but also has something like eight rather ancient player pianos (those are the ones that are mechanical and play "rolls" of music!) He showed my daughter how they worked and played some of them, and her eyes got really, really big. :) And he had late 19th century automatons that played a real violin and sang like birds. Woah. So didn't expect a museum visit (and his house really is one). Such fun, and he was so tickled that my daughter and sister were excited to see all of it that he gave my music professor sister two old Edison recording cylinders for her research from his ridiculously large collection. Yikes. And he and his wife we so sweet and generous...it's nice to meet warm people like that.
Less good? The company that makes my antihistamine, the one I've taken since childhood, just stopped making it in the form I can take. And all stores pulled it off the shelf without announcing it this week and replaced it with a new form. The new form has something like 15 more ingredients in it (go figure) and I can't take it until I contact the company during business hours. In case you're wondering what difference it makes, I am often allergic to the binders and fillers used in pills, and the most commonly used ones now are used because they're cheaper. So I'm praying I don't have any serious allergic reactions until then, as I don't know what the source of some of the stuff is. Sort of my worst nightmare, that, and coming true. Two meds I require actually pulled off the shelves and replace in as many weeks. At least I have a small amount of the other one. I'm teaching summer school for four weeks, so I can't try anything new until that's all done. Cross your fingers that the pharmaceutical company will actually help me on Monday...they've even pulled things from stores in Canada, which I checked online this morning. Sigh.
Started out, good, though. We went to a garage sale (looking for a bookcase I can paint for my daughter's room) and found this elderly couple selling all sorts of things out including antique microscopes. So my parents and sister still being in town for a few hours, I called to see if Dad wanted to come look. The guy not only showed us the microscopes...turns out he has one of the biggest collections of those in the country, but also has something like eight rather ancient player pianos (those are the ones that are mechanical and play "rolls" of music!) He showed my daughter how they worked and played some of them, and her eyes got really, really big. :) And he had late 19th century automatons that played a real violin and sang like birds. Woah. So didn't expect a museum visit (and his house really is one). Such fun, and he was so tickled that my daughter and sister were excited to see all of it that he gave my music professor sister two old Edison recording cylinders for her research from his ridiculously large collection. Yikes. And he and his wife we so sweet and generous...it's nice to meet warm people like that.
Less good? The company that makes my antihistamine, the one I've taken since childhood, just stopped making it in the form I can take. And all stores pulled it off the shelf without announcing it this week and replaced it with a new form. The new form has something like 15 more ingredients in it (go figure) and I can't take it until I contact the company during business hours. In case you're wondering what difference it makes, I am often allergic to the binders and fillers used in pills, and the most commonly used ones now are used because they're cheaper. So I'm praying I don't have any serious allergic reactions until then, as I don't know what the source of some of the stuff is. Sort of my worst nightmare, that, and coming true. Two meds I require actually pulled off the shelves and replace in as many weeks. At least I have a small amount of the other one. I'm teaching summer school for four weeks, so I can't try anything new until that's all done. Cross your fingers that the pharmaceutical company will actually help me on Monday...they've even pulled things from stores in Canada, which I checked online this morning. Sigh.
