He who holds the remote is just now discovering the options we have. LOL We have the same model Sony BluRay at home and and on Maui. We have never investigated the various options until we tried the Netflix option yesterday. (Bomb.) We haven't cared because our library at home usually has whatever we are looking for (free) as soon as it's available anywhere. That's not the case here on Maui, and we are staying longer on Maui now. Here we can rent "Shane", "I Was A Male War Bride", etc. We got "Black Swan" from our branch of the Maui library -- one of the few 'recent' movies. We are also able to use our cable HD-DVR and watch recorded PBS programs at teatime. Our BluRay boxes date from about 2012. This one talks about "2010" options, but I assume that since they still show up on the menu, they are all still currently available. The Sony channel is offering "Truth" -- current movie we just rented from Redbox for $1.50/day. Looked like it was $6 to stream. Please walk me through the Amazon Prime membership as regards streaming movies. I see Amazon has at least one TV series we have been waiting to see: Season Three of "The Americans". It looks like it is $6 per episode. (Our library at home has this now, but we're not there, we're here!) We usually split a movie over two days of teatime. If we chose "The Americans" Episode One of Season Three, and had an Amazon Prime membership, how long would we have access to that episode? Could we *stop* and *resume*? (With Redbox, we just pay for two days, as time stops at midnight of the day you rent.) What's the cost to have Prime? (I very seldom buy anything online, so never looked into this -- certainly not for Hawaii, where shipping is a week, not days.) Thanks for helping guide two Seniors into the 21st Century.

I've had an opportunity to hear the senior people at NIH, CDC, and NIAID speak to the board of my organization. Please people, talk to your doctors before you consider opting out of the vaccine - there may be some people who are well advised to wait, but please don't jump to that conclusion based on something you've seen on TV or social media. The vaccines have gone through a wider and more rigorous testing process than most medications - simply because this happened more quickly than usual does not mean that corners were cut, just the opposite. We are so incredibly lucky that these first vaccines have such a high degree of efficacy, but if there is widespread hesitancy (or worse, belief in conspiracy theories) the herd immunity we are all desperately waiting for in order to get back to "normal life" will be much longer and more painful in arriving. There's so much misinformation (and disinformation, deliberately misrepresentations) out there; make sure you're making decisions based on informed medical advice. Fwiw my kids have penicillin allergies and I don't believe that's a risk factor with these vaccines (our pediatrician has told us that most penicillin allergies are actually reactions to the dye used, not to the medicine itself.) Finally the use of Walgreens and CVS to distribute the vaccine is a deliberate choice - apparently some huge percentage of Americans live within 5 miles of one of these chain pharmacies. This is all part of the strategy to ensure that the vaccines can be made available to as many people as quickly as possible.

Never interrupt an antibiotic medication - Take the full prescribed time of dosage - Unless untoward circumstances warrant it such as a dangerous reaction, and then, that should be guided by the prescribing Doctor. The reason is this: To reduce the possibility of generating a resistant strain of the infection. An Infectious disease may contain a spectrum of agents that are not alike, i.e., mutations and some of these may be more resistant to the medication. If the medication is stopped before the entire population is eradicated, the more resistant mutants remain and these can mutate again creating some that are more resistant than before. It is believed this is the process whereby strains of a disease resistant to the medication develops. As I understand it, the current policy is to continue an antibiotic medication long enough to insure wiping out all of the disease agent.

Just read earlier that 74 former patients are now suing Yale over the stolen fentanyl... https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2023/10/11/lawsuits-against-yale-mount-as-more-women-claim-nurse-stole-pain-medication-during-torturous-fertility-procedures/ It seems clear Yale didn't have good oversight protocols in place to prevent the thefts and abuse of the drug - along with failing to adequately care for the patients who were harmed. And there are links to other reporting showing that hospital drug thefts by staff don't seem to be an isolated problem.