Check YouTube! there are all kinds of video's for all kinds of problems. Today I installed a water inlet valve for my washing machine thanks to YouTube!

Moni

Often times reading reviews I find great comments and suggestions for getting things to work. Maybe you can find some useful tips online for it.

I'm currently having problems with the sun hitting my garage door sensor and the garage door won't close early in the morning. Very tempermental!

You think you've got problems.....Carpenter bees set off my Ring camera alarms during the day and a big orb spider sets one off at night, lol! The bees seem to be courting the camera lens while the spider is happy to begin her nightly web building inches away from the front camera. Yikes, that will get your heart pumping!

We had the same problem a few months ago when DH bought a 2018 Jaguar. Before that both of our garage doors worked fine - we could open and close them from our cars and from the outside keypad.

My son stopped over to see the new car and offered to program the opener. That's when the weirdness began. DS managed to get the HomeLink to work in the car but then the keypad wouldn't work.

We called the company that services our garage door openers and the tech came out to the house. He had to re-program both of our cars and the keypad to get it all working properly. We asked him why it happened and he said that when my son programmed the new car it erased the code in the keypad.

Sorry about your garage door opener, but Rhizo's bees and spider story is freaking me out!

Nicole, Is there a way to strategically plant a tree or bush in a pot so it casts a shadow and blocks the sun from messing with your sensor.

We had a problem a while back where the spider webs were messing with our garage door sensors. I went out and cleaned the webs off and it works now.

adella, these spiders, the orb weavers, build a new web every evening. They cut the old one away and hide out during the day. There are no webs left in the morning to sweep away! I can only hope that she builds her new web in a slightly different location from night to night, which usually happens.

I don't like orb spiders! I leave them alone but I have walked face-first into too many of their webs! One spider even landed on my shirt.

Oh geeze...after the surprises we’ve had this week, if I ONLY had a problem like this to be frustrated over I’d be giddy. Sorry but it’s true.

I'm sorry, but I have the memory of a flea. Please remind us of your situation, lukkiirish.

No one is diminishing your issues by recounting ours.

And I’m not diminishing others either, the OP just tends to get frustrated over things that really may not be so trying in the big picture. Sometimes seeing things with a little different perspective can help.

My DH has Multiple Myeloma. He’s been in remission for several years but lately he hasn’t quite been himself and this week we found out that he may have some serious issues with something else healthwise. So instead of planning for the Memorial picnic we want to have this weekend, when I wasn’t working, I spent my week setting up a series of appointments for him and making sure all of his documentation would be where it needs to be and that he had coverage for it. I also had to deal with the new laws about his pain medication because so many people abuse it that the folks who really need it now have to fight that much harder to get it which was time consuming and yes...frustrating.

When I wrote that, I had just finished arguing with Cigna because THEY messed up his monthly prescription of chemo AGAIN and my DH doesn’t have enough of his medicine to last the weekend. It’s not an emergency, but I am very protective over my husband and it pissed me off. In the 18 months of having Cigna as his prescription provider, they have messed up at least 12 times which is not right.

Being a caretaker or having a loved one with a long term chronic illness is not for the faint at heart. There is ALWAYS something going on that needs to be dealt with. It’s hard to put the constant fear and worry aside and just breath. When I’ve had an over whelming experience such as this, my go to response is, “We can handle this because it’s not this, that or the other thing which could always be worse” I try to put into perspective a bit which was my point without throwing all of this out there.

I have never wanted to have the door opener code programmed into my car. If I'm parking where there will an attendant or valet, I take the door remote with me.

Lukkiirish, I'm so sorry for what you are going through, I can't imagine what it must be like. I'm wondering if you would post your situation in a new thread.....we could all learn from it. I know that others have been through similar challenges. (hugs to you and yours)

Anglo shouldn't feel criticized for posting about her minor issue, small in the big picture but an irritation to her nonetheless. Like my bees zooming up to smile in my Ring camera and setting off the phone alarm.

Lukkiirish, I've been through much of what you are going through. It will be 13 years in mid-June since I lost my husband to prostate cancer. He was one 64 and I was 62 at the time.

When one is a widow, 74, and not in good health oneself, small things take on a big importance as they take so much of ones limited energy. I'd far prefer to use that energy on something fun, not constant frustration with things/people. I can't afford to hire a "personal assistant" to do all these things for me - they all fall to me. When they do, I miss my husband even more.

One of my oldest friends is also now battling multiple myeloma as is an elderly relative. It's a constant challenge.

I wish you and your husband well, both health-wise and also in the endless disputes with your insurance company. We were very lucky with that - no problems at all as we had very good insurance and DH was not yet on Medicare.