Living rural has its pros and cons. One of the cons is having to deal with garbage. Of the many empty boxes was an unopened box of Tandem infusion sets. There had been a flag at CCS medical that substitutions may be necessary. I prefer Autosoft XC. Much to my the box contained Autosoft 90 sets.
Maybe the need for the substitution is Autosoft XC sets are more popular and there is overstock of Autosoft 90 sets.
Anyway I had a giant Amazon box that a small item came in. I started knocking down lots of boxes, putting inside the large one. No, I am not throwing away the sets. My only complaint about 90s over XCs is that they are more difficult for me to disconnect/reconnect for a shower. I don’t really understand why.
90s are what I was first given. Someone here or at TuD told me that XCs were better. Thanks to whoever they are.
After lunch I will stop by the county provided dumpsters and unload my trash - then it off to Dr Kuhl my retinoloogist.
I do garbage runs bespoke. My “retina care center” (exactly what they are called) is a 50 mile round trip on Grants Pass, so we combo that with Walmart to pick up prescriptions and my endo is In Medford, so 100 miles round trip, and we combo that with Trader Joe’s, CostCo, Food4Less (honestly, they have really good food in Dreadford, it’s a Franchise, so is Trader Joe’s).
All the time, almost every time we leave the valley, we get gas. Sometimes in Medford but most of the time in GP; honestly, much as we like Jeff his gas price is pure extortion. Chevron is a franchise, like most of life.
So what we do is simple and obvious; we don’t travel out of the valley unless we have to. We do buy as much food as we can locally (Cave Junction is only 1/4 mile away for a crow and about 2 miles by car); the food we buy remotely is luxury food. Bitter Melon, a good example of something only previously available in Food4Lesss in Medford but now, from time to time, available in Walmart in GP.
For the people in the US who think you can grow your own; yep, we do that. With our soil the only crop that grows is trees. So we buy soil (nah, we are not growing that) and sometimes we have a whole lot of something, which we give away, tomatoes (sometimes), apples (often).
Whatever, just me ranting. I’m with @CarlosLuis; we all need to do this, and we all can.
Man, stacking errands to save gas is smart, but fighting your gear every time you shower is just unnecessary pain. If the 90s annoy you that much, push your supplier harder or ask your endo to switch the prescription, they can override that “overstock” nonsense pretty fast. XC is just easier to live with for a lot of people, less fiddling, less swearing in the bathroom. Also, don’t just sit on boxes you won’t use, trade them in local groups, people swap sets all the time.
That is frustrating, substitutions never seem to match what you actually prefer. Even small differences like how easy it is to disconnect can really matter in day to day life. At least you can still use them, but I get why it is annoying.
the box contained Autosoft 90 sets.