pixley et al

 Pixley is on the west coast. But fictionally it is in Missouri.

I used to think Sam Drucker's little store was in Pixley, but I was wrong.
Pixley is a place no one goes, they just mention it a lot.

My fictional geography sucks; Mount Pilot and Mayberry were a thousand or so miles away in North Carolina.
"Petticoat Junction" (for really die-hard fans) is sort of "Eldon Missouri" but I suspect they moved it slightly, to fit in with all the plots (e.g., "Bugtussle")

There's a Mexico in Missouri, and a California.

I gotta go look up what the hell a "County seat" is.
Our towns have a city-seat and a surrounding county, but "County seat?" We either have one and I just don't know, or it's peculiar to places like Missouri (I can always edit out my ignorance.) PS the junction of petticoat is too deep into the series for me to know whether it's a cute name or an actual (fictional) railroad junction.

Logic dictates (I wouldn't actually know) that since they don't build their own train or tracks, then at some time they must have tied into a big-ass company's railroad system.

The huge street-island was converted from a railroad-track 

to an old-couch burial ground. 

But that was real life; they must've "pruned" the junction long ago and now it's fit for couches and mattresses.

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I no longer get any groceries, Anthem erased it totally.
They were already picky, refusing to pay for stuff like sugar (for tea) 

but now it's totally gone, without any notification.
But Careful googling finally brought up this little tidbit:


SSBCI which unfortunately no one will know about, so I have to school myself and eventually, others, to get the right paperwork to fill out and get signed by whoever. Get a code https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes

You have to be pretty sick (you fell over and nearly died recently, there is very little hope left for you) and they exclude tons.
Well *fine* but if you're dying,

you wouldn't be shopping with their piddly-ass $50.

These are the same guys in the news who (at first) refused to pay additional fees for anesthesiology, then quickly changed their minds when X and Reddit got all pissed off.
I wonder if they'll feel the same about groceries??

Now all's I need is cancer.
Unfortunately, they don't pay for prescriptions,
and
they only give $50 a month,
And refuse sugar and TP.

Kiss their butt and still starve, no way.

Freaking eggs are 11.00, corn flakes are $5, "$50" pays for, uh,

well anyway it pays *something.*
But you need dementia a bad heart and cancer (I guess it's way cheaper than paying for a hospital bed and food, for them.)

"Cancer? Let them eat cake"

They've deigned to graciously allow me a free glucose meter (It's all related, I swear) 

as long as it's Accu-Chek or one-touch. All others are unworthy.

Fine.

WHICH Accu-Chek, WHICH one-touch??
Reddit hates both and wants a (****) brand, not covered.
Accu-Chek Aviva is not available 

It's for shure that I have no choice in the matter, even though it Looks like I do from this obscure document:

WHICH One-touch ?
WHICH Accu-Chek??

I seriously doubt they'd just let me pick!!

If the app or computer program approves, I'd like the verio-reflect, being 50% of my choices, but I'll prolly be forced into "Guide-me"

Pre-emptively buy something or wait for them to dole out something?

I was *hoping* to buy the decent-est meter around, but maybe that's a dumb thing to do.
My CGM (on the other hand) has to be "freestyle Libre" 

(not accu-chek, not one-touch??) although I've had this insurance for a year, and the Dexcom-6 CGM has been free, this wouldn't be getting written if they weren't trying to cut costs.
So, a biggie unknown.
No aspersions on the doctor, who would know all this, except...She is no longer in their directory and we have not spoken for months...

I might have to go off-book and buy my own, eventually

 (e.g. "contour" yada-whatever)

I don't know if MedicineNet is a shill and a puppet, or if reddit posters have been assimilated or not, or if the strips will be hard to find, but on the surface, they seem nice.

Today's overall disastrous news ("glorious"/disastrous)

can prolly be ignored, at least for now, as I wonder how badly my insulin was damaged after leaving it out for a few hours (or overnight, I really can't remember)

Is it like eggs or cheese? Or are they speaking mostly about germs?

I wrote one of these long ago, wondering if insulin needed air to breathe.
I concluded "no." 
Chemicals can change based upon temperature.
I found out that loading my syringe today was lots easier because the insulin  

was at room temperature (80-something).

So it changes.
Can it be refrigerated again or is it permanently damaged?

Agglomerates, ok, mm-hmm.