Saturday, September 12, 2026

Medicine.

 Today, I have to go back to the abteca to pick up two of Joan's prescriptions that they didn't have in stock. When I arrived, they brought out one prescription, but then told me they couldn't order the other. They said there was a problem with the wholesaler, and so the order was rejected. I asked if there was an alternative medication, but they said there was none with the same ingredients. She suggested I try a different Apteka. In fact, she gave me the addresses of two of them, which she said had the medicine now, but they only had one box in each store. I buy prescriptions for 3 months. One box would not be sufficient. I looked up a few other Aptekas close to where we live, and I drove to the nearest one. I told him what I needed, asked him to check their stock, and he said they didn't have any; they could order it and have it tomorrow. So tomorrow, I will take you home with me, go to that Apteka, and hope that they were able to place the order successfully. It could be that they just told me they would have it tomorrow and didn't know they couldn't order it. We'll see what happens. tomorrow.

Meanwhile:

Dmitry Medvedev, former president and current deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, said Lithuania would “disappear from the map of the world” if it lifts its longstanding nuclear weapons ban.
Medvedev made the remarks on Friday, Sept. 11, after Russia had already threatened Vilnius earlier that same day.
The country’s parliamentary parties had agreed to the constitutional amendments in July, while the parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs voted 7-2 on the proposal on Wednesday, paving the way for a final decision early next year.
The lifting of the ban would allow NATO, of which Lithuania has been a member since 2004, to deploy nuclear forces on its territory.
On Friday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov threatened Vilnius over the plan by saying the Baltic nation – once under Soviet occupation – will be “in the sights of our nuclear weapons.”
“And if there are nuclear weapons on the territory that are aimed at us, then the territory of this country will also be in the sights of our nuclear weapons,” Peskov told Russia’s Channel One on Friday, as reported by state media Ria Novosti.