A draft stopper under the door will help, too. This kind is fabric and consists of two tubes filled with hard foam tubes, one on either side of the door bottom, with a flat piece of fabric between them that goes under the door. The tubes actually sit on the floor and slide along the floor as the door is opened and closed. If there is carpeting, the slippery nylon of the one in this picture works better than other fabric, I would guess. https://www.ebay.com/i/274343357106?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=274343357106&targetid=884652277561&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9016837&poi=&campaignid=9426322279&mkgroupid=92907991862&rlsatarget=pla-884652277561&abcId=1141016&merchantid=138376934&gclid=CjwKCAjw_LL2BRAkEiwAv2Y3SSdY3Qtwofu1K_ojes8lvu-Kk9E0BS9IORAb82QcHoER5TBwW9tlkRoCSMAQAvD_BwE

Thanks, sleeve. I have an 11 yr old opened BOS of the no vent N95 respirators. Date says (c) 2002 or close. Time flies. I think these were for SARS outbreak. surprisingly the yellow rubber like bare elastic is still good. The exhaust vent types were purchased in early January 2020. No one of my siblings wants any, saying that their too uncomfortable. I mostly stay HOME. We don't socialize, and make very few trips out. But, yesterday was a gorgeous day and I went with a masked neighbor who seems very careful to buy some tomato plants, lettuces, organic milk and deli salads (darn pricy) at at super aware country store. Only a couple people in at a time with masks, distancing and no bags from elsewhere. Half gal milk = $7.75 in glass bottle ($1.50 if return bottle). A cup of bean salad, $4. I will figure out their recipe. I put it through the mass spectrometer in my mouth. I wore an old, non vented N95 and safety goggles. Mask was u o for table and hot. I DID keep messing with it, so was glad I was pretty much in the clean rural woodsy boondocks. (But you never know). When we passed through a working class small city, I went into a store for wine. I had on my gear, the cashier had on a cowboy bandana. A 30-ish woman came into the store, o mask, and barbed into my shelf area. I left For the cashier. She was right behind me, no mask, no distance, no sense. I asked her to please back up (like 5 feet!). She had a bunch of pink and lavender colored toy wine. She looked at me as though I’d told her that there was a deadly global pandemic. Meh. No worries. No cares. My friend encountered a couple of women in a grocery store. No mask, crowding her. She asked them why they were not wearing a mask. They fired back that it was their freedom of choice, blah blah. The State is on MASK rules if outside your home. Oh, and distance. What is with these clueless people. Flyovers are okay, but how about some public service announcement, mini tutorials on infection control? Think I might tell the next maskless fool who won’t keep back that, oops! You e got something stuck on your face! Then disappear as they rubs cooties into their fave with dirty hands. I won’t do it. But what is with the clueless, right to infect others, mask-less zombies? At least they didn’t shoot us in the back of the head (Recent MI news). I spotted a 25Lb bag or organic, unbleached, AP flour for $25. Maybe I should go back to the clean store for it. But that’s a lotta flour.

The ear saver that Dr Ebonie Vincent (TLC My Feet are Killing Me) wears, looks like it positions the mask and keeps it good and tight. She's what sent me looking for the ear savers that I posted. I still haven't purchased any. Guess I could be smart like some people and make my own! NICELY done.

Thanks for the update, chisue. Sorry to hear the rx is messing with your skin. Is it drying out you skin? How many days does the Rx treatment messed you up? Do you feel blah for days after? Thirty pounds less wouldn’t seem like much extra skin, but to you, it might feel awful or uncomfortable. Yes, carolb, some people who lose 100 or more pounds can have annoyingly sagging skin. For those who can get surgery, that must be an enormous relief. Wishing you the best, chisue and it must be so exhausting nd difficult to cope with the illness AND the treatment. Medical research is always in a race to find effective and better treatments. Hold on. I hope you have a good support system — perhaps others w MM or similar, family and friends. And I hope you can continue with your interests and activities. Sometimes I come across articles on various conditions like MM. You likely are on top of new info, but if you’d like, I will try to post links to any I come across. The costs of being ill can be immense. I recently wanted to treat itchy milia and the doc wrote a prescription for something called TRETINOIN. The pharmacy said it needed approval from inssurer. Cost without insurance is about $186. The cheapy insurance said my CO-PAY would be $145. Yikes. I’ve never used it, don’t know how effective it will be or even how long that supply of ? ounces would last. I might need to invest in a salt or sand blaster, or brillo pads. Would it be worth a trip to Mexico or Canada? LOL