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Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, April 14, 2008 - 7:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Right now, when my brother and his wife would take a trip and leave me to watch their boys, Amy would jump up and sleep on their bed next to me. That was a no-no any other time. LOL

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Monday, April 14, 2008 - 10:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
RN Gentle hugs: (((Mamie, Amy-poochie & family)))

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 10:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
RN I just finished our taxes.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 5:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Right earlier I bought some Hello Kitty bandaids. Not sure if I'll use them or they'll go on the HK shelf.

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 9:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
right now, holly put some on me when i cut my hand last week. seems that's the only kind in our house!

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 10:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
RN I just realized that I am very fortunate and have a major item for my gratitude list. With all the medical crap that I'm dealing with this month (mine and mom's) THANK HEAVENS that I live in Canada. I haven't the foggiest clue what Mom's week in the hospital including test, meds etc would have cost, (for her dehydration, anorexia, delirium, heart probs, water on the lungs, etc.) or all my current and upcoming medical tests & meds for my shoulder injury (frozen shoulder and MAYBE tendonitis or rotator cuff injury.) So far the only cost has been a mere thirteen dollars (!) for 65 (generic) Prednisone pills for me. I'm worried about the cost of my upcoming physio-therapy which I'll need a minimum or two or three times a week for a while. I know that this would probably be a prohibitively exhorbitant amount for my American friends, I feel almost foolish to be worrying about finding affordable physiotherapy for my shoulder.
But we don't have medical insurance and I am not working, (2 income family budget on 1 income right now) so it's gonna be very tight. All things considered, tho, I am very lucky and feel grateful and humble to have to deal mainly with the emotional stress and not have it compounded with debilitating financial stress. Whatever would someone in my position do in the States? I feel so sad about that. I HOPE and PRAY that your new President (whomever that turns out to be) pushes through universal medicare, at the very least for those in dire need, if not for everyone...

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 10:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
RN Mame, it's not foolish to be worrying about finding affordable care. Doesn't matter what you do or don't have to pay for otherwise, if it's a worry, then it's a worry.

Tee hee, I'll add I do feel a bit of jealousy! Our co-pay for generic meds is $20 each, more for name brand (which most of Kota's are.) She has two we get monthly (an allergy pill...generic, and singulair...name brand.) And then er, let me count, one prescription nasal spray, albueterol inhalers, the albuterol for her nebulizer oh and albuterol cough syrup that she gets on a less regular basis cuz she doesn't use those daily.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 11:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
(((War & Kota))) Thx hon, you're very sweet. It's almost like having survivor guilt. I know I'd be in DEEP POOPIE financially this month if I was living in the States.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 11:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
RN, I understand Mame. I complain about the costs, but I know we've got it pretty good. Usually the only time I worry is when Kota gets really sick, then it's trips to the drs ($20 each visit,) extra prescriptions, if it's really bad a visit to er for them to administer the breathing treatments and watch her ($250 a trip,) more prescriptions and dr visits.

We're a 1 and a half income family and on a pretty tight budget and when it's times like that it is a worry. And then guilt split because some people don't have any insurance and how bad that situation would be for them and guilt over worrying about how much it costs when my kidlet is sick and can't help it.

Ya know, I've never been one to seriously wish for a ton of money. As long as bills are paid and food is in the house and a little money is left, I'm happy. But ever so often I really wonder what it'd be like to not have to worry about the extras that life throws at you or the unexpected!

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 11:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
RN thank you Mame, for thinking of us during your own times of trouble. I have to get my teeth fixed and it's going to cost a lot of money, but it's got to be done. Universal health care is my big thing, the number one issue for me, and it's gotten lost in this election. If John Edwards ever runs again, he has my vote, because he gets it.

I hope everything works out for you :-)

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 11:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
RN Thx NYH! HI again War! :-) I also have some dental stuff to deal with ... sooner rather than later. I need a few fillings done... Anyhow Canadians have to pay full freight for dental work, it's not covered by medicare unless it's done in a hospital setting, I believe. Thank heavens for plastic (credit cards)!

Things that are NOT covered so we also have to pay same as Americans, Physiotherapy, Dental, alternative health care like homeopathy, etc. And of course vet care for our pets. So we do have to dig deep for $ on certain occasions.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 11:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
RN what about vision coverage Mame? That's another big one for us, or was until recently. Me, Darren and Caleb wear glasses...Caleb's vision is terrible (one eye also worse than the other) and I wear...no jokes, I'm not old!...bifocals. Up til recently mine and Caleb's glasses were costing $400-$500 a piece. Our vision didn't cover too much of those. I'd wait as long as I could to get new glasses but Caleb of course has to have them every year.

A year and a half ago, Darrens company started offering an extra vision care program. We missed it the first year, but signed up the second. With both insurances, now we get one pair of glasses covered for each person who wears them a year. Which is just huge for us. We've had several years where Caleb's visions changed just enough to require a new prescription and since he's a kid it's hard to re-use frames because he's rough (not purposely) on them. Was a "phew moment" knowing that now, at the worst, we may have to buy him one pair of glasses a year if his vision changes.

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 4:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
Rn Wargod I have vision coverage to and love it. I ge one pair of glasses a year. Mine always change enough that I get a new pair every year

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 4:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
RN, War and others, do you know that if you take old glasses and donate them, that you can write off the market value of those glasses on your income tax? Even if you had pairs from years ago, it's the replacement value TODAY, that you write off as charitable? If you take them to where you get your glasses, they will have forms you fill out yourself and put with your tax return.

So even if you find 3 or 4 pair now and donate them, you can claim them all on next years return. How old they are (or when you purchased them) does not matter.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 6:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Rn lol landi.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 6:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
War. If I remember correctly, medicare pays for part of the eye doc apt, kind of like your copay system. But for the actual glasses, forget it, we have to pay in full for them. I am 53 and I've been wearing TRI-focals for at least 5 years now. And I don't think I'm OLD either. LOL.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 7:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
RN, I just called my doctor to have him change the new med he put me on. I picked up the prescription yesterday and they are horse pills. I have a hair-trigger gag reflex and will never be able to get them down without ralphing. He'd put me on antibiotics last year and they were that same size. I wound up dissolving them in a glass of water and then drinking the gritty stuff. This med can't even be cut in half because it is an extended release thing, so the water trick is out.

The secretary laughed and said that she totally understands because they'd have to shove pills down her throat with a stick if they wanted her to take them because she gags too. Fun times!

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 7:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
RN I went up der to Canada to get laser eye surgery (lasik) 4 years ago. Totally professional and cheap. The waiting room was flooded with American refugees.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 7:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Rn was that expensive Ny??

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 7:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
RN I think it was ridiculously cheap, like a little over a $1000. It was a New Year's special. SO worth it. It costs at least twice as much here in the States. I stayed in a hotel on the Nigara Falls strip, then drove back to Michigan a day or two later. I would've had my sister drive me, but she is such a drama queen, I didn't want her around.

But you can't be squeamish; you are awake for the whole operation; they clamp this round thing on your eyeball, cut a flap into the cornea, and laser out the fleshy part of the cornea that causes nearsightedness. You can smell the eyeball burning. Yeah baby!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 7:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Rn thx Ny and ick lol.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 7:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
RN oh my Ny! That doesn't sound the least bit pleasant at all!

Huk'd I did not know that! We have always donated our old ones (except for Caleb, when he gets a new pair, we keep the last pair just in case something happens to the new,) but I never even thought of them being a tax write off.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 8:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
RN, on my way to pick up my niece and take her to the hospital for stress test. I woke up with a start this morning at 5:05 and felt she was in labor. She said she was in labor at that time, but it has stopped. They plan on inducing on Friday last I knew, as she is over her due date and baby is good sized.

Her husband went to work since the labor stopped before he had to go. I'm glad I get to be part of this day and am sorta hoping she is kept there and labor starts up again!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 10:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
RN, just returned from the hospital and all is o.k. with the baby. (S)he is not in distress and there are no signs of labor at the moment. All that excitement with no payoff! Wahhh!!

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 1:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
RN Awwww Huk, I'm sorry to hear there's still no baby yet. I know how excited you've been for this baby to come.