Just a little ego there. It's a guy. She probably just wanted to sit with someone familiar.

• Dh just told me a something - help me keep my head
  • your DH - To help me keep my head
    • Just a little ego there. It's a guy. She probably just wanted to sit with someone familiar. - LOL
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  • I probably would've lost my head... - JEALOUS TYPE
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I now have BC/BS as of 01/01/07, but I had Cigna before that (who covered everything).  My gynecologist recommended Mirena placement for SEVERE cramping and menorrhagia for me to prevent hysterectomy which would cause complications due to other medical problems, and was not being placed for contraceptive reasons (I have PCOS).  BC/BS said Mirena was not covered and the explanation was that Mirena as a form of birth control was much too expensive and recommended an oral contraceptive.  Again, it was strongly emphasized to BC/BS that I did not require Mirena for contraception, but for menstrual problems.  I have not used any contraceptive method in almost twenty years...but they denied me.  Well, the strangest part of it all is that they denied me the $675 Mirena placement, but BC/BS sent me a letter and I have been approved for the $3800 hysterectomy, which we were trying to avoid because of possible medical complications related to surgery, which could cost even more.  Go figure!!! 

Friend of mine is moving there to be with boyfriend.  She said  it's a nice quiet town, but another friend just told me there is a gang problem there.  All I know is, it's a small town.  Can anyone tell me about this town?  Now I'm concerned.  The other friend lives in Marietta, GA. 

Thanks. 

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I want to live in Savannah, but that's another story. 

I love to make scrapbooks.  I am currently working on one a thank you gift to the hostess who allowed us to stay with them on our vacation this past summer.  They are friends of ours and actually took their vacation to vacation with us.  We had a great time in Colorado! 

I'm wondering if anyone has used any of the scrapbook softwares that are out.  I think I might try to do it this way to conserve some time.  Any thoughts or opinions would be appreciated.

Well, they bought out our local Parisian Dept. store, promised to come in to our town, buy the building (in our local mall), and then backed out at the last minute. We live in a town of over 300,000.  Anyways, so there is no longer any store there in the mall. They are just like Macy's. etc.

They have THE POOREST CUSTOMER SERVICE CENTER (via phone) I've ever encountered. They don't even bill on a 30-day billing cycle, so my payment was due TODAY when I always thought it was the 6th of every month (I last made a payment Oct. 6 and thought I'd pay my bill a few days early) only to find out that the bill would be considered late if not paid by 5 p.m. EST. If I paid it on line like I always do, you MUST make the payment date at least 2 days later than today's date (makes no sense) so next month I would be LATE and charged 35.00. So I call to make a payment. This rude lady tells me: Go into a store and make a payment.  I tell her, "well, we don't have a store within 200+ miles of my home since you guys never did come here,"  Then she says, "Well, you can pay by phone today by 5 but it will cost you an extra 15.00." So, I'm livid. She gets her supe on the phone who is rude as h*** and tells me that she wasn't the one who decided to pay late! OMG!

So, I call husband very upset. To make a long story short, I finally paid it after 3 LONG PHONE CALLS to these fools (all 3 of them were extremely rude).  One guy put me on hold for 15 minutes (I counted!!) after I asked to speak to his supervisor and he gets back on the phone (minus his supervisor) after being put on hold and then I finally pay part of my bill.

Thank GOD Belk isn't around here.    Sounds like a godsend. 

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE if you work hard, don't shop there! They SUCK** and I will NEVER shop there!!

I have two kids at home and a baby on the way.  My husband keeps gettign laid of jobs due to slow business  Just got word that after Christmas he will be laid off again.  As it is, we can barely afford to feed the family... so dont know what we will do come January when we lose his income.

There are no jobs for him to apply to.  We do not qualify for unemployment for some reason....

And its not like we are lazy or bad people.  All we do is work.  I work 3 different jobs for 3 different MT companies.  I wake up 2 hours before the kids go to school, work while they are in school, and even have to make up soem time at nigth when everyone is sleeping.  That in addition to my husband's job...  we can barely, and I mean barely make it...

Then I spend the rest of my free time cleaning the house, doing dishes, laundry, errands, bills, homework with the kids.  Im pregnant and should be getting more rest.  HA!!  What a joke.

And I know all about the bank fees.  We pay probably 100-200 a month in fees becuase when you live paycheck to paycheck it is just something that happens..  Sorry folks...  Its not about being good a balancing your checkbook... not in these times.  We have to play russian roulette with the monies sometimes.

My husband and myself do not have insurnace.  I do now through Medicade because I am pregnant.  We were hoping to drop the Medicaid when my husband's insurance kicked in... but he got laid off before that happened.  My kids have CHIP, so that is good...  But I am down to my last pair of contacts and I havent taken them out in 2 months because I do not have the extra 100 dollars to make an appt and then 50 for the contacts.

The school hits us up for $$$ every week for this, that, and the other thing... which all that does is take food off our plates.  If one of my kids loses a shoe or needs a winter jacket, etc.... it puts us out.

Not to mention on top of all of that...  My brother-in-law was in a car accident in a car he bought from my husband, but never took the time to put it in his name, and now it is back on us.  We have 30 days to come up with 4000 dollars or my they take my husband's license away.  Sounds crazy huh?  Lawyers say they cannot do that... but they say they can...(the insurance company), but who has money to pay the lawyer for the help??  Not us.

I could go on and on and on and on and on and on.. LIke how it is Christmas, which is hard enough, but on Dec 31st it is my daughter's b-day and then just 3 weeks later it is my other daughter's birthday...  How I am going to give them a nice birthday is beyond me...

Anyway, you are not alone!!!!!  Of course I have never thought about suicide.  That is not an option for me and I cant imagine ever would be... 

If you think that way, you need some medication and therapy real quick!!!!!!  Other than that, what is the worst that can happen?  There has got to be help somewhere... food stamps???  I am going to look into them myself...  I might have to skip on paying rent this month...  and hope the landlord understands... 

Come January 20th, I hope some good things start to happen and we can be on the road to a brighter future... but until then... we have to ride it out somehow.  How, I dont know.  I just take every day at a time... 

And this morning, I cried during my first hour of typing... Typing through the tears.. so you are not alone there either.

got hers actually at WalMart.  It was around $100 and very pretty with her birth stone and she wears it every day.  Might not after she graduates, but that's up to her.  Younger DS probably won't want one either, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

I did get the brochures from the jewelry stores at the mall, but they were unbelievably expensive.

For crying out loud, you should be MUCH more ready to forgive him his abusive language and "disrespect" if he was on drugs.  Good grief.  It sounds like you expect everybody to be perfect except you. 

If he is clean now, he would probably be ashamed of how he acted.  How many years have you let this rift go on, anyway? 

thing.  If your daughter does leave home, you MUST report her as a runaway to protect yourself. 

You didn't mention, but are there other children in the home?  If so, this is definitely something to take into consideration.  If they are and they are being exposed to the constant "turmoil" this can be perceived in the eyes of social services as a form of "abuse" so you'd need to tread carefully.

Right now, take the emotional part out of it, take back control and know that a couple of years from now you will (hopefully) look back at this time and you and your daughter will have a few laughs.  I remember when we hit that point and I just smiled silently thinking "I remember someone told ME back then I'd make it through this."  You CAN handle this!

I had some nice responses when I posted last week about having a really nasty UTI and being in excruciating pain.  I had a fever despite analgesics, pelvic pain and generalized agony.  They did a KUB and 2 CAT scans, with and without contrast.  I got the results yesterday.  I have at least one kidney stone.  They think I may have passed more.  I will NEVER go back to that NP again.  My PCP has a NP, PA and himself.  The PA is fantastic and my doc is wonderful.  I can't believe they made me wait all weekend for the results when I had a stone, and let me suffer in pain.  A few Vicodin may have helped.  Also, the NP had told me I'd be feeling better in a day.  I got progressively worse over 3 days.  Now, I am finally starting to feel back to normal but there is still a 2 mm (small) stone lodged in my kidney.  I just wonder if it is going to cause problems if and when it goes on the move.  I was afraid to go to the ER for 2 reasons:  1.  I didn't want them to think I was there for a wimpy reason.  2.  They have so many people who go in there seeking narcotics, even though I never have, I was afraid they'd treat me like I was one of those.

Again, thanks to all that cared!

i have typed radiology for about 6 years now.  i use to work inhouse, but about 2 years ago i decided to work from home, thinking i could make more money.  well, i was hired to type radiology, but naturally i did not start off doing that, they had me typing clinical notes.  then finally they put me on a radiology account, but that had very little work.  in the mean time, they were waiting for this new radiology account to get up and running and told me how great and easy it was and all that stuff!!! i ws sooo excited about this account, thinking YES!!! i can finally make some real money.  well, here it is a year later and this is one of the most difficult accounts and i am not sure what the problem is.  the doctors are not difficult to understand, i have macros and all of that good stuff, but i tell ya what....it is all i can do to get in 1000 lines, which is pretty pathetic being that i am use to getting in alot more lines than that.  i do not believe it is me, but rather this account. 

so i am not sure if i should look for a different job, and if so i really am not sure who i should look at.  but like i said i have only worked from my home for about 2 years, and 4 years in house and would appreciate any advise from all of the vets that are out there, or anyone else with some good advise.  i do not like being mislead, and being told an account is "CAKE", when actually the turn over of mt's on this account is great. 

I worked at a physical rehab center for 5 years.  As another poster stated, the amount of improvement depends on a lot of things.  However, I saw people leave or return for appts with no noticeable residual, others who still had deficits but were independent.  Those who were permanently impaired learned to adapt. There are some really cool gadgets out there! One thing I learned from working at the rehab center was determination really *can* pay off.  It was inspiring working there. 

IF your dad needs extensive therapy, the hardest part for YOU may be keeping him motivated.  So, best of luck to your dad, you and the family.  Let us know how things are going.

the pictures both of you sent are beautiful. The cat looks like one of my niece's. Lisa had a tonsillectomy Monday at age 45 and I am going over today on my day off to help her and to feed and care for the two cats!  What a day this will be. The red one comes up to me and stares at me with those big yellow eyes and actually puts his nose against mine! I try so hard not to laugh, but I lose every time.

Ok, I am going to try to make this a short story. Last night, my 7-year-old and another kid were playing. I was watching them, and they were playing tug-of-war, so to speak, with a shoe, but they were both laughing and playing. Well, the other child got hurt and when we tried to figure out what was wrong, we found that the girl had recently had surgery on this particular finger and it had gotten hurt while they were playing. Fast forward to this morning - the child's finger is fractured. I am in the process of getting the mother's phone number so that I can call her. The child was under the supervision of my sister-in-law at the time, a friend of her daughter's.

So, my question, would you offer to pay the copay for the emergency room visit?

Thanks!