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Larrymer posted:Goddamn, insurance is so hosed in this country. I am a salaried employee for a Fortune motherfucking TEN company...For me to get allergy shots (nothing OTC works, this is my best chance of something working since I'm allergic to literally everything) would max out my deductible ($3500) and likely out of pocket max ($5500 I think?) this year, and do the same for the next 3-5 years. They said with my insurance that it's about $5-600 per shot. You get a bunch of them up front (4-5) then monthly after that for 3-5 years since you need the shots for that length of time for permanent results. Go see a different allergy doctor. I've been through this entire process and the shots should be about the same cost as any generic drug on your plan plus the cost of the office visit (which can definitely add up over time).
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slothrop posted:Every now and then I get emails that are meant for someone else. This person obviously has a similar name to me as my email is "firstname.lastname@gmail.com". What has spun me out is that this person lives in the same town my mum lives in and i grew up in. I don't have a common name, neither first nor last. ExplodingSims posted:Vegas is just about everything being fake and excessive and is just shut all around. Big software update+patching at work today. I was done with my poo poo by 10:30...didn't get out of there until 5:30 because customer kept 'testing' things and breaking poo poo. I really wish it was Friday and I wasn't on call so I could have a drink or three.
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Gay Weed Dad posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7luEiKJyjKc Thanks, that's probably it. Of course the service writer used a different word so i wouldn't figure it out. $2500 vs $50, talk about the rape job that would have been for my mother in law SHES ON A FIXED INCOME!!!!!!
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Maker Of Shoes posted:you can get a stye anywhere on your eye lid there is an oil gland so that's pretty much anywhere on it or in it. it'll clear on its own in 24-48 hours ish. and yeah, they can be topped with a white head. puss-y oily goodness. your eyeball and associated parts tend to heal up and kick out gross pretty quick. A good friend of mine in high school made that particular spelling faux pas on a paper. Better still it was in reference to some sort of sores. So his paper references "pussy sores". Teacher was unamused. (Probably best way to avoid is to say "puss-filled" instead.) tetrapyloctomy posted:The word is "purulent." And yes, triage notes say all the freaking time, "Patient states absess with pussy drainage." (It's a lot funnier when it's a labial abscess, but still.) Even better.
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Re-applying thermal grease on the laptop. it self-lapped the heatsink.  This is a laptop that has run for over 17000 hours and travelled over 300,000 kms. Still the original fans and until today hard drive, they must have bearings made of magic.
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Powershift posted:That sucks. I can't seem to spend less than a month/year in the hospital and all it has cost me is their insane parking charges. It isn't that easy. I'm a Canadian citizen, but I have to buy travel insurance in Canada because I live in the US. You have to be a resident of a province, for a surprisingly long time, before you get coverage. If you move between provinces, you are covered by the old one until you move. Still, I bet it would be cheaper to get sick in Canada without insurance or provincial coverage than in the US with the average insurance plan. They also don't let me vote, which pisses me off.
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nm posted:It isn't that easy. I'm a Canadian citizen, but I have to buy travel insurance in Canada because I live in the US. You have to be a resident of a province, for a surprisingly long time, before you get coverage. If you move between provinces, you are covered by the old one until you move. Well move here too. We got mountains and good beer and weed will be legal in october. Sit by the mountains smoking weed and drinking beer, allergy problems solved. Also, too much grease, too many uggaduggas. 
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Yeah, Health Care is provincially run and even between provinces can be a pain in the rear end. Not being able to vote in a general election isn't surprising though as you vote for the MP in your riding, not any specific leader directly. So if you don't have a residence in a riding, not sure how you would even cast a vote?
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Healthcare chat? Healthcare chat! Here's an example: There used to be things called Informed Consent clinics in the Phoenix area. You go in, for one of a variety of normally difficult-to-diagnose or difficult-to-bill-for issues (a lot of LGBTQ+ stuff, certain nonviolent psych stuff, etc), tell the doctor what you want, and they get your consent to treat you and skip the usual 6-18 month BS that comes with a lot of those diagnoses. Let's say, for example, meds for transgender people. Even though a GP can technically see you and prescribe you meds in a visit or two barring any complications, they never want to, and instead set self-limits like only prescribing or even only seeing a patient after they've gone through a therapist. So you have to wait months to see one of the few therapists in the area that doesn't want to gatekeep you and try and convince you that you aren't gay/trans/deserve conversion therapy, then convince them to send a letter of recommendation, which they'll probably want to see you for months beforehand for. Once you get your letter, you have to do research to find a doctor that won't also try to do the same things/have the same biases, and will also accept your insurance or have a non-insane self-pay schedule. It can be a year before you even see your doctor for the first time. Informed consent clinics kind of let you skip all that ringamarole. From the experiences I've read, it usually goes something like this: you come in for your initial visit and vitals and stuff, and tell them your intent. They either treat you right then, or have you do some bloodwork and then come back a monthish later, and get your meds. You can then see them for follow-up, or more likely they refer you out to a GP. Since you're already """seeing""" a doctor and have a prescription, all the second doctor needs to do* is maintain what you're doing. This can take as little as 2-3 months. IC clinics usually do official referrals and/or have resources available on who in the community is "friendly" to see, so finding another doc or therapist isn't as huge of a pain. They are limited in what they'll do, but it's a great first step and bridges that gap. All of the informed consent clinics, ALL OF THEM, in the greater Phoenix area have either closed down or are closing down at the end of the month, and the purge started November 2017. Many of the docs/PA-Cs/NPs/NDs who worked in those places have either retired, or moved on to other industries. The only ones left that I can tell only see children for my specific issues.  I went to a regular doctor that claims to specialize in LGBT issues this morning. Of course, since it was my first visit, I didn't expect a letter or prescription or anything, this is more of a first contact scenario. Even then, I got grilled on if I was really trans or not, and told that the dose I'm taking for meds (doing DIY with overseas pharmacies, I know I know) is way too high, despite it being the beginner dosage for any regimen. I even got a lecture on the "irreparable" changes I was making to my body (that's why I'm here? to continue those changes?), and then doubted about my intentions because I didn't want to go by a new name or be referred to by the new gender yet. I told the doc that I was getting to that point, and that seeing a doctor and going legit with my prescriptions and changing my DL is kind of my threshold. I emphasized that a big part of it being right to me is it also being right with the law, and that was why I was there. He then had me do some bloodwork, and told me my follow-up would be 2 months down the line. He both implied and said that, because I wasn't seeing a therapist and because I already had "a supply" of medications, he didn't need to prescribe anything that day and that he would verify I really wanted what I'm doing by extending the follow-up date by an extra month from normal. Then we got into a mini-spat because he told me that, to get my DL changed, I would need "some sort of" surgery. I know doctors don't like their toes being stepped on, but I had a page from an AZ law website showing that isn't true at all anymore after a change in the law October 2017, that I wasn't planning on surgery ever, and that I've already changed my social security and birth certificate markers, which are traditionally the much more difficult things to change (I had both the SS receipt and my cert with me). It ended...poorly. I did my blood draws and left after paying my copay. Because the ICs are gone in Maricopa county, I called around and found a place in Tucson. It's a 2 hour drive, but they were much more understanding on the phone. While it's not directly an informed consent clinic, they do specialize in my issue and were very nice, even asking for pronouns 'n poo poo which I've never had done before. I told them I'd be self-pay because I have medicaid, and that I didn't expect anything on the first visit. Over the phone the secretary told me that I, if what I've said is true and I bring in the bloodwork results from today's visit, shouldn't worry about having to buy meds online anymore, and that they have multiple providers that are willing to take the brunt of the medicaid billing so my out-of-pocket is smaller. It's very nice, but I just want to go to the loving doctor (and the regular one, too  ) and should be able to, especially if I'm willing to pay myself.tl;dr the razor blade on the  emote is upside-down.
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Powershift posted:Well move here too. We got mountains and good beer and weed will be legal in october.
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The desert does have it's charm, but one can only take so much brown. Especially after being back in Florida, I miss seeing green stuff everywhere. 
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Enourmo posted:I don't think I've driven a Mazda yet that didn't have a smooth-shifting, responsive auto My Mazda 6 hated shifting into 4th unless you blipped the throttle or hit 3600rpm, and it was like that from brand new with the PO until the trans gave out on me.
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I grew up in winterland, USA, freedom as far as the eye can see. I have lived in the People's Demokratic Republik of KKKalifornia for the last 20 years and I don't miss winter or Muh Freedoms one bit because I don't equate paying taxes for necessary societal needs (like schools and roads) as some sort of Randian Horror. ilkhan posted:I said it as a California refugee.
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Ether Frenzy posted:I grew up in winterland, USA, freedom as far as the eye can see. I have lived in the People's Demokratic Republik of KKKalifornia for the last 20 years and I don't miss winter or Muh Freedoms one bit because I don't equate paying taxes for necessary societal needs (like schools and roads) as some sort of Randian Horror. California is awesome. The people make it terrible (present company excluded). The same is true of most places.
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Ether Frenzy posted:because I don't equate paying taxes for necessary societal needs (like schools and roads) as some sort of Randian Horror. And we're not going to agree so let's avoid politics chat for once.
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Ether Frenzy posted:I grew up in winterland, USA, freedom as far as the eye can see. I have lived in the People's Demokratic Republik of KKKalifornia for the last 20 years and I don't miss winter or Muh Freedoms one bit because I don't equate paying taxes for necessary societal needs (like schools and roads) as some sort of Randian Horror. Well said.
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ExplodingSims posted:The desert does have it's charm, but one can only take so much brown. Especially after being back in Florida, I miss seeing green stuff everywhere. We get that a lot from people up north visiting during the winter...it's so GREEN here! 
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It is a hundred degrees right now and it is 2232 at night. JFC I hate this godforsaken state. I just spent two hours filling out paperwork for a name change. I have to notify an "interested party," and if my parents are still living then they have to be the interested party. Welp, in a few days when they get the certified mail packets I'm going to figure out whether or not this'll work. Also how can we allow "this'll" but not "amn't"?
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Speaking of our fine state and cold weather, one of my online D&D buds' uncle is planning to move down here. Apparently he was insisting they'd still need to bring winter gear if they came down to visit him during winter. I go "Well it depends what part of the state, the northern parts periodically get snow. Where's he moving exactly?" "I think he said Bonita Springs"  
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Rhyno posted:Move home. Nobody will judge you. Seriously, there's nothing wrong with realizing poo poo sucks and changing plans. Don't martyr yourself to sunk costs. It's what got me the gently caress out of Texas a decade back. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Aug 2, 2018 |
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Fun with GPs, my wife had a wonderful argument with the local GP about my son's meds. He was reluctant to give more than a week's worth of meds at a time, problem is it takes about 4 days to get a repeat sorted meaning my wife would have to come in once a week for life. Add the bonus of having to double his meds up if injured, stressed, ill etc, i.e the ground state of being for a young child going to hospital regularly. So that's 3.5 days of meds at a time. Recommendation is actually 2 months at a time and have your pharmacy hold another 4. She got out of him that he's reluctant due to cost. Get hosed mate. He then talked about weaning him off the meds. The ones he needs 3 times a day for life. I think we're changing GPs. Oh and bonus, cost used to be £0.05 per tablet, since Brexit was announced its now £1 and likely to keep rising. Time to start taking out of the system I've paid into for 20+ years. E:But in more important news he finished the excavator in 5 days with only 2 mistakes, a sticker on backwards and a single missing gear. The sticker was for the controls so he thought it was all broken, nope, just mislabelled. The gear we managed to get in with tweezers without taking it all apart. Bonus my daughter is a cat 
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Larrymer posted:Goddamn, insurance is so hosed in this country. I am a salaried employee for a Fortune motherfucking TEN company...For me to get allergy shots (nothing OTC works, this is my best chance of something working since I'm allergic to literally everything) would max out my deductible ($3500) and likely out of pocket max ($5500 I think?) this year, and do the same for the next 3-5 years. They said with my insurance that it's about $5-600 per shot. You get a bunch of them up front (4-5) then monthly after that for 3-5 years since you need the shots for that length of time for permanent results. I've been getting allergy shots for awhile now. $500-$600 per shot doesn't sound right. $500-$600 per vial makes more sense. Each vial has about 6 shots worth. It's usually 6 months of weekly shots and then monthly maintenance shots. I maxed out my deductible the first year too.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Fun with GPs
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cakesmith handyman posted:E:But in more important news he finished the excavator in 5 days with only 2 mistakes, a sticker on backwards and a single missing gear. The sticker was for the controls so he thought it was all broken, nope, just mislabelled. The gear we managed to get in with tweezers without taking it all apart.  the size of that box Also yeah, definitely refer to your specialist about the meds. Having to re-visit and get repeat prescriptions is ironically as much as waste of money as just giving you more medication.
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cakesmith handyman posted:She got out of him that he's reluctant due to cost. Get hosed mate. He then talked about weaning him off the meds. The ones he needs 3 times a day for life. I think we're changing GPs. Need today to not be a 12+ hour day, I want to play with my new toy and do an  post on it in the post your rides thread.
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cakesmith handyman posted:She got out of him that he's reluctant due to cost. Get hosed mate. He then talked about weaning him off the meds. The ones he needs 3 times a day for life. I think we're changing GPs. Some doctors are just dumb. If you don't get a warm glow when you visit them, just change 'em and don't feel guilty. My doc just changed my medication and I asked him if I should finish the last 2-monthsworth before changing, to save the NHS money. His reply : "The NHS has gone bust already, a couple of packets of pills from you aren't going to make a difference"
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:It is a hundred degrees right now and it is 2232 at night. JFC I hate this godforsaken state. Ooof. How can you live there? lol. Also, sorry you are going through so much poo poo. I don't really know what else to say. Just, jesus.
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Thanks all. I posted that waiting to see the specialist, she's going to have the endocrinologist write or speak to the GP but I'm happily prepared to switch, we've options within a couple of miles thankfully. Then we had training to do the emergency injections (anyone medical now giggling at the idea of "training" for an intramuscular injection) and she sent us home with bags of needles to practice with. Not on the kid mind!
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cakesmith handyman posted:she sent us home with bags of needles to practice with. Not on the kid mind! Your poor cat... Got myself an engine crane for the upcoming cruiser rebuild.  Everything gets a lot more complicated when your engine is so long and heavy that it bends half tonne engine stands. Gotta pick up a 680kg rated stand on the weekend, but a 10 foot high, 2 tonne rated gantry crane should make life a lot easier getting the engine in and out.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Fun with GPs, my wife had a wonderful argument with the local GP about my son's meds. He was reluctant to give more than a week's worth of meds at a time, problem is it takes about 4 days to get a repeat sorted meaning my wife would have to come in once a week for life. Add the bonus of having to double his meds up if injured, stressed, ill etc, i.e the ground state of being for a young child going to hospital regularly. So that's 3.5 days of meds at a time. Recommendation is actually 2 months at a time and have your pharmacy hold another 4. Dawwwww 
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Ferremit posted:Your poor cat... That looks awesome. In the same engine-pulling vein, 14ID picked up a hefty shop crane on my behalf this week... I think you can see he's impressed:    That's all adjusted to its narrowest width/depth adjustments for the legs and casters, and the crane's boom is maybe just under 1/2 out. Picked up that 454 like it was nothing. Says it's a Ramco made hoist and rated for 5000 lbs. It's ridiculous.
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CommieGIR posted:I miss having local friends, and every time I find a car group, if I ever mention I'm progressive or support emissions regs, they explode. I often wonder why a fairly decent whack of 'car dudes' are morons.
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