Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

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That sucks, one thing I like about my supplement if the doc accepts Medicure your good. You must have an advatage policy,correct?

Are you saying that only Medicare Advantage plans allow doctor choices?
 

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Are you saying that only Medicare Advantage plans allow doctor choices?
lulu, I took it him asking whether the other person had a Medicare Advantage Plan. All medigap plans allow choice of doctors (as long as they accept Medicare). Some Medicare Advantage Plans do require that your doctor be in their HMO.
 

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I'll make it for a Cyberknife present. Anyone know anyone who has had this procedure done. I guess it is done with radiation, not invasive which is what I have to have apparently. He said I could wait but that I shouldn't wait like 3-6months to have this done and in a case like mine they would do it without a biopsy which he said was too risky for me. Takes 3-5 shots of radiation to remove it. I've heard of the Gammaknife but not this one he said the Gammaknife is only used on the brain.
Hope all goes well with that. I haven't heard of that one, but did take a lady from my church to Dallas years ago for a gamma knife treatment. that was intense for her.

Well, at least i got a cupcake for my birthday

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Happy very belated birthday! Glad the Mrs and the pups are doing well. and wahooooooooooooo on 4 years of no stinkies!!!



Thought I would share a picture of the view from my friends rooftop porch. And no it is not a postcard and it has not been edited...

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that is stunning! Looks like an oil painting!

That's what we used to call "the gig line". Buttons, belt buckle, and zipper all aligned and straight down the middle.
Jup, same here.

OK, dat aside, where is our Matt?
You asked, and he showed up! Do you always use your powers for good?? :p

Nobody here but us chickens!:lol:
Really good to see you!

Thought I'd drop by to day 'hi' while I have a bit of time.

This weekend we went to our grandson's softball game, and Peter did not have any episodes of shortness of breath, and he didn't yesterday, either He did have an alert, but that was due to his (insert adjecive here) ninnyness....so, I continue to thank God that his full recovery is on its way. I pray and thank God for the outcome!

Now, to read back and see what's been happening! :)
That's wonderful!! And wow........50 years! That's just so heartwarming to hear. So rare these days to hear of folks that have been together that long. And so many others that are very close to that. Johnny and Patty, Mike and Janet, and Bea and her hubby.


I have 3 one I forget where I got it works really well the end is large enough you can draw up straight VG no problem and fits into 120ml bottles which I only make 100ml so I can have some shakiing rooom.
I have a catheter tip 30 ml syringe, and I don't use a needle on it. I fill 120 ml bottles with pg and vg, and can just pour either into the top of the syringe while keeping my finger under the tip of it. Well, that's what I did. Now that I finally have several of the chef condiment bottles, I'll be keeping pg and vg in that and finally can start mixing by weight next time I make juice. But I still have a lot from the 1,320 mls I made awhile back. So if it don't go bad, I won't be making juice for quite some time.

Thanks. There are too many who don't know of this convention.
jup! That's why I always just put something like 75pg no mistaking what I mean, and you automatically know that vg is 25. No reason to list both. It's rare and maybe non existent that someone uses enough water or something else to make up even a percent.



Hey I'm going to be a Great Grandaddy in June. Hopefully this time will be OK she waited to tell us till she was 11 weeks cause of the 2 previous miscarriages. So hoping for the best. Want to be here to see it. This time they put her on Hormone therapy right away which they think caused the previous 2.
Wahooooooo!!! I hope this one is healthy and completely problem free! My son and dil have given up for now after her having had two miscarriages.

These birds are crazy. It's cold and rainy for the 3rd day in a row and the littlest of the little birds are all in the bird bath having a bath party. They can get about 8 at a time in there.
I've really been trying to talk the kids into getting a bird bath for the back yard.

I always had to wear hard contacts. My eyes were too dry for soft lenses.
I'm just the opposite..... I always wore soft lenses, then they tried putting me in hard lenses to try to correct the astigmatism, but they kept popping out. Haven't been able to afford contacts for a long time, and I hate glasses. Although even with soft, it was a struggle to keep my eyes from drying out. I did and still do use a lot of eye drops.

My daughter does not like going shopping with me - even when we are shopping for her.

I sing with the Christmas songs being played in the stores - she stays several steps behind me so no one knows we are together... :D:eek::rolleyes:
hehehe too cute. One year just before Easter, I was in Walmart and found the cutest bunny that not only sang an adorable song, but at different parts of it, it would wiggle it's ears.....and at a couple parts, it would tap it's foot three times. Didn't take me long to learn the song as I shopped, so I was going through the aisles singing with it, and when it tapped it's foot, I stopped and tapped mine too. Some thought I'd lost my mind, some though it was super cute and asked where in the store I'd gotten the bunny. I sold about 4 or 5 of em for them! :lol: :facepalm:

You measure the patient from the elbow to her nose and that's how far you insert it!
My son just tested on inserting an NG tube, and here they are teaching them to measure from the nose to their ear, holding it there, and continuing to measure to the xiphoid process which is at the base of the sternum.

The Mom is finally home from the hospital!

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yay! Glad she is better.

Well finished watching all 7 episodes of The Sopranos, ending is a real let down. Didn't like that but loved the rest. Pretty wild.
did ya mean seasons? Jup I didn't think I'd like it either, but it was really good. anyone I've heard talk about also hated the ending.

Ang still trying to get yhe Dr I want.
really hope you can get the guy you want!!
 

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Are you saying that only Medicare Advantage plans allow doctor choices?
No seems like the advantage plans some docs take certain ones and not others, with a supplement if the doc accepts the medicare assignment at least mine will also be accepted. IDK for sure but I think thats how it works. Some doctors just won't take certain insurances, the advantage plans I think pays the docs and collects from medicare. The doctor doesn't charge anything to medicare. Confusing? If the doctor doesn't take that particular companies advantage plan then hes not in network and you pay more for out of network. Some won't even take medicare.
 

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My son and dil have given up for now after her having had two miscarriages.
Yeah she had one that was a tubular and one miscarriage, this time they are giving her hormones that they think caused the miscariage last time. She is close to 3 months this time.
 

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I know exactly what you are talking about. I see it the most in pain meds. The govt has cut back the allowed amount that companies can sell and my strength was completely gone anywhere in this town looked it up on the inet and it was everywhere, my pharmacist was able to get what it is when I take 2 which most of the time I do but at times I was cutting back to 1 1/2 can't do that with these. Plus it seems like everytime I go to pu a Rx it is a new one now my BP pills look just like my tranqs. Everything is made in India, thats where my Cipro came from. With the pain meds some are ok others feel like 1/2 strength just when they get one I trust they can't get it. These last ones were a brand I'd never heard of and even tho they are double the strength they don't work like 2 of the others or even close. They buy whatever is cheapest but most are from India. I was getting some that were actually made in America and they worked like they should the others are hit and miss and we pay the price. Some of my meds I've been on for years and always the same ones but recently my BP ,Stomach, Pain, and Sleep has all changed several times.

I was actually talking about the inert things they put in meds but thank you for for pointing out something I've been suspicious about for a while. With a couple of generics that can pack a punch, they don't always seem consistent from pill to pill. Didn't think it was just me but ya never know.

So your the one that gave me this cold...[emoji49]

4yrs stinky free

The afternoon you posted this I would have said yes! :D Then that night I successfully passed it off to my husband, who only has a mild case of it. Just so you know, I haven't through TX since a few months after Katrina. ;)

@FlamingoTutu You're right these Cipro are kick .... antibiotics. 2 days and the crap I've been putting up for a month with is already starting to go away. I can't believe it.

Did you notice any problem swallowing. I'm noticing that when I have a small amount of saliva in my mouth. Plus my mouth seems to produce extra of it. Kind a weird but other wise nothing out of the ordinary except the flegm is stopping. Which I attribute to this and the attys.

I don't remember drooling while taking Cipro but that would have been the least of my problems while taking it. Took it for a urinary tract infection caused by taking amoxicillin that had been going on for about a month. Fun times. :unsure: No problems swallowing that I remember either but it was several years ago and we know from vaping, everybody reacts differently. Boy, do we react differently.
@FlamingoTutu so good to see you. We missed you :wub:


This reminds me of the year we hung our Christmas tree from the celing because every year before it came down at least once each season from one or more cats climbing in it. Hanging it didn't do the trick. We stopped putting up trees after that.


My doctor doesn't agree with you. Flu shots cobtain the most common viruses for that year and yes, a person may still get the flu if he or she gets exposed to a less common one.

Flu shots are recommended mostly for people over the age of 60 because the older one gets the harder a flu is to shake and many older people die from it.

Hedging my bets makes sense to me at age 67.

Thank you Bea, good to see you too! :)

See, you guys all thought x-mas trees where for you... :sneaky:

I'll keep getting the flu shots like most everybody else. Not just for me but to help avoid importing flu bugs up to my mid-90s parents when I visit. Also pneumonia (been there done that) and shingles (which scares the tar outta me).

oh and forgot to say it was great seein our tutu birdy here!

Good to see you too! :) Keeping the pan shiny? :D

@Semiretired, was that ^^^^^^ better? :lol:
 

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Did you notice any problem swallowing. I'm noticing that when I have a small amount of saliva in my mouth. Plus my mouth seems to produce extra of it. Kind a weird but other wise nothing out of the ordinary except the flegm is stopping. Which I attribute to this and the attys.
I just started volunteering at the VA again. Assigned this time to their long-term care facilities. Two, one for low-functioning, the other for close to normal. Anyway, the nurses give them their medicine in little cups of applesauce. The guys say it really helps them go down. I take eleven pills (honestly, most are OTC) at bedtime. I just got myself some applesauce, and can take those pills three gulps. Much less of a time-consuming procedure! Never liked applesauce much, but this works like greased lightning!
 

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lulu, I took it him asking whether the other person had a Medicare Advantage Plan. All medigap plans allow choice of doctors (as long as they accept Medicare). Some Medicare Advantage Plans do require that your doctor be in their HMO.
Yes. I have a Medicare Advantage HMO plan. The only down side is I have to choose one of the Drs in their plan.

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