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Prudie Day

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Phew. Glad we made it to the right side of the work week, it's been packed busy but somehow dragged along?  How's everyone?
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  • CharmedPamCharmedPam member
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    SSDD here.  I guess that’s good? I have NOT been busy but it’s still dragged, lol. ‘splain me this.  How do weeks drag on but yet months/years go by so fast? 
    Tonight is a dinner & bingo at a winery for a meetup.  I want to go but also I don’t want to go.  YKWIM? But I’d never cancel last minute for the reason “just don’t wanna”. I’m also co-organizer of the group so what would that look like? I just wish someone can teleport me there. I don’t feel like driving, especially in rush hour traffic.  

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  • VarunaTTVarunaTT member
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    Oh @CharmedPam I cancel like that all the time.  Not when I was an organizer though.  I just try to remind myself that I'll be glad I went afterwards.

    IDK what's wrong this week, but I have been laaaaazy and slow in the mornings.  This morning I had to drag myself to the computer.  I think I need to redo my work space but I've been lazy about that too.  Have a friend coming over after work tomorrow that I'm excited about and then have some plans for the weekend to actually go outside.

    i have been using the Kiss gel nails for a few weeks now.  I'm astounded at how well they stay on, even through showers and dishwashing. I put the ones I have now on Sunday.  I've had to reglue 3 total, but it's all been on my right hand (and different fingers) which gets way more use.  All the others have been no problem.  Recommend.  I also like that they have "short" lengths, which I find much easier to manage.  If you order from the website, there's more selection, they seem to be cheaper generally, and they send promo codes all the time and had free shipping at a certain spend level.

    No other big stuffs.  I need to get back on my cleaning schedule, but meh.  
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  • MyNameIsNotMyNameIsNot member
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    I'm so excited for the weekend. We usually take a weekend trip up to the mountains in the fall and this weekend is it. It's not as chilly as I'd hoped, but it should get down into the 50s at night. I'm really looking forward to a couple of days of just unplugging and being outside. 

    Nothing much going on today. Trying to get as much work as possible done and then running out after work to get some groceries to take. 
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  • levioosalevioosa member
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    SSDD here for the most part. Mom ran into Grandpa's cardiologist in the hallway of the hospital yesterday. She asked him if he had been by to see Grandpa yet because we'd been trying to stay as much as possible to talk to him. He hadn't even been consulted on the case and he was pissed about it. Then he got into it with the intensivist because she hadn't consulted pulmonology OR cardiology (which should have happened day 1). You really have to be there to advocate for loved ones. It also doesn't help that Grandpa will tell you "he's cured from cancer....he's not bleeding...etc). Even if you listened obviously the notes from his last two hospitalizations show that none of that is true. And you don't even have to look at the notes. There's very obvious bleeding you can literally see. 

    Anyways, just keeping my head down and trying to get through the week. Two more days. I caved and bought an automatic cat litter box on Prime Day which was not cheap, and I'm hoping it works well. 


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  • charlotte989875charlotte989875 member
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    I love that for you @ei34! 

    Things are the same; exhausting, unrelenting, stressful. Someday when I’m not pumping and eating in the free half hour I will explain it all!!
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  • CasadenaCasadena member
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    Way to go @ei34!!!  

    Trying to get up the motivation to work out at lunch. A lot of people on my new floor do it, it's just never been my preference. But i think if lots of others are going it will be easier to get in the habit.

    Book club tonight and i'm feeling a lot like you @CharmedPam. I vaguely want to go and know i will enjoy it once i'm there, but also just don't want to GO. 

    @levioosa I'm so sorry that your grandpa's care has been such a cluster. He and your fam are lucky to have you around even though i know it's exhausting and frustrating for you a lot of the time. *hugs*
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  • CharmedPamCharmedPam member
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    Exactly that @Casadena. Once I’m there, I’m fine.  I also signed up for a historical house tour on Saturday and it’s from 11-5 which is really 10-6 with all that driving and I’m already ugh about it and would love to back out of that too.  I also set my period for this week and I’m just cramping like crazy and irritable anyway.
    love love love @ei34.  He can’t walk all over you and now he knows it!
    @levioosa that sounds all so frustrating.  I’m glad you’re there for medical advise
    fun @MyNameIsNot! Hopefully your weather is perfect for it.  Ours is dipping down to the 60’s. 
    I’ve heard about the kiss nails @VarunaTT. I think I even used them once but mine popped off more than just 3 times.  Most people are successful with it. 
    @charlotte989875, hope things calm down soon. 

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  • VarunaTTVarunaTT member
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    @CharmedPam It's specifically their gel brand.  IDK what they did differently but this glue hold so damn well.  The others I've had struggles with.  I hit one nail so hard I thought surely it'd be off b/c it hurt like fire, but it wasn't.  The closest I've had to an acrylic, without all the weight.
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  • CharmedPamCharmedPam member
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    VarunaTT said:
    @CharmedPam It's specifically their gel brand.  IDK what they did differently but this glue hold so damn well.  The others I've had struggles with.  I hit one nail so hard I thought surely it'd be off b/c it hurt like fire, but it wasn't.  The closest I've had to an acrylic, without all the weight.
    Wait this one? Where it’s cured by a lamp? I didn’t use those ones, just the glued ones

    https://www.target.com/p/kiss-salon-x-tend-led-soft-gel-system-tone-35-ct/-/A-89240060#lnk=sametab



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  • VarunaTTVarunaTT member
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    No, they're just called Gel Fantasy:  https://www.kissusa.com/collections/nails?filter.p.m.custom.franchise=Gel+Fantasy&sort_by=manual

    IDK what's different about the glue, but these suckers stay on.  Even the 3 that popped off, one I hadn't applied enough glue, and the other 2 weren't until today, applied Sunday.
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  • levioosalevioosa member
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    I'm so sorry @short+sassy That's definitely an office staff issue. First of all, if you have diabetes, most of those labs *should* (insurance is an ever loving fucking nightmare) include your basic labs, AND that should include a PTH which is something we monitor with long term diabetes. I order my own labs from Ulta Lab Tests and for $359 you can get a panel with a CBC, CMP, Cystatin, basic Lipid Panel, Insulin, Phosphorus, PTH, Thyroid Panel, Vitamin D, and C-Peptide and CRP. And that's without insurance. It sounds crazy that yours would be so much. 

    And I'm so sorry about the emotional toll hurricanes have taken on the area. 


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    I'm so sorry @short+sassy That's definitely an office staff issue. First of all, if you have diabetes, most of those labs *should* (insurance is an ever loving fucking nightmare) include your basic labs, AND that should include a PTH which is something we monitor with long term diabetes. I order my own labs from Ulta Lab Tests and for $359 you can get a panel with a CBC, CMP, Cystatin, basic Lipid Panel, Insulin, Phosphorus, PTH, Thyroid Panel, Vitamin D, and C-Peptide and CRP. And that's without insurance. It sounds crazy that yours would be so much. 

    And I'm so sorry about the emotional toll hurricanes have taken on the area. 
    Thanks for the sympathies and support!  I also just checked out Ulta Lab Tests.  Wow!  Thanks for the tip.  They are so cheap.  $15 for an A1c or lipid panel.  Though you're right that $359 combo package is probably best for the future, because it's a lot of what I regularly get tested for.  Definitely using them in the future.  As well as very shortly because of the two tests my doctor's office couldn't do.  

    I did more research on them last night.  Ah!  Parathyroid and thyroid are two different glands that do different things, so they are totally different tests.  Now I'm assuming the doctor's office did include my normal TSH and T4 thyroid tests.

    It rang a bell once I read more about the parathyroid.  My calcium was a bit elevated at my last appointment and that was why my doctor ordered it.

    The other test was for my adrenal gland.  Sounds like that checks my cortisol levels.

    But I'll need to call my doctor's office on Monday morning to find out the specific codes so I order the right ones.

    Ugh!  Not only have I been paying too much for lab work.  But their office is in the suburbs, so it's a 1-hour r/t.  Whereas it looks like one of the big labs Ulta uses is Quest.  There's a big medical complex a few miles away from my work and they have a Quest lab.  Much more convenient.
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  • CharmedPamCharmedPam member
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    I was curious of my own pricing/costs so I looked mine up.  I get them done 2x a year. They’re all the same blood testing but once a year I get a urine test.  This time around my portion was $60 more.  I can’t imagine one urine test being that much more (of my own portion)? So maybe they did go up slightly? I’d have to dissect each bill per line item and maybe I’ll have some time later to do that if I’m really really curious.

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    CharmedPam said:
    I was curious of my own pricing/costs so I looked mine up.  I get them done 2x a year. They’re all the same blood testing but once a year I get a urine test.  This time around my portion was $60 more.  I can’t imagine one urine test being that much more (of my own portion)? So maybe they did go up slightly? I’d have to dissect each bill per line item and maybe I’ll have some time later to do that if I’m really really curious.
    Perhaps one day I will again have a more normal health insurance plan.  But my company only offers a high deductible one.  I have to pay 100% of everything until I personally hit the annual $3500 in-network deductible or $7K in-network deductible for family (includes my H's medical bills).  Which has never happened in 10 years.  That's a good thing, don't get me wrong.  But it does make me question why it's something like $1,000/month that my company pays for "employee+spouse" coverage.  And my portion is about $265/month.

    It makes me especially conscious of how much my medical care costs.  Which is especially frustrating because for reasons I don't understand, the medical industry is very "secretive" about their prices.

    "How much is a consult with this doctor, retail price?"  "What does this lab test cost, retail price?"  "How much will this procedure cost, retail price?  A range is fine."  People are always flabbergasted that I'm "gasp" asking what their prices are.  And sometimes don't know what to tell me.  

    Now that I'm looking into plastic surgery for the future, it's actually been REFRRESHING that this is one medical field where they are often up front about their pricing.  Probably because those procedures aren't usually covered by insurance.  I've gone on doctor's websites that have a web page for each type of procedure they do, with a cost range included for each one.  Yes!

    I was reading one woman's story on Reddit who'd had skin removal surgery after a large weight loss.  She said insurance sometimes covers this type of surgery.  Crossing my fingers on that!  But definitely not counting on it, lol. 
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  • levioosalevioosa member
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    @short+sassy You probably don't need the codes since it's not going through insurance. Just ask your doctor for a list of the labs he is ordering. I'm so surprised that insurance won't cover it though because hypercalcemia with a subsequent PTH level should totally be covered in diabetes. 

    I lost it in a company meeting the other day. They're always telling us not to order Vitamin D levels (and like...anything else remotely helpful for patients like MRIs). I can barely ever get them covered anyways, even with a "Vitamin D Deficiency" diagnosis which makes my blood boil. They brought it up again in the meeting that we needed to stop ordering the test. That they were charging the patients $200 for it. I was furious. "Oh, interesting? Can we get a cost break down for where the extra money is going? Because I can order my own Vitamin D lab right now for $35." Oh, that's because quest was more expensive. "Oh really? Because I also went to quest's website directly and I can order it for $72 lab draw included. More expensive than Ulta Lab tests, but I'd like to know where in admin is this extra $130 going." They never got back to me. I'm going to set this country's healthcare on fire. 


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    DH and I both have HD plans.  The advantage w/ his is the ability to contribute to the FSA so he's able to also have the pre-tax $ taken out and we can use that to pay towards the bills we receive.   We're deductible hitters now so at least this is a way to be as efficient as we can 
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    @levioosa, my lab work is "covered" under my insurance.  But my high deductible plan is for everything, except for the one annual primary care visit...which I'm glad I can use for my gyno/pap smear...that they legally have to pay for.  

    First, I have to pay $3500 OOP for prescriptions, doctor visits, lab work, etc.  THEN it kicks into a more typical medical insurance with co-pays for prescriptions/doctor visits.  Then there is a second deductible level where everything is covered 100% after that.

    It's more of a major medical insurance plan than it is real medical insurance.  

    But the one giant benefit I do get is the same discounted rate the insurance company has negotiated with doctors/hospitals/pharmaceutical companies.

    For example, my endocrinologist usually charges $225/visit.  But his rate with my insurance is $74, so that is what I pay.  But I pay 100% of it.  

    I don't know how they negotiated a rate of $0 for insulin and cholesterol medication, but I pay $0 for those because they would also only have to "pay" $0.  This one is obviously HUGE for me.  I don't use a pump, so I'm not sure if it is the same for pump insulin.
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  • levioosalevioosa member
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    Ugh @short+sassy. That all sounds like a nightmare. I'm glad your insulin is covered at least. 


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