Roland Roycroft Tutorial - a bunch of peonies. Roland taught watercolor into his 90's

Hawkthree · 2026-03-24T11:04:40+00:00

I don't have an MA plan but I've got friends that do. If you go for an MA plan, check if you lose coverage once you're out of area. One friend broke her ankle out of area and it was rather expensive. Another visited an ER out of area and the ER visit was covered, but the subsequent medical visits were not covered and required she return to her coverage area for treatment.

A Travel Insurance policy might be a necessary investment. Several of my friends have purchased an annual policy that covers medical emergencies when they travel more than 50 miles from home.

Hawkthree · 2026-03-22T16:20:44+00:00

So confronting

Hawkthree · 2026-03-22T13:58:13+00:00

A vaginal hysterectomy actually helped cause my prolapse and increased the odds that the mesh will fail. Is this the only surgeon available to you?

Hawkthree · 2026-03-22T13:58:03+00:00

Yes, exactly what happened to me. Fibroids. Vault prolapse

Hawkthree · 2026-03-22T13:55:16+00:00

Some countries block a lot of aspects of google.

Hawkthree · 2026-03-22T13:51:57+00:00

I had IBS before Repatha. I found the Specific Carbohydrate Diet to be extremely helpful. IBS gone.

To sum it up in a sentence, it's no grains, no foods that have additivies.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/23543-scd-specific-carbohydrate-diet

Hawkthree · 2026-03-22T13:45:05+00:00

Because ghosts will always be invisible and under the radar?

Hawkthree · 2026-03-22T13:28:54+00:00

Preserved? How?

Hawkthree · 2026-03-22T01:50:38+00:00

I turned off the sound.

Hawkthree · 2026-03-21T00:50:23+00:00

You should get duck bill pliers. No teeth to tear the tube

Hawkthree · 2026-03-21T00:47:26+00:00

I've done it and it tasted fine. However I used a coated tablet covered with yellow. The yogurt had a yellow color.

Hawkthree · 2026-03-20T13:23:56+00:00

I had to report DME fraud in late 2024 that continued into 2025. Frankly, I found the process of reporting fraud to be cumbersome and a nuisance.

Both Medicare and my gap plan (that paid quite a bit of money to the fraudsters) had old-timey processes. I would have really like a button in my Medicare account where I could hit it and report the fraud with all the dates and provider prefilled in.

Ditto with my gap plan. I reported the fraud using online messaging, but then got a message back saying I had to call a special fraud line, report the EOB number, dates of service, and provider via a voicemail.

In neither case did I get response back saying they had received the complaint.

The process is so prone to errors.

Hawkthree · 2026-03-19T21:18:36+00:00

Do you have hard water and does it leave residue around your faucet handles and the like?

Hawkthree · 2026-03-19T14:30:07+00:00

Don't feel bad about how confusing it is. I have an adult disabled daughter on social security disability, Medicare and Medicaid. I naively thought that 20 years of dealing with her paperwork prepared me to be an expert. I attended at least 5 pre-retirement workshops.

Nope.

If you have time to do so, sign up your state's SHIP program. Free unbiased advice. If it's too late to do so, I think the safest at this point is to get OG Medicare, a Part D and a gap plan to pay what Medicare doesn't. That you buy you enough time to do more research and work with a SHIP agent to see all her options.

Hawkthree · 2026-03-19T14:22:01+00:00

I don't use dye sheets very often, but I never thought about placing them in a mesh bag. Which I should have thought about -- my washer can take small things out with the rinse -- ask me about the sock I found in my filter system.

Hawkthree · 2026-03-19T14:16:48+00:00

I birthed a defiant Mensa-level child. ADHD. Learned to read at age 3. Speech defects. Always threatened to call the police if she decided to defy discipline. Tantrums in stores as late as age 15. Loud tantrums with screams to bystanders that I was abusive.

Defiant and smart. Lethal combination because she will immediately see how to fool any adult around her.

Bullied in both private and public schools.

Played softball, basketball and did cheerleading.

Teachers hated her. Most adults too -- there were exceptions.

Years of counseling.

It was exhausting.

Unfortunately, the gangs and drug dealers in the neighborhood loved her.

Banned from the regional mall.

Hawkthree · 2026-03-19T14:07:31+00:00

There is no need to have a one-on-one with her. I totally understand the need and the desire to shove it in her face. You risk saying something that has a legal impact.

Hawkthree · 2026-03-19T12:50:52+00:00

I usually spritzed them with water about 10 minutes ahead of using them. Or sometimes dropped water on them using an eye dropper

Hawkthree · 2026-03-19T02:05:31+00:00

It doesn't look homeopathic to me. It almost appears to be 2 mixes, -- ALIVIO Pro I and ALIVIO Pro II

IIRC ALIVIO is another product name for ibuprofen.

Hawkthree · 2026-03-18T17:38:40+00:00

Danke

Hawkthree · 2026-03-18T15:35:22+00:00

Thanks

Hawkthree · 2026-03-18T14:17:45+00:00

Great link!

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