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Skriven 2011-09-25 02:08:50 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 15999 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
Ärende: Re: Boyd Pond Picnic, 2011
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Hi Nancy,

Hey, good to hear from you :)

> -=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 11 Sep 11  14:55:24 <=-

> No, the black hole didn't swallow me up...  quite...  (G)  Between long
> days/late nights and fried brain syndrome, I haven't been up to replying
> to anything for WAY too long!  (Didn't even realize just how long it had
> been till today!)

Boy do I understand that one.. over here, it's still this darn right shoulder
that (darn) I should have gotten the cortisone shot into the joint for.. but I
had one ONCE and swore I'd never let a doc do that again Lol Anyway, the pain
killers I'm taking instead make me sometimes feel like my brain is mush :(

>> which USED to be covered.. and sadly, that makes you play right into
>> where the health insurance company wants you, where you'd rather skip
>> some medical proceedure than rack up more bills :(

> And the other alternative, to fight through the appeals process, takes a
> lot out of you too...

Yeah that does.

> although it can be worth it for some things...
> like the only med that works for my reflux... :)  Sometimes it's worth
> the fight, sometimes not...

Here, sadly there's nothing much to fight.  The company Ron works for has cut
corners drastically as far as insurance goes.  I swear they went finally with
the program that could still be considered insurance ... without giving any Lol
It's really sick.  This plan from Aetna puts everything we have done outside of
routine lab work, on our deductible.  So, the MRI my doctor wanted me to get so
he could see what the damage was on my shoulder, was not done.  Instead, I had
a cat scan done, which really can't show much,  but now I only owe the hospital
$1000 bux instead of 2500 bux <g> And the kicker of course is that the
deductible for Ron and I is something like
$2500 a piece.. what fun.

>> Probably fidogazette :)  It was fantastic.  The food in Gettysburg was
>> outstanding as well.  I guess they have a line into some fresh
>> crabmeat since Ron said their crabcakes were like the ones he used to
>> devour all the time when he was at college at Hopkins in Baltimore.

> Gettysburg isn't that far from the Maryland coast.  :)

Yes, I hadn't thought of that before we got there though :)

[...]
>> company in Indiana.. As we were leaving, I mentioned to the owner who
>> met us at the door that I loved the food ... and the dinnerware!  That
>> got a gigantic smile from her :)

> I bet most people don't even notice what they are eating from... ;)

Yes, I figured that :)  It's beautiful classical Americana stuff though which
I'm such a sucker for (g).

>> We did ok, and didn't lose power, Yay (g).. except for once again
>> having our village Water Station totally immersed under water, meaning
>> we have to continue to use bottled water until the Susquehanna
[...]

> Back to normal by now, I hope?  Yeah, it takes an emergency sitution to
> appreciate what we normally have... and some features we rarely use can
> come in right handy...  (G)

Yes, it is now OK.. thank goodness..I think we had to use bottled water for
like 10 days.  They were giving it out for free at the local firestation, but
we bought water because we could.. I know given the economy of the village,
there would be several who couldn't buy it.

>> No water to speak of in our basement, thank
>> goodness... a mile of so down the road though, where the previous
>> flood wrecked havoc, this flood also was quite destructive from what I
>> hear.. As I mentioned to someone else in another echo, the house we
>> were _going_ to buy but didn't is in that flood zone.. That's sad,
>> those poor people have had their house badly flooded both times.

> Good thing you didn't buy that one.  It is a shame for the ones that
> did, though...

Yeah, really.  It's a beautiful house too.. lots of character from the 1800's.
I'd bet it was built before this one was.   At the time, it would have meant a
bit more money to get it to be workable for my kids who were both moving in
with us. This one where we are, was already set up for multiple residences.

Take care,
Janis

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