Sure do...had to kick up a fire in the firepit.
I 'spect Mrs Hoot will fetch a new coffeemaker home this evenin'.
I 'spect Mrs Hoot will fetch a new coffeemaker home this evenin'.
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Addie
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He could make cowboy coffee. Just a lot of grounds in the bottom of the pot, a pinch of salt and an egg shell. Then cook it over a campfire. No milk or sugar.
Not the best way to start the day huh? Hope Mrs Hoot found you a good one !I bought a cheapo and keep it just in case of emergency. We have used it during power failures because I can heat the water and pour it in, no need for electricity. We also had a coffee maker die one night so pulled out the emergency one and even though it doesn't make the hottest coffee, it beats no coffee !!
bakechef
Executive Chef
Yeah, that smell is not pleasant. I don't understand the "cat box in the kitchen" thing either. I always put it next to a toilet. That just seems like the right place for it.
I'm glad you got to have a cat, but you do realize that you don't own the cat, don't you? Dogs have owners; cats have staff.
Oh I know that all too well. If he could talk I'm sure he'd say "have a great day at work earning money to buy my treats, food and litter"
Cooking Goddess
Chef Extraordinaire
Glad something finally fixed that leg of your Addie. If I had been you, as soon as that leg was better I would have marched myself right over to MGH and kicked those doctors in their butts.
Went looking for the top ranked hospitals in the country. Oddly, MGH actually shows up in the top three best for a couple categories.
The other odd thing I noticed was that even though Boston newscasters mention how the hospitals up here are the best in the country there are two names that are recurring in a lot of categories - Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic, with Johns Hopkins showing up quite a bit too. I don't remember any of those hospitals being in New England. 
U.S. News Best Hospitals 2013-14
GotGarlic
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I just got back from a useless medical test appointment. I got there, paid my co-pay, and waited about 1/2 hour. Then the technician came out and called my name and escorted me back to the procedure room, then proceeded to tell me that the lab the doctor uses to test the biopsy material (not for cancer - it's related to my peripheral neuropathy) is not in my insurance company's network, so if I went ahead with it, I'd have to pay the $1,800 cost of the testing.
Why didn't someone call me before I wasted my time going over there, I asked? The technician said she was on vacation last week (the appt was made at least 2 weeks ago) and the person who made the appt for me didn't know my insurance didn't cover that lab. So aggravating.
So I called the referring doctor's office and his nurse called me back and said she'd work me in to the schedule at that doctor's office, and they would use a different lab. Still waiting to hear back from her about the date.
I guess I didn't realize how much I want an answer to all this. Although to be honest, I believe I know what the problem is, and I'm a unique case. For a couple of reasons, I don't absorb nutrients properly from food and I take 15 Rx medications (including a few Rx vitamin supplements) and a few over the counter supplements. I doubt there's anyone in the world with the same set of conditions and drugs I take, so my doctors can't possibly predict what kind of side effects all that might create.
I think malnutrition is at the root of my problems with fatigue, weakness and foot/leg pain. And that can't be helped because I can't stop taking the medication that causes the malabsorption. When I don't take it, the pain is incapacitating and even narcotics don't touch it. I really don't have a choice not to take it.
Thanks for listening.
Why didn't someone call me before I wasted my time going over there, I asked? The technician said she was on vacation last week (the appt was made at least 2 weeks ago) and the person who made the appt for me didn't know my insurance didn't cover that lab. So aggravating.
So I called the referring doctor's office and his nurse called me back and said she'd work me in to the schedule at that doctor's office, and they would use a different lab. Still waiting to hear back from her about the date.
I guess I didn't realize how much I want an answer to all this. Although to be honest, I believe I know what the problem is, and I'm a unique case. For a couple of reasons, I don't absorb nutrients properly from food and I take 15 Rx medications (including a few Rx vitamin supplements) and a few over the counter supplements. I doubt there's anyone in the world with the same set of conditions and drugs I take, so my doctors can't possibly predict what kind of side effects all that might create.
I think malnutrition is at the root of my problems with fatigue, weakness and foot/leg pain. And that can't be helped because I can't stop taking the medication that causes the malabsorption. When I don't take it, the pain is incapacitating and even narcotics don't touch it. I really don't have a choice not to take it.
Thanks for listening.
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(((Hugs GG)))
Not telling you about the cost before you got there is just unacceptable, not to mention inconsiderate and rude. Did they at least return your co-pay?
Not telling you about the cost before you got there is just unacceptable, not to mention inconsiderate and rude. Did they at least return your co-pay?
GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
Thanks, TL. I was so angry I left without talking to anyone at the front desk, but I will call tomorrow about it. I'm sure they'll return it.
Dawgluver
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That's rotten, GG. I don't blame you for being angry. Medicine is a business, insurance is a business. Somewhere in there, the patient is the lowest priority.
Lots of states now are allowing medical marijuana (not ours yet, but Illinois just passed a bill). Wonder if that would help with your condition?
Cooking Goddess
Chef Extraordinaire
Wow GG, what a rotten day! You need a
. Hope the doctor AND the insurance company can work together on friendly terms and get some sort of answer to you. And when you call for your copay back you should tell them you deserve a bonus for the entire inconvenience.
GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
I don't know, but I don't expect anything like that to pass soon here in Virginia. The General Assembly is dominated by rural conservatives who passed a bill requiring a vaginal ultrasound for women who want to have an abortion. Sorry, don't mean to get political
GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
Wow GG, what a rotten day! You need a. Hope the doctor AND the insurance company can work together on friendly terms and get some sort of answer to you. And when you call for your copay back you should tell them you deserve a bonus for the entire inconvenience.
Thanks, CG. Love the big hug
I think it's going to work out; it was just a very frustrating event, when I arranged my day around this appointment.
tinlizzie
Head Chef
OK, everybody now -- a great big collective hug (like CG's little emoticon) for GG from DC - may she feel it through the ether!
I'm hugging.OK, everybody now -- a great big collective hug (like CG's little emoticon) for GG from DC - may she feel it through the ether!
GotGarlic
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OK, everybody now -- a great big collective hug (like CG's little emoticon) for GG from DC - may she feel it through the ether!
Awwww, that's very sweet! I feel much better now
CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
The "City" in which I live does not allow backyard hens. I can have hens because I am zoned AG2 and rural. There was a feature on the news the other night about a couple who had 3 laying hens, they have had them for 3 years. They are also zoned rural, but not AG2 or AG1. By-law showed up and gave them until Friday to get rid of them or By-law would seize them (and dispose of them because the HS does not have accommodations for hens). I contacted the reporter, asked him to pass my contact info on so that I could offer "witness protection" services to these three hens while the folks duke it out in by-law court. I got a call from the folks! The girls may be coming here tomorrow or Friday. Irony is that before amalgamation, backyard chickens were allowed where these folks live in the City. They are so devastated that they have to get rid of their girls. Grrr...I hate politics! I hate people who complain about things that are not infringing on their enjoyment of their property...If I lived in the US, I probably would fit in well in NH.
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CharlieD
Chef Extraordinaire
In the good old US there are even more rules. It is getting to be totally crazy.
Make sure they keep getting their eggs...
Witness Protection for Chickens...now I've seen everything.
CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
What else could I offer? I think it is WRONG that these girls would be slaughtered. So they can come here while their owners duke it out in by-law court.Make sure they keep getting their eggs...
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