Isn’t that kind of hot potato game one of the things the notion of a “primary doctor” was meant to stop? The other one being situations like my landlady’s, whose three doctors were each prescribing everything; I still want to know what the bloody blue blazes is an oncologist doing prescribing heart medication and diabetes medication.
I hope things go on getting better and manage to achieve “well” soon!
My wife thinks Dopers are all a little strange as well. Considering who she married I question her judgment. 
I’m thinking actually that could be a plus to Knoebels. I figure my wife will move into a rollercoaster and just stay there all day; drop by to say howdy but mostly drift out. Everyone else can sort of do the same. Visit a bit, go ride the antique cars with hubby and the kids, come back and visit some more. Us posters may hang together here and there but we can share time with our families as well.
Be glad they didn’t turn Blue Streak on ------- last time I rode it I had to carry a note for the doctors for a month ----- “In case of emergency, scan first for major organs. They may have moved to new and unusual places”. 
We’re in ACE, Coaster Zombies, DAFE and a couple other clubs. There is not a whole lot I know well in this world but amusement parks east of the Mississippi is one. I actually have an employees shirt from the late ErieView Park at Geneva-On-the-Lake Ohio from when we were helping them restore the Fright Zone. Wish we could have saved that park ------- but I have a bad feeling Conneaut may not be long to follow. Depends on how the “off season damage” runs this winter.
**Kopek **-- I’d love to join, but 6000 miles is a bit of a drive for a day trip… 
**Vorlon **-- hoping things get sorted out for you guys!
Hi, Tyger! 
Ya know, as I was surveying the Blue Streak, I was glad they hadn’t turned it on yet, too. Since you’re newer to the MMP you might not know that I’m a big sort of girl. And we big girls worry about those sorts of things such as rickety wooden amusement park rides and such. TVMan, on the other hand, is quite skinny so I’m sure that he would have been up for the adventure. Rollercoasters haven’t really ever been my thing and now with a large tendency towards nausea I think it will be quite an experience if I start riding them.
Conneaut Lake Park does look pretty sparse. I was amazed at the fire damage, how brutal it looked. It does seem like they’re trying to make an effort, though, to put it all back together again. They’ve got lots of free concerts coming into The Beach Club (that’s actually why we went) and they’ve got that boardwalk restoration project going, too. And then there’s the Hotel Conneaut… Well, let’s just say that I’m a sucker for a beautiful old building. As a matter of fact, we’re thinking about heading there for New Year’s Eve since they’re having some kind of a party. Ok, I admit it, I’m just a sucker for lost causes in general. I suppose you’ve heard of the Grand View Ship Hotel. I still make a semi-regular trip there to pay my respects to its’ remains.
…zoooooooooom…
That is my day today…
…: driving by waving madly:…
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Another day in Cubeville. Envy me.
I’m applying for a minijob consisting of a couple weeks’ worth of calling alumni of the Uni to ask “whatcha up to?” It’s for stuff like being able to say “a pochillion % of our alumni were employed six months after graduation” and making sure that contact info is accurate.
It won’t pay for the pretty colored paper, but a month’s worth of food is a month’s worth of food and they were specifically asking for some Spanish speakers, so hopefully they won’t make me call up the Mancunians… I speakee decent Amurkin, but lousy Mancunian!
::Shouts over wall to bobbio in cubeland.:: Deader than Michael Jackson around here too.
ETA: WHOOT! First on Page Two!
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Had a nice turkey dinner last night. Slightly didn’t agree with me apparently as I had trouble getting to sleep. (And here I thought tryptophan was supposed to make you sleepy…) Pity too 'cos it was good, and the gravy I made was delish.
That Archie McPhee is browser crack. I spent some time browsing there and saw some stuff I’d love to get just for the hell of it. Some stupid stuff too. (Nihilist gum I get, even if it ain’t my thing, but nihilist mints? Chewing is one thing, but sucking on what amounts to a piece of chalk? Gum is often as much about chewing as flavour, but mints … that’s all about flavour. Just … odd.
But there are some other awesome things on that site. Who wouldn’t want a Sigmund Freud or Carl Jung action figure? And if you do or don’t, what sort of Freudian/Jungian things would it say about you? It’s like meta-psychology.
Evening all. HRH is improving but still on the warm side! Upper respiratory tract infection, you see! The doctor was quite impressed when, upon asking HRH what hurt, she duly told him that her throat hurt! Apparently, that sort of thing is uncommon in children who are only almost 3 years old!
In less than happy news, my health insurer has rejected all my recent cervical-cancer claims (about US$8,000 so far), on the basis that I tested positive for HPV type 16; the cervical cancer is a “sexually transmitted disease or related complication of an STD”, treatment for which is specifically excluded from my coverage. I understand that somewhere in the region of 50%+ of sexually active adults almost anywhere in the world have HPV, so this is a bit of a piss-take, but not entirely unexpected from an Islamic health insurer! Assholes!!!
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HR screwed up my paperwork when my promotion was processed. As of yesterday, I can’t submit timecards, lost my annual performance bonus, and I’m being billed out of the wrong department. On the bright side, at least they got my salary and title right.
Other than that, it’s shaping up to be a total snoozer today. Methinks I’ll take care of sorting my email folders and cleaning out my inbox.
Ran out of time to edit, so I’m adding a new post instead.
Dotty, that’s just insulting… wonder if they’d have the same stance if HPV had similarly serious consequences for men? :dubious: I’m baffled by the idea that a religion could become so powerful that it creeps into every part of the system, to the point that it can dictate your medical care and insurance coverage. I’m all for religious tolerance, but the idea of having someone else’s beliefs imposed on me in that way makes me twitchy.
Glad HRH is doing better, at least. Sounds like she’s a bright little thing… wonder where she gets that from.
Very, most kids (sometimes as old as 10) just say “my tummy hurts” or “my head hurts” and when you ask “where does it hurt?” grab a completely different body part.
Just make sure you get paid…
If you mean the Ship on the Mountain out 30East I know it well. A lot of fond memories from the early 70s happened there. Ahhhhhhhh - to hit the Power Ball ! That is high on my list of things to consider rebuilding.
(PS – I’m a little large too. I’m more the haunted house nut and herself is the coaster freak. I can ride the Devils Den for hours and hours, Mary the Flyer at Waldameer for hours and hours. We have fun with it.
And it’s different when it’s the grandparents. If I were close to someone with kids, I’d certainly make the effort to, if not kid-proof the whole house, at least kid-proof one room where we could hang out when the kids came over. It’s crazy that grandparents - with 3 grandkids no less - wouldn’t try to make the place kid friendly!
That is crazy, Dotty. I worry that we, too, could head in that direction with the public option here… right now the right wing is trying to exclude any abortion coverage from the option (if it makes it through, which is highly doubtful anyway). It seems to me that it’s just a hop, skip, and a jump from there to excluding coverage for “sexually transmitted diseases” including anything that could conceivably be considered sexually transmitted. I don’t know what the right answer to health care is, and I don’t really want to open the debate here (sorry for bringing it up at all but this bugs me), but I really don’t think that allowing religion to get involved in health care is a good idea at all.
And allowing religion to get involved in … what exactly!!! is a good idea…? 
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(Sorry – pet peeve of mine. Obviously not mad or rolling my eyes at you; rather at the notion that religion has a place in determining the path of… well just about anything having to do with the actual running of modern society, actually.)
Yeah, they had kids at some point, didn’t they? Abuelita wasn’t anywhere near “kid crazy,” but one reason she knew what would kids need is that she hadn’t forgotten what it was like to have four boys and a very girly girl bouncing around the house.