The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[speckledhen]

I don't know who told him they don't do fusions anymore. They're full of nonsense. They still do them. Not everyone is a candidate for the newer artificial disc replacement surgery. There are limitations to what it does, so fusion is still used in many cases. Dd #2 just went through all the hoops, because of a car accident. Yes, she was a candidate for the ADR, and it's been a Godsend to her, but that not everyone's situation. They had already told her, if she was not a candidate for the ADR, she would be getting the disk fusion surgery. She went to a very good specialist in Tampa.

It was the orthopedic surgeon who told him, Cheryl. Maybe he just didn't want to do them for some reason, who knows? As long as we can get it paid for by Medicare & TriCare for Life or the VA, he's about ready to chance it, but he has said repeatedly that he will not live in a wheelchair so nothing better go wrong.

 

[getaclue]

Are they saying he's a candidate for ADR, or that there is nothing they can do for him?

 

[speckledhen]

The insurance wouldn't pay for it, to my knowledge, and the surgeon pretty much said there was nothing to be done, sucks to be you. We'll see what this place says.

 

[getaclue]

That sound about like my daughter's dentist through medicaid. They billed medicaid for doing 2 root canals, then putting in the cores, and crowns on the 2 teeth. What they did was to drill them down to a nub in preparation for the core, and crown. They told her for them to do it, she would have to pay. Medicaid pays for a certain type of core, and a certain type of crown. Their office doesn't use that type. The amount they wanted her to pay was higher than paying a private dentist. She paid her own private dentist to have the worst one done, and has saved up to have the other one done. When she found out what was going on, she reported it to medicaid. They took it off her record, and got their money back. In the meantime, she had an appointment with the medicaid dentist from about 6 months ago, and decided to keep it. They filled 2 cavities.

The latest assessment is that she needs an additional crown. The one tooth that still needs fixing has a double root, so they can't do the root canal on that. They can only do single root canals. Now they're saying she needs an additional crown, next to the bad one that needs fixing. Here's the catch. They can do the root canal, post, and crown on the newly discovered one, but she would have to let them pull the other tooth, since they can't do the double root canal. They tried to convince her to let them pull it. She wouldn't let them. There is a method to their madness.

IF they pull the one tooth, they can do the root canal, post, and crown on the other tooth AFTER she pays for them to build her a bridge, or put in an implant. They can't let her have a gap from pulling the tooth.

In the meantime, she's already got an appointment to have her dentist finish the other tooth, and will have him check the newly diagnosed one, and see if she really needs another crown. If her dentist does the root canal, post, and crown there will be no gap, so medicaid can pay for the newly found problem, and she won't need a bridge, or implant. I bet dollars to donuts, if she has the one fixed, then goes back to the medicaid dentist, she will once again get the run around.

 

[getaclue]

speckledhen, throughout all my health issues, I too have run into several quacks. They seem to abound throughout the healthcare system now. OR they're wanting extra money, and expect you to pay them.

 

[seminolewind]

seminolewind, moving is hard. Moving doesn't end when you get all your belongings to their destination. I went from a medium sized kitchen to a huge kitchen. Make no mistake about it, I LOVE my huge kitchen, BUT unlike my other kitchens, getting things put up, so I didn't have to work myself to death walking from one side to another to get a meal, was a challenge. Do I put this here, or would it save me some steps on a regular basis by putting it over there? I studied it a bit, then began getting things organized in a way it would be efficient. There are always things that fall into the "where the heck should I put you", category. When you finally get it sorted out, and most of your things put away, there are always the "A this would be perfect for there, or a that would pull it all together better". That's when you get into the "nesting" phase of the move, and begin adding the touches that work better for THIS home. It takes time, but eventually it will start feeling like home.

We had been living here for awhile, but Dh sort of felt like it was "a very nice house, that we owned, with our stuff in it", but he didn't really feel like it was home. Maybe the fact that we owned it, and weren't renting made it feel a bit surreal. I don't know. One evening we went to his friend's home, that lives fairly close by. They had been bragging about their newly built home, in the country. It was on a 1 acre lot. There had been some mention of them building a coop, and keeping a few chickens early on, but no more mention of it later.

When we pulled in, we discovered it looked like a subdivision. The only difference was that the lots were bigger than the standard lots in a subdivision. It has streets, sidewalks, and all the yards have chain link fencing around them. Yes, there is an HOA. No, they can't have chickens, or anything like that. Eventually, we got the 50 cent tour of their new home. The layout is sort of strange. When you enter the front door, you're in the dining room. When you walk through the dining room one way, you go into the family room. There is a hallway off the dining room on one side. That goes to the laundry area, and garage. The family room is long, and narrow, because the kitchen is on one side, separated by a breakfast bar. Square footage on their home is very slightly larger than ours, however, that includes a 3 car garage, and ours is only 2. They put a laundry area inside, while mine is in the garage. Those 2 factors take up enough room that all the other rooms are much smaller than in our home.

When we got back home from visiting them, I "felt like I was home". I commented that I liked the layout of our home, and the size of our rooms much better. Dh replied that he liked our whole layout better than theirs. Everything from the size of our property, to not being in a subdivision with neighbors on top of us, so our place has the feeling of privacy, and living in the country,


















You could chase me with one of those neighborhoods like that-and what does my daughter buy? Into a neighborhood like that.

My old house is not everyone's cup of tea but it is in the country and 100 years old. And that feels comfy. With subdivisions come HOA's and rules and before ya know it it feels like it's right out of the Stepford Wives!

 

[seminolewind]

You could chase me with one of those neighborhoods like that-and what does my daughter buy? Into a neighborhood like that.

My old house is not everyone's cup of tea but it is in the country and 100 years old. And that feels comfy. With subdivisions come HOA's and rules and before ya know it it feels like it's right out of the Stepford Wives!

 

[seminolewind]

Cynthia I know what you mean about seeing departed pets run around.
I lost a dog to kidney failure once and I saw her all the time. THEN my daughter comes to visit and says to me one day "Mom, I keep seeing Clementine!" Well see, I wasn't seeing things that weren't there!

Sorry Tom's in pain!

 

[seminolewind]

I have a Psycho Houdan who lost her sister a few months ago and she's not been friendly with others. She wants to be held all the time and cries if she sees me. But she's a pecker and she pecks hard. Yes she bites the hand that feeds her and I always keep my face behind her. I think she was ready to go into my main flock and so far so good.

Yea Cynthia most chicken illnesses have the same symptoms and it's hard to decipher what they have. Then there's the problem of some not thinking outside the symptom box where the symptoms are only the ones listed and no one wants to see that the listed symptoms are really meant to be "most likely" or most common or least likely and more rare. Like the listed illnesses and diseases of chickens are not just the ones on the list. The listed ones are "more common".

I have had 2 silkies , 4 years apart, that got fowl pox that became these crusted "fingers" and continued to grow. Pox that just grew out of control. My last one grew this mass on her head and if I broke a piece off, more would grow. When it got the size of her head, I had to put her down. It was growing into her eye and nostril. Pox growing that way is less common but it does happen . It could be from immunosuppression secondary to Marek's. My vet said it was definitely pox.

 

[speckledhen]

The scoop so I don't have to write it again, been in the ER for hours, finally home after filling prescriptions: After literally running all day long, I'm exhausted and dehydrated, trying to catch my breath. My husband hurt his back loading bombs for transport during Desert Storm. In the mid 90's he had a temp. duty assignment to Texas from our base in Dayton, Ohio. He blew a disc and came back in a wheelchair, needed surgery then and he was somewhat better for awhile, but the disc issues are progressive and he has some places that bone is grinding bone, always in pain, but he pushes through and he's not a druggie, either, but this past week, he's been at a pain level of 15 (1-10, he's a 15) and finally, after being told he cannot get into the closest VA to go to one 2 or 3 hours away, a VA nurse in Atlanta triaged him over the phone and said get to an ER and said he is now connected to the VA center in Blairsville (where we went to the hospital ER, about 22 miles away). His back is apparently much worse than it was 3 years ago, according to the ER doc who looked at the MRI results from back then. He said you'll have to get to an orthopedic surgeon but not here...they don't do backs around here (which is probably why the one he consulted a couple of years back just said fusion surgery doesn't work, sucks to be you, nothing can be done...apparently, that is not true, just ask Tiger Woods). So, then trying to fill the scrips at Walmart, they refused to fill the 12 pill scrip for percocet because it was too high dosage for acute pain. WTH? No, it was the middle dosage, but I had to go to the grocery store pharmacy and they did it for me. Don't get me started on this opioid crap..they'd rather people commit suicide than risk addiction .My husband is nowhere near addicted and *never* takes that stuff unless it's critical, like this last few days. They are over the top with this restriction crud on pain meds, literally the ONLY ones that work. But, he got three shots, scrips for steroids, etc, etc. And now we have to figure out the surgery thing.