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She is staying with my neighbor, who is my husband’s boss. The dog was outside (my husband didn’t realize it) and my son wanted to play outside since it was nice outside. The dog jumped off their porch and got Gavin.
Animal control was called before after one of the animal attacks, but there’s a “good ol’ boys club” around here and they convinced them the dog wasn’t a problem.
We’re in a sticky place because we have housing due to my husband’s body, which we don’t want to jeopardize. My husband’s boss is in a sticky place because it’s his mother in law’s dog. There’s no good solution to this other than to hope the damn dog charges my car so I can run over it or hope it charges one of the other park rangers because he will shoot it.
She is staying with my neighbor, who is my husband’s boss. The dog was outside (my husband didn’t realize it) and my son wanted to play outside since it was nice outside. The dog jumped off their porch and got Gavin.
Animal control was called before after one of the animal attacks, but there’s a “good ol’ boys club” around here and they convinced them the dog wasn’t a problem.
I’m sorry, but if a dog attacks without provocation THAT is a BIG Problem, especially if skin is broken. If the Animal Control people can not, or will not, do their jobs you should be within your rights to contact Law Enforcement and get the Police involved. It would be better to have your Husband’s Boss’s Mother-in Law mad at you than to have your husband or your son potentially mauled and disfigured, or killed, by that dog. Owners should be able to control their animals at all times – PERIOD!
If anything happens I would seriously consider getting a lawyer and suing. Keep calling Animal Control or the Police whenever there is an issue and document to have a paper trail – take photos if needed or warranted. Especially if you and your family are not in the neighbor’s yard but the dog is aggressively going into your yard to attack. This is Unacceptable. This is very Serious and potentially Very Dangerous.
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Yeah, this is all true and good advice. They need to keep their animals (including visiting animals) on their own property and keep it leashed and under control when it is anywhere else. They can’t be letting it escape the yard and going after people who are minding their own business on their own properties, or going by on the street. They are legally liable for any injuries resulting from failure to adhere to that. If their animal is regularly attacking other animals and people, then something could and should definitely be done about it. Make sure you let the authorities know- animal control or police or preferably both- each time something happens, whether it’s a serious injury or not, because their dog running loose and attacking people/animals isn’t okay and can be very dangerous. Get them to take a written statement and ask if some action can be taken. Even if the incidents are considered minor and the authorities are not wanting to do anything, if multiple incidents are occurring I’d think they’d need to do something.
Hopefully nothing serious will happen BUT if/when there are injuries you can take pictures of or show medical bills from, make sure you have those things as evidence. You can show the pics to the authorities to show that hey yes, this dog did bite & scratch me, so that hopefully they’ll listen. And with stuff like pics & medical bills you’ll kick their butt in court if it needs to go that far.
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I didn’t realize the dog was at the neighbors but even better reason to report it. Where i live if a dog gets loose or even crosses onto another person’s property, the owner can be charged with the dog running at large and can be taken to court and fined for it. If a dog bites anyone here and it’s reported to animal services and there is evidence of injury, the dog is seized and if the injury is serious enough the dog is destroyed and the owner is fined. If it is minor, sometimes they will give the dog back but still fine the owner or find the dog a new home. What kind of dog is it that it’s so aggressive?
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Blah, I’m going to whine…..
I slipped on some Ice and caught myself before I fell back before Christmas, but hey, I can’t count how many times I’ve slipped and caught myself (winter in Canada) and my feet were a bit sore when I got home but I had been on them for 15hrs so didn’t think anything of it. Woke up the next morning and the left was painfully sore but didn’t think anything of it, thought I’d probably sprained it or something. Nothing I haven’t done dozens of times over the years. Seemed to get a bit better over Christmas but it was slow at one job and I was off for 3 weeks from the other.
Into January and went back to the second job and the first picked up again and bam. Woke up one morning and couldn’t put any weight on my left foot without screaming pain for several hours. Finally decided to go to the doctor. 3 hrs waiting at a walk in clinic later, the doctor sent me for test, thought it was 1 of 3 things, Muscle pull, I broke something or gout. few days later got a call to go in to the clinic and different doc told me I had slightly high Uric Acid levels and it *might* mean gout and when I asked what I do about it she replied literally *google it*. 😐 So I did and next to nothing matches what I was feeling.
Anyhoo, not convinced that was the problem I made an appointment with a specialist and a month wait later I walk in and the specialist looks at it and now I’m in a grey boot cast and scheduled for an MRI on Monday and no allowed to go to my second job until he tells me I can and to stay off my feet as much as possible at my first job. He also told me emphatically and with a WTF look on his face that I did not have gout. He thinks I’ve done something to the ligaments but we won’t know what and how bad until the MRI results come back. :~
I’m whining because this is not going to be cheap (bye bye grab bag dragons hopes) and I’ve been hobbling around in pain for the last 2 months and just when I *thought* the roller coaster of the last several years was over. I just want a period of significant time in my life where nothing goes drastically wrong 🙁
I’m going to curl up with cartoons, tea and cookies tonight
Oh my god, I am sick of dealing with this stupid insurance crap!
So, apparently Medicaid is refusing to pay ANY of my bills this year until my Mom’s Priority Health is charged, but priority never answers and there is NO COVERAGE out here as I am out of state. I asked my mom FOUR TIMES last year to take me off as a dependent because of issues last year. She left me on it saying that if I got to sick, she wants me to move back. WHY DOESN’T SHE GET IT???? THIS CRAP IS THE WHOLE REASON I LIVE 2,300 MILES AWAY!!! argghh!!!!
My therapy’s probably gonna stop, I am unable to work or even talk care of myself and now I’m probably gonna end up with some $10,000 in bills. It costs her $500 to keep me on her insurance. She now has to sell the house that my Dad worked his bum off to remodel and turn it into the home he never even got to live in cause he passed two weeks before the move. Why can’t my mother help her self before everyone else. I know she is just trying to help everyone, but it makes absolutely no sense to unnecessarily pay for me to have no coverage and screw up all my other bills.
Even with just medicaid, I only have enough coverage to do therapy for another month and a half. This is the only exercise I can do without hurting or overworking myself..I just want to go back to work and ride my bike again…no body knows what’s wrong, people who can help do not want to and everyone who can’t thinks they know what is better for MY body. The only one really doing anything is Mary, and if medicaid refuses, I am going to half to drop her from getting paid, cause I can afford to pay them my self, and will probably just settle for setting $50 aside from my measly income for her each month. That is a far shot from the 8.50 and hour I was able to get her….
And My joints are getting so bad I can’t even really paint now. I am to weak and sick to sit at my table and have been bedridden for a week and a half now..so much for getting a whole lot there. I do great work, and I want nothing more than to share it. But my pain makes it so hard, my work takes twice as long, and it hurts to be accepting offers so low, and not hear anything back from anyone. I have no name for my work yet, just the immense effort it takes for me to work at my table every day, and now even that is too much. I have no answers, just that I am sick, and won’t be better anytime soon, and it didn’t take a doctor for me to figure that one out..
Now I am just screwed. meanwhile social security is claiming I had income in both december and and january even though I haven’t worked since the beginning december. I only had one paycheck in dec and I sent it to them. Now I have an appt with them as they are claiming to have proof of income.And I can’t claim full disiablity beacuse I was shy 2 work credits, so I get 700 a month as apposed to the 1300 I would have had. This just pays for my bills and groceries, and keeps my kitty fed. Art is my only other possible income, and I can’t even do that.. ughrrr!
You ever have one of those days where you want to scream into a pillow and bury yourself and just give up? Ya, I am not even strong enough to do that, and I would have seizures for the next three hours if I even tried…. 😐 😥 |(
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Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comSorry to hear. I think this is the thread for rants. I hope you can figure it out and get the insurance coverage you need. When I had to try and get help with bills, I had to get a doctor’s note and go through a bunch of appointments and things before the government would help me too and they only pay $700 as well until my doctor says I am emotionally and mentally better to be able to work. It barely pays my half of my rent and utilities until I can work again. Although my mom is on disability and gets $1600 a month so that helps but it is still not much for two people to live on since we have to pay about $1500 for rent and utilities and phone and internet bills each month and barely have anything left for food or other things. It’s tough but hope things work out for you.
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I’m so upset! Someone stole my purse earlier when I stopped to get some groceries Mon. night after my dance class. There was hardly anyone in the store and I guess I turned by back on the cart a couple times not thinking and when I went to check out, my purse was gone! I searched the whole store for it hoping it just dropped somewhere but didn’t find anything and no one turned it in so I figured someone must have taken it. Well I went home and called my credit card and they said someone put two $20 charges on it just after it went missing so I knew for sure then it was stolen. Luckily it’s a prepaid card and all I had on it was $40 but I had to cancel that card and block my bank cards and everything I had in that purse is missing including all my ID and my Nexus 5 phone which I saved up for for months to get after I lost my previous phone last year! I am so sad about my phone being missing as it had all my apps and e-mail and personal info on it and I only got it two months ago and now I am out over $400 that phone cost me! I called the police and had to wait for them to come to file a police report and they said they would try and look up the security camera footage from the store to see who took the purse but the police on tonight are not working days until next week so I think I am going to have to call them again tomorrow and see if anyone else can go to the store sooner. Why do I have such bad luck with phones? How could someone just take a purse out of someone’s cart when they turn their back a min.? I still can’t believe it. Good thing I didn’t have money in the purse but if I don’t get it back I am going to have to get all new ID now and not have a phone again until I can afford another one!
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I’m so upset! Someone stole my purse earlier when I stopped to get some groceries Mon. night after my dance class. There was hardly anyone in the store and I guess I turned by back on the cart a couple times not thinking and when I went to check out, my purse was gone! I called the police and had to wait for them to come to file a police report and they said they would try and look up the security camera footage from the store to see who took the purse but the police on tonight are not working days until next week so I think I am going to have to call them again tomorrow and see if anyone else can go to the store sooner.
Did you also report it to the people at the Store as well? Perhaps they can look at any security tapes and help, or at the least, they should know so they can look out for anyone acting suspect… the person who took your purse could be also taking others. I always keep my purse on me in stores and not in a cart for this reason – sorry that doesn’t help you now.
VERY IMPORTANT: Did you also have house keys in your purse? If so, you may want to also consider changing locks since they will know your home address from your IDs. If your phone has automatic links into your emails with ‘saved’ passwords, you may also want to change your passwords just in case – you don’t want the possibility of your email addresses being hacked and taken over.
I don’t know if the following will work in Canada, but in the USA we have three Credit Bureaus that credit card companies and banks usually check before opening up credit card or loan accounts to people. If this does help you, I’ve included that information as well below. Even if it does not apply to you, perhaps someone else on the forum could use this information. FYI – Equifax has a Canadian site: http://www.consumer.equifax.ca/home/en_ca, and so does TransUnion: http://www.transunion.ca/.
VERY VERY IMPORTANT – DO THIS ASAP!: Report this to the three Credit Bureaus: USA Contact Phone Numbers/URLs: Experian (888) 397-3742, http://www.experian.com/; Equifax (800) 685-1111, http://www.equifax.com/home/en_us (in Canada – http://www.consumer.equifax.ca/home/en_ca); TransUnion, LLC (800) 888-4213, https://www.transunion.com/ (in Canada – http://www.transunion.ca/).
Since credit card and IDs were stolen someone could try and open new credit cards in your name and try to steal your identity. I would suggest at the very least to have a ‘Fraud Alert’ put onto your credit reports – you only need to do this with ONE of the credit bureaus, they will pass it on to the other two. A Fraud Alert lasts for about 3-4 months I believe, and then after that time you can open one with one of the other bureaus, etc. since I believe it can only be done once or twice per year – I’m not sure but you can probably go on one of the sites and check, or talk to someone. The way a Fraud Alert works is that if someone tries to open a credit card or credit line, the credit card people or loan officer checks your ‘credit’ with the three Credit Bureaus and if there is a ‘Fraud Alert’ other protocol has to be followed, which may include contacting you to see if you are opening up a new account.
Good Luck!
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I don’t know if this will help but you might try walking a block or so in any direction from the store and check dark corners and trash cans. I had a purse stolen from my car years ago and I found it half a block away in some bushes – they had taken the cash from my wallet (<$2) but nothing else was touched. I figured at the time that it was a spur-of-the-moment theft and that they would dispose of the evidence quickly. Good luck!
Thanks. It was really dark when we left and it’s a ways from my house but I think I will try and go back there tomorrow in the day light and look around the outside of the store. I hope if someone did dump it and someone found it that they turn it in. It’s rare for that to happen in Calgary although it is in a bit rougher part of town. We only go out there because I have a dance class there every Mon night so we sometimes shop after.
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WOW I don’t know what to say. Been a bad year for most folks I see that. An I would say try for the SSID but its hard to get in my state unless well we won’t go there. Anyway working at a place where you are unhappy can make you ill. Telling on people like you have some rights in this country is also useless. I had a boss that called me into the office at least once a week to call me names and insult me. It did not matter to her that I was a good heck scratch that/great worker. She did not like me as a person my looks ? My tiny little girl figure? I was 58 she was 58 when I got her back for a boss for the 3rd time in 20 years. I knew I was on my way out the door. I did her work my work and got yelled at too for not being fast enough to toss my own usual case stock up on the shelves 63 to 65 cases per hour. She stopped me to do her work to make me look bad. Like I was not doing my work. Then wanted me written up for job performance. It was a lie and most knew it was a lie. But she’s the boss. She could not get another manager to sign the write up. So she tried other ways embarrassing me in front of others and customers too. I kept getting sicker and sicker I was off work more than there. I retired at 60 because I could get widows benefit SSI. I tried 1 more time to go back to work before giving in. She attacked me as soon as I punched in for day. I was their 15 minutes and doubled over from a colitis attack. At 110 pounds back from 95 lbs after another medical. It was a no brain-er stay and die or retire and live like my doctor said. What come around goes around they say. At 62 this witch get fired. Carma got her. I have been asked to come out of retirement and go back to work for Meijer again. I weigh 125 lbs I am in remission from micro colitis my answer to that? H– NO!
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Ah, I got some not so positive news about one of my pets, who I took to the vet today. To console myself, I want to eat, but unfortunately, I’m on a diet. Maybe shop, but no, no money after the Vet visits. Anyways, my rant is I realized I currently have no positive coping skills for situations like these. Eating? Shopping? Man, I’m in trouble.
Ok, I’m going to do some whining about a few things. I avoided going into this stuff in here because I figured “eh, who really cares about this stuff and where would I even begin??” and I knew it would be long. But here I go anyway.
Well, towards the end of last year, I went to a dermatologist (one that I kinda randomly chose since I didn’t have insurance yet) about a mole that had developed a different tone/coloring around it. She said she didn’t think it looked like something to be worried about, but I had her remove and test it anyway. I was notified later that it tested as atypical (guess even a doctor’s opinion isn’t always right!) and that they wanted me to come in to do a punch removal to get the rest of the affected tissue, so it wouldn’t develop into something dangerous.
So I came in again about a month later for that. Had that procedure done, and the dermatologist said she wanted to see me again in a year to check on it.Well I had health insurance coverage begin in January, and had an appointment towards the end of February with a regular doctor just to establish a primary care doctor and have a physical & yadda yadda. I talked to her about my dermatologist incident and she informed me that since I’d had “atypical neevus” (I had to call the dermatologist after my dr. appointment to confirm it was that, which my dr. was talking about) that meant I’m at a high risk for developing melanoma, a dangerous form of skin cancer and that it’s important for me to start having an annual thorough, head-to-toe skin exam every year for the rest of my life.
I immediately felt upset with the dermatologist I’d gone to for not explaining any of that to me, and also because she never even gave me a thorough skin exam, just looked at what I was in there to see her about.I got a referral from my new doctor to see a different dermatologist (the one affiliated with my new dr.), so that I can have a thorough skin exam and probably have a suspicious mole/spot (whatever it is) on my neck removed. My doctor said since I’d had atypical neevus it would be safe & wise for me to just have that removed. So that appointment is set up for next month.
My paranoid side is scared about this whole thing and I’m also bothered by the fact that I have to do a thorough skin exam every year forever now. It’s also with a male dermatologist which doesn’t catch my fancy.In addition to that, I’ve been having itchy bumps on my skin since last November. For about the first month it was only one itchy bump on my arm, then I got more on my arms. Then also on my chest, then also on my legs (particularly upper legs), then also on my shoulders/back… and pretty much everywhere. (Not everywhere as in completely covering my skin, just that there are some on almost any part of my body)
I spoke to my dermatologist about it the second time I was in to see her, and she didn’t really have time to talk about it much with me but told me it was “keratosis pilaris” and that it was basically from dry skin, and to start using “Cetaphil” moisturizing bodywa1sh and also Cetaphil lotion. Even though I’ve never had dry skin to my knowledge, I’ve been using it and a loofa to make sure I’m exfoliating my skin. The cetaphil stuff (which is expensive and formultaed for eczema) may be helping reduce the severity of the itch a bit but I’m still having itchy bumps pop up and it sucks.
I talked to my doctor about it too during my dr. appointment and she seems to agree with the dermatologist that I seem to have keratosis pilrais, and there’s no “cure” or anything, just moisturizing treatments & such. It’s still weird though, keratosis pilaris is only supposed to be on the outside of your upper arms, and in some cases on the thighs and cheeks- not in all the places I’ve got it. Guess I have a bad case?I’ve also been having random red bumps, and bigger pink lumps, like swollen skin or something, show up on my face for the past few months. Sometimes they’ll be there only a matter of hours or sometimes several days. Most often under my eyes but sometimes on a cheek. All this stuff is freaking me out a little bit. The doctor didn’t really have anything to say about those but, of course, I didn’t have any on my face to show her at the time of my appointment. I took a picture of the most recent big pink lump that popped up on my face to show to the dermatologist I’m scheduled to see, but I doubt anything will come of it. I’m sure it’s something I’m not supposed to worry about, but why is all this crap going on with my skin? Ugh.
I’ve also been struggling paying for this stupid health insurance. I enrolled with the health insurance marketplace and I qualified for 80-something dollars of help each month paying for it, at least I did when I put the annual household income for my husband & I at $27,000. I just recently changed it to $32,000 because it looks like that’s more like what we’ll make this year (we’re both hourly workers, not salaried, so it’s basically an estimate) and now instead of paying $137 a month out of my pocket for my health insurance, it’s $193. May not sound like a big difference but when every dollar counts, it is. I looked into changing to a cheaper plan but if I do that, it’d be a plan with a crappy deductible and then it just seems pointless. So I’m keeping the plan and dealing with the wallet-sucking drain it is putting on my life now.
It seems like now I’m always having to make phone calls now or return phone calls, to a doctor or dermatologist or to Kaiser (my health insurance company) or to Connect for Health Colorado. Stuff like that’s really stressful to a person like me. I, frankly, hate phone calls and dealing with new people, for the most part. It’s not that I hate people, I’m just not good at dealing with them and I get easily stressed I guess.
Oh and another crappy thing is: since we (people in general) have to pay so much money for health insurance, why can’t it include vision and hearing issues as well? I don’t need that stuff at this point in my life but chances are, I might at some time. I just think that’s rea1ly crappy we’re all supposed to pay a bunch of money for health insurance, dental insurance, hearing, & vision separately.
My husband & I also recently applied for a pre-approval for a mortgage loan with a credit union so we can see if we can buy a house in the near future. We’re only asking an $80,000 or $90,000 loan for a small house and so our monthly mortgage payment would only be in the 500s or so. I’m worried we won’t get approved because we don’t really have any credit. I had a credit card for a couple years when I was 18/19 and always paid on time but neither of us have been using credit since then, we are cash, only-spend-what-we-have kind of people. We were allowed to turn in evidence of “alternate credit” like evidence of our car insurance payments instead, but we’ll see how it goes. So we’ve been scrambling to save to try to prepare for moving and stuff we’ll need for a new house, and the expenses involved in buying (appraiser, inspector, “earnest money” and/or downpayment, etc.)
We just really need to get out of our current place, and since mortgage payments can be cheaper than rent, we want to go for buying instead of renting now (and eventually the mortgage will be paid off!).And with all this crap taking my money, I feel like I’ll never be able to have money to get a new engine so I can drive my Bronco again. My Bronco is (or was) a big part of my life and I loved it. I’d take it off-road when I could and was in the process of making the interior how I wanted it and had plans for having the outside painted too. Lately I’m feeling I don’t know how it’s going to be possible.
I just wish I could be a kid again and not have to give a single thought to bills or health & health insurance and stuff like that.
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