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Yes Melody, if you’ve got a cougar left, how about a chance for us poor folk to win one? :p
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Just sent in an entry! At first, I thought, “This is so silly!” but I decided to do it, and it was fun. :bigsmile:
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I’m always for entering just about any raffle that’s a dragon. 🙂
Although I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on a cougar either!Formerly had the Batman & Joker avatar!
I know I’m seeing this late, but wanted to add my support as well. Getting laid off is terrible. And I’m sorry your birthday was so rotten.
At the last job I worked at, my department got outsourced to another company and it was terrible. That whole situation is no good.Any luck job hunting yet? I wish you the best of luck.
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I rarely buy Windstones other than dragons, but I like these enough I’d get one if I had the money to throw at it! I hope everyone enjoys ’em! 🙂
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I now have a violet flame baby dragon in my collection, thanks to Skylover! She gave it to me totally unexpectedly when we met earlier this week. I didn’t have a baby dragon or anything in violet flame. So, it was a nice addition.
Thanks Jennifer! 🙂Formerly had the Batman & Joker avatar!
Yeah, a bit scary. You & your bf remind me of my husband and I- he always tells me I worry too much, and he seems not to worry about ANYTHING.
Stay safe!
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I certainly don’t have much medical knowledge, but I, too, was wondering if it was something in your spine, like disc related, affecting nerves. I had some mystery pain issues- that at one point got REALLY bad- and had some tests done that led my doctor to say it wasn’t an internal health problem. I was guided to a physical therapist and one of the therapist’s ideas was that I maybe had a bulged disc in my spine. She gave me some little physical assignments to do, and although I’m not really sure if it was a bulged disc and if it was her assignments that made me better, I am quite better now than I was. The thing is, from my pains and the locations of them I’d have NEVER thought that’s what it was. And it would be a lengthy explanation for me to go into all my symptoms. They weren’t the same as yours, but yeah. I did reading online during all that crap and it does seem possible your symptoms MAY have a cause along those lines.
Try not to jump to the worst conclusions. It’s easy to make situations like this way more stressful than they need to be! But do, of course, keep seeking answers and help. It’s ok to see more than one doctor (and if possible, a doctor rather than only the NP). Sometimes you will get different ideas and guidance from different doctors (and different physical therapists, as I found out).
And in relation to your insurance, yeah you can usually find out details about what it covers by reading through the insurance plan booklet if you got one or that info might be online- also calling them SHOULD be able to get you that info but I’ve learned the people on the phone often don’t seem to know many details. An important thing is to make sure you use healthcare providers that are in network with your insurance, which you should easily be able to find out by asking the dr.’s office (or specialist office, whatever) that you’re thinking about going to if they accept your insurance/if they’re in-network. That’s usually quicker & easier than trying to ask your insurance company. But yeah if you don’t stay in your ins. company’s network of preferred providers, then they will not help you pay for it.
And just so you know, most medical bills will give you the option to set up a payment plan if you can’t pay them right away, so don’t let that stop you from getting something done that you need done.Best of luck!
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Oh Ciarnet! That sounds scary! My thoughts are with you too. Let’s have faith you will have a good outcome. 🙂
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^I second that, except I’d kinda prefer mine in blue morpho or black violet peacock. 🙂
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Thanks for the responses, you guys. 🙂
Yes Skylover, I’m in Colorado Springs. Are you the one I talked with a little in another thread a while back about maybe meeting sometime? I ended up totally forgetting, I guess. I’d be up for that I think- I’m kinda shy at first though. 🙂This Friday evening at my church they’re having a ‘ladies night’ for all women to go to, with food, games & somebody speaking… I signed up that I’d be going although it made me a little nervous to do so, lol. Not sure how it’ll go; I don’t always fit in. And I look about 13 years old despite being 28, so that’s another reason I tend not to fit in.
While I don’t relish in posting about 2 negative things back to back like this, might as well share this too, as sharing can sometimes kinda help relieve burdens. I got a phone call today but I’ll start at the beginning. In 2013, I went to a dermatologist and had a little mole removed which had developed a bit of a different tone/coloring around it. I didn’t have insurance at the time so just chose a random dr (didn’t have to choose one that was in-network and all that). When I showed it to her, she didn’t think it looked concerning, but I asked her to remove it anyway. It tested as moderate atypical neevus (something that has the potential to be pre-cancerous) and they had me come back in to remove more tissue from the area to make sure they got it all.
A little later when I got insurance and chose a regular primary care doctor, she told me that I should start having annual skin exams by a dermatologist for the rest of my life. So since then I’ve seen a dermatologist (a different one) twice for an exam, and during my recent visit I had him remove 4 moles which were a concern to me, even though he thought at least 2 of them didn’t look worrisome (since those 2 moles were just little brown flecks, with some subtle coloring that had developed around them). Guess what, the 2 that he thought looked least worrisome turned out to be atypical neevus again and I’ve got to go back for more tissue removal. I got the phone call about those this morning and set up an appointment for late July for that.
Now I feel like the skin exams are useless since my atypical things seem to be too subtle in appearance for dermatologists to give accurate judgment on. And now I can’t help feeling a bit paranoid since I’ve had a total of 3 atypical things removed (and I’m only in my 20s). I even have a couple other moles right now kinda similar to those and feel like I should ask him to get rid of those too. But the bills for all of these add up even with insurance.
I have a ton of little moles on my skin- now I have to be worried that they’ll be out to get me? Gah!
2 out of 3 of the atypical ones were not even in areas that are exposed to the sun. And I do wear sunscreen when I’m outside with dogs at work. So I don’t know how the heck to explain this.Formerly had the Batman & Joker avatar!
