What a terrible thing to call a hard-working MT.

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But I started my son out in life by telling him I would support him in anything he did and any decision he made as long as it was good, was lega and didn't hurt anyone else!!  I feel you must trust you son in this.  Perhaps something happened that he is not yet willing to share with you.  Putting pressure on him now regarding that scholarship could be a very bad thing.  Sounds to me like you have raised a good and responsible son.  I don't think you should question him too strongly?  I know, money may be short and it may be his only way into a good college but what is more important? 

It is a hard thing; we parents only want the best but so often we tend to see the end of the "dream", (is it our dream or your child's dream?), without seeing all the ramifications that the child endures.  Trust in your son.  Of course, speak with him occasionally, try to find out what may have happened to cause this change....I would think something apparently did happen.  You may never know....he might not even be able to pin point it himself.  Again, trust in the fact that you have raised a good son and that he will do well in whatever he endeavors.  Let him lead his life; just keep the reins tight enough that he does not stray.

I only say these things because I've been through it.....teenagers are a real challenge, (the terrible 2's are nothing!!).  They are growing into men and/or women and becoming the people that they will be forever.  Please give him the chance to find himself and to be the person HE wants to be.  Don't cry, take pride, you are a good mom and he is a good son. 

HELP!!!!  How can we prove to our significant others that working at home is hard work and just because we are home, we are working and CANNOT always find extra time for laundry, dishes, cleaning, dinner, etc?????

I hear, "you work 6 hours a day, I work 10...I expect everything to be done if you have those extra 4 hours.... " Well, my 6 hours of working is actual sit at the computer and type my fingers to the bone....yes, I take breaks and do have extra time..but then I shower, chat with friends, catch the news..whatever....it is not excessive.  I keep up on the house most of the time, juggle my schedule to pick kids up from school, etc.... so once in a while if I just don't feel like making sure everything around the house is done, i get "What did you do all day..."  I AM SICK OF IT!!!!

My job is a full time job, I make more than I ever had working in an office 40 hours a week.....and I don't want to feel guilty for taking breaks and having some quality time for myself in between working...

Especially when he goes to work and talks to all his coworkers, brags about how easy his job is, sits around waiting for an assignment etc.....  Just because he isn't home to do the laundry on his breaks, why should I?????

sorry this is so long...but I KNOW a lot of you can relate!!!!!

A hotel that states they have "internet access" does not necessarily have it in your room. A lot of them have what they call a "business" center where they have like a community computer to share with other guests or to have access on your laptop you need to sit in that room. I dont know about you but I dont feel like dragging out all of my equipment and sitting in a lobby somewhere to work. Double check that they have internet access available in your room.. and be forewarned that most chart for wireless internet access like maybe $10-12 for a 24-hour period. We just got back from Vegas, and to me, it was worth that fee for a whole 24 hours. I got the most work I could out of it.

   Medical bills are debt.  Debt is big business.   Do not expect to find any compassion for your problems when you show up without insurance.  You'll be lucky just to get care when they flag your chart "No Insurance" or "Self Pay."

    If you are uninsured and do not qualify for state or federal assistance because earnings are too high, you are gambling on everything you own or will own in the future, including future earnings.

     If you require elective medical care and have time to work out a cash payment deal in writing with the provider, you may be protected. You will require a signed agreement by every provider - hospital, radiology, lab, interpreting physicians, etc.  If you fail to meet the provisions of the agreements you sign, the following will apply to this debt as well. 

   If you receive medical care without a prior agreement on payment, you will be responsible for the debt.  After the fact, the providers have no legal reason to allow you to set up a payment plan.    If you send a monthly payment anyway without a prior agreement, the only thing you can hope for is when they take you to court a sympathetic judge or arbitrator takes this into account.  A voluntary payment sent by you won't stop any legal action and, in fact, may hurt you in the future trying to resolve the debt.

   Every state has a set amount of time before a creditor can sue you (depending on the type of debt).  For most states, medical debt is 2 years.  So, from the date of service you have 2 years of collection agencies to deal with and then they simply take you to court at which point they will take everything you own and sell it at auction, enforce liens against your current and future earnings, and take every potential bit of future income or asset you may have.There has been some legal challenge to this in some states - check with your state attorney general's office to see if any headway has been made in protecting patients with medical debt.

     If you think you'll just go bankrupt, think again.  Medical debt is rarely discharged now since the rules have changed, especially if you at some point indicated you would be willing to do a payment plan with the providers - this is used against you.

      If you think you can maintain your health and nothing will happen, you are dreaming.  Make sure off the top that you no longer have a GB, appendix or uterus.  You'll just have to ride out all the little things - UTI, flu, sinusitis, and forget about routine maintenance care.  The stress alone of knowing you must not become ill or injured is enough to make you sick.

      Anyone who tells you not to worry about medical debt while uninsured or underinsured is either ignorant of the facts, living in another dimension, or just plain lying.

we received our "incentive packet."  They don't even have the wherewithall to contact us personally.   These are temp-agency hired telemarketers sitting around a boiler room making sure we're reading our mail.... told him it don't pertain to me because I've been demoted from FT to SE.... He said, "yes, the letter is vague, but it does pertain to FT as well as SE...." yeah right, we'll see.

If I were the parents, I would most likely be blaming myself; not my friends that I left my 2 year old with and not the person who hit the child on the highway!  It would have been my responsbility to either have my 2 year old with me or at least make sure the people I left him with were responsible.  As for the driver of that car, what were the driving conditions; apparently it was at night; was it raining; was it foggy; did they even see that little,tiny child; was the child standing or crawling or just lying on the road????????  It sounds horrible but maybe the driver just felt a bump!  Maybe the driver didn't even realize he had hit a child!  Maybe the driver just thought he ran over a board in the road.  I'm one of the few, I guess, who believes the safety of your child lies only within your power.  According to some, accidents do happen, but I don't believe in accidents!  Accidents, according to the dictionary, are considered to be unforseen incidents.....we as parents, however, must use common sense to try to abate these "unforseen incidents". 

Again, I do have greath empathy for the parents, their friends and for the driver of that car.  They certainly did not preplan this but maybe a little bit of preplanning would have prevented it.  I am sure that little 2 year old will be another beautiful angel in Heaven and that eventually his parents will know he is happy and in a good place. 

I wonder if the accounts are seeing a reduction in the price that they are being charged -- that is what I want to know.   Went through this when NFTA came into effect with my husband and truck drivers.  Also the car industry has gone through this with all the jobs going overseas.   Pretty soon the doctors won't have any patients because no one will have insurance or jobs or be able to pay so they will be out of a job.   I hope it eventually all backfires on them but I doubt it.  I have talked to my local doctors, senators, anyone that will listen about this but no one seems to be worried.  Tax bases will go to pot with everyone out of work, no one to pay the government.    All we can do is to keep voicing our opinions.

in past years has been on Singulair and Nasonex for them.  They have always worked well together in the past to keep him from ending up with an upper respiratory infection and eventually nausea and vomiting from all of the mucus.  This year; however, those two drugs do not seem to be doing the trick.  I took him to the doctor and they switched him to Flonase and an Azmacort inhaler.

I was just wondering if anyone has any experience with these medications and what type of results you got.  I know Flonase is supposed to be wonderful for allergies, but I'm curious about the Azmacort.  His nasal congestion does seem to be a little better than yesterday but I have not been able to guage any benefit from the Azmacort yet (I know, it's still early to tell).  The doc said that if these meds do not work he will have to start getting allergy shots. 

He will be 8 on Sunday.  He has been suffering every year (this time of year is horrendous) since he was 3.  Just curious to hear any comments and/or suggestions.

TIA!!

On DQS acct, lines stink -  on three other programs, same as you 300-400 lph.  I hate DQS and proud to tell everyone.  35+ yrs trans.  The old selectric typewriters were better, even Mag cards were better.

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do you think everything posted on these boards is the gospel truth. No, the admin's would not be so foolish as to sink into that territory...

I have to say, I am sooo glad it's Friday. This week has been just awful; whatever could go wrong, did go wrong; dang you Murphy's Law!!!

Let's pray that next week is better...hoping for a good weekend!