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Carved shell jewelry

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on Tuesday. 3 Replies 0 Likes

Browsing carved shell jewelry by Shinji Nakaba, I came upon this ring.LOL, "Kiss the ring" has a new meaning. They show how it's made.…Continue

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Comment by sk8eycat on January 15, 2013 at 3:18pm: Joan, You asked if I'd had a physical lately...my MD retired suddenly on Dec. 31st (he only gave me 2 weeks notice...after 42 years!), so I'm shopping for a new General Practitioner, or gerontologist, or whatever you call a doctor who specializes in the peculiar problems of aging.

Things are a little crazy because MediCareLess hasn't set the guidelines for 2013; I usually receive the information booklet for the new year in October or November, and I haven't, nor have any of my friends who are over 65 (practically all of them).

Some local doctors aren't accepting new patients until they find out WTF is going on...and in the meantime, I have about a month's worth of the meds I need to control my BP and diabetes. Thank DOG I'm not on insulin!

All I can find about the 2013 changes in Medcare so far pertain to Part D, which I don't have because it's a scam to benefit Big Pharma, and always has been. I get 2 meds free from Pfizer's Connection to Care, but I still need a written Rx to get them.

Also, I have heard that ALL Medicare patients who don't have any supplemental insurance (I am one) are going to be assigned arbitrarily to whatever insurance company is handy. What that sounds like is HMO-ism...snarls of red tape, and losing the freedom to choose my own doctor(s), and that doesn't ease my mind, either.

It's a mess.

I have an appointment with a GP next week who was recommended by my pharmacist; I trust his judgment--I desperately needed a dentist a few years ago, and he sent me to one right here in our neighborhood...she's outstanding and very compassionate , so...we'll see.

In the meantime, I AM getting a little frantic about the whole thing, and what really p*sses me off that all this is not about keeping American citizens healthy (so we don't have epidemics and plagues) and/or useful (so we can work, pay taxes, and retire comfortably), it's about MONEY!

The radical wrong will keep their wars going forever because they get mucho dinero from the armament manufacturers...while they begrudge grandma's Social Security benefits that she earned by working at low-paying jobs all her life. And now they are even trying to cut back care for the veterans who were maimed fighting their damned wars...

Oh, dear. I'm ranting again. My apologies.

Ruth....thank you for creating a place where we can tell jokes, post pics, just talk, AND rant. I think I'm feeling better.

Comment by Ian Mason on January 15, 2013 at 2:11pm: Lots of pics that make me smile. Thanks.

Comment by booklover on January 15, 2013 at 1:43pm: I want a thinking-cat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Comment by Tony Carroll on January 15, 2013 at 1:14pm: Joan, glad it worked. If you liked those pics, I put them up in Digital Life on Geek and Nerd Haven. Many more pics there, just stuff that caught my eye, for either content, color, subject matter, whatever. Come on over and peek at a few. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 15, 2013 at 1:01pm: Ian, The squash ducks delight me. Thanks.

Booklover, great photo of that huge dog! The bricks suspiciously look like China where women went out every day to sweep streets with a corn-broom. There were no flies. Dog piles were shoveled into honeybuckets.

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 15, 2013 at 12:56pm: Joseph, I "paused" and "muted" and I could think of nothing else that works.
Tony! Your hypothesis works! Thanks! In addition, the pictures you posted are keepers!