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@AdagioM said in An Interesting Article About Health Insurance ...:

The proliferation of assisted living/memory care centers makes me nuts. Yes, we need a way to care for our elders. But it feels like the centers are in it for the money, not about the care.

Exactly. And it seems like the nice ones are super, super expensive...

We're trying to figure out a way to have my mother move to our new town, and I was hoping maybe she could move into one of those mixed communities that have independent living apartments and assisted apartments in the same complex. It would be nice if she could start in an independent one and have the option to move into assisted if needed...

But I don't know... and she's not keen to "live with a bunch of old people" as she put it! She's 80, for the record. 😁

Wow, makes my right knee and left foot hurt to read that.

Brilliant! 👍

Space junk. Interesting piece. Security and audit trails in earlier years were not what they are today. It could have been an ill advised techie flexing his muscles.

Wow! That's wonderful. I love how these stories about WWII keep popping up. Some are offbeat and others are inspiring. This one is both!

What, like the poor creature should have to WALK uptown?

That one seemed easy.

LOL

@Steve-Miller 🤣

The problem, as I see it, is that the middle of the country is slightly (or maybe a little more than slightly) right of center, based on the definitions that were used when we were younger. For Democrats to win on a national level, they need a candidate with exceptional qualities, like Obama or Bill Clinton, who can pull a coalition together.

Or they need Republicans to nominate someone so awful, so utterly lacking in moral character, that even LIZ CHENEY can't stomach him.

BTW re that tweet "all we need is our Constitution" ...

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@Axtremus

My thoughts exactly.

Canine Lyme and leptospirosis vaccines have the highest rate of side effects. And the need for them tends to be regional, so they aren't included in the core vaccine protocols and they get bumped to non-core and are administered when the risk of the disease outweighs the risk of possible side effects. Almost no vets around here do Lyme, but some do lepto even though it's not a very good vaccine. But incidence of lepto is on the rise, so it's better than nothing.

I had Lyme in 2019 after a trip to our Door County house. Lots of deer in the area. Never saw a tick, but a few days after I got back I got the rash on my neck. My PCP thought I had some kind of heat or allergic rash and was going to send me off to the dermatologist, but I alerted him as to where I had recently traveled. He said he doubted it was Lyme but ordered the blood tests anyway. Came back positive big time (doc was pretty surprised at my immune response) and I went on doxycycline for three weeks. My rash subsided by half after the first dose of the antibiotic. Haven't had any problems since. Glad I didn't get chronic Lyme, which can be nasty.