Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Daddy Rooks™ Whipping it out this morning.

We might have differing opinions on what that phrase means.

lol, just goofing off, keep it real.

Well I got the chair and now I know why $1000+ office chairs exist

Time to get Rooks a clone to deal with AH stuff while the real Rooks get over busy week stuff? /think

1, Getting old is NOT for wimps.

2, Getting old beats the **** out of the alternative.

Its WAY too late for me to die young...

Happy early/late/today Birthday at least

How do you like it? No issues with the neck?!

It's an incredible watch. But ultimately it will bunch panties, so, nevermind.

For the two people that would probably enjoy it, maybe I'll just pm it to them instead.

The picture is beyond true, as a First Nations woman I have seen my family members get less than adequate medical care for their health conditions. My sister was held in a U.S. rural hospital for a stroke and not transferred to a level 1 stroke care center due to the rural hospital's need to get enhanced rural reimbursement rates. In other words, my sister suffered so a rural hospital could collect additional funds even though a level 1 stroke center was only 26 miles away. I also advocated for my father as the Canadian healthcare system fail him and let his foot injury become septic. As with the Canadian healthcare system, people are often dismissed until the medical problem becomes so problematic it it becomes emergent. As a result, my father was transferred to Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, spent 2 weeks in hospital with IV antibiotics, went home on IV antibiotics for two additional weeks, and almost lost his foot due to the racism disparages in Canada.

Ppl don't realize how 3rd world rural America really is. And I can't WAIT to get some of that awesome Canadian healthcare here in America!

Trust me with Indigenous Health in Canada, you would rather have a private healthcare insurance policy that will reimburse at a higher rate so you get a better rate of care. To put this into perspective, my husband needed brain surgery to remove an invasive tumor. Note: this is prior to the Affordable Care Act, my healthcare insurance paid for 95% after a $400 deductible. The total cost of $280k worth of services including surgery only costed my family $400 out of pocket. Today, this insurance policy doesn't exists; however, if it did it is too expensive for most families to afford. I am thankful that our medical emergency happened prior to ACA or we would not have been able to afford my husband's surgery.

Wow, my husband is Metis and don't even get me started on the RCMP. My father was subjected to 12 years of residential school and the RCMP were the entity that intimidated the family to sign over the kids to the schools. At age 7 years old, my father was taken from the Cowichan Valley and subjected to 12 years at St Catherine's in Mission BC. To this day, he still endures the memories of the physical, sexual, and psychological abuse of that place. After he left the schools, he ran way to the United States and raised a family there. He always feared that the Canadian government would steal his kids so he would always check the "white" boxes on all of our government and school boxes. The government of Canada offer reparation; however, no amount of money will ever undo the injustices of the Indigenous peoples of Canada.

The only one of those off-brand Dr. Peppers I'm familiar with are Dr. Thunder and Dr. K. Maybe I should pay more attention to off-brand soda...

Also wowza at those hospital horror stories Ashleyz :(

I really, really wish some Americans would goto a country with free health care and experience how it really is. All you get is rose tinted stories of buttercups and rainbows in the US.

It's good for minor stuff but it's really not great at all if you have anything serious or something that is hard to disagonose. In the UK almost everyone with money pays private, and the people with a lot of money...goto the states.

The wait times, the total lack of choice, the complete abuse of the system. It's hard to get checks done, it's hard to see a doctor at all and very often the way it goes is that something is allowed to fester till it becomes so serious they have to deal with it or it no longer requires 3-4 tests that cost them a lot of money and by then it can be too late.

Even the GP will sometimes say "can you afford to pay for a private scan, i think this should be checked sooner rather than later" and if you can't you're waiting 3 months. You know how bad it is to wait 3 months if you have a suspected cancer? You know what kind of mental anguish you go through waiting 3 months in this situation?

People need to stop with this grass is greener nonsense, every nation has problems and nowhere is a utopia.

the "big k, Dr. K" is Kroger brand.

Dr thunder I believe is Sam's brand.

I think Pepsi distributes dr wham now in some markets.

If you can live long enough to land on medicare the American health care system is great.

Until then it sucks the big green weenie.

I often had "health insurance" before I retired. I was never able to see a Dr. for a routine checkup. Had I ever gotten seriously ill I would have been covered. I think.

Haven't experienced anything yet but I'll let you know if I do. So far it has been pretty great once I dialed in some comfortable settings

huh. how did get here again?

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