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Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:28 am
by dodint
I bought this for my wife and she loves it more than she loves me:



She has residual arm pain from surgery and it helps a lot.

This pillowcase fits it perfectly:

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:56 pm
by shoeshine boy
who's got duct tape?
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:thumbdown:

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:40 pm
by DigitalGypsy66
What did you do? Punch a wall after your donut incident?

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:49 pm
by Shyster
My bet is car door.

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 10:34 pm
by mac5155
Didn't someone block a shot at hockey?

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:44 am
by shoeshine boy
What did you do? Punch a wall after your donut incident?
blocked a slapshot 2 weeks ago. I wouldn't have thought a D league slapshot could do that. I think it rode up the stick. it was purple and bleeding before I made it back to the bench.
sadly, I got blood stains on the white cuff of my custom gloves:
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a friend that's a Navy vet says peroxide should get it out though.

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:48 am
by dodint
Yeah, peroxide did wonders on a microfiber couch for me. Might do the same for you here.

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:55 am
by shoeshine boy
Friday I saw my massage therapist as I do about every 6 weeks. she knows I've been struggling but improving with the plantar fasciitis so she spent a little extra time on that foot. afterwards for about 30 hours the pain was back in a way that it hadn't been since the beginning. then suddenly, right before midnight Saturday it just disappeared completely and I've been 99.5% pain free since.

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Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:30 pm
by Shyster
So would you say your massage had a happy ending?

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:27 am
by shoeshine boy
So would you say your massage had a happy ending?
doesn't every massage? ;)

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:15 pm
by tifosi77
Last month I had a tele-visit with my GP Dr. Had some minor but lingering issues that through the course of the visit determined were caused by some cheap cool-air humidifiers we had just started using, so I was breathing in mold and bacteria and junk. Call lasted no more than 15 or 20 minutes.

I was just given a bill for that visit. $858.00, of which I am on the hook for $307.95.

wtf

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:20 pm
by faftorial
Last month I had a tele-visit with my GP Dr. Had some minor but lingering issues that through the course of the visit determined were caused by some cheap cool-air humidifiers we had just started using, so I was breathing in mold and bacteria and junk. Call lasted no more than 15 or 20 minutes.

I was just given a bill for that visit. $858.00, of which I am on the hook for $307.95.

wtf
That's insane. Their billing has been normal heretofore?

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:20 pm
by DigitalGypsy66
The system is broken. Seriously.

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:33 pm
by tifosi77
$30 copay before this for normal office visits.

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:42 pm
by faftorial
$30 copay before this for normal office visits.
I would call and dodint. Say that you'll be taking it to facebook and making a big stink if they don't reduce it to the copay.

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:43 pm
by meow
Last month I had a tele-visit with my GP Dr. Had some minor but lingering issues that through the course of the visit determined were caused by some cheap cool-air humidifiers we had just started using, so I was breathing in mold and bacteria and junk. Call lasted no more than 15 or 20 minutes.

I was just given a bill for that visit. $858.00, of which I am on the hook for $307.95.

wtf
Telemedicine is in a weird discovery mode and because of that, costs are wildly inconsistent. This is by the far the highest I’ve heard. You also live in a garbage state

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:21 pm
by tifosi77
I had a televisit with the same Dr last March, no excess bill.

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:45 pm
by faftorial
I had a televisit with the same Dr last March, no excess bill.
Peak pricing like in Texas.

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:51 pm
by tifosi77
DAMNIT

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:54 pm
by meow
I had a televisit with the same Dr last March, no excess bill.
Same insurance? Is he with the same network?

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:58 pm
by tifosi77
Yes, nothing has changed with my insurance coverage in years, and the Dr is still part of the UCLA Health System.

I need to do some digging, because this sounds hinky.

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 9:43 pm
by meow
Yeah. There is some fckery afoot

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 9:51 pm
by Shyster
I would check and see if the encounter was properly coded. This smells to me like a billing error.

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:19 am
by NTP66
There's actually a special ICD-10 code for Flavortown lookalikes. You got got, my man.

Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:48 am
by meow
There's actually a special ICD-10 code for Flavortown lookalikes. You got got, my man.
R46.1