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Seems you are quite ready to go. You might want to check CVS and Walgreens for flu shots as I know they do them.
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Just a word of caution on flu shots - there is some thought that getting them this early will end up leaving a gap in protection when we are actually at the peak of flu season. I'd recommend talking to the pharmacist or your doctor about that.
Just a word of caution on flu shots - there is some thought that getting them this early will end up leaving a gap in protection when we are actually at the peak of flu season. I'd recommend talking to the pharmacist or your doctor about that.
That's interesting as we just got notifications from Kaiser that we're due for our flu shots. I'll definitely ask if this is too early. We were thinking of getting ours before we left for our trip on the 11th.
I think it was last year or perhaps last year that most of the plu shots did not work on the different variations of the flu for the most part! It depends on year to year and you would think they would have this down but it's obviously not a correct science in many ways with a lot of medical stuff which irks me so often! Let alone my insurance coverage and the corruption with these billion dollar behemoths!
If it was me I never would have bailed out these companies as Obama and Congress did! They should have been on their own with what they do to their customers. Sorry, to be opinionated on this but with such high costs on health care these companies should be non profit, when it's in regard to the health of us as their customers with what they charge us.
So many people can't afford health care with the costs and can't purchase good health insurance and unfortunately they suffer or a serious health issue happens before they can take action.
I'm not in any way an expert on this subject, but the way I see things now and perhaps the direction of the health care system now, even with the ridiculous Obama Care and the variety of problems with it!
At least the other insurance choices (auto, homeowners, renters and so on) are generally without the bureaucracy, corruption and problems as health insurance is.
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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I love it when you have the one week countdown for a Disney trip!!! The Pre-Trip as it gets close is almost as exciting to me as the trip itself I used to have a countdown calendar in my hallway with cute Disney pictures attached to each day, but I haven't used it in almost a year. I'll have to get it out for our January trip as it makes the countdown even more fun
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Sorry for derailing your thread for a bit as once I get going on the healthcare thing.....I'll get off my soapbox now!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Hope you are able to get your flu shot before you leave!
The weather is still so hot, I hadn't even thought about flu shots.... I'll have to give our local health department a call and see if they have came in yet....
More on flu shots in my update, but Luke had noticed the flu cases here in our state and that is what got us thinking about ours.
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Seems you are quite ready to go. You might want to check CVS and Walgreens for flu shots as I know they do them.
I'll explain in our update, but neither of those will work for us.
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Just a word of caution on flu shots - there is some thought that getting them this early will end up leaving a gap in protection when we are actually at the peak of flu season. I'd recommend talking to the pharmacist or your doctor about that.
We don't usually get them this early, but more on that in a moment.
That's interesting as we just got notifications from Kaiser that we're due for our flu shots. I'll definitely ask if this is too early. We were thinking of getting ours before we left for our trip on the 11th.
The whole process of getting a flu shot is confusing.
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Originally Posted by SuperDave
I think it was last year or perhaps last year that most of the plu shots did not work on the different variations of the flu for the most part! It depends on year to year and you would think they would have this down but it's obviously not a correct science in many ways with a lot of medical stuff which irks me so often! Let alone my insurance coverage and the corruption with these billion dollar behemoths!
If it was me I never would have bailed out these companies as Obama and Congress did! They should have been on their own with what they do to their customers. Sorry, to be opinionated on this but with such high costs on health care these companies should be non profit, when it's in regard to the health of us as their customers with what they charge us.
So many people can't afford health care with the costs and can't purchase good health insurance and unfortunately they suffer or a serious health issue happens before they can take action.
I'm not in any way an expert on this subject, but the way I see things now and perhaps the direction of the health care system now, even with the ridiculous Obama Care and the variety of problems with it!
At least the other insurance choices (auto, homeowners, renters and so on) are generally without the bureaucracy, corruption and problems as health insurance is.
I love it when you have the one week countdown for a Disney trip!!! The Pre-Trip as it gets close is almost as exciting to me as the trip itself I used to have a countdown calendar in my hallway with cute Disney pictures attached to each day, but I haven't used it in almost a year. I'll have to get it out for our January trip as it makes the countdown even more fun
Maybe I need to make us a countdown calendar! I'm definitely quite excited these days!
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So close!!
Yeah!
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Sorry for derailing your thread for a bit as once I get going on the healthcare thing.....I'll get off my soapbox now!
No problem!
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Great plans, to your Dad and I can't believe how close you are now!!
Today has been a bit busy. Last night Luke's mom called to ask if we could pick her up for a doctor's appointment today at 1:30 PM. So we walked our 4 miles this morning, cleaned up, and then went to McD's for lunch as it was Free Fry Friday. We actually got done early with lunch, but went to Mamaw's anyway.
Finally at the doctor's office we waited over an hour for the doctor to come in. At the one hour mark I stepped outside the room as with her back pain she was worn out from trying to sit in a very uncomfortable chair. The problem -- no results from her MIR this morning. Common courtesy to me would be to send the nurse back in after 30 minutes to at least tell us that. He did have the slides, but could not/would not interpret them himself. He did give her steroid injections for her left knee and hip. He did call her personally tonight with the results -- a sub-acute fracture of the T7, 8, 9, and 10 ribs. Ouch! All this began back in late July. She has pretty much be trapped at home unless we take her somewhere because of the pain meds. She could use some pixies for sure. These fractures have already started to heal, but it's slow going.
Afterwards, we headed to Target where our insurance rejected our attempt to get flu shots. The pharmacist was sweet and called our insurers, but unfortunately, the coverage changed and we hadn't noted it. In order to get our flu shots covered we have to get them through our doctors. My doctor moved away this summer, so I won't be going to a new one until mid October at the earliest. So for now flu shots are on hold. Freedom to choose our own medical services is quickly becoming a thing of the past.
After waiting for about a half to find out we'd not be getting flu shots, we crossed the road to Sam's Club where we successfully found the supplements plus some additional Disney gift cards, but not until after roaming the story just for the fun of it.
Next stop was Home Depot for some electric timers with battery back up, which make Luke feel better since they will remain on even if the power goes out while we are gone. We also looked at mums here because we have the cutest jack-o-lantern planter that we bought a few years back. It came with a mum in it, and since then we buy a new one each year. The mum looks like the jack-o-lantern's hair. None fit the size of our pot.
So what else to do, but head to Lowe's where did find the exact size yellow one that we wanted. We'll pot it tomorrow and put it out on the front porch.
By now we were hungry again, so we headed to our favorite Mexican restaurant since it will be a while before we are back. By the time we were finished we were stuffed and tired and ready for home.
By the way, last night I filled out vacation prep items for most of our remaining days before the trip. Stay tuned to see what we get done.
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It depends on year to year and you would think they would have this down but it's obviously not a correct science in many ways with a lot of medical stuff which irks me so often! 
Let alone my insurance coverage and the corruption with these billion dollar behemoths! 
They should have been on their own with what they do to their customers. Sorry, to be opinionated on this but with such high costs on health care these companies should be non profit, when it's in regard to the health of us as their customers with what they charge us. 
to your Dad and I can't believe how close you are now!! 
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