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[chickwhorips]

Do you have Dish Network? Is it showing now? I swear the software goes screwy when it downloads here. Weird things happen.

our dish network REALLY goes screwy here. then again we are so far away we have 6 foot dishes that are almost pointed to the ground. at least we have tv.

You have to read the whole thread. It's like hazing.

i read the whole thing and got caught up, ok so almost the whole thing, and did more scanning then reading. does that still count? was i hazed properly?

[Veronica]

My cat gets a daily dose of whipped cream. Actually she probably gets three or four. She's 17. It doesn't make her puke and she eats more real food after the whipped cream. It's almost like it's an appetizer for her.

V.

[betagirl]

Not to change the subject because I'm really enjoying this hairball discussion

But my marvelous health insurance, Aetna, just denied me coverage of a medication I've been on for oh, 2 years. They covered it last month. I guess they want to take August off? The stuff is uber expensive so I can't just go buy it.

WTF? I cannot know WTF unfortunately until they get their arses into the office tomorrow at 6am Pacific time.

I can't wait to hear the reason.....and their timing is impeccable as always.

[SadieKate]

Betagirl, have you looked on their website to see if they publish a formulary or some kind of approved list?

[maillotpois]

Do they perhaps want you to get it from a different source? When I had to have the lovenox shots, my HMO covered one series and then put its foot down and said I had to go to some mail order place to get it instead of my Safeway pharmacy. The shots ran over $1000 per week (which actually isn't much compared to some of my friends' cancer drugs, but more than I feel okay about paying per week - though if you're looking at "Hmmm $1000 or my health?" you start doing a lot of growling.). Anyway, maybe there's a different way of getting the stuff?

[betagirl]

It's in their formulary, though I'm using it for off label use. It's still in trials for crohn's.

I'm guessing they may want me to go mail order. I'm hoping that's it. But Walgreens said something about a letter/forms that my doc needs to fill out. I went through all this crap 2 years ago to get coverage. It was such a fight then. I'm under a new policy now, so some bean counter must have figured this out and can't cross reference my old company policy. God forbid the computer system is that sophisticated I have their PPO. I'm just frustrated because I've had so many fights with insurance over the past 4 years. I thought it was all hashed out. Apparently not.

[mimitabby]

My cat gets a daily dose of whipped cream. Actually she probably gets three or four. She's 17. It doesn't make her puke and she eats more real food after the whipped cream. It's almost like it's an appetizer for her.

V.

oh seriously!! I never thought of whipped cream for my geriatric cat.

Kitsune, do rats eat slugs and snails too? Because if they do, i'll get one!
I like useful pets. I had chickens until just recently (that bird flu thing scared me)

Prescription drugs.... getting dangerously close to one of my biggest rants;
how the government the drug companies and the f#$@#$ AARP ganged up on us and made it impossible for americans to get good prices on their medications.
I hate that!! it infuriates me; just one more symptom of how seriously disturbed our society is...

[winddance]

I just can't believe how much perscription drugs cost. Did they at least give you notice, betagirl, or did you find out when you went to the pharmacy?

[mimitabby]

They never gave ME notice when they changed their rules on us.
one day you go to the drugstore and everything is different. and as you respond with dismay; everyone looks like you like YOU'RE stupid... and you find out that whatever it is now costs 3x as much... or worse.

[betagirl]

Nope, just tried to fill it. How nice

[Kitsune06]

They can be picky... I've seen them play with snails, but not sure if they care to put that much work into it. Slugs are a 'no' but if you need to get rid of either of those, I'd actually suggest a duck.

multi-purpose pets are great. (like the duck who ate slugs and snails, and the cats who would hunt around the house if they weren't so busy getting cuddled) Depending on your space, you could always keep chickens for garden de-lousing and fertilizer, eggs and... um... chicken. =) Goats are pretty awesome for milk, lawn-mowing and fertilizer, too. =D

[mimitabby]

They can be picky... I've seen them play with snails, but not sure if they care to put that much work into it. Slugs are a 'no' but if you need to get rid of either of those, I'd actually suggest a duck.

multi-purpose pets are great. (like the duck who ate slugs and snails, and the cats who would hunt around the house if they weren't so busy getting cuddled) Depending on your space, you could always keep chickens for garden de-lousing and fertilizer, eggs and... um... chicken. =) Goats are pretty awesome for milk, lawn-mowing and fertilizer, too. =D

we dont really have facilities for ducks and duck poop. It doesn't seem fair to have a duck without water for it to play in and that's something I reallydon't want to clean up. We actually live in the Seattle city limits, so I don't think goats would work either; but I love goats.

I don't think we have lice in our garden!!! ick ick ick!

Tell your rats those snails are escargot! I bet they will eat them then!
So, how do you keep your rats from running away; burrowing down a mole hole, what?

[Brina]

Goats are pretty awesome for milk, lawn-mowing and fertilizer, too. =D

considering what Whole Foods charges for goat milk ($6.99 per half gallon) it is sounding very tempting to just invest in one.

[betagirl]

So I hopefully got my stupid insurance hashed out. I have to do the med mail order. I sent in the script, so we'll see. I'm skeptically optimistic.

[Kitsune06]

Curiously, I concede that there can be no coincidence. Comics of captivatingly comedic commitment to cerebral entertainment circumventing the very concern of our earlier critical thought and converstion....

Happy Halloween- V style