beaners
-
Posts
3,263 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Blogs
Classifieds
Store
Posts posted by beaners
-
-
Our hospital bills are separate from our doctor bills. So a clinic visit results in a bill from the hospital clinic, a bill from the university hospital where the doctor is employed, a bill from the lab company that did testing, a bill from the radiology department, and so on. But the billing office of the hospital where the care took place doesn't have the records for any other billing. I think you are correct that it might be something like that.
Could the collections office tell you who the original bill was from? If it is a real bill then your best bet is to call the original office and pay them. Then they pull the account out of collections and it doesn't ding your credit. We get a lot of medical bills and we miss ones here and there. We have had to do this too many times, and it never stays on our credit if we do it this way.
-
Without knowing when it was used, is there any way of knowing it wasn't someone from Kohls?
-
6
-
-
3 hours ago, Ausmumof3 said:
Shanghai warns of aerosol infection
Shanghai’s health commission added aerosol transmission the list of ways of contracting the coronavirus.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3049623/coronavirus-hubei-province-reports-81-new-deaths-and-2841concerning if true. The approach to contact tracing and quarantine here as I understand it has been based on droplet or contact infection not aerosol infection. I don’t fully understand the ins and outs of it though.
This is something that would make me considerably more worried.
-
We have the Zaccaro books. They are exactly what I would typically use for an advanced kid this age, and exactly the kind of thing that won't work for him. Go figure!
-
Oh! I might have some HOE stuff here somewhere. I should dig it out and see what I have.
-
I will check out LoF. Our library has them, so I can take a look and see if they might work. I thought they were quite wordy, but I haven't seen them. Is that the case?
He will use math in other areas to an extent. One issue is that a lot of problems hit his weak language processing skills. His frustration tolerance is so low that if he realizes something is "hard" he will just give up. He does like mental math! He has figured out quite a few strategies on his own, but that might be something he would work on.
-
I am at a loss with this kid. He was in a special ed preschool class for a couple years for overall delays and speech. As he has gotten older it has become obvious that his attention deficit and other issues are seriously masking his abilities.
Math is my biggest conundrum. Doing something he already knows is boring to him. He knows all the topics to move into prealgebra. He won't sit and stay on task unless I am sitting next to him. He can't sit and work through longer open-ended problems without getting distracted and frustrated. He writes slowly because of delayed motor skills, so it's easier to keep him on task if he points and tells me what to write and where.
I 100% can't move him into AoPS. (LOL) I can't do challenge or enrichment work that would move laterally on the same material. If I just say we take a break from math as schoolwork he will revolt when we add it back in.
Our current trajectory has us moving into a typical prealgebra course with me continuing to scribe, and hoping that our decision to start medication later this year works some miracles. It seems a bit silly to keep moving a third grader forward through shallow prealgebra material when he won't write out more than one long division or multi-digit multiplication problem on his own. But I am drawing a blank on anything else that we could do.
-
I'm wondering what numbers outside of China are going to look like in another two weeks. I'm reading in multiple places that patient conditions worsen at 9-12 days, so we might start seeing more severe infections and deaths. The R0 from Singapore and other places seems to be significantly higher than the current estimate.
I'm still not worried about it here, but I do think it's worse than the flu. I have multiple medically fragile kids, and we survived our last flu bout with zero hospitalizations. I don't see that happening at all if it had been coronavirus. The dismissive statements are frustrating. Do we have to worry about it here right now? Nope. Are the critical cases and deaths higher within an infected population than the flu? Absolutely.
-
7
-
-
1 hour ago, beaners said:
Isn't it strange that something like that could have been "accidentally" announced by Chinese media? My first reaction is that they didn't want him to be made into a martyr after people started responding to the news. That's my own cynicism.
Quoting myself because it looks like this was exactly the case.
Where is China going to go from here? There is a lot of anger about government control and they are struggling in their attempts to let some of that pressure vent.
-
1
-
-
1 hour ago, Arcadia said:
critical, not dead.
From BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51403795“How did the confusion occur?
Global Times and other Chinese media initially sent out reports that Dr Li, 34, had died from coronavirus.
It was then picked up by international news organisations. The World Health Organization sent out a tweet expressing sorrow at his death.
But Global Times then carried a report from Wuhan Central Hospital saying that Dr Li's heart had stopped beating at 21:30 local time (13:30 GMT) and he was given resuscitation treatment. Dr Li was currently in a critical condition, it said.
The news of his death had triggered a huge wave of popular reaction on Weibo - China's equivalent of Twitter.
Most of the coronavirus victims have been over the age of 60 or have suffered from other medical conditions, according to China's health authorities. Dr Li's medical history is not known.”
Isn't it strange that something like that could have been "accidentally" announced by Chinese media? My first reaction is that they didn't want him to be made into a martyr after people started responding to the news. That's my own cynicism.
-
4
-
-
My 7th grader says that she should try Unity to make games. It looks like it uses scripts with C#. I'm not sure what the best option is for learning it though.
-
1
-
-
The doctor who leaked the information has also died.
-
10
-
-
My point of view is that there is a difference between staffing uncertified teachers by hiring subject experts who don't happen to have a background in education specifically, compared to hiring uncertified teachers because the district needs warm bodies in the classroom.
When we lived in Memphis more than a decade ago, the city schools would put up signs at the beginning of the year saying they would hire you if you had a bachelor's in any field. They weren't doing that because they thought the potential applicants would be the best of the best to teach those classrooms. It was desperation.
None of that is to say that any individual teacher is better or worse. There are both horrid and excellent teachers from any background.
-
1
-
-
I would personally leave off the part mentioning the previous message. I am someone whose life gets busy and I completely blank on messages until it has been too long, then forget, then remember and it has been even longer...
A message mentioning that I hadn't answered would make me more anxious and less likely to respond. But that's just me!
-
3
-
-
I'm quite surprised there haven't been reporting any new cases found here. I wasn't expecting huge growth in numbers but maybe a couple more cases found.
-
1
-
-
18 minutes ago, mommyoffive said:
I can't imagine a hospital that they are building in days to be a safe place to be.
Wow, the death toll is now 56 with over 2000 infected.
I might worry about materials offgassing, and I wouldn't want to be involved in the construction, but they are good at building big things quickly. I think this is going to be mostly prefab.
-
2
-
-
I would make sure your recommendation is from someone else who sold. We signed with a realtor after great references from our neighbor who had used her to buy houses. She stunk at selling, and half the things she did made it harder for us to sell.
Definitely check out other listings by the same realtor and see how they are presenting the properties.
-
2
-
1
-
-
Checking on this again. Has anyone used these tests?
-
We are thinking of using this text for Earth Science next year. I have a few questions for people who have used it before.
I have looked through an online preview of the text but the formatting makes it hard to tell. What is the set up of questions within the text? Is there a solution manual for sale somewhere? My college textbooks all had one, but I couldn't find one for this. I am completely comfortable following along helping with any material that my student doesn't understand. If I need to work entire sets of problems in order to do corrections every day I will quickly fall behind on those.
-
1 hour ago, gardenmom5 said:
they didn't say it did - they said it was a possible escape.
escapes from research facilities do happen - and are documented. the number of medical personal practicing all protocols while treating patients - who themselves end up ill, is still much too high.
having just been a patient in "droplet" protocols for two days before it was dropped - I watched at least one nurse be lax because it was "too much bother" to do the full protocol.
There is definitely a protocol fatigue that you run into in your example. We are frequently put under these protocols when we have a kid in the hospital because running a viral panel triggers precautions. Almost every time the doctors have no assumption of illness, but they need to rule it out before taking another course of action. It makes it easy to take things less seriously when there are so many false alarms.
Regardless of where it originated, I do worry about it a little. Not as much about actually coming into contact with it at this point (hopefully), but about medical services being overloaded by people with simple colds who think they have this, reducing availability for care for people who do need it.
-
2
-
-
One thing to keep in mind if you do go with a catastrophic type of policy is to make sure it does cover the emergencies that might come up. Some of them don't. All they do is meet the old tax requirement.
We have the opposite problem than most people, where we are going to reach our OOP max every year no matter what. So our deductible doesn't matter. Our premiums do though! We have researched a few of these plans and found that they didn't all provide the catastrophic coverage they were designed for.
-
4 hours ago, Pen said:
Where?!?! $50K for a huge house?!?! I’m totally amazed!
What would a smaller non fixer upper be?
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/612-11th-St-SW-Birmingham-AL-35211/992505_zpid/
Just the first I pulled off a search. If you want a 3 bedroom house in a good district you will pay $200K or more. We are zoned within the city district and our home was priced according to that and the fact that there was no running water plus major repairs needed.
On 1/19/2020 at 2:16 AM, BakersDozen said:I am well aware of that. I offered my post as a reference - to provide more information specific to this area even to within a few miles of where the grandparents live. My point is that there are other homes and other communities the grandparents could have and still can move to. So the grandmother saying that The Gardens was "all they could afford" is misleading, imo. The grandparents did not move to Prescott from a lower cost of living location just to raise their grandson. They could afford The Gardens and the HOA fees that come with it...finding another place to live should not be impossible given the prices and availability of homes here.
It's been very interesting actually living where something is taking place, hearing the other side, etc.I'm looking at it as a large amount of money, so there are different obstacles that might be in place. I can think of tons of reasons why an "inexpensive" $300K house might not be possible now even though they bought in an expensive area.
Maybe when they moved in they had more income and it would be hard to get a new mortgage now. Maybe their income was from investments that tanked and are only recovering now. Maybe they withdrew all their home equity to help pay for treatment for their daughter's cancer. Medical care like that is very expensive. I know a lot of people who sacrificed their credit score for family members in these scenarios.
It sounds like the norm for the area, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a large sum of money.
-
1
-
-
I would take what she does have and make it look good. Add educationese and goals and structure things around instructional units.
Can the 8th grader take a standardized test to show an adequate educational level, or are both kids behind?
Can they roll through a supermarket grade level workbook to have more to show? Do a couple audiobooks and discussion questions to flesh things out?
-
5
-
-
1 hour ago, BakersDozen said:
We also bought a home in Prescott 4 years ago. The price ranges were widely varied and there was still a great market for less expensive housing. I read that the grandmother stated that the Gardens was the only place they could afford but I would venture that was only for 55+ communities. So while her statement may be true it is, I feel, also misleading. Dump the HOA-fee community and there are oodles of other housing options here.
As for finding another place to move, we just helped my mom find a 3br/2ba home that is single-level, handicapped accessible, in Prescott proper, million dollar views...$300K (approximately 2.5 miles from The Gardens). We looked at 4 other properties that were all excellent for senior citizens, all in the same price range. No HOA telling who can/cannot live with you. So the options are there. Prescott is expensive, but it's not ridiculously so, and if one lives in Prescott proper then sells and moves "out" more it is very feasible to come out alright financially. Dump the HOA fees and one can definitely come out better!
This situation continues to hit home for me (and not just because I live in Prescott) but because my dh and I were ready to sell the home we just bought if it meant helping my mom. We still would. It would not be easy (time wise) but if it meant caring for her, we would move. We are also rule followers - we don't expect the rules to be for everyone but us. This is why we don't live in an HOA community...we'd be written up for sure! We like our kids' bikes being out on the front porch, we like to park our cars on the driveway, and we hang our laundry outside on the line. I think if we lived in an HOA where the rule was that senior citizens were not allowed and my mom needed a place to live, we would move rather than fight the rules we signed up and paid for. That's easy for me to say, though, as I/we are not elderly and in the last home we hope to ever live in.
The whole thing still stinks. Having lived in this community for almost 20 years I could totally see lawsuits not just at The Gardens but with other 55+/HOA communities if the grandson is allowed to stay as more requests are made based on this one situation.
$300K is very expensive for many parts of the country. Extremely expensive for some. 6 times what we bought our 3500 sqft fixer upper house for.
wuhan - coronavirus
in The Chat Board
Posted
This is part of my family's life too. My kids can't miss doses on their seizure medications, or they could die. It would be devastating for my family, but my kids running out of those wouldn't affect the rest of my community.
One of our kids is on multiple heavy duty antipsychotics, one of which was in a shortage for quite a while because of a manufacturer discontinuing it. We had several emergencies where it was not available at any pharmacy in our state and none was available to order. We needed to use the hospital. Imagining a community where people don't have access to the meds that keep their lives stable is very scary indeed.