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Is alright, communication is communication, as long as the receiving party understands, you're done!

However, I'm much more tolerant of typos, etc since left hand/arm is going off. Can't even open a simple twist jar with it anymore. Now the hand comes in so late that the left hand letters seem to come AFTER the right hand letters, completely out of place. Now, worse, the keyboard doesn't even receive enough pressure to register the keystroke, and the character(s) end up missing, too! sigh. Takes a LOT of rereading. So, fogettaboutit.

Have you been checked-out for a possible stroke?? At the first occurrence of such symptoms you should have beat it to an emergency room. ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Thanks for the heads up. My BP is in the range of 110/70 even at my age, and during plastic surgical procedure in office operating setup, lasting 3 hours, the surgeon kept asking me if I exercised a lot as some kind of sports enthusiast, because from start to finish my BP went from 110/70 only to 130/70 [I didn't tell him I was simply controlling it, and I do absolutely NO exercise whatsoever! He told me to talk less since my face was hanging open in places. I left exercise to my brother. As children, we divided up the world. He got sports and I got everything else.]

My respect for doctors is right up there with my respect for lawyers. A FEW are incredibly good! As you may recall, in 1977 I designed Non-Invasive Medical Diagnostic Equipment, Ultrasonic Echocardiography, and worked with five of the most prestigious cardiologists and heart surgeons in the US to develop a 'nice' piece of gear. That period of time was filled with MANY eye-opening experiences. In defense of doctors, I have learned to sympathize with the personal effect of developing diagnoses skills. You take one look at a person, and you know where their body will be in 6 months to 2 years, and often there's NOTHING you can do to change the trajectory. Yes, I sympathize for anyone to have THAT burden, and it IS a burden. I'm glad over the years I've lost the ability.

I see your problem, two handed typing, you need to start hunt and peck!

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Here's my question; In what way does the extra $6,000 get to those who were supposed to be helped?

And here is the very detailed and on point response from my senator. NOT!

"I received your concerns about the Affordable Care Act. Understandably, health care reform is a topic that strikes a chord with people all over America and across the Sunshine State.

I?ve heard from many Floridians on this.

Some are glad for the reforms already starting to take place; others want changes or even to see the law repealed as quickly as possible.

I want to start by assuring you that I respect and welcome all different viewpoints.

Let me say one thing: it was clear when Congress considered the Affordable Care Act that our health care system was broken and things had to change.

Folks like you were taking a hit every single time an uninsured person walked into an emergency room. People were going broke simply because they got sick, or they couldn't get insurance coverage because of a pre-existing condition. And, too many young adults struggled to afford their own coverage after being dropped from their parents? plans.

Although imperfect, the new health care law does take steps toward making sure more Americans have access to affordable health care through a market-based system.

I want you to know that I remain ready and willing to work with my colleagues in Congress from both sides of the political aisle to fix the health care system as needed.

And I will be sure to keep your concerns in mind. Again, I appreciate your contacting me."

Sincerely, Bill Nelson

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I'm having trouble with my blood pressure runs 140/80 to 160/97. I'm on my 4th iteration of meds. The third I thought was going to work, with the first pill I got light headed and 5 hrs later I got a chance to measure my BP at 92/55! I experimented a bit with 1/2 pill and now I'm taking the whole pill and not seeing good results. When I started BP meds 3 years ago I was boarderline 135/80. It has risen since I started taking meds. Mikek

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104/64 73HR Right after breakfast and a 2nd cup of coffee ;-)

Was the "plastic" to tighten "turkey neck"? I need to do that... losing 40 pounds over the last year and a half has left me "loose" all over ;-)

And no enlarged prostate either >:-} ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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That killfile idea is looking better and better. LOL. Mikek

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Go for it, we'll all be eternally grateful for the quiet. ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Well Jim, I think I went overboard one day and told him he was full of shit, that is not something I'm known to do, I guess I'm punishing myself. :-) Mikek

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When I first bought private health insurnace from Blue Shield, the premium was $45 a month for 2K deductable. 16 years later the preimium had risen to around $200 a month. They raised it every 5 years. Then I had heart bypass surgery at a cost of 87K for 8 days in a VA hospital, about 10K per day. So, they may have collected 50K in 16 years and then paid out 87K for a loss of

37K. But it was good insurance. They even called me at home after the surgery to see how I was doing and if I needed anything. But eventually, the rate got to $400 a month and I couldn't afford it anymore, so now the VA pays most of my medical bills. Co-payments are $15 to see a general doctor and $50 to see a specialist. Drugs are all $9 for a 30 day supply. And the VA told me I didn't need Obamacare and can cancel the medicare payments and save the money since the VA doesn't get any payment from medicare. .

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Yeah, healthcare has really gone up over the years. Most likely because the price of Mercedes and Lexus has gone up a lot too.. ;)

My dad had a bypass maybe around 1980 couple and he was floored at the $16,000 price tag. LOL Of course even then that was the sticker price which nobody pays, especially not the insurance company. I assume your bypass was much more recent. Still, that's a 5:1 increase in not all that many years, A LOT higher than inflation.

I can't explain the numbers posted here by some people. I will be finding out for myself shortly. In November I will be wading into the insurance morass for myself.

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You're going to get that eternal quietude sooner than you would like...

I can't quote that many lines.

No subsidy for me. However, my plan (Blue Shield) mixes me in the group that gets the subsidy, so my "group" contains young and old. Now technically you can say I get a subsidy since people in my group get a subsidy, so subsidy money is in the pool. But I don't get a direct subsidy.

My old plan qualified, i.e. I could keep my it. [My insurance was actual insurance.] But the problem was nobody could enter my plan. Thus there is no way this plan could get cheaper since the pool by definition has to get older.

My choice was to stay in a plan where nobody was getting ACA money and the pool was aging, or change plans and "parallel" a plan with people who are younger and getting ACA subsidy.

My insurance agency kicks ass. One office person was trying to claim my visit wasn't covered. She was interpreting the coverage incorrectly. Rather than spend an hour with Blue Shield, I called the agent, and she explained to me how to instruct this office worker how to interpret the contract, and she decided I was covered.

I want single payer. There are so many plans that nobody can figure out this cluster f*ck. However, our so called socialist POTUS went for the Heritage Foundation plan using private insurance.

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I'd fire that sucker!

Wow! It's from all that exercise, seriously!

No, I used to have what I called a 'John Boy' mole on my cheek. If you look at the old shows the actor who played John-Boy in Walton's Mtn [never watched it but saw him later in some good films] has a large mole on his cheek. Sadly, like one's nose, moles continue to grow and after cutting it while shaving several times, thought was not a good idea to have around. So selected the head of the plastic surgeon's something as the doctor [and checking with some friends] decided to go to him. While under knife thought I might as well go through and remove nuisance items, I call 'Leutonians' after Jahn Candy's character from Leutonia who had much larger versions on his face as the accordian player in some film. Also and irritating blue neva(sp?) on my shoulder. All benign, of course. Whole procedure took around 3 hours in his office [operating theatre] and cost $2k. [Three people for 3 hours with followup, I've paid more for building construction!] Everything went perfectly, I followed his instructions about painting the areas with iodine starting a week before, and strictly adhered to his post operative requests, healed quickly, scars only showing up now about 20 years later as the sun starts damaging. Learned a lot. Most painful part was that damned wrist vein drip, ..which they told me was for emergency access. And I love that surgical tape instead of sutures

- no scars on the small cuts. The large mole had several stitches but I am glad that thing's gone!

Loose skin? aha! dehydration exacerbated by wine! with red being the worst offender. Since I can't envision you abandoning that past time, yeah go for it! Why not? Main thing to watch for are the pre-melanoma skin spots. Cut them off early.

Yep, lots of exercise... get out of bed, take shower, pour coffee, sit down at PC, eat two pieces if multi-grain toast slathered in butter (my usual breakfast, though sometimes some yogurt, eggs maybe once a week).

Usually skip lunch, have "supper" mid to late afternoon, back to PC, watch Fox News or PBS late evening... drink wine ;-)

Though yesterday, I actually was up and down a ladder multiple times fishing CAT5 (and wall-wart cable) from our "Open House" hub up to the ceiling to mount my Medialink Wireless Router properly... SWMBO did not approve of my string of cable and extension cord and "dangle" mounting method ;-)

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Me too... when I sliced the palm of my hand last year they used tape.

Naaaah. Loose skin from dropping 40 pounds and going from an 18" neck shirt size to 15-1/2"

So far, knock on wood, no skin issues. ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142     Skype: skypeanalog  |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.