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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited August 2013

    The whole thing was to tell me the mammo showed no abnormalties.  Whew!  Thank you girls for being there for me.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2013

    WHY can't they leave GOOD messages on voicemail??????? I HATE having to "contact the office as soon as I can!"!!!!!

    Found out my insurance company that has cut me off has sent further letters to my doctors asking for more information!!! Why??? Are they building ammunition in case I "recur" and have to go back on LTD??? I told one doctor to NOT answer the letter as I was no longer covered!!

    (The letters also said that the insurance company would pay the first $75 of the cost for the report and the patient (ME!!!) would pay the rest!!!! PLEASE don't spend my money for me! I do that quite well myself....sheesh!!!)

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2013

    Barbe, do you no longer have the policy, or have they stopped your benefit for now?



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  • clwhetstone
    clwhetstone Member Posts: 63
    edited August 2013

    My Chemo blankets :) I made these during chemo

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  • clwhetstone
    clwhetstone Member Posts: 63
    edited August 2013

    It didn't show the pictures :(

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  • clwhetstone
    clwhetstone Member Posts: 63
    edited August 2013

    HAHA guess I should read instructions before I try doing something.  LOL    figured it out woooohooo :)

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2013

    Beautiful crochet. Very nice.

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  • juliaanna
    juliaanna Member Posts: 1,043
    edited August 2013

    Beautiful blankets

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited August 2013

    Lovely work! They would look amazing hung on the wall of any nursery.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2013

    BEAUTIFUL and joyful blankets!! You have had a good thing come out of a stressful situation sl...well done!!!

    Melissa, my previous company is paying my benefits until mid-December so theorectically I'm still with Great West Life (insurance company). My company told GWL that they DID have a job for me which they didn't!!!!! So my ex-company is "buying" me out by paying 18 weeks of full-pay and continuing my benefits till then as well. Nice, but I still need a JOB!!!!!!!!!! So, if I "recur" I can just see the fight now!!! I'm not employed by my previous company, but AM being paid by them!!! I have been terminated as of July 31st.

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2013

    As long as you still have coverage you are required to comply with their requests so don't tell the doctor not to do the report. Sorry, but I worked for a health insurance co. (Not disability, but I know...) for thirteen years and this is a big no no. You might find that if you do recur your coverage has been cancelled for noncompliance.

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited August 2013

    CL, really heirloom blankets! Beautiful.

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  • clwhetstone
    clwhetstone Member Posts: 63
    edited August 2013

    Thanks everyone.    I want to make a choo choo train one next and then I am going to make one for each of my girls and my 4 nieces so they will have them for when they have children.       It keeps me focused on the blanket and my mind doesn't run crazy with "what ifs"     Crafts definately help :)    I am hoping I will be able to crochet some after the bmx, te and reconstruction.  

    Cathy

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  • juliaanna
    juliaanna Member Posts: 1,043
    edited August 2013

    clwhetstone,

    I'm sure you will be able to crochet after your surgery.  I was knitting like crazy after mine-it kept me sane.  

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  • clwhetstone
    clwhetstone Member Posts: 63
    edited August 2013

    thank you juliaanna

    I find that I worry about some of the dumbest things lately.    I am over anxious these days waiting for a date for surgery is about to drive me over the edge.    I want to have everything done and completed by 12/31/2013 I don't want to deal with anything other than follow up and check in appointments in 2014.  LOL 

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited August 2013

    Good luck with getting everything out of the way.  Back in 2011 I was trying for the same thing - unfortunately, it didn't work out for me - but hope it all goes well for you!!!

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2013

    I finally finished my first "real", as in bed-sized quilt.  I was really happy with how it came out.

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2013

    And showing back fabric

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited August 2013

    Wow! Melissa that look fabulous! Love the use of colour and I can't believe it hasn't taken you long to do it either! Well done you!

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited August 2013

    WOW is right.  That is beautiful.  I'm looking forward to making a quilt one of these days.  :)

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2013

    What size should I be using when I load these pictures?  Obviously I need to make them smaller. I know you can adjust them, but I don't know what dimensions are good.

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited August 2013

    I usually try to stay smaller than 650 x 550, don't know what other people do, though....  :)

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited August 2013

    That's about the range that I use also.

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2013

    Let's try this

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2013

    Do NOT make the pictures smaller!! They are perfect and so is your quilt!!!! You did AMAZING!!! What a joyful, fun project. You MUST be very proud of yourself!!!!!

    Melissa, about insurance, they are under the assumption that I continued with my current job. They have no idea that I was let go as my company had told them that "of course they had a job for me!" They didn't. But, they are paying my coverage until mid-December. It is just for extra benefits like prescriptions and PT and such. I get general medical coverage from the government, so I've still got that. Nobody believes that they'd renew my long-term disability anyway if I had to stop working again! I haven't even STARTED working again as I can't find a bloody job!!!!! They wanted ALL the doctors notes (Psychiatrist) from our meetings. Umm, NO. This isn't a homicide or something!! That is pretty private shit. Though seriously it was mostly about being so stressed by being off work and on half-pay!!!! I can understand them wanting specialists like surgeons and stuff, but not psychiatry!!!

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  • clwhetstone
    clwhetstone Member Posts: 63
    edited August 2013

    absolutely beautiful!  

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited August 2013

    Melissa, What a joy it would be to wake up under that quilt! I love the happy colors. I'm so impressed because you began quilting such a short time ago.

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited August 2013

    Many employers think they have the upper hand because they've got the job and you want the job.  They get a bit big for their britches as a result.  Asking for psychiatric records is out of line - as is asking for your facebook password, and some do that, too. 

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited August 2013

    Melissa, the quilt is beautiful. 

    Barbe, hope you can get your insurance straightened out and you are able to get a job.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited August 2013

    Melissa, I am super impressed with your quilt.  I wish I could make something that beautiful, especially in such a relatively short period of time.  WOW-love the colors!

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