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I HATE health"care" in the US. When I checked in for my infusion this afternoon, they asked me to prepay the $2800 bill.
Me: Why?
#Kaiser: It's your first treatment of the new year. Your last was in late December.
Me: Yeah, I know when I had my last infusion but why am I being asked to prepay for it? I've never been asked to prepay before and besides #Pfizer pays for it.
K: Oh? Are you part of a trial? Why isn't that on your chart? 1/3
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Years ago, when we bought our home, my husband pressure-cooked the window hardware to remove the many layers of paint. Recently, we gave the interior #Doors #UnlacqueredBrass hardware. So pretty! Last week, I busted out the brass polish to clean up the now tarnished window hardware. Except, oops, it's plated, and I ruined it with the brass polish. Today, the #Windows got their new raw #Brass jewelry. And I cleaned up the patio door #Corbin #Nightlatch deadbolt, too. #House #DIY
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I saw my #Rheumatologist in person today for the first time since #Humira caused my liver and kidney debacle. She listened to me. She explained why she isn't keen on what I want (my #Methotrexate back), but she understands why I want it. In the end, she came up with a treatment plan that is aggressive (more #Inflectra more often and a wee methotrexate dose) but will hopefully not send my liver and kidneys into a spiral. I left her office feeling heard. 🩷 Such a gift to a patient. #NEISVoid
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I saw my #Rheumatologist in person today for the first time since #Humira caused my liver and kidney debacle. She listened to me. She explained why she isn't keen on what I want (my #Methotrexate back), but she understands why I want it. In the end, she came up with a treatment plan that is aggressive (more #Inflectra more often and a wee methotrexate dose) but will hopefully not send my liver and kidneys into a spiral. I left her office feeling heard. 🩷 Such a gift to a patient. #NEISVoid
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I saw my #Rheumatologist in person today for the first time since #Humira caused my liver and kidney debacle. She listened to me. She explained why she isn't keen on what I want (my #Methotrexate back), but she understands why I want it. In the end, she came up with a treatment plan that is aggressive (more #Inflectra more often and a wee methotrexate dose) but will hopefully not send my liver and kidneys into a spiral. I left her office feeling heard. 🩷 Such a gift to a patient. #NEISVoid
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I bumped into a picture in the dining room, and that revealed the #NewburyPortBlue paint from #SherwinWilliams I used in 2019 has faded significantly. This explains why the room feels purple now. Off to the paint store (#BenjaminMoore) where I found the cutest paint sample roller. It even comes with its own roller tray built into the package. So I'm painting a second room the same(-ish) color it already is. Boring. But it's halfway to a gorgeous blue again. #DIY #OldHouse #EverythingIsAProject
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I bumped into a picture in the dining room, and that revealed the #NewburyPortBlue paint from #SherwinWilliams I used in 2019 has faded significantly. This explains why the room feels purple now. Off to the paint store (#BenjaminMoore) where I found the cutest paint sample roller. It even comes with its own roller tray built into the package. So I'm painting a second room the same(-ish) color it already is. Boring. But it's halfway to a gorgeous blue again. #DIY #OldHouse #EverythingIsAProject
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I bumped into a picture in the dining room, and that revealed the #NewburyPortBlue paint from #SherwinWilliams I used in 2019 has faded significantly. This explains why the room feels purple now. Off to the paint store (#BenjaminMoore) where I found the cutest paint sample roller. It even comes with its own roller tray built into the package. So I'm painting a second room the same(-ish) color it already is. Boring. But it's halfway to a gorgeous blue again. #DIY #OldHouse #EverythingIsAProject
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I bumped into a picture in the dining room, and that revealed the #NewburyPortBlue paint from #SherwinWilliams I used in 2019 has faded significantly. This explains why the room feels purple now. Off to the paint store (#BenjaminMoore) where I found the cutest paint sample roller. It even comes with its own roller tray built into the package. So I'm painting a second room the same(-ish) color it already is. Boring. But it's halfway to a gorgeous blue again. #DIY #OldHouse #EverythingIsAProject
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I bumped into a picture in the dining room, and that revealed the #NewburyPortBlue paint from #SherwinWilliams I used in 2019 has faded significantly. This explains why the room feels purple now. Off to the paint store (#BenjaminMoore) where I found the cutest paint sample roller. It even comes with its own roller tray built into the package. So I'm painting a second room the same(-ish) color it already is. Boring. But it's halfway to a gorgeous blue again. #DIY #OldHouse #EverythingIsAProject
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Ta-da! However, I found older outlets behind the sofa and two six-foot bookcases. They'll get new white #GFCI outlets today. Fingers crossed that the living room will be fully painted this evening, and I can move on to painting the dining room.
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Ta-da! However, I found older outlets behind the sofa and two six-foot bookcases. They'll get new white #GFCI outlets today. Fingers crossed that the living room will be fully painted this evening, and I can move on to painting the dining room.
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Me: I'm only prepping and painting one wall at a time.
Him: Why? That's so much more work and prep is 90% of painting.
M: Everything is a project in this #100YearOldHouse. I don't want to live with the room torn up for weeks.
H: It's painting the living room. We had it painted when we moved in. How much of a project could it become?May I present the project I knew would pop up...
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Me: I'm only prepping and painting one wall at a time.
Him: Why? That's so much more work and prep is 90% of painting.
M: Everything is a project in this #100YearOldHouse. I don't want to live with the room torn up for weeks.
H: It's painting the living room. We had it painted when we moved in. How much of a project could it become?May I present the project I knew would pop up...
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Going back to the beginning, this is what 15 summers does. Besides the flora for pollinators and a room for our family, we've more than 20 kinds of birds who visit us. Caterpillars turned themselves into black swallowtail butterflies this year. Annual cicadas spend summers serenading us. Bats live in the maple tree. Grasshoppers love the shrubs. We sit eating strawberries off the plants with the sun on our faces. Best of all, our souls are happy. #Gardening #Zone5b #Denver #BloomScrolling /fin
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One year a blustery March saw our 40-year-old fence fall to the ground. I can’t allow wood to be scrapped, so we built a “tree house” for the kids. They each picked a tree for it. One picked an Aspen, and the other picked a purple something or other that is actually a pretty bush. Maybe not this year since it’s been beaten to heck by hail at least a dozen times this year. Then the Japanese beetles moved in. I hate them. Most years, it’s gorgeous. #Gardening #Zone5b #Denver #BloomScrolling 6/7
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It turns out trees grow more slowly than children, and we wanted to play outside. Husband and tools to the rescue. I gave him photos of English summer houses. On the last cut of the project, he came into the bathroom where I showering and calmly said, “I cut myself. Could you drive me to the ER?” He missed an artery by millimeters. Many stitches later, we had shade, and he learned never to use the radial arm saw without the guard in place. Ever.
#Gardening #Zone5b #Denver #BloomScrolling 5/7 -
There was still far too much lawn, though, so when I was eight months pregnant with our second child, I decided we needed to rip out the random section of lawn off by itself and put in a border along the walkway. 🙄 The border has morphed into a strawberry bed (FYI: squirrels dislike tarragon so much they’ll leave strawberries alone), and that random bed was a raised veggie garden for a decade before the neighbor's tree grew up and shaded it. #Gardening #Zone5b #Denver #BloomScrolling 4/7
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Then I read that Virginia Creeper berries could make a toddler sick. My husband was on travel, but that's never stopped me when an idea takes hold. Plus, I knew where we kept the Sawz-all. What I didn't know was that once I got the fence down, I'd find four windows into the neighbor's garage. Fortunately, my husband has more tools than Norm Abrams and thought building "shutters" and flower boxes would take care of things. #Gardening #Zone5b #Denver #BloomScrolling 3/7
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So first things first. We needed a tree to shade the concrete patio eventually. We couldn't understand why the patio was literally as far away from the house as it could be and still be on our property. Turns out it was the pool deck for the in-ground swimming pool and spa circa 1977-1994. We found that out when we tried to plant the tree and kept hitting concrete and rebar. #Gardening #Zone5b #Denver #BloomScrolling 2/7
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When we bought our home 15 summers ago, the backyard was basically lawn and Virginia Creeper. There wasn't bird song. Or pollinators. Just a lot of scorching Colorado (US) sun and Kentucky Bluegrass that wanted vast quantities of water in a state that historically doesn't have a lot of water. It wasn't a place where my melanin-challenged family could spend much time. #Gardening #Zone5b #Denver #BloomScrolling 1/7
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I sent my #Rheumatologist an email with a question about our discussion of switching meds. She responded with a script for one that we hadn't discussed. I followed up by asking about the one we did discuss and pointed out the new one isn't on my plan's formulary. Someone from her office called and basically bullied me into accepting that I'm wrong about what plan I have and what the formulary says before proceeding to tell me there is zero difference between the two drugs. 1/2