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even if it is given to you, unlimited variety of perfect [for you] worlds to inhabit?

I think I'm going to switch doctors.

About five years ago I went to the the local clinic when I was sick and paid for my treatment in full before leaving. A couple of months later, they added some extra fees and started billing me but refused to explain what the extra fees covered. I refused to pay until they could tell me what they were for and that took an entire year.

Since then, I have been going to another doctor in a more distant town. Every visit, they added it up while I was there and I paid in full. I've never seen a doctor elsewhere start adding more charges to the bill after I had left.

Because of the weather, I went back to the first clinic this time. They had me pay before treatment. Part of the treatment included a steroid. Since I had already written a check for the visit, I didn't stop and think about whether there would be any additional charges.

I'm probably on their sh*t list now. I'll call up on Friday and check to see if there were additional charges and if I'm feeling better will go by and pay them then.

In the future, I seriously doubt that I go back to their clinic for treatment.

One thing I find interesting is that the further clinic is privately owned while the local one is owned by the local hospital district. Naturally, the one owned by the local hospital district charges at least twice as much for a visit as the privately owned clinic even though the local clinic receives a lot of money from property taxes.

The last time I went to the private clinic (last March), the visit plus a steroid injection was about $80. The doctor's visit at the local, presumably not including the steroid injection, was $140. I bet they add another $30 or $40 for the injection. The visit five years ago to the local visit, with a Vitamin B12 injection, was $160.

i meant permanence on this world.
i understand that routine and some permanence can be comforting when it seems like everything is falling apart around you - but i'd lose my mind if everything was the same, EVERYTHING, EVERY DAY.

what you propose is different, and way better. maybe nirvana in a world like that wouldn't be bad.

thanks for the picture, by the way. not a hint of human tampering or pollution to be seen.

I have to ask this, I hope you don't mind- but why aren't you getting health coverage via the state exchange? you could be saving lots of money that way.

prego what would you think of a "groundhog day" scenario?

I'm still waiting for the dust to settle. Being in Texas with no state exchange, there is a big question about whether or not such subsidies would even be legal. We really won't know until the Supreme Court hears the case. If they rule by what the law says, the government may be able to claw those subsidies back out of your hands.

Also, from what I understand, they want to put you on Medicaid in many cases. Working at a small family company that doesn't make all that much money and with low pay levels, I figure I could easily end up on Medicaid as well. I'd hate to see them come and take the family farm.

too bad you aren't in Washington state, you might qualify for applecare.

That would work.

Actually, I like it just fine in Texas. We don't have all them trees and mountains cluttering up the scenery.

we "warshintonans" consider precisely the trees and mountains to BE the scenery

Our scenery walks around:



Not only that, we can eat our scenery.

we got lots cows of all kindsa colors also! and more deer than you can shake a stick at! I should know, one of 'em whopped me but good a few years back.

A deer butted me with his head the other day when I wasn't looking.

I was at someone's house. He had the gate chained shut. When asked, he said it was to keep the deer and cattle out of the yard! I thought he was just being witty and laughed.

When I was leaving, there was a deer at the front gate! I went through the gate and patted him on the head. When I turned around to close the gate, he butted me in the back with his head. When I turned back around, he started rising up on his hind legs, but I pushed him back down and got in the pickup.

I thought that was the strangest deer encounter that I ever saw.

There was one local deer about 20 years ago that I used to stop and pet him whenever I saw him, but he was never at all aggressive.

I wonder if that relatively tame deer had at some point been routinely fed by humans?

The first time I saw him I had been fishing on a creek one spring and heard a noise behind me. I turned around and saw a deer standing about ten feet behind me calmly stripping leaves off of a tree. I watched for a few minutes and he ignored me. After a bit I walked up to him and it didn't alarm him. I was able to pet him and scratch his neck without a problem. He clearly enjoyed it.

About a week later, I asked a state trooper about him. He said that a family in a nearby town had been found to be raising him in their back yard. Texas Parks and Wildlife picked the deer up, drove him down to the creek, and let him go. The rest of the summer, I saw the deer about every one to two weeks. He always seemed calm, but he did seem a bit more skittish by the end of the summer. He also had more and more scrapes visible each time I saw him.

After the summer, I didn't make it over to that creek for a while and I never saw him again. I suspect that he probably didn't fare too well in his first hunting season.

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sad. reminds me of what my dad told me about when he was in the army, the barracks had a pet deer that somebody fed, but he got too big and unruly and made a mess of the barracks crapping all over the place and such, so they chased him away but he would come running back with evidence off dog bites on him. somebody eventually made him into dinner.

Someone told me that the other deer hadn't been raised as a pet at all. They said that they thought the doe had been killed by a car on the nearby highway, but after the deer was old enough to somewhat survive by itself. Under those circumstances, hanging out near a farmhouse would give it access to water and would make it less likely to be killed by the coyotes because the farmer's dogs would chase the coyotes off.