Mama Carol

I got my information from the state health department in Florida. That's how I found out it was e.coli and not vibrio vulnificus. http://www.floridahealth.gov/environmental-health/beach-water-quality/index.html They also have this prominently at the top of their page: Media is reporting about flesh-eating bacteria and/or toxic bacteria closing Panhandle beaches. Those are false.

Perhaps they are sending them to an outdated address. I guess as long as you haven't gotten a bill from Healthport, they haven't sent the information. Be prepared for a hefty bill, too.

Not everything is available through a patient portal. And J's Mom is right about most medical records coming from a central point, such as Healthport. I've gotten records from Sacred Heart in Pensacola through Healthport and I also got records from Resurgens in Austell through Healthport. Someone in the offices might be able to pull information up and hit print but hospital records don't seem to be that way. A doctor's office won't give you copies of hospital information. I still need to get information from Cobb Hospital but I've saved that for my last request of old records.

For the injections, it turned out to be about $300 cheaper to pay for it. For the mammogram, I paid less in CASH than I did my co-pay the year before.

From Gulf Shores east to about Fort Walton is wonderful. The further east you go, the worse it is. Love Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach. Just rarely go any more.

If there had been mention of an overnight stay in the hospital or anything else, it would have different. While it is true there is less exposure to germs in an outpatient facility, there is no hospital connected to this. The hospital is about a mile away. Maybe even more than that. Technically my knee replacements were "short stay". I went in at 5 a.m., had surgery at 7 a.m. and went home the next day around 2 p.m. But it WAS at the hospital. I had two surgeries in an outpatient surgery center and had absolutely no problems. However, they were not back surgeries.

You are very blessed. She has not gotten anything but a hard time. Every medical treatment thus far has required a court order. Only check she got was one about six weeks ago for a permanent partial disability rating on her knee. Which has gotten worse since that. I just hope and pray they aren't as slow to settle as they have been to pay for medical care.

She has apparently met maximum medical improvement for her knee. And it got worse, so not sure what is going to happen about that. I just can't see ANY back surgery being outpatient! I know things have changed over the years but this isn't a tonsillectomy! I would think 2 or 3 days in the hospital, at least, and then like you said, PT for months. As it is, she can barely walk but she can walk, with a cane or walker. What scares the living daylights out of me is if something happens and she falls or is in a car wreck. Where her injuries are in her back could paralyze her. In f

We're working on finding her another two. In fact, I'm working on finding one for my husband who needs almost the same kind of surgery. Unfortunately, what is really convenient for her isn't convenient for us since we live in different parts of the county. But we're getting there with a doctor. I know!!! I used to work for some orthopaedists who had consulting privileges at one hospital (can't remember which one but it wasn't close to the office) but admitting privileges at Cobb, Kennestone, Windy Hill, Smyrna, Physicians and Surgeons, Parkway. Yep, it was a long time ago but still

The beaches in my area--Santa Rosa and Escambia County, FL--are fine. It's Walton and Okaloosa Counties where the e.coli has shown up. Texas also seems to be having problems with gators.

Actually it was wrong. Totally. Not a flesh eating bacteria at all. The bacteria in the water is E.coli, not vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh eating bacteria". Beats Working, I hate to hear about your family member. That happens some times with people who have compromised immune systems, are diabetic or have iron overload. My husband has a friend here locally who gave up fishing for a while after reports of the vibrio vulnificus bacteria being the local water. He had just come back from Biloxi, where he was receiving chemo treatments at the VA. The sad thing is often peopl

She's decided to try to settle with the insurance company and then see another doctor. On a somewhat related note, when she fell in April 2015, she hurt her knee as well as her back. She has had maybe a half dozen visits to the orthopaedist for the knee. Maybe a half dozen, probably more like four. He wanted to do surgery on her knee but couldn't tell her exactly what was wrong with it. Apparently the man's reading skills are lacking because the MRI report said what was wrong but that's not what he told her. Anway, she ended up in the ER on Sunday night with knee pain, after it popp

I remember standing at my office window on Main Street watching his funeral procession go by. I didn't know him and cried like a baby. We shall not forget the sacrifices of our soldiers.

She's in Florida.

She'll do fine. She cancelled it. She isn't comfortable having half the surgery she needs nor having it outpatient. That's my thinking, too! I had both knees replaced, in two different surgeries. I went home the next day. With the first one I asked the doctor when he made afternoon rounds if I could go home. He shook his head and said "not until tomorrow". So I had to stay overnight. I was fine with that. I'd been fine with short stay, too.

So, use the Pcom name unless it's their real name. In which case, you're free to call them whatever you want to?

My daughter was scheduled to have a two level lumbar fusion, decompression and laminectomy. Insurance only approved part of it (WTH???). They approved the fusion and the decompression but only on one level, not two. It was scheduled for July 11. As an OUTPATIENT. Has anyone ever heard of a spine fusion being done outpatient? And at an outpatient surgery center, not outpatient at a hospital?

post #1 If you want to refer to someone, use their current pcom name, or even a former pcom name. Just don't use their real name. Post #9 refrain from using the real name. It's just courtesy. post #6 The member who this is probably about used to go by his real name and it's still in his name history. So, you can't use a real name even if it used to be, or still is, their current Pcom name. My question is their real name is their current Pcom name, what the heck are we supposed to call them? You-whose-name-we-can't-use?

So members can't use the poster's real name even if it is in their screen name?

Several years ago I had a mammogram at Paulding Imaging. I paid out of pocket. It was cheaper for me to pay for it myself than to pay my co-pay. I'd had one the previous year, which insurance covered, and I ended up paying almost twice of what I did when I paid out of pocket. That's totally insane! Same thing happened when I went to have Synvisc injections in my knee. It cost me a couple of hundred dollars less to pay for it myself than to use my insurance. I was so grateful that I thought to ask the doctor's office about paying out of pocket.

I had uncles who married sisters. Then later on, one of those sisters married my mom's first husband. I asked my half sister one day what she called our aunt--Aunt Naomi or Mom. She laughed and said she had been Aunt Naomi for many, many years and would continue to be. Besides she considered my dad (her stepdad) as her dad and not her biological dad.

Yes, that was quite common in the past. I think my mom and her first husband were distantly related, like second cousins. I used to know the relationship but like much else, I've forgotten what it was.

I only had to walk for a couple of minutes, maybe 3. Just enough to see that my oxygen levels were going to be OK on room air. I think I walked out of my room, down past the next room and back to my room. Apparently it doesn't take long to check those levels. And no, I was not at a Wellstar hospital.

In the 30 plus years I was an adult and living in Cobb County, I was only in the hospital twice. Once for childbirth and once for surgery. Both at Cobb. Excellent care except the dietary department never got my food right when I had my hysterectomy and I left the hospital never having had a solid meal (just liquid). Otherwise, everything was great there. I had a couple of mammograms at Cobb and was not happy with the wait time so I switched to Paulding. No wait time. In fact, one time my boss' wife and I had our mammograms scheduled at the same time at different hospitals--she at K

At the risk of repeating what you already know, try this and then pick the facility. http://www.wellstar.org/patient-visitor-information/pages/request-medical-records.aspx Good luck! Be prepared to pay for the records, too. I obtained records from a Georgia medical provider. If I remember correctly it was 75 or 80 cents PER PAGE.