Mama Carol

I understand it to a degree. If it's something I can normally do on my own, I'd die before asking for help. I couldn't even ask my husband to help me take a shower when I couldn't get in and out of the tub by myself after foot surgery. I'm probably way too independent for my own good. One needs to be able to ask for help when they need it. I understand where Danaerys is coming from on this. But, if you're a couple, married or not, you've made a pact with each other either consciously or unconsciously and you should do whatever it takes to help the other. Ring or not, you have an obli

I seriously doubt you could bypass the passwords in the tax software, which is where most of the personal information would be. Those can be really tough, even for the people using them. Just because you're a hacker doesn't mean you could hack some of those. The tax software makers know how to make these relatively secure. At least had you gotten the computers were I worked, you would have a problem. They had double and triple layer protection, as do I. Often, just because you have the software does not mean you can get the data. Our data and software were stored separately. If you h

Reading is one thing. This math problem is another. What SECOND GRADER needs to know how to do this? I can tell you. NONE.

I HIGHLY recommend Tina Drummond!

Likely the education credit is what is holding it up. Lots and lots of fraud concerning those credits in years past. It doesn't matter who completes the return, they are all processed by the IRS in their own sweet time.

Oh gosh, how right you are!! I took a class like that in high school called Life Skills. My second favorite class after Mass Media but probably the most valuable class I ever took--tech school and high school combined.

That's what I don't understand. My kids were still learning their "times tables" in second grade.

My answer: is this something that I will REALLY need to know at some point in my life or is this just something to see if I grasp the concept of algebra and mathematics? And why in the second grade? Good heavens, Starr is almost 5 and is a whiz at a lot of things but I can just see her sitting there giving this look: Maybe in three years when she's in second grade she will understand this (and then explain it to her Nana).

He has no legal obligation, for sure. Moral obligation? I'd say so. Of course, there is no common law marriage in Georgia any longer, so you can't even be considered married. If you're not married or even considered married, how does the "household" income come into play? He isn't obligated to pay any of your expenses, so why should it be used to qualify you for assistance? Maybe I don't get the whole system. Lord knows I tried to understand it. My daughter's neighbors getting food stamps SEPARATELY for everyone in the family just confused me even more.

I just don't understand not asking your mate to help you with something you need. I understand reluctance, been there and done that. But NOT asking, I just don't get.

I'm going to say something that probably won't win me any popularity contests but that's OK. I'm not out to be deemed Ms Paulding.Com. If your "mate" is at least keeping a roof over your head and food in your belly, they should not be willing to see you suffer physical or mental anguish because of $140 you need to go to the doctor. I simply can't imagine a loving, caring mate who says because you don't PERSONALLY have the money to go that you can't go. Maybe my wonderful, sharing, caring, loving husband of 35 years has spoiled me. There is absolutely nothing in this world we woul

Having worked in that industry, I find it difficult to believe that any Social Security numbers or anything else identifiable could have been found. Our computers were always password protected, as was the software. It's the reason my personal computer, that I use for work as well, has double, or in some cases, triple layers of passwords to get to any personal information.

Really?

I'm so old that I remember when you couldn't sign an executable real estate contract on Sunday. Or buy toilet paper on Sunday.

Will I retire? Possibly from work where you get a paycheck every week or every two weeks or the 1st and the 15th but will I stop working? God, I hope not. I love working. Even if I'm not working a job I will be doing something. My goal in life is to volunteer at the hospital to rock babies.

At the health department a GYN check is $140? That just doesn't sound right. I know they charge but that's more than a lot of doctors charge.

Private hospitals can. That's part of why we loved Parkway Hospital ER. It wasn't a "county" hospital and didn't have to accept emergency patients regardless of ability to pay. County/taxpayer supported hospitals cannot. In other words, if the hospital or facility receives federal money from a program such as Medicare or Medicaid, they cannot turn you away for emergency treatment. They CAN stabilize you and transfer you to another hospital with your consent but they cannot turn you away for EMERGENCY treatment. This is why the ER at places like Cobb or Kennestone (and I'm guessing Pauld

I always loved the ones who said "I'm going to talk to the doctor about this". Who did they think told me to call them???? The President? My next favorite response was "I'll have your job for this". OK. Whatever. I didn't like making those calls any better than the patients liked getting them.

I hate those diagnostic mammograms. They are way worse than the screening mammograms. Yeah, I used to get yelled at because the insurance didn't pay, too. No fun, is it?

Not sure about Paulding Hospital but Cobb ER has a PROMINENT sign that the doctors who provide services are not employees of Wellstar and that you WILL get a bill from them. That's pretty well communicated, IMO. In some cases, an MD actually does the imaging or test, depending on what it is. For instance, it was an MD, a radiologist in fact, who did the cystogram on my husband in December. The tech assisted and set everything up but they couldn't do anything until the doctor was ready. I've also had some imaging done by the radiologist with the assistance of the tech and even one witho

GO!!! Call and ask for a payment plan. And often that "community money" sits around unused.

When my husband went to the ER, he actually had the choice of going there or to his PCP. We decided on the ER simply because it would save time and money. The PCP would have sent him to the ER or a urologist, which would have been more co-pays and time he spent in pain.

What's not to like? The cost of that "free healthcare".

Happy Business Anniversary. 15 years is a good run, too! Congratulations. Happy Birthday. Two reasons to celebrate today.

I can't complain. Well, not about my husband's Medicare and what it has covered. He had a visit to the ER at Cobb on December 5 and outpatient surgery at Kennestone on December 6. He had an imaging done on December 17 at Cobb Imaging. He saw two different doctors in the ER, had blood work and xrays done in the ER and then the day of surgery was there literally all day long (within 5 minutes of being there for 12 hours). We have paid less than $200 for everything so far, counting the $14 or so for his prescriptions. Now my insurance, I can complain about. I had to pay as a copay to m