Mama Carol

:unsure: You ARE new, aren't you?

I know a couple of those people, too!!

I had been to my old doctor from birth until I was in my early 20s except for a short period of time when I went to a pediatrician. I loved that man and miss him terribly. He is the reason I wanted to work in the medical field. No telling how many "cards" of information he had on me. He used large index cards for his handwritten records.

When I was about 25 or 26 my long time doctor, think the one who attended my birth, retired and sold the practice. All his notes were handwritten. The doctor who purchased the practice made NO attempt to contact patients to get their records sent to them or to another doctor. I had NO record of the allergy shots I received, no record of the week in the hospital with complications of mono, no record of ANYTHING my doctor had treated me for. Since that time, I have been a diligent note collector. I pretty well know all the childhood diseases I had (everything except mumps), know all th

Kaiser? I always request mine except from the GYN. Calling Monday for today's visit at the ortho. I forgot what it was exactly but I read an office visit note and said, "wait a minute. That's not correct". It was insignificant but still it was wrong. I ALWAYS read my notes. I didn't get the op note from my foot surgeries but wish I had.

I guess having been in the medical field in the past, it's just standard practice for me to obtain the office note, lab results, etc after each visit. Just wondered who else does.

can you narrow that down a bit?

:rofl: True dat.

Good thing or else she'd already have those 100,000 posts.

No rail siding there. I'm THRILLED to see something go in that building. And something BIG on Cleburne Parkway. That's like home to me since we owned and operated a business from the building across the street. That's where WE got our start in the business world. Gonna tell my SIL about this. That would be ideal for him. Of course, the new business in the old National Envelope place on Humphries Hill would be better since he could leave for work five minutes before work time and be there 2 minutes early.

HOLY COW!! I just now looked at Lady Raider's post count. Girl, you talk too much.

with all these "testpubbyslink" threads, the person I would most like to slap, right now, might be Pubby. Just kidding. I would never do that to him. He's my

What has always worked best for me is Sudafed. Not the Sudafed PE, which DOES NOT help me one bit. The real stuff. The stuff you have to get at the pharmacy counter and be entered into a database to obtain. It's the ONLY stuff that really works for me. However, read the package and make sure you have the right product for the right problem. Decongestants work one way and antihistamines work another.

Mr. Edwards, my driving instructor, taught me to check the lights each and every time you get in the car to drive at night. So, yes, I do know that. Apparently to Powder Springs police, and a lot of other police departments, lawbreakers look like young, "urban" males. I certainly don't fit THAT description. If "lawbreakers" ever look like grandmas, then I'm in trouble.

for all we know, they might have released the entire video and our local propaganda outlet, excuse me NEWS outlet, aired what they felt was fitting.

My two older ones never had strep. In fact, they had more stomach viruses than anything else. One of them had pneumonia once during high school. The youngest one made up for the two older ones in that she had strep every time we turned around. School picture day you could count on her either having strep or poison ivy. Or both. I always thought she had it so much because I had strep during my pregnancy. Oh, and she could LOOK at poison ivy and get it.

TC, I don't fear them either. But then again, I don't break laws and I don't look like a lawbreaker. I don't think any of them want to pull over a fat white grandmother.

I agree with you. And actually, the video from the time they spotted him until the part shown on the news. And why wait FOUR months to complain?

My daughter lives in Austell and has City of Austell water service. They are also on sewer. In addition to water, they pay 1.5 times the cost of the water in sewer service, recycling, stormwater management and something else that escapes my memory right now. About 35% of the actual bill is WATER.

My neighbor had a strep infection in her TOE. Wondered why she kept feeling bad, running a low grade fever and just generally yucky. Didn't have anything wrong with her throat, upper respiratory area, ears, nothing. Finally, she mentioned to the doctor that her toe hurt. It wasn't even "infected" looking, just sore. He did a strep test on it and it was positive. After a 10 day course of antibiotics she felt 100% better.

Mine rarely had a rash with strep. She would have the white spots in her throat though. When I was working in the doctor's office, they let me bring the rapid strep test kits home with me so if she got sick and I thought it was strep, which she had OFTEN, I could do the test, take it to work and come home with a prescription. Of course, a lot of the time I took her to work with me when she was sick even if I had the strep kit with me. They *were* her doctors, after all.

In Cobb by any chance? Ours will be the exact same amount for about 3 or 4 months, then it will be about 33% higher. The next 3 or 4 months, back down. Then about 33% higher. This has gone on for YEARS.

That's what happened with my hubby's last speeding ticket. The fine was the same as if he had paid it early but by going to court, they reduced it to where he wouldn't have points. This was in Cobb, though.

quite honestly, unless he had symptoms of strep, particularly the horrible mouth odor and the white spots in the mouth, they might not have felt a strep test was indicated.