Mama Carol

Interesting. I've never known anyone who "accidentally" was injured by a firearm. I've known people who were shot, who were murdered even, but none of those were accidents. If my young friend who was kidnapped at gunpoint and then pushed out of a car in Bankhead Courts Apartments and told to run for his life had a firearm, he very well would still be among us. But unfortunately, his employer didn't allow the employees to have firearms with which to defend themselves against the ever increasing crime. Danny wasn't killed by "accident" or by a firearm that wasn't being operated by a poor ex

Thanks for the help everyone. Getting with a neighbor who has a lot of experience with this kind of thing. She is wanting to make changes to their plan, so we are going to go through all our options together. ABR, I'll give you a call later on. I have a lot going on between now and Thursday so it may be after that.

I'm excited about the possibility of being able to go to a doctor closer to home. Neither of us are thrilled with our current PCP but we want to go to the same one to keep things simple. Just seems a shame to live around the corner from a hospital and a plethora of primary care doctors but have to go almost 10 miles to a doctor who accepts Medicare or my insurance. If we change to the Advantage plan for him and the new insurance I'm looking at for me, we can see doctors almost within walking distance! I remember when we first started trying to find a new PCP, I called to several area

Hey now!!!! I love the Wizard. But I'm with you on the others. Never saw the attraction.

If you're like me, you have to remember where you put those notes and lists. I make 'em. I just can't remember what I did with 'em. I should talk to my friend around the corner. She mentioned the other day that they were changing their Medicare plans. I just don't remember if she said what they had and what they were changing to. Brain spasm. Geez, since my surgeries I can't remember anything.

Actually this one costs no more than regular Medicare. That fact is one reason we wanted to do something to make a change. This plan includes the drug coverage. There's not a lot of savings by dropping a separate prescription plan and going with this plan but my insurance will go up about $90 a month next year so every dollar helps. You're absolutely right about it all runs together.

Yeah, that is what we have found out. Major, major pain dealing with it in any way, shape, form or fashion. What I haven't figured out is why there are doctors who accept the Advantage plan but not regular Medicare. He will have a much better selection of primary care docs if he goes with the Advantage plan I've picked out (or at narrowed it down to it and one other). It would be nice to be able to go to one less than a mile and a half from home as opposed to the one ten miles from home. Trying to get two plans for two people that have the same in-network doctors is not an easy task ei

The more I look at these the more I'm tempted to give him what I printed out, the phone number for Medicare and say "here, you take care of this". It's driving me

What we have been looking at for him combines Parts A, B and D. It takes the place of regular Medicare. Sorry, it's actually called a Medicare Advantage plan. I'm new to this Medicare stuff. When he first went on Medicare, he just had the regular Medicare but we have to cut some spending and this would be a way to do it and still get as much, if not more, than he was already getting.

OK, dumb question probably but I'm new at this. Hubby wants to change from regular Medicare to a supplement. How does he do that? The Medicare site is not clear on this and neither is the insurance provider's site. My brain is already fried from having to deal with my insurance renewal for 2015 without having to figure out this crap!! TIA

My dad wanted to retire to Jack's Creek. My mom said she wasn't moving back to Fannin County. We stayed in Smyrna. My mom grew up in Epworth, west of Blue Ridge. I think even now half the residents are family members of mine.

What part of Fannin County?

We're getting new carpet in a few weeks. Just may have to take you up on that.

Yeah, much safer to give people powerful, addictive narcotics and then let them get behind the wheel of a vehicle and drive than it is to give a law-abiding citizen a concealed carry permit.

I was born, raised and lived in Cobb County until April 2013. I'm a third generation native of Cobb. My roots in the county go back to the time the land was taken from the Cherokee (and truthfully, probably before that I had ancestors there). Most people who knew me never believed I would leave my home county. We purchased land in southern Douglas County with the intent of building a house. Decided we didn't want to live that close to my in-laws. So where would I/did I move? The Florida panhandle. We explored a lot of different areas before we bought a house. Other parts of

When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

Isn't there something about having been in an outpatient mental health program that also prevents you from getting a carry permit? I remember my daughter decided not to apply for one until it had been five years since she was last seen in the outpatient program. By the time it had been five years, she had two little ones at home and decided not to apply until the girls were older.

Oddly enough, openly armed people don't concern me. It's the ones who buy, possess and carry a firearm illegally who concern me.

What scares me more about those with personality disorders and particularly those who take medications, whether antidepressants, antipsychotics or pain meds, is that they DRIVE and endanger the lives of everyone around them and nobody gives a second thought to that.

Seeing what this guy looked like, I doubt anyone could have been able to disarm him quickly or easily. And he may have had reason to look so prepared. Oddly enough, we were in IHOP back in January and there was a guy in there who was openly carrying and he made me nervous. I got a totally different vibe off him than I did the other guy. The one in IHOP looked like he was carrying more for offensive purposes than defensive purposes. It wasn't so much what he was carrying, which looked like a 9 mm of some brand, but it was how HE looked. I'd prefer people not know if I'm carrying

I saw a guy at a restaurant a couple of years ago who had his firearm openly displayed. Actually, a couple of them if I remember correctly. The man did not look like an idiot and didn't look like he was looking for trouble. In fact, considering his size and the fire power he had, anyone who came to him looking for trouble was the idiot in the room. I was relieved when he sat down at the table next to us.

That's not wrong. That's good planning.

Personally, I love the freezer on the bottom. And I like for it to roll out, not have a door like a top freezer does. We have friends who have a bottom freezer but it has a door just like a top freezer. I don't care for that at all. I miss the Maytag fridge I left in the house up there. I'd like to replace what we have now, which is in need of replacing anyway, with a bottom freezer. Limited more by space in this house as we only have room for a fridge 33 inches wide. Not many bottom freezer fridges are that size. Funny thing is after using one with the freezer on bottom for

They should get together with the insurance company. They knew the minute we got insurance in another state and transferred our drivers licenses. That was reported to the state. It's a real mess. The left doesn't know what the right is doing, voter registration isn't based on driver license issues. All the more reason to require a valid photo ID to vote. That would verify who you are and where you live. Otherwise, just show up and tell poll workers you're Starr and Dru's Papa or Starr and Dru's Mama or Daddy and you can vote. Doesn't matter that you no longer live in the state.

I wonder if the reason I was dropped from the voter registration is because I was called for jury duty in Cobb and proved to them I no longer lived there. Perhaps when my husband, daughter and son in law are called, they can convince the state that they no longer live there either. That does not explain why the Georgia Republican Party called a number registered in my name and asked for me by name when I'm the only one of the four of us who is no longer registered to vote in Cobb County. But all four of us are registered in Santa Rosa County, Florida. In fact, hubby and I just got back