FREAP CHAT ~ Everyone Welcome!

[maddhatir]

How about this girls- everyone PM me your address and I will get a ton of antibiotics and disburse them to my freaps!

Hey Susan- I just won't "mention" what is in my suitcase!

DH and I have been to the pharmacia in Mexico a few times before- My SIL uses some kind of wrinkle cream or something- we just popped it in our bag and never claimed it. I don't think we are leaving the resort this time- so no trips to the pharmacia unless we hit 5th Avenue in Playa del Carmen- they may have one around there.

PS- DH is probably at the doc right now. If you tell the doc you do not have insurance, you just pay a flat fee and sometimes he gives you meds. Our primary would never do that- you can't get past the receptionist with paying your copay and they have a sign right in the window- No ins- their charge is 70 bucks!

Sad what we Americans have to do about our meds and going to the doctor! Just do NOT get me started on our government and our health care system!

OMG- you know what almost brings me to tears is, when I am behind an elderly person who is picking up their meds and I hear how much they have to pay!

 

[maddhatir]

What a wimp!! I detest novacaine, and always refuse it. I would rather deal with the drilling pain than needles and numbness that never goes away!!

NOOOOOO!

One time I was getting a tooth filled- She was drilling and I winced- she said, Am I hurting you? I said, I don't know...maybe....I THINK I felt something

If it were up to me I would take the novacaine, and then ask for another "just in case" shot- it is not like I can feel the 2nd one anyway.

You know, my dentist was telling me about a survey he read about a shot that would counter-act the novacaine numbing at the end of the procedure, he said it counds good, but most people, 1- worried about the cost, 2- receiving another needle and 3- he feels it is a good thing to stay numb for a while after your procedure b/c it acts as an anelgesic.

Not sure if you will see a counter acting shot coming out in the future.

 

[mtblujeans]

....Men, you have to pity them, they are so inferior.... ....

 

[mtblujeans]

I hate when they call you in to do a repeat mamm because they "think there is something there", they read it before you leave, and the second doctor/reader can't understand why the first doctor/reader had you come in and do another one because he doesn't see anything abnormal! What the heck is that!??

Madd, we were supposed to keep my slipping perfectly innocent medications back into the country between us!

I hate that doctors act like antibiotics are cocaine or heroin! Honestly!!

Our insurance is the most that we can afford. DH and I are self-employed so we pay for a "stand alone" policy....not part of a bigger group. We have a $5,000. deductible, that is going to be met with this knee surgery, we would otherwise never meet. So, every year, we pay all year long out of pocket. Grrrrrr! We have no dental, no prescription, and no eye coverage....and we all wear glasses. It is just so much cheaper to pay the dental bills, medications, and eye exams, every year, than to pay for the month insurance premiums and never reach the deductible! Yeah, I agree with you....don't get me started!

 

[maddhatir]

Madd, we were supposed to keep my slipping perfectly innocent medications back into the country between us!

I didn't say a word about you slipping any meds in the country

I just said I will not mention what is in MY suitcase!

 

[maddhatir]

I have heard of the French being called "frogs" too, in a derogatory way. What does that mean, I think it is just strange...makes no sense.

Well..... I think it is OK if SHE uses the word "frog" b/c she is French\Canadian-

YOU, who are not French/Canadian, are not allowed to use the word

I think that is how it works

 

[maddhatir]

DH called- he went to the docs- the doc gave him an antibiotic, nasal spray and a decongestant.

Hopefully he feels better before Saturday.

 

[TinkerBean]

Well..... I think it is OK if SHE uses the word "frog" b/c she is French\Canadian-

YOU, who are not French/Canadian, are not allowed to use the word

I think that is how it works

I personally do not take frog as being derogatory, (never understood it really - I think it was a post WWII insult) I LOVE frogs. Had a tiny dwarf african frog in a 2 gallon jar in the kitchen until recently.

Unfortunately "Rufus" pass on last summer. Remember School House Rock? Rufus Xavier Sasparilla...

I've been at BJs and Costcos all morning - I can't believe I missed the DH vent...I would have had sooooooooo much to add

I love this little guy. I consider him my little Tony Soprano smiley dude.

I did make it out of my pajamas - oops - early release day at school - gotta go get my jelly bean (why do they call it early release - it sounds like they are getting sprung from jail of something

)

 

[maddhatir]

I personally do not take frog as being derogatory, (never understood it really - I think it was a post WWII insult)

I tried Googling why it is derogatory, Wikipedia does not give much of an explanation- but I found this

Frog as a derogatory term for "Frenchman" dates from 1778 (short for frog-eater), but before that it meant "Dutch person," in reference to the marshy land where they lived.

Makes no sense, b/c they eat frogs??? But then again- most derogatory words are made up by pea-brains anyway.

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

HEY! I like peas! Don't be making fun of the peas.

 

[TinkerBean]

Weird - growing up the "frogs" were the french canadians and the english canadians were the "tete carre" (can't spell it right without the accents) the "square heads" - and I have NO idea where that came from...

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

Well it's gotta be better than the New Jerseian's slang for Canadian. Shoebie, because (according to local legend) the Canadians would bring their lunch to the beach in a shoebox.

 

[TinkerBean]

HEY! I like peas! Don't be making fun of the peas.

 

[TinkerBean]

Well it's gotta be better than the New Jerseian's slang for Canadian. Shoebie, because (according to local legend) the Canadians would bring their lunch to the beach in a shoebox.

In canada (particularly Nova Scotia) they refer to plastic grocery bags as
"Cape Breton suitcases"

 

[hadleysun]

I thought "shoebies" were people who wore socks with sandals! We who live here in the south point them out to each other all the time! My daughter has even been able to make it into a hiccup time sound so that she can say it right in front of people! (Yes, she's 13) (but then again I laugh everytime she does it! What does that say for my parenting skills...????)

 

[maddhatir]

Well it's gotta be better than the New Jerseian's slang for Canadian. Shoebie, because (according to local legend) the Canadians would bring their lunch to the beach in a shoebox.

I know people who lived @ the Jersey shore would call any tourist "shoobies"

Now I remember going to Wildwood ALL the time and it never failed, on the Parkway, there would be tons of cars from Canada going to Wildwood NJ- we can never figure it out- why would they choose Wildwood, no other beach down the shore- just Wildwood??

We just called them......Canadians......

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

Just give DH the meds for the dog



At least the dog listens and follows orders

Yeah, with him I just open his mouth and shove the pill down the back of his throat....TWICE A DAY!!!

 

[maddhatir]

I thought "shoebies" were people who wore socks with sandals! We who live here in the south point them out to each other all the time! My daughter has even been able to make it into a hiccup time sound so that she can say it right in front of people! (Yes, she's 13) (but then again I laugh everytime she does it! What does that say for my parenting skills...????)

When I used to live in St John USVI OMG- all day long the people would get off the open-air shuttles from the cruise ships and they would be wearing SOCKS AND SANDALS! and BIG hats. They would all end up at Trunk Bay- the local tourist beach! It was like a sea of socks, sandals and tourist snorkelers- we always steered clear of that beach!

We would PEE- not only that- my friend worked at the t-shirt/dive shop downstairs from where I worked and she would get SO p-o'd b/c the bus would stop in front of her store, drop "them" all off and they would ramshackle the place- t-shirts in disarray and strewn all over, everything out of place, snorkel masks out of their cases she would fix it all up, and it never failed- here comes another shuttle bus load of them.

I am peeing just thinking about her complaining

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

How about this girls- everyone PM me your address and I will get a ton of antibiotics and disburse them to my freaps!

Hey Susan- I just won't "mention" what is in my suitcase!

DH and I have been to the pharmacia in Mexico a few times before- My SIL uses some kind of wrinkle cream or something- we just popped it in our bag and never claimed it. I don't think we are leaving the resort this time- so no trips to the pharmacia unless we hit 5th Avenue in Playa del Carmen- they may have one around there.

PS- DH is probably at the doc right now. If you tell the doc you do not have insurance, you just pay a flat fee and sometimes he gives you meds. Our primary would never do that- you can't get past the receptionist with paying your copay and they have a sign right in the window- No ins- their charge is 70 bucks!

Sad what we Americans have to do about our meds and going to the doctor! Just do NOT get me started on our government and our health care system!

OMG- you know what almost brings me to tears is, when I am behind an elderly person who is picking up their meds and I hear how much they have to pay!

and that is one of the lucky ones that CAN buy theirs...a lot of seniors have to chose between meds and food. It is a very sad state of affairs we are in as far as insurance goes..It's downright shameful we can't take care of our own. We seem to manage to take care of a lot of others..

(stepping down from my soapbox now...)

 

[SHAYMARAYSMOM]

Let me tell you about MY man, and his sickness. He has been sick for 3 WEEKS. He went to the DR.(big thing, he knew he was sick) 2 weeks ago and got a script for antibiotic and some nose spray. He hasn't gotten any better. He had been taking one tab per day. I asked him about a week into the meds, "are you taking it twice a day?" (being the med dispenser in this house for kids and dogs, I know that most antibiotics are twice a day..) He reads it again...'No, IT'S ONE PER DAY." "Are you sure, usually it's twice a day." "NO(note irritation in his voice here) IT'S ONE PER DAY..."

Well yesterday whatever made him read it again...he reads it and it says one tablet TWICE a day..ARRGGGGHHH!!!! So now I have to call the Dr. and tell them what he did and can we have another round and do it right this time...

I told him that was really dumb and I would have to tell all my Dis friends how dumb it was...He wasn't happy...

How are we married to the same guy?