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wdwfan4ver

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StarWarsGirl said:
That's interesting that they took half of her thyroid. Hashimoto's destroys the thyroid anyway, so they normally just put you on replacement medication. The only way they take half your thyroid is for suspected cancer or if you've got severe hyperthyroidism.
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She had half the thyroid removed in the late 80s.

What I can tell you is mom had a lump. she was sent to a specialist and the specialist was 90 percent sure she had thyroid cancer. It was discovered she did not have cancer, but had Hashimoto's. I can't answer when the Hashimoto's was discover, but the specialist decided not to remove the other half of her thyroid even after the discovery of her Hashimoto's.
 
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wdwfan4ver said:
Nope. Blow up Thanksgiving Turkey is up outside.
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tip hat thank you GIF by Captain Obvious
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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wdwfan4ver said:
She had half the thyroid removed in the late 80s.

What I can tell you is mom had a lump. she was sent to a specialist and the specialist was 90 percent sure she had thyroid cancer. It was discovered she did not have cancer, but had Hashimoto's. I can't answer when the Hashimoto's was discover, but the specialist decided not to remove the other half of her thyroid even after the discovery of her Hashimoto's.
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Ah, that makes more sense. If there's an inconclusive biopsy, they'll take half of the thyroid.

I don't have a thyroid at all, so I'm very familiar with thyroid disease. My dad has Hashimoto's. Now they can do a blood test to look for the antibodies for Hashimoto's, but a goiter is very common for Hashimoto's as well.
 
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wdwfan4ver

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Figgy1 said:
@StarWarsGirl you don't need to celebrate Christmas to hang this in your room View attachment 597460
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My mom has this one already. She has a lot of Dumbos.

Dad did claim one of the Dumbos stole his password and credit card and bought this online:

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That is supposed to be a fart gun. Come to think of it, it wasn't the first time dad claimed the dumbo's stole his password and credit card.
 
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SteveBrickNJ

SteveBrickNJ

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StarWarsGirl said:
Medicare doesn't cover everything (the big thing is prescription drugs) so it's smart to work with a licensed agent to get a Medicare supplement insurance plan. Hint: licensed agent.

Source: once upon a time I was a licensed health insurance agent. I let my license expire when I realized I wasn't ever going to use it again.
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I'm a teacher who has no set retirement date. I like teaching.
When I eventually retire I'll be given a medical plan for retired teachers.
Truthfully I don't know much about that....yet...if that is in place when I retire, would it be correct to say I'll never be on Medicare?
 
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Lilofan

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SteveBrickNJ said:
I'm a teacher who has no set retirement date. I like teaching.
When I eventually retire I'll be given a medical plan for retired teachers.
Truthfully I don't know much about that....yet...if that is in place when I retire, would it be correct to say I'll never be on Medicare?
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Teachers do an important job. A gym member who works out in the early AM with me is in his early 70s. He said he makes more money now due to the fact that he retired as a teacher, collects his pension, collects social security and he substitute teaches 5 days a week as additional income and still manages to swim and run on the treadmill before work.
 
SteveBrickNJ

SteveBrickNJ

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Lilofan said:
Teachers do an important job. A gym member who works out in the early AM with me is in his early 70s. He said he makes more money now due to the fact that he retired as a teacher, collects his pension, collects social security and he substitute teaches 5 days a week as additional income and still manages to swim and run on the treadmill before work.
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Good for him!
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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SteveBrickNJ said:
I'm a teacher who has no set retirement date. I like teaching.
When I eventually retire I'll be given a medical plan for retired teachers.
Truthfully I don't know much about that....yet...if that is in place when I retire, would it be correct to say I'll never be on Medicare?
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Actually under the plan you will have both. Your state plan winds up being your supplemental. I know a few retired teachers in the state
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Goofyernmost said:
Not to blame it on that, but old age must be catching up. I stated that there were no guarantee's, but I apparently lied. When you posted that last thing all of a sudden I remembered something vitally important. The day after my youngest was born my wife had a tubal ligation which is pretty much a sure no more kids proposition. I was willing to do the other but she insisted. She was about 8 years older than me, and felt that I might want more if something happened to her. My sensitive response was... "why in the hell would I want more at that point. If something happened to you, I would still have two kids to take care of". She, however, was a strong willed woman and insisted.
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That’s kinda’ a similar conversation to the one Carolyn and I had. They can do a c-section and a tubal ligation during the same procedure. But, I thought if somethin’ ever happened to me, she might wanna’ have that 4th kiddo with someone else. I’m only about 6 mos. older than her.
My procedure only took about 10-15 mins. IIRC, and I was awake for it. Much simpler and quicker than a tubal ligation.

Funny aside…
Myself and the 5 other people in the operating room talked and joked the whole time. Talked about snow skiing, kiddos, etc.
They told me what a great patient I was…they recently had a guy who, while they were conversing during his procedure, laid there with a stone cold look on his face during whole thing. After they were finished he reamed ‘em out for all their “yaking” during his “sensitive procedure”…pretty sure this doc coulda’ done it in his sleep…!!!!! :hilarious:
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
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SteveBrickNJ said:
I'm a teacher who has no set retirement date. I like teaching.
When I eventually retire I'll be given a medical plan for retired teachers.
Truthfully I don't know much about that....yet...if that is in place when I retire, would it be correct to say I'll never be on Medicare?
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I'm not 100% sure (it's been a while since I took the continuing education course) but I believe you'll have Medicare plus a supplemental insurance plan. Once you turn 65, you pretty much go onto Medicare with a supplemental plan.
 

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