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TehDoak said:
So the tests came back for my dad late last week. It appears the tumor on his heart is actually cancer, so the prognosis isn't great. It's stupidly rare to get what he has, but that isn't really much of a comfort for anyone at this point. He's back at the elmira hospital after Rochester sent him out. Got to have the fun experience of calling the ambulance for my dad he couldn't stand up to get in the car to go to the hospital late monday night. He is currently awaiting a bed at the cleveland clinic because if anyone can do anything for him at this point, it will be them.

Have made 3 trips between Allentown and Elmira in the last two weeks. Likely headed to Cleveland once they have a spot for him.
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I'm sorry about this news. Cancer sucks.
 
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Yesterday was a weird day. Started normal, woke had my usual fruit smoothie and whole pineapple. Followed up with 30 minutes on bike, a upper body workout with some sauna time then a mile swim in pool. Went back upstairs, laid down to watch TV and then was shook awake by caretaker and Gus at almost 2300. I had dozens of missed texts and calls as I had a slew of afternoon meetings I obviously didn't attend.

It's 0530 Wednesday and I'm still feeling light headed and groggy, even though I went back to sleep after they woke me. Have a staff meeting this afternoon and have to see about rescheduling my missed meetings
 
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Yesterday was a weird day. Started normal, woke had my usual fruit smoothie and whole pineapple. Followed up with 30 minutes on bike, a upper body workout with some sauna time then a mile swim in pool. Went back upstairs, laid down to watch TV and then was shook awake by caretaker and Gus at almost 2300. I had dozens of missed texts and calls as I had a slew of afternoon meetings I obviously didn't attend.

It's 0530 Wednesday and I'm still feeling light headed and groggy, even though I went back to sleep after they woke me. Have a staff meeting this afternoon and have to see about rescheduling my missed meetings
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Any indication on your body you fell and hit your head?
 
Ugh! Starting to hear info on upcoming open enrollment for health insurance at work. I don't have all the details but they will no longer be offering the (local) plan/company that I currently have an am very happy with and instead our office will only have the national plan/company that is offered at other locations across the country. Not happy about this at all! :mad::thumbd:

I told my wife already to get the breakdown of what her work offers for family health insurance plans and when her open enrollment is. That way once I get the full breakdown of what my work is offering in the coming days, I can do a comparison and see what the best course of action is.

I have not heard good things about the current national plan/company and if they are sticking with the same one while also forcing me away from what I have now; I am going to be even more unhappy.

I really like my job, but shitty health insurance will be a catalyst for me looking for a new job. Hopefully my wife's work offers something comparable to what I currently have so it won't matter and we can just make the switch to insurance through her come January 1st.
 
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Mike McDermott said:
Ugh! Starting to hear info on upcoming open enrollment for health insurance at work. I don't have all the details but they will no longer be offering the (local) plan/company that I currently have an am very happy with and instead our office will only have the national plan/company that is offered at other locations across the country. Not happy about this at all! :mad::thumbd:

I told my wife already to get the breakdown of what her work offers for family health insurance plans and when her open enrollment is. That way once I get the full breakdown of what my work is offering in the coming days, I can do a comparison and see what the best course of action is.

I have not heard good things about the current national plan/company and if they are sticking with the same one while also forcing me away from what I have now; I am going to be even more unhappy.

I really like my job, but shitty health insurance will be a catalyst for me looking for a new job. Hopefully my wife's work offers something comparable to what I currently have so it won't matter and we can just make the switch to insurance through her come January 1st.
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I hope your wife's employer allows her to add you to her coverage if need be.

My employer does not allow us to add a spouse if they can get insurance through their employer. That isn't an issue now that my wife works at a place with good health coverage. But, it sucked when she worked at her prior employer.
 
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I hope your wife's employer allows her to add you to her coverage if need be.

My employer does not allow us to add a spouse if they can get insurance through their employer. That isn't an issue now that my wife works at a place with good health coverage. But, it sucked when she worked at her prior employer.
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Yeah from our understanding she can. She is going to get info on her companies open enrollment and plan pricing etc., because unfortunately her HR department was gone by the time I was able to confirm what was happening yesterday.
 
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I hope your wife's employer allows her to add you to her coverage if need be.

My employer does not allow us to add a spouse if they can get insurance through their employer. That isn't an issue now that my wife works at a place with good health coverage. But, it sucked when she worked at her prior employer.
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Yeah from our understanding she can. She is going to get info on her companies open enrollment and plan pricing etc., because unfortunately her HR department was gone by the time I was able to confirm what was happening yesterday.
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You may also want to look at enrolling in both plans. i.e., her plan would be primary and your plan would be secondary.

I don't know if it may be possible for your plan to be primary for you and secondary for her, and vice versa (her plan is her primary and your plan is her secondary).

Alternatively, she could enroll herself and the kids on her plan, and you enroll singularly on yours if there's a cost-benefit to doing that.

I am not an expert, but there must be websites with calculators which can walk you through the estimates and decisions. It's a very normal situation for employees to evaluate all around the country when they have the option for insurance through two employers.
 
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You may also want to look at enrolling in both plans. i.e., her plan would be primary and your plan would be secondary.

I don't know if it may be possible for your plan to be primary for you and secondary for her, and vice versa (her plan is her primary and your plan is her secondary).
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There are some pretty dumb rules when it comes to co-insurance, specifically for kids.

I believe primary is primary on the plan. So the primary would be your works plan, primary for her would be her plan. For kids, and I am not kidding here, if both kids are on both insurances, the primary is whoever's birthday is earlier in the year. Not based on who has better coverage, but whoever has the earlier in the years birthday.
 
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There are some pretty dumb rules when it comes to co-insurance, specifically for kids.

I believe primary is primary on the plan. So the primary would be your works plan, primary for her would be her plan. For kids, and I am not kidding here, if both kids are on both insurances, the primary is whoever's birthday is earlier in the year. Not based on who has better coverage, but whoever has the earlier in the years birthday.
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This country is a scam.
 
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Midnight, just woke up fell asleep watching movies with my stand-in caretakers. Gus and my head cashier insisted I have somebody while my usual is back in her village for a few days so they gave me the 18yo twins as their paperwork hasn't come back yet. Their cousin is sorted and shadowing her sister.

The twins were funny, first time in a building over 3 floors, first time in elevator, first time by rooftop pool so selfies everywhere. They had their first taste of pizza as never had anything besides Thai food. Gave it the thumbs up. From talking to them, they're the oldest with 5 younger siblings. The father works on a farm while the mother does whatever she can so probably combined about 15k a month or a bit over $400 USD. They came because their cousin was coming as her sister was telling her how much money she makes. The sister is a medium earner in my big bar so guessing tips, and short times probably makes about 50k a month which to the twins means she's rich.

I had to use my Kettleone T1 translator to make them understand that I didn't need them sleeping with me to make sure I'm ok. The mamasan told them not to let me go anywhere by myself and were taking that to the extreme. Tomorrow will be interesting as I'll give them 1k to go to the market to get prepared food and raw to cook with as I'm pretty sure they haven't ever had that much at one time, as they said they came here with bus money and change to eat with. Bus is about 130 baht or $3.60
 
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Mike McDermott said:
Ugh! Starting to hear info on upcoming open enrollment for health insurance at work. I don't have all the details but they will no longer be offering the (local) plan/company that I currently have an am very happy with and instead our office will only have the national plan/company that is offered at other locations across the country. Not happy about this at all! :mad::thumbd:

I told my wife already to get the breakdown of what her work offers for family health insurance plans and when her open enrollment is. That way once I get the full breakdown of what my work is offering in the coming days, I can do a comparison and see what the best course of action is.

I have not heard good things about the current national plan/company and if they are sticking with the same one while also forcing me away from what I have now; I am going to be even more unhappy.

I really like my job, but shitty health insurance will be a catalyst for me looking for a new job. Hopefully my wife's work offers something comparable to what I currently have so it won't matter and we can just make the switch to insurance through her come January 1st.
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Do you happen to work at M&T? I know they are dropping their local coverage option (IH) for a nationwide carrier.
 
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