Like so much overlap of the two circles, it’s almost 1 circle.

This is how I got through the winter.

I feel like this is just a ploy, by the phone company, to figure out what they should deprive us of next.

Stop giving them ideas!!!

I remember this time when a hot air Balloon operator, in the area, crashed the balloon into some power lines and 16 people died. Some people had to be identified by dental records. While he was a registered pilot, his company wasn’t registered with the state.

Don’t fuck with Hot Air Ballons people.

I mean, in reality I would assume this would be it’s purpose. But when put next to a picture of, what seems to be, him outside, the mind starts to wander.

Obviously, disabled and handicapped people also go outside, so it’s silly to generalize…the posted picture just doesn’t help the picture in my mind go to appropriate places…

I thought the same thing myself, until I noticed the drain…

Now I’m stuck imagining what he was doing with the chair in the shower.

This is disgusting. Hopefully this whole thing fails before Texas can enact the law.

As for teachers still being underpaid, that is the point. They are trying to gut public schools. All the teachers will need to make the switch to a private school, eventually, because that’s where the demand will be.

The state will continue this voucher program until the majority of people have moved their children to private schools. Public schools will be left in a state of disrepair once they loose funding for every student that makes the switch.

The private schools will gradually raise tuition so that parents are paying as much as they can afford, even with the voucher. After everyone has move thier child over, they will discontinue the voucher program.

If the parents want their child to continue in a school that does any good, they will pay out thier ears. Everyone else will end up paying a huge chunk of thier check to send their child to whatever mediocre school is within their budget, or else they will have to go back to public school, which is now a underfunded shitshow.

Edit: some spelling

Assuming you are in the US. We just went through this with a family member. Her mental decline happened in the matter of a few months, following an accident. They had a prior TBI, and something just snapped, I don’t know.

I can’t attest to how to get a dementia diagnosis. Their decline was completely atypical of regular dementia, but it did meet the technical definition. They were admited to the hospital and it took a long time for the doctors to really pick up on it. Instead of answering the questions, they would just get hostile. Eventually, things would slip, but we had a really hard time getting a straight diagnosis, even though staff treated her as a dementia patient.

As someone else mentioned here, you need to find out who, if anyone, will be granted power of attorney and medical power of attorney, if he is diagnosed. Technically, if he is diagnosed, they will have complete control over his finances and medical decisions. If he has made no plans to transfer POA / MPOA, you / your family will independently need to pay for any and all care. (Although you may have to anyways, as rules will vary state by state, for who is responsible for the bills). I would consult a lawyer that specializes in elder care. There may also be a regional government elder care department that maybe able to give you some information.

Getting a guardianship can take years, and emergency guardianship only lasts for a few days. If there is no one designated, and your grandfather is not willing / able to sign the forms… as someone told us, “Oh, your in a pickle.” If it comes to this, he will have to have progressed pretty far with the disease for any doctor to sign the paperwork. Guardianship means that all rights are stripped from them and given to someone else. Even though the guardian will have to submit to regular audits, people still abuse the position, and the doctors also have a responsibility to safeguard against this.

If he has dementia, medicaid will help cover costs, but you need POA to apply for him. If he has retirement money, you cannot access it without POA. If you can not pay, no place will take him. Full stop, unless someone takes pity on you and you can work out a deal of some sorts.

Medicare will pay for about 20 day in full, and up to 100 days partially, with stipulations, if there is a 3 day hospital stay involved. Fyi. Hospitals in the US must discharge to a safe place. If the home is “not safe” they cannot force you to take them home regardless of what they say. They will threaten to kick them out of the hospital, they will threaten guardianship, they will try to guilt you. If you can not care for them, then refuse to take them and tell them it is “not safe”. Do not sign discharge papers until you consult a lawyer.

Care homes will need to specialize in dementia, or they will not take him, so your options will be limited. Hobestly, I think it ultimately has to do with fire safety.

I’m sorry if this is scary, but it’s been a nightmare for us, and I don’t wish this on anyone else. The sooner you start preparing, the smoother it will go once the time comes. You really have to be at the top of your game to navigate the (again US) medical system, if your trying to care for someone else. Of course, in this country, it all comes down to how much money you have.

Good luck.

I’ve never gotten 12ft.io to work on a nytimes article.

Crazy lady on my nextdoor app is obsessed with making sure nothing catches fire. She recommends that instead of cutting grass on the side of the highways during droughts (for sparks from the lawnmower may cause a fire), they spray fire retardant chemicals on the side of the road. Completely oblivious as to how horrible these chemicals are for people and the environment, esp when actually exposed to fire.

Fire retardant is in so many things, like furnature, electronics, and general building materials. Contact with this stuff is thought to cause cancer, as well as, endocrine, metabolic, and reproductive harm, to name a few.

Just another example of chemical manufacturers poisoning us and getting away with it.

But you can. The real recipe uses red jalapeños from Mexico!

We went looking for it in the store, apparently there’s still a chili pepper shortage…

Can’t give back everything. Poor co owner died from the stress. 90 something or not, you can’t give back a life.

They don’t care. But they also don’t realize that those paid armies are gonna turn on them real fast. What are they gonna pay the guards with when money is useless? Even if they hold some leverage, I bet most would crumble if the guards violently pried it away.

Well then that’s not so bad. I mean it still will change the way you hear, but definitely not as drastic.

I was always under the impression he had like at least 3/4 of the ear gone. Lame.

TIL

Conch you fool, not cootch…jeeze , lol

Definitely. A piercing in my conch, was enough to give me some mildly annoying tinnitus for years.

Can’t imagine if my ear was just…gone.

So I just looked this up today cause i was having a conversation about what he meant by that cause…that’s a dumb thing to say.

Apparently…

After the interview, Tapper said he asked the DeSantis campaign “what exactly the governor was referring to when he was referring to post-birth abortion. They said it was a reference to when an infant survives an abortion procedure and life-saving medical care is not provided.”

Edit: still a dumb thing for him to say.

Stab in the dark…your on tmobile.

It does this to me too. You disable the damn thing, then you get a carrier update and it reactivates and downloads stupid games no one wants.

First time it did it to me, I thought I got a virus. Come to find out…nah it’s just a thing tmobile forces on you for fun.

Assholes

Definitely.

Obligatory, fuck nestle!