GottaDEAL 2025 Prize Club Discussion Thread

[bodotdot]

January 5th...too late to say Happy New Year?  What's the cutoff?

[bluebear]

51 minutes ago, bodotdot said:

Did you need to stand still longer to get a picture to show stars?  Does your phone camera have a setting?

 

I just put my phone on "Night Mode".  I wish I knew how to do all the extra manual fancy settings, but I don't.

With Night mode, it does take a few seconds to take the picture (about 5), so you do have to be still.  Mine are still a little smeary.  I imagine I could put it on a tripod, but that would take some setup,  and I'm too lazy for that!  

[cllehto]

10 hours ago, Gator Pam said:

So…
The past three days have been busy with bureaucracy dealings. As this is my birthday month where I’m turning 65, I am transitioning from Washington State Classic Medicaid for Adults, known as Apple Health to Medicare with Washington State Senior Classic Medicaid as my Medigap coverage.

Unfortunately, while I wanted to avoid Medicare Advantage Plans at all costs, I could not find a Part D plan which had my walking chemotherapy in their formulary at a premium and copay I could afford, even with Extra Help. I’m now enrolled in a Medicare Advantage Plan starting next month. After investigating, I went with the plan which also has provided my Medicaid Managed Care Plan for all these years since I moved to Washington.

 

Unfortunately, I do have several specialists I may need to change, particularly my original breast surgeon who I see for annual follow ups and my dentist, but it appears as if all of my other doctors are in plan.

Except for my allergy medication, which is a prescribed version of Zyrtec, all of my medications, including my chemo, is in this plan’s formulary. Hopefully the transition will go fairly smoothly.

I’m used to being on a Managed Care Plan, and have actually been very happy with all of the doctors and specialists who have seen me. I’m going into this Advantage Plan hoping the experience will be similar.

 

All that said to explain why I am a few days late with posting this gif. I have either been in the DSHS offices or on the phone with Medicare and Apple Health choosing plans and figuring out how this transitional month between Apple Health and the Advantage Plan will work, especially in getting my monthly multi-thousand dollar chemotherapy refill.

Happy Birthday Month to me!

 

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Happy Birthday! Good luck with the medical issues. I always hate open enrollment because it's hard to find a plan that still covers your doctors-seems the current plan changes every year...sometimes midyear.

[ytmomof4]

Waiting on the snow we are supposed to get wondering what we will actually get they keep changing the amount 

[Gator Pam]

Happy Epiphany/Three Kings Day/Little Christmas 

[gatorburg]

Hope everyone is doing well

[stacya]

Happy New Year! 

 

My luger, Kendall, returned home a few days before Christmas from a 2 week training camp and race in Utah, and just left yesterday for another 2 week training camp in Lake Placid, culminating in another race on Saturday, January 18. In the Utah race, she placed 4th, after being edged out by just 0.025 seconds. Not the result we wanted, and she was pretty upset to be edged out of the medals again, especially since she was 3rd after her first run, but the athlete who edged her out is also 2 years older than her, and has spent much more time on that track, where this was only Kendall's second training camp there. These athletes will meet again next weekend, on what is Kendall's home track, and we are hoping for a better outcome for her. Looking forward to being there to watch her race this time. We bring her home on the 19th, and she will spend about a month home before heading back to Utah for the final training camp of the season, where she will compete in 2 levels of National Championships in that time. In the meantime, she had an awesome article written about her that appeared on the front page of our local newspaper, and will have a third article written for our local area weekly Merchandiser in the next week or two. Today's photos include the pic from the front page of the newspaper article, and a pic from race day.