Klanky

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Iceland or Finland. Love both of those places, from the people to the landscape.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Surprised to see Grape so many times! The fake grape flavor of grape candy is my favorite!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

They got that Reviewbrah fit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed. In my experience, the more processed the original product is, the easier it is to replicate.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I legit saw something about it for the first time and was like ‘is this a Raid Shadow Legends spin-off’? I remember seeing the character in their ads so was very confused at first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Gotta second the Miele. We have the C3 and it is fantastic. Our friend who is allergic to cats barely had any trouble when she comes over because of that vacuum, she even ended up buying one too.

They are expensive so hopefully you can find a used one. There are also places that will repair them, so you don’t need to trash them if something breaks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Surprisingly, the recovery room coffee (after minor surgery) tasted amazing. Of course, I didn’t have any coffee that morning and I was coming down from anesthesia…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is almost exactly the same as my experience as well. My premiums are pretty high (like $500/month out of my paycheck) but when the time comes for the procedures it’s usually not too bad. One caveat, we have not had any large medical expenses except for a relatively minor outpatient surgery that my wife needed last year, bill was over $1000 but the hospital had an interest-free payment plan that let us break it up over the next 12 months with no early payment penalty, so we took advantage of that.

As another poster pointed out, the big issue is the emotional and mental toll of trying to sort things out if the slightest little thing goes wrong. You basically have to do their job for them in that case and can be exhausting.

Edit to add: as you can see in this thread, people’s expenses can vary wildly depending on a lot of factors. For my plan, even if we don’t hit our caps, there is typically still a ‘discount’ and ‘allowed charge’ that the insurance has worked out with the providers, so we still didn’t have to pay the ‘full’ amount of that surgery even though we didn’t hit our deductible or out of pocket. We’ve also been to the ER a couple times for our 7-year old and it’s typically been about $600 a pop for each. It is insanely complicated and I barely understand it all but just thankful the plan my employer offers seems decent.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago

I feel like I would unironically see this on LinkedIn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If we could move to Iceland or Finland, we’d do it in a heartbeat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Really sorry to hear about your duck.

Been really into Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year series, just good fun to make you laugh. They’re all up on YouTube on the duo’s official channels.

 

Just so tired of almost every time a doctor submits stuff to insurance, we have to be the ones to make multiple phone calls to both the doctor's office and insurance to iron everything out, figure out what the issue is (it's always a different issue), and basically be the go-between for the office and insurance. What am I paying $500+/month for?! It's like paying for the privilege of having an exhausting part-time job.

And yes, I understand that insurance wants to weasel out of paying anything, but this isn't even shadiness, just straight up incompetence and lack of communication/following procedures. The amount of emotional energy we have to spend untangling this stuff leaves us drained.

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