Maslows

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My actual last name (or my husband's) is Maslowski. Apparently it is a fairly

common name in Poland. The reason for " maslows " is simple a computer issue.

When I was working and we first went on a mainframe, only 8 letters were allowed

as username. What they did was take the first 7 letters of your last name and

that was your user name. Then, if someone with the same last name started,

their user name would be maslowsr (if their first name was Ray). Fairly simple

and once I got used to maslows, I didn't feel any need to change.

Also, maslow or maslows is supposed to mean butter in Polish.

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> > When I got sick first with PF, I was in San Diego, 2 days away from a

> > Mexican Cruise. I'm a type 1 diabetic and my blood sugars were off the

> > monitor so I went into the hospital. Instead of fixing my sugars, they

> > put me in the hospital in intensive care. They knew there was

> > something wrong with my lungs and while trying to do the broncoscopy,

> > I coded. Guess I was pretty sick.

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> > I live in Canada and as you all know, we have universal health care. I

> > admit it has a lot of flaws, like long waiting time for tests, etc and

> > just not enough beds to get all those who need to be admitted,

> > admitted to the hospital.

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> > My bill for 25 days at UCSD was $468,000, and that was just hospital

> > charges. The doctors billed separately and I haven't added up the

> > amount on those bills. What do people do if they don't have insurance

> > of some type? Do they get poorer health care? Are they sent home sick?

> > In my province (Alberta), we don't even have health care premiums. But

> > when we did, my husband and I paid $88.00 a month for full coverage.

> > We still needed an additional plan for prescriptions, glasses and

> > dental but all of our doctor visits and hospital stays are covered at

> > 100% with no deductible.

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> > I thought it was kinda funny when someone from finance came and talked

> > to my husband about making a deposit to cover my expences until

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> > authorization went thru from my travel insurance. He gave $2,000 which

> > probably didn't even cover the x-rays and blood work i had had done.

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> > I marvel at the cost of getting/staying healthy in the States. I do

> > hope something happens very soon to ease some of the stress off those

> > who don't have health insurance. Trying to stay healthy is hard when

> > you are stressed right out.

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> > Pat

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