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Some of you may remember the group Smash Mouth. Their front man and co-founder of the group, Steve Harwell left the band in 2021 due to health issues. News tonight say he is suffering from liver failure, entered hospice care and and not expected to survive more than a week.
Smash Mouth had a few hit songs and covered The Monkees I'M A BELIVER that was in the SHREK soundtrack.
Steve is 54 year old...

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He's 81 now. It's time to be put to pasture. Please Mitch, do America a favor. Take the gold watch and shake hands.

Is Covid making a comeback?



And if so, what will you do?

I've changed dentists a few times over the years and the last was referred by my insurance agent because she's in my network. This came around the time of COVID. The price was right but the work was so-so. I preferred she was the only dentist in the office and each room was separate. Returned for a cleaning earlier this year, I did a deep cleaning procedure and had to pay out of pocket because she claimed the insurance company wasn't paying her invoices. She would reimburse me when she got paid from the insurance company.
As a followup, I called the insurance company to inquire about the reimbursement and they said that dentist was no longer in network. They should have notified me prior to their service they had a status change... instead, I was lied to believing I would be reimbursed after she resolved her billing issues.
Due to the unusual circumstance, the insurance company filed a grievance report and will notify me of the outcome.
I'm back to a previous dentist who I've used a few times, leaving because I didn't like the corporate environment with several dentists, hygienists and staff running around in a 'corral-like' environment. Okay, the COVID fear subsided and the only ones wearing masks are the dentist and assistant.
I went for a cleaning last week and x-rays revealed some decay in a tooth that has a large composite filling on both sides. Crown was recommended. I have a VIP insurance plan with them so the dental work is discounted. Today was the day for preparation of a crown. I was in the chair for 90 minutes and the procedure this time used a digital 3D scanner and not the 'old fashion' rubberized casting that gets mailed to the laboratory for creation of the crown.
It's quickly becoming the standard for dentistry and coincidence, one of my clients works at a dental lab telling me how much better crowns that are cut using the digital technology fit.
I'll know in less than 10 days when I go back for the final.

You can quote me on this:
"The only pain you should feel from a dentist is paying the bill when services are rendered!"

My brother goes for dialysis about 3 times a week. When he travels which happens several times a year, he must find a dialysis center in the location where he visits. He's been on a list for kidney transplant a few years now. I usually talk to him every other week and it's been a month so I left a message. His return call said a hospital 70 miles away contacted him at 2am. They found a donor and surgery was scheduled at 6am.

Four days in the hospital, extreme pain, but he's got a working kidney and no longer needs dialysis. He's home recuperating and doing well.

I usually visit him once a year before the winter/holiday season. This year I'll make plans sooner. Next month... gotta get busy!

Last night was my first real encounter with a person in an Alzheimer meltdown - strictly speaking in the form of LBD, Lewy body dementia, but I'd never heard of that before. A local friend brought her husband over (we live walking distance apart) for me to persuade him she really was his wife and not a dangerous intruder in their house. He's at the stage where he fluctuates between seemingly normal, if a little disconnected, all the way through to angry aggression, and back again. It took 20 minutes or more to convince him to give her back her phone and house keys.

Thing was, and why the blog, she's convinced his worst episodes are shortly after she's given him his sedation meds, twice a day, which are supposed to stop him stressing and fretting constantly. Does anyone here know much about the disease, have you any input? She is on groups and getting support and a few others on her groups have also noticed similar reactions but doctors insist it is not the medication but the nature of the illness. I wondered if anyone here was clued up on the topic.

They've been good friends to me but I had no idea how bad things occasionally are as up to now I've only seen him during his vague-but-friendly stages. Last night tipped once or twice towards scary. So weird that he knew me, and eventually trusted me to be telling the truth, but didn't know his wife of many years. So, another question, and yes we're not supposed to ask questions on blogs but this is more of a conversation - any advice on the best way to react, if (when?) it happens again -

Can't ask on any other social media as this is my only anonymous outlet.

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News just in... Guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson died today at the age of 80. Cause of death: prostate cancer. He battled the disease for about a year.