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The stories I've read about people committing insurance fraud is amazing. After COVID hit, the government was offering salary compensation for businesses. A guy in Miami bought some expensive sports cars with the money he claimed through his fake business. Lots of people were doing that, some got away with the scam and some didn't.

I watched a video where insurance companies send out investigators for people who are collecting large sums of money in personal injury claims. One guy was getting compensation for a back injury claiming he was unable to work, when they video taped him doing electrical work changing ceiling fixtures while standing on a 5 gallon paint bucket. He shimmied his weight to 'walk' the bucket along the floor from light to light. He lost his benefits.

A viral news story came up this week where a 36 year old woman in Ireland claimed her car crash in 2017 was so severe, she was unable to work for 5 years, carry her children, finish basic chores or lift a heavy bag. Claimed that, at times, she needed her medication to be brought to her in bed due to the pain. She had sued the insurance company and had an $823,000 injury claim pending.

What do you do with your Christmas tree after the holiday? You toss it... literally.

In January 2018, she entered a Christmas tree chucking contest... and won!
Her photo of the winning event made it to a national newspaper. The Judge having seen the photo threw out the case and remarked that the “very graphic picture” of her tossing the tree had helped her make the decision.





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More than a year ago I was having some pain to a molar that previously had a root canal and crowned. The dentist took an x-ray and found nothing. The recommendation was maintenance, so the hygienist did a deep clean and applied a thick paste into the gum line that I wasn't to brush out for 48 hours. I'm not sure of the name of the product, but it has some antiseptic properties and the pain subsided.

The problem appears to have returned as I'm getting sensitivity to pressure (I cannot chew gum or it aggravates the condition) and slight pain from cold, so I no longer put ice cubes in my mouth.

I'm with a different dentist now and explained my dental history. She took x-rays and couldn't find any infection or cause for the pain. The recommendation was (another) deep cleaning. Unlike the previous maintenance that only required the area to be desensitized, this one required full Novocaine injections.
As long as I'm in the chair, shouldn't we do both sides?
Okay, she replied.
It's amazing how they describe getting a needle as a 'little pinch' when they are going all the way to the back... the area that shuts off all sensation to the front of the jaw.
I said "Why do you call it pinch when it's much more than that?"
She said "Should I call it harpoon?"
I replied, "Yeah, that's more appropriate."
4 injections, 30 minute wait, 30 minutes of digging, scraping and cavatron followed by an antiseptic rinse, I was done.
My entire lips and jaw area was numb for more than 2-1/2 hours.

I didn't follow instructions about not eating until the numbness wears off and the bite on the inside of my cheek should be gone in a few days!

While I was uncomfortably numb, I went home to play comfortably numb.







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It’s possible to contract a respiratory condition, colloquially referred to as hot-tub lung.


It’s triggered by microbes called mycobacteria, from the same family as those which cause the infection tuberculosis (TB).


Like in TB, hot-tub lung bacteria generate patches of inflammation in the lung tissue. This results in symptoms such as shortness of breath, cough and fever. The lung changes can be seen on an X-ray or CT scan of the chest, and may appear quite profound.


The hot tub acts as a perfect environment for the growth of these bacteria because the warmth of the system creates an optimum temperature for their proliferation. The bubbling of the water also acts as an aerosol – allowing the bacteria to be released into the air, where they can be inhaled.


Unlike TB, which requires long-term antibiotics and is becoming increasingly difficult to treat, hot-tub lung may be considered more of an inflammatory condition.

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