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So Knoxville, being roughly halfway between NY and KC, has how much useful daylight left when N.Y. is dark and KC is bright? The fact KV is in the eastern time zone (just barely) is irrelevant.
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#2252
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Apparently no advance advertising provided. Sad.
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#2253
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#2254
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One of my cycling friends moved to Tn. He was going to join me on a group Zwift ride, but then realized with the time difference it would be too early. Should I introduce him to Velo Vol?
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#2257
Silver Comet Fred
I forgive you. Plus it gave us something to bicker and argue about, which is nice.
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#2260
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Without fanfare, my healthcare quandary.
My witch doctor has prescribed me Remicade (infliximab). This seems reasonable enough. None of the several drugs I've tried over the last three years have worked well enough. My last witch doctor talked several times about trying it. OK.
Unfortunately Remicade is an IV-drug. I can't take it on my own. I have to go somewhere for a nurse to administer it. Here's where the problem arises.
The witch doctor clinic has its own "infusion center" where it naturally sends me for treatment. Stop right there. I don't know the ins and outs of insurance payments, but they're not doing this for free. They're making money when they give this drug. Correct me if I'm being overly-suspicious, but I've got an issue with a doctor possibly deriving pecuniary gain by choosing one treatment over another. Only the patients' finances should be an issue when considering one drug versus another.
That said, there's a second issue: convenience. This place is limited in when you can come in. Basically only weekday mornings and early afternoons (but not Friday). I've had three appointments made. Two of them got changed because issues with the nurse being there. The last one was supposed to be Wednesday afternoon. They called an hour beforehand and cancelled it because the nurse "had an emergency." Mind you these are three+ hour blocks of time I have to set aside.
I don't know how practical it is, but I'm tempted to look to an independent infusion center. Is that unreasonable? Should I just suck it up and stick with the machine treatment?
My witch doctor has prescribed me Remicade (infliximab). This seems reasonable enough. None of the several drugs I've tried over the last three years have worked well enough. My last witch doctor talked several times about trying it. OK.
Unfortunately Remicade is an IV-drug. I can't take it on my own. I have to go somewhere for a nurse to administer it. Here's where the problem arises.
The witch doctor clinic has its own "infusion center" where it naturally sends me for treatment. Stop right there. I don't know the ins and outs of insurance payments, but they're not doing this for free. They're making money when they give this drug. Correct me if I'm being overly-suspicious, but I've got an issue with a doctor possibly deriving pecuniary gain by choosing one treatment over another. Only the patients' finances should be an issue when considering one drug versus another.
That said, there's a second issue: convenience. This place is limited in when you can come in. Basically only weekday mornings and early afternoons (but not Friday). I've had three appointments made. Two of them got changed because issues with the nurse being there. The last one was supposed to be Wednesday afternoon. They called an hour beforehand and cancelled it because the nurse "had an emergency." Mind you these are three+ hour blocks of time I have to set aside.
I don't know how practical it is, but I'm tempted to look to an independent infusion center. Is that unreasonable? Should I just suck it up and stick with the machine treatment?
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I don't know. It's light enough at 6:00 p.m. to still be cycling on the roads without lights.
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One of my cycling friends moved to Tn. He was going to join me on a group Zwift ride, but then realized with the time difference it would be too early. Should I introduce him to Velo Vol?
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Without fanfare, my healthcare quandary.
My witch doctor has prescribed me Remicade (infliximab). This seems reasonable enough. None of the several drugs I've tried over the last three years have worked well enough. My last witch doctor talked several times about trying it. OK.
Unfortunately Remicade is an IV-drug. I can't take it on my own. I have to go somewhere for a nurse to administer it. Here's where the problem arises.
The witch doctor clinic has its own "infusion center" where it naturally sends me for treatment. Stop right there. I don't know the ins and outs of insurance payments, but they're not doing this for free. They're making money when they give this drug. Correct me if I'm being overly-suspicious, but I've got an issue with a doctor possibly deriving pecuniary gain by choosing one treatment over another. Only the patients' finances should be an issue when considering one drug versus another.
That said, there's a second issue: convenience. This place is limited in when you can come in. Basically only weekday mornings and early afternoons (but not Friday). I've had three appointments made. Two of them got changed because issues with the nurse being there. The last one was supposed to be Wednesday afternoon. They called an hour beforehand and cancelled it because the nurse "had an emergency." Mind you these are three+ hour blocks of time I have to set aside.
I don't know how practical it is, but I'm tempted to look to an independent infusion center. Is that unreasonable? Should I just suck it up and stick with the machine treatment?
My witch doctor has prescribed me Remicade (infliximab). This seems reasonable enough. None of the several drugs I've tried over the last three years have worked well enough. My last witch doctor talked several times about trying it. OK.
Unfortunately Remicade is an IV-drug. I can't take it on my own. I have to go somewhere for a nurse to administer it. Here's where the problem arises.
The witch doctor clinic has its own "infusion center" where it naturally sends me for treatment. Stop right there. I don't know the ins and outs of insurance payments, but they're not doing this for free. They're making money when they give this drug. Correct me if I'm being overly-suspicious, but I've got an issue with a doctor possibly deriving pecuniary gain by choosing one treatment over another. Only the patients' finances should be an issue when considering one drug versus another.
That said, there's a second issue: convenience. This place is limited in when you can come in. Basically only weekday mornings and early afternoons (but not Friday). I've had three appointments made. Two of them got changed because issues with the nurse being there. The last one was supposed to be Wednesday afternoon. They called an hour beforehand and cancelled it because the nurse "had an emergency." Mind you these are three+ hour blocks of time I have to set aside.
I don't know how practical it is, but I'm tempted to look to an independent infusion center. Is that unreasonable? Should I just suck it up and stick with the machine treatment?
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#2269
Silver Comet Fred
I am not sure if that is your question but I hope this helps.
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Without fanfare, my healthcare quandary.
My witch doctor has prescribed me Remicade (infliximab). This seems reasonable enough. None of the several drugs I've tried over the last three years have worked well enough. My last witch doctor talked several times about trying it. OK.
Unfortunately Remicade is an IV-drug. I can't take it on my own. I have to go somewhere for a nurse to administer it. Here's where the problem arises.
The witch doctor clinic has its own "infusion center" where it naturally sends me for treatment. Stop right there. I don't know the ins and outs of insurance payments, but they're not doing this for free. They're making money when they give this drug. Correct me if I'm being overly-suspicious, but I've got an issue with a doctor possibly deriving pecuniary gain by choosing one treatment over another. Only the patients' finances should be an issue when considering one drug versus another.
That said, there's a second issue: convenience. This place is limited in when you can come in. Basically only weekday mornings and early afternoons (but not Friday). I've had three appointments made. Two of them got changed because issues with the nurse being there. The last one was supposed to be Wednesday afternoon. They called an hour beforehand and cancelled it because the nurse "had an emergency." Mind you these are three+ hour blocks of time I have to set aside.
I don't know how practical it is, but I'm tempted to look to an independent infusion center. Is that unreasonable? Should I just suck it up and stick with the machine treatment?
My witch doctor has prescribed me Remicade (infliximab). This seems reasonable enough. None of the several drugs I've tried over the last three years have worked well enough. My last witch doctor talked several times about trying it. OK.
Unfortunately Remicade is an IV-drug. I can't take it on my own. I have to go somewhere for a nurse to administer it. Here's where the problem arises.
The witch doctor clinic has its own "infusion center" where it naturally sends me for treatment. Stop right there. I don't know the ins and outs of insurance payments, but they're not doing this for free. They're making money when they give this drug. Correct me if I'm being overly-suspicious, but I've got an issue with a doctor possibly deriving pecuniary gain by choosing one treatment over another. Only the patients' finances should be an issue when considering one drug versus another.
That said, there's a second issue: convenience. This place is limited in when you can come in. Basically only weekday mornings and early afternoons (but not Friday). I've had three appointments made. Two of them got changed because issues with the nurse being there. The last one was supposed to be Wednesday afternoon. They called an hour beforehand and cancelled it because the nurse "had an emergency." Mind you these are three+ hour blocks of time I have to set aside.
I don't know how practical it is, but I'm tempted to look to an independent infusion center. Is that unreasonable? Should I just suck it up and stick with the machine treatment?
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Silver Comet Fred
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GenX is numerically much smaller than the two generations around it, so it's paid much less attention for marketing and everything else. Also, I'm pretty sure the conflict has been intentionally stoked, but that's a topic for a different forum.
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fun question of the day. Meant to ask this earlier. When climbing a hill, does one pick the gear they wish to tackle the said hill before starting so they don’t change gears while climbing, or use the gears that you have as needed? Today I shifted up, was doing 24 mph when starting the hill with a cadence of 115 half way through the hill speed dropped to 19 mph, cadence hit 89 so I down shifted but it was under load which doesn’t feel healthy for my bike.... as I am typing this I feel that I am over thinking this.
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Without fanfare, my healthcare quandary.
My witch doctor has prescribed me Remicade (infliximab). This seems reasonable enough. None of the several drugs I've tried over the last three years have worked well enough. My last witch doctor talked several times about trying it. OK.
Unfortunately Remicade is an IV-drug. I can't take it on my own. I have to go somewhere for a nurse to administer it. Here's where the problem arises.
The witch doctor clinic has its own "infusion center" where it naturally sends me for treatment. Stop right there. I don't know the ins and outs of insurance payments, but they're not doing this for free. They're making money when they give this drug. Correct me if I'm being overly-suspicious, but I've got an issue with a doctor possibly deriving pecuniary gain by choosing one treatment over another. Only the patients' finances should be an issue when considering one drug versus another.
That said, there's a second issue: convenience. This place is limited in when you can come in. Basically only weekday mornings and early afternoons (but not Friday). I've had three appointments made. Two of them got changed because issues with the nurse being there. The last one was supposed to be Wednesday afternoon. They called an hour beforehand and cancelled it because the nurse "had an emergency." Mind you these are three+ hour blocks of time I have to set aside.
I don't know how practical it is, but I'm tempted to look to an independent infusion center. Is that unreasonable? Should I just suck it up and stick with the machine treatment?
My witch doctor has prescribed me Remicade (infliximab). This seems reasonable enough. None of the several drugs I've tried over the last three years have worked well enough. My last witch doctor talked several times about trying it. OK.
Unfortunately Remicade is an IV-drug. I can't take it on my own. I have to go somewhere for a nurse to administer it. Here's where the problem arises.
The witch doctor clinic has its own "infusion center" where it naturally sends me for treatment. Stop right there. I don't know the ins and outs of insurance payments, but they're not doing this for free. They're making money when they give this drug. Correct me if I'm being overly-suspicious, but I've got an issue with a doctor possibly deriving pecuniary gain by choosing one treatment over another. Only the patients' finances should be an issue when considering one drug versus another.
That said, there's a second issue: convenience. This place is limited in when you can come in. Basically only weekday mornings and early afternoons (but not Friday). I've had three appointments made. Two of them got changed because issues with the nurse being there. The last one was supposed to be Wednesday afternoon. They called an hour beforehand and cancelled it because the nurse "had an emergency." Mind you these are three+ hour blocks of time I have to set aside.
I don't know how practical it is, but I'm tempted to look to an independent infusion center. Is that unreasonable? Should I just suck it up and stick with the machine treatment?
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What if you step north into Tennessee?