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I am thinking of doing the Harry Potter stuff at Universal with DS when he comes in January. I have only been once when it first opened and didn't see a lot because that was the day we lost deceased DH and had to search all over the park for him. Both DS and I loved the Harry Potter books (and he loves all the movies though I like the earlier ones best).

A lot of money for something you won't use unless you have a major illness/accident. But if that happens you need it. I can see why some people are going to forgo having insurance. My son would have a tough time if he wasn't getting it through work but even though that helps with affordability, he still has a very large deductible as well.

123.5, up again! Grrrrr! Might have to up my dose! Snacking abounds!

I hate how dark it is so early. Not sure why we have to do daylight savings time! Makes me just want to go to bed and stay there!

I've been window shopping online for all the things I want to buy for new house! The delivery trucks are going to be busy once we get there!

Hair cut today. Last one with my hairdresser. I hate to think of finding all new providers from hair to physicians and vets and groomers! I've been trying to make an appointment with an electrophysiologist (doctor that specializes in heart rhythms and will manage my defibrillator) but getting into see one is like getting into Fort Knox. They are refusing to make an appointment for me until they review my referral which was sent October 21. They are already booking out to sometime in 2026 and I will need a download of my defibrillator read in December and need to be set up with a local device clinic to where the downloads are sent. In a pinch I can have my guy here read the download but if there is an issue, he can't help me out from WI while I'm in FL! Grrrr again!

The weather here is cold! Yuck!

Is the type of insurance you're thinking about called Catastrophic Insurance? You can still buy it in Minnesota, but I think it's been limited in some ways by the ACA rules.

Over treatment or under treatment, such a conundrum. Take for example my breast cancer which was Stage 1. Standard treatment is lumpectomy, radiation and hormone treatment. But there are some doctors that contend that not every stage 1 cancer needs this level of intervention. But if that is the protocol, how much are you going to fight it? One of my co workers had a similar diagnosis as mine and she flatly refused the hormone treatment. Which of us made the right choice? Hard to say. And treatments for elderly patients: just because we can should we? When my Grandma was diagnosed with Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer her care team immediately set up chemo despite telling her she had only weeks to live. Some of my uncles really wanted her to do it. I told her it was her life and she gets to decide, and she decided to choose hospice and no chemo. Her diagnosis was 6 weeks to live, and she lived 12. But I thought it was sad that the most aggressive treatment was the default, and she had to push back to NOT get treatment. But then the slippery slope where we could start deciding someone doesn't need treatment ... Really tough issues, with no easy answers.