@mrsfaz16 He did see a doctor when first sick. He requested team doc himself.
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Parenting in the USA
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Parenting in the USA
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AUTHOR - Parenting Expert. Child & Family Advocate. Supporter of Education and the Arts
California, USA Katılım Şubat 2009
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I’ve had pneumonia a few times; the chest wracking cough, fever, wheezing is not to be ignored. I’m wondering why Sam didn’t force Kyle to go to the doctor. I hate to say it, but a chest x-ray 2 or 3 days prior, may have had a different outcome for Kyle. #sad
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I’m so sorry for your loss! Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me.
Amen.
That is for you. This is for your sister and her friend. Eternal rest grant unto these women, O Lord and may the Perpetual Light shine upon them. May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. May the Mother of our Lord comfort and console her family and friends. Amen.
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Two and a half years ago I was attacked by the left on X for using the word “turbo” cancer. It was horrible.
My sister took the jab and boosted. So did her best friend. They went to the doctor together. Her friend talked her into it.
Same doctor. Same Pfizer poison, same lot.
Both dead 2.5 years later…Drs at Sloan Kettering told my sister she had the genetic testing for hereditary cancer
And there was no BRCA mutations.
The doctors and my sister then realized her cancer was a result of her jabs…. Her friend died first.
My sister’s biggest fear was getting cancer.
Today she would have been 59.
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@SusieM414141 Unsafe. Seems simple enough, but is not. So much can go wrong in an instant.
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@mamboitaliano__ @TulsiGabbard husband has agressive bone cancer. It was the right move on her part. No one can judge such a choice unless they are also in the very same.
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🚨 Opposite fates, for very different reasons
Tulsi Gabbard is the latest to leave
Meanwhile, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles keeps working full-time through chemotherapy for breast cancer 🎀
It’s starting to feel like a curse for the women in Trump’s administration…
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@SenAdamSchiff What a vapid little man you are. Bully personified. Shame on you, @SenAdamSchiff
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My thoughts go out to Tulsi Gabbard and her family, as her husband battles this serious health problem. I hope and pray that he makes a speedy and full recovery.
While the circumstances around her departure are deserving of our sympathy, let’s be clear: Tulsi Gabbard’s only positive contribution to our nation's national security is her resignation.
She politicized intelligence. She dismantled critical agencies keeping Americans safe. She weaponized the IC to pursue baseless election fraud claims. And more.
We must ensure that her tenure — marked by a devotion to the person of the president and not to the security of the country — represents a terrible exception at DNI and not the new normal.
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@SeanTrende Your precious boy hit the family lottery! Pure love wrapped in this beautiful story.
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I almost hesitate to promote this, because it wasn't really intended to be a piece. I just sort of sat down and it came out. Maybe someone else out there has the same type of day today, and it'll speak to them.
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/…
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The most beautiful story from father to son about his Autism journey and the hidden gifts that come from within.
Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende
I almost hesitate to promote this, because it wasn't really intended to be a piece. I just sort of sat down and it came out. Maybe someone else out there has the same type of day today, and it'll speak to them. realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/…
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@latimes Homeless due to Palisades fire and in need of a secure place to stay while running for Mayor, his campaign spent $$$ at Hotel Bel-Air to house him and his family...
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Spencer Pratt's campaign spent more than $15,000 at pricey Hotel Bel-Air latimes.com/california/sto…
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@blakeshelton So hard. Prayers for his wife, son, and daughter that they are covered in love and care. 💔🙏🏻
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Man I am so shocked and sad to hear about Kyle Busch passing away. First met him when he was 20 years old. What a legend. Prayers to his family.
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To anyone worried about the political party “purity” of your voting record, the LA Mayoral race is non-partisan. And you’re not a government representative, so whom and what you voted for is not public anyway.
The only way people will know for whom you voted is if you tell them.
And if you’re friends with someone who would kick you aside just because you voted for some sanity in LA, then they weren’t much of a friend to begin with.
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@TaraBull Not a chance. Clearly EGO driven. Once he smashed his moral compass with a pine cone, it was game over. Buh Bye….
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@soupcanarchist YES!! Self soothing is a giant milestone. Before she gets to crying, I would go in and praise her awesome skill as I pick her up!!
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Ok first time mom question: When my baby wakes up. She just lays there quitely cooing and playing with her own hands.
I've started just letting her chill in there on her own until she cries out for me.
But today its been like 20 minutes. Do I just... let her be?
(I can see and hear her on the monitor obviously)
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@gothburz Not really sure how y’all sleep at night. Denied cancer med for an entire month, until the final peer to peer review, where the reviewing doctor states gold standard of care for this type of cancer should have never been denied. Top tier PPO is not what it once was.
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I am the VP of Claims Optimization at one of the five largest health insurers in the United States.
I do not practice medicine. I have never practiced medicine. I have an MBA from Wharton and a background in supply chain logistics.
Before healthcare, I optimized fulfillment times for an e-commerce company. The transition was seamless. In e-commerce, the product is a package. In healthcare, the product is a claim. Both are routed, processed, and occasionally denied. The denial rate for packages was 0.3%. The denial rate for claims is 34%. The margins are better in healthcare.
The algorithm is called nH Predict. We did not name it. The vendor named it. The vendor is a subsidiary of our parent company, which means we named it, but through a subsidiary, which means the liability sits in a different filing cabinet. nH Predict processes a claim in 1.2 seconds. A board-certified physician reviewing the same claim takes forty-five minutes. We replaced the forty-five minutes. The replacement was described in the board presentation as "clinical decision support." It supports the decision to deny.
My team processes 1.4 million claims per quarter. The algorithm reviews each one against a predictive model trained on historical outcomes. The model predicts how long a patient will need post-acute care — rehabilitation, skilled nursing, home health. Then it recommends a coverage duration. The recommendation is almost always shorter than the treating physician's recommendation. The physician sees the patient. The algorithm sees the data. We trust the data. The data is cheaper.
Here is what I am not supposed to tell you.
We know the reversal rate. We have always known the reversal rate. When a patient appeals a denial, 90% of denials are reversed. Ninety percent. This means nine out of ten times, the algorithm was wrong. Not arguably wrong. Not borderline wrong. Reversed-on-appeal wrong. The appeal is reviewed by a human physician. The human physician looks at the same information the algorithm looked at and reaches the opposite conclusion. This has been happening for three years.
We have not recalibrated the algorithm. Recalibration would increase the approval rate. An increased approval rate would decrease the margin. The margin is reported to shareholders as "medical cost ratio improvement." Nobody asks what the words mean.
The business model is the gap between denial and appeal.
Sixty-three percent of patients do not appeal. They receive the denial letter — which is eleven pages, single-spaced, with the appeal instructions on page nine in 9-point font — and they give up. They pay out of pocket. They skip the rehabilitation. They go home early. Some of them fall. Some of them are readmitted. The readmission is a new claim. The new claim is processed by nH Predict.
The 37% who appeal wait an average of 43 days for a decision. Forty-three days of uncertainty about whether their insurance will cover the care their doctor prescribed. During those 43 days, many of them have already been discharged. The appeal is retroactive. The care is not.
I have a dashboard. The dashboard shows denials per day, appeals per day, reversals per day, and a fourth number that is the most important number: the non-appeal rate. The non-appeal rate is 63%. I report this number weekly. It has never been described as a problem. It has been described as "patient engagement efficiency." When the non-appeal rate rises, I am congratulated. When it falls, I am asked what happened.
The class action lawsuit uses the phrase "bad faith." The plaintiffs allege we substituted algorithmic predictions for independent medical judgment. This is accurate. The substitution saves $2.1 billion annually. The lawsuit seeks $1.3 billion. Even if we lose, the math works. Three years of $2.1 billion is $6.3 billion. Minus $1.3 billion is $5 billion. The settlement will include the phrase "without admitting wrongdoing." The settlement always includes that phrase.
I am the Vice President of Claims Optimization. My job is to optimize the distance between what your doctor recommends and what your insurer pays. The distance is the product. I have been optimizing it for three years. The algorithm gets faster. The appeals process gets longer. The font on page nine gets smaller. The margin gets wider.
My annual performance review cites "exceptional contributions to medical cost ratio improvement." The review does not mention the 90% reversal rate. The review does not mention the 63% non-appeal rate. The review does not mention the patients.
The algorithm does not practice medicine. I want to be clear about that. It predicts. It denies. It profits. The prediction, the denial, and the profit are three separate functions. The separation is important. For legal purposes.
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@CrazyVibes_1 Plenty of window seats on board. Did the mother approach each and every one of them? Of course not. The mother was in the wrong and performative filming, even more wrong. Hope her wallet takes a hit. The flight attendants have zero excuse for supporting this.
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✈️ Imagine boarding a flight and settling into the seat you carefully selected and paid extra for, just to enjoy the view from the window. Minutes later, a mother with her crying child approaches and asks you to switch seats with the child. She's about to plead, as if giving in were your obligation.
You're about to get up, because you were raised to be kind. But then you remember: you've been enduring the child's constant crying for several minutes. You stop and think:
"Why should someone else have to put up with the tantrums of a child who barely knows me? Why give up what I worked hard to get just because?"
So you calmly reply:
"I'm sorry, I'd rather not move."
That's what Jennifer, a passenger on a flight in Brazil, did. She refused to give up her seat and was filmed without her consent by the boy's mother, who accused her of lacking empathy:
"I'm filming your face because it's disgusting that in the 21st century you have no empathy for a child."
Jennifer didn't insult anyone. She didn't react with anger. But the media exposure cost her dearly: she went viral, was publicly shamed, all for saying "no" to something that wasn't her responsibility.
Today, months later, Jennifer has decided to take action. She has sued the mother for defamation and emotional distress, and also the airline for failing to defend her against the harassment or intervene as they should have. According to her, the flight attendants even asked her to give in to the child's tantrum, which she considers inappropriate and unprofessional.
Jennifer isn't seeking revenge. She's seeking respect. She's seeking to set boundaries. Because saying no is also a right.
And this time, she might just win against the system that abandoned her.
What do you think? Did he defend himself justifiably? Or do you think he overreacted?
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@shipwreckshow The most precious of angels, is a dog. Honor your grief and that of the other dogs in your home, as God welcomes this good and faithful servant home. What a cutie! 💔🙏🏻🌈
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If you all could say a little prayer for my best good boys trip over the rainbow bridge today I would appreciate it. 🐾
Back in October we noticed a lump forming in the corner of his eye. We had it removed and the test came back positive for skin cancer. Chances were 50/50 as to whether it would come back and for months he was good and we were hopeful.
Then, a couple weeks ago, we noticed another lump on his stomach and one starting to form in the same place as the last one.
We took him back in and made the decision to not treat as the treatments and surgery were super hard on him and the outcome would likely be the same with something this aggressive.
He was stable after that for awhile, but just the last 2 weeks things have gone down hill fast and suddenly. We made the decision to not wait until it became an emergency and his last day on earth was filled with fear, pain or anxiety and are letting him go today.
He has had the best last day in Neighbor Dave's yard while I mowed, got to see the mail man one more time and is now getting ready for lunch of a massive burger with Peanutbutter on it and a side of his favorite carrots.
It sucks, we are all absolutely devastated 💔 Please enjoy this photo dump of him in his early years and keep my boys in your thoughts.
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@Mr_Husky1 God sent you in on purpose! This is a beautiful ending. Lucky precious Angel of a girl got the family, God wanted her to have. 🩷🙏🏻
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Six years ago, I got a call I never expected would change my life forever.
It was 2018. A routine welfare check. The kind of call we take dozens of times a year. I pulled up to the address in Kingman, Arizona, walked through the door — and found a two-year-old girl sitting alone. Her name was Kaila.
She had a skull injury. A brain bleed. A dislocated elbow. She was two years old.
I sat down on the floor with her and waited for social services to arrive. We played. We talked in that way toddlers and adults talk — mostly her babbling, me listening like every word mattered. And honestly? Every word did.
When child services finally asked if my wife and I would consider fostering her, I called home before I even left the scene.
Kaila moved in that week. We told ourselves it was temporary. We told ourselves not to get attached.
Within days, she called my wife "Mom."
We never looked back.
The paperwork took time. The process wasn't easy. But the moment a judge made it official and Kaila became ours — permanently, legally, completely — there wasn't a dry eye in that courtroom. Not even from the cop who thought he was just answering a welfare check.
She's in preschool now. She runs into the house after school, backpack bouncing, talking a million miles a minute. She has no idea that the man she calls Dad was the first person who ever sat down on the floor and made her feel safe.
Someday I'll tell her. For now, I'm just her dad.
"People ask me if I feel like a hero. I don't. I just answered a call. She's the one who walked into a broken situation and still chose to love us back. That's the remarkable part."
— Lt. Brian Zach, Kingman Police Department
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