Curious - How Old Is Everybody?

[WhoaTed]

I was born 61 years ago.

My wife insists I'm 14.

I no longer argue.

Yeah, this ^^^. Same here, but I’m 62.

 

[veni vidi vici]

Why haven't you enrolled in the VA? If you still live in SB it is very close. It has dental, vision, and hearing, and is 1000% better than it was. All you need is a copy of your DD214 to enroll.

I don’t think every veteran is entitled to free dental, vision or hearing but I could be mistaken, a first for everything.
I see the VA one a year just to keep current as a backup.
My Medicare dental is a reimbursement up to $ 2,000

 

[badlatitude]

I don’t think every veteran is entitled to free dental, vision or hearing but I could be mistaken, a first for everything.
I see the VA one a year just to keep current as a backup.
My Medicare dental is a reimbursement up to $ 2,000

Vision and hearing require a simple appointment, they will test and prescribe. If you need hearing aids they will issue a pair worth up to $5000. Dental will get you simple repairs, more complicated needs require claims or a high disability rating.

 

[veni vidi vici]

Vision and hearing require a simple appointment, they will test and prescribe. If you need hearing aids they will issue a pair worth up to $5000. Dental will get you simple repairs, more complicated needs require claims or a high disability rating.

I can get everything they offer with my disability related to AO… but don’t think every veteran is able to
I took a hearing test as a baseline, I was told I needed hearing aids, I don’t think I do yet. The technician giving my test said that the aids are state of the science including being Bluetooth , so whenever I decide to start with hearing aids that will be a huge savings. My vision is stable after cataract surgery age 55 so I only need new glasses when the old ones wear out. I have not used dental as I have been with the same dentist for nearly 20 years. VA for me is a wonderful back up.

 

[Sisyphus]

I don’t remember ever getting carded. I did spend my “pre-21” and just “post-21” years in the military. Nobody got carded when deployed and even stateside you could drink on base in the EM club. By the time I got out at age 22 (already married with a kid) I must have looked old enough……..🤷‍♂️😎

I pretty much got carded every time I went out or bought alcohol until my late 30s and it still happens occasionally.

My favorite happened a couple of years ago when the waiter carded me and my 21 year old kid, but not my wife. She got to sit through a dinner of me whispering “cradle robber“ to her.

 

[Bus Driver]

I am several years into having students who are the children of former students.

 

[Marcjsmith]

53. Three people retiring and thus suddenly becoming the old person at work is forcing me to accept this reality.

yeah but now you are the "old guy" with all the legacy knowledge.... time get a pay bump...

 

[jerseyguy]

I am several years into having students who are the children of former students.

Former professor of mine once said that you know you are getting old when your former undergraduate students become your colleagues.

 

[Point Break]

Why haven't you enrolled in the VA? If you still live in SB it is very close. It has dental, vision, and hearing, and is 1000% better than it was. All you need is a copy of your DD214 to enroll.

Thought about it but the greater network has fewer choices. I think VA is great (and it has improved considerably) if you do not have a really complicated medical condition and I do. You're just not going to get cutting edge oncology at VA.

Mrs PB has worked with a lot of folks in the cardiology department and has good thing to say about that department and the doc's/staff, but there is a certain.............."county hospital" aspect to the place.

 

[Point Break]

I am several years into having students who are the children of former students.

So...............around 12 years into my 37 year career at FD I promoted to Battalion Chief fairly young at 36. Many years later when the crews were "getting to know" the newest batch of rookies (which means looking for vulnerabilities) they asked one of the rookies what year he was born. When he answered several broke into huge smiles and one of them said "hey Chief......isn't that the year you promoted to Battalion Chief?"

It was. I never heard the end of that one - and neither did the rookie.

 

[veni vidi vici]

Thought about it but the greater network has fewer choices. I think VA is great (and it has improved considerably) if you do not have a really complicated medical condition and I do. You're just not going to get cutting edge oncology at VA.

Mrs PB has worked with a lot of folks in the cardiology department and has good thing to say about that department and the doc's/staff, but there is a certain.............."county hospital" aspect to the place.

Often they will allow a case or direct a case to private doctors. I know that is the case with prostate cancer and reading from other vets on blogs many other medical conditions

 

[veni vidi vici]

So...............around 12 years into my 37 year career at FD I promoted to Battalion Chief fairly young at 36. Many years later when the crews were "getting to know" the newest batch of rookies (which means looking for vulnerabilities) they asked one of the rookies what year he was born. When he answered several broke into huge smiles and one of them said "hey Chief......isn't that the year you promoted to Battalion Chief?"

It was. I never heard the end of that one - and neither did the rookie.

Congratulations on your stand out career

 

[Point Break]

Often they will allow a case or direct a case to private doctors. I know that is the case with prostate cancer and reading from other vets on blogs many other medical conditions

Yep.....but there I am back the "approval" merry go round. I was in the military long enough to understand the federal government. Just try to get something straightened out with your taxes.........

 

[Point Break]

Congratulations on your stand out career

It was an awesome ride I was lucky to take.

 

[badlatitude]

Thought about it but the greater network has fewer choices. I think VA is great (and it has improved considerably) if you do not have a really complicated medical condition and I do. You're just not going to get cutting edge oncology at VA.

Mrs PB has worked with a lot of folks in the cardiology department and has good thing to say about that department and the doc's/staff, but there is a certain.............."county hospital" aspect to the place.

Parts of it have a county hospital feel, but that is changing. There has been a massive construction project for the last three years and more to come. I have a close friend who has been involved with oncology for the past year and a half, and his surgeries have been done at UCI and Cedars Sinai. If you're happy where you are, it doesn't make sense to change it.

 

[veni vidi vici]

Yep.....but there I am back the "approval" merry go round. I was in the military long enough to understand the federal government. Just try to get something straightened out with your taxes.........

Yes it can be extremely frustrating, which is why I have it as my backup.
It was 2015 when I first used the VA for anything after discharge. In the filing claim stage the body language and engagement with the employees was slow and detached. I would ask the same general question to different people and get wildly different responses to very basic questions. The doctors seem to be different every year I go back.
I do hear from people that use them 100 % for serious conditions and they are very happy.

 

[Not My Real Name]

I pretty much got carded every time I went out or bought alcohol until my late 30s and it still happens occasionally.

My favorite happened a couple of years ago when the waiter carded me and my 21 year old kid, but not my wife. She got to sit through a dinner of me whispering “cradle robber“ to her.

My wife (a month older than me) has always been young looking, which was a problem for her professionally for a while. Like when a patient was coding and they wouldn't let her in a room because they thought she was the medical student and they were waiting for the attending physician (her, that day) to show up... I've also been taken for well, not her dad, but maybe her Matt Gaetz figure...

...but I digress.

We were in a bar in Annapolis a few years ago during the boat show, meeting some SA folks. I ordered drinks for my wife and I, and the bartender asked for her ID over the bar noise.

Me, Mr. Sensitivity, won the prize that night when I shouted back at him "What do you need that for, she's like FORTY..."

 

[Not My Real Name]

So...............around 12 years into my 37 year career at FD I promoted to Battalion Chief fairly young at 36. Many years later when the crews were "getting to know" the newest batch of rookies (which means looking for vulnerabilities) they asked one of the rookies what year he was born. When he answered several broke into huge smiles and one of them said "hey Chief......isn't that the year you promoted to Battalion Chief?"

It was. I never heard the end of that one - and neither did the rookie.

I hired a new programmer to my company just around turn of the century**. At one point it came out that she was born in 1978.

"Adults weren't born after Star Wars," was my comment.










** how'd do you like that, ya cranky old bastids?

 

[Point Break]

Parts of it have a county hospital feel, but that is changing. There has been a massive construction project for the last three years and more to come. I have a close friend who has been involved with oncology for the past year and a half, and his surgeries have been done at UCI and Cedars Sinai. If you're happy where you are, it doesn't make sense to change it.

Yeah, I'm pretty far into the care plan at City of Hope. Hard to say "I'm happy" but I'm getting good care, I like my Doc, and the copays are manageable.....of course there is always the "corporate medicine" hassle but overall its the best place for me right now.

I do agree that much has changed at VA (at least the one here in Long Beach) for the better. We had some minor involvement in fund raising for the Fischer House there as a spin off from another fundraising project we had for the troops. You could see good things were already underway.

 

[NeedAClew]

Mr Clew is still working by choice so we just took Plan A as required. Tried to get out of it, couldn't. Never used A at all despite 4 surgeries and hospital stays between us because employer plan is primary and covered better. Not looking forward to when Medicare becomes primary coverage and we have to take B.