"Tony" Thought Journal 3.0

Tony Page said:
This afternoon I have an appointment with my cardiologist. I'm hoping he doesn't want to do any more testing if you see something wrong and there's a pill give me it.

it's annoying that a lot of our time in the last few months has been taken up with billing issues for MSK and Prudential Insurance.

With MSK there sending me a bill for a date I was not being treated. so far it's been impossible for me to contact a live body. I will go into billing on my next visit which is April 1st.

With Prudential Life Insurance we've been trying to pay our premium since January.

in January my wife paid her life insurance premium online like we normally do no problem, when she went to pay mine there was a problem with the website my payment could not be paid online. she called Prudential they could not fix the online problem so they told us we have to mail a check because they did not accept payments over the phone.
I personally mailed the check on a Sunday in the mailbox in front of the post office. fortunately my wife went online and was looking at her checking account and for whatever reason she decided to examine the check that she got back. someone had washed out the Prudential name and replaced it with another and cash the check in other words the check was stolen.

we spent about a week in and out of our bank making police reports, putting in FTC claim, putting in a claim with the post office. Closing that compromise account reopening another account, simply put it was a mess.

We explain to Prudential what happened and that the website still was not accepting payment so again they suggested we send the check. This time we sent the check with tracking. Per the Post Office online tracking Prudential received the check on March 4th. A day later she looks up the check online in her checking account and it shows it's paid with photos of the check.

the Prudential online website shows the payment is still due. she calls Prudential and they claimed they never got the check "we said Here We Go Again", we are still in talks with Prudential we sent them photos of the check, let's see what happens.
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ARGH... how aggravating. I hope your blood pressure has calmed down before you get to the cardio appointment!! :D Does your bank offer the electronic bill pay thing? We pay our bills using a free bill payment feature from our credit union.

Tony, if you have MyChart for MSK, you might send a message through the "billing information" section. When I had an insurance issue with MD Anderson I was able to contact them through MyChart and got it fixed right away.
 
Tony Page said:
This afternoon I have an appointment with my cardiologist. I'm hoping he doesn't want to do any more testing if you see something wrong and there's a pill give me it.

it's annoying that a lot of our time in the last few months has been taken up with billing issues for MSK and Prudential Insurance.

With MSK there sending me a bill for a date I was not being treated. so far it's been impossible for me to contact a live body. I will go into billing on my next visit which is April 1st.

With Prudential Life Insurance we've been trying to pay our premium since January.

in January my wife paid her life insurance premium online like we normally do no problem, when she went to pay mine there was a problem with the website my payment could not be paid online. she called Prudential they could not fix the online problem so they told us we have to mail a check because they did not accept payments over the phone.
I personally mailed the check on a Sunday in the mailbox in front of the post office. fortunately my wife went online and was looking at her checking account and for whatever reason she decided to examine the check that she got back. someone had washed out the Prudential name and replaced it with another and cash the check in other words the check was stolen.

we spent about a week in and out of our bank making police reports, putting in FTC claim, putting in a claim with the post office. Closing that compromise account reopening another account, simply put it was a mess.

We explain to Prudential what happened and that the website still was not accepting payment so again they suggested we send the check. This time we sent the check with tracking. Per the Post Office online tracking Prudential received the check on March 4th. A day later she looks up the check online in her checking account and it shows it's paid with photos of the check.

the Prudential online website shows the payment is still due. she calls Prudential and they claimed they never got the check "we said Here We Go Again", we are still in talks with Prudential we sent them photos of the check, let's see what happens.
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Man o man @Tony Page it seems like just one thing after another for you. Hopefully the seeds will arrive in the mail and brighten your day.:)
 
Beth Gallagher said:
ARGH... how aggravating. I hope your blood pressure has calmed down before you get to the cardio appointment!! :D Does your bank offer the electronic bill pay thing? We pay our bills using a free bill payment feature from our credit union.

Tony, if you have MyChart for MSK, you might send a message through the "billing information" section. When I had an insurance issue with MD Anderson I was able to contact them through MyChart and got it fixed right away.
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Beth,
Thanks.
Just got home about 10 minutes ago didn't see the doctor till after 4:00.
The website is down next time we have to pay we talked about paying the bill using bill pay on our banks website.
 
Tony Page said:
This afternoon I have an appointment with my cardiologist. I'm hoping he doesn't want to do any more testing if you see something wrong and there's a pill give me it.

it's annoying that a lot of our time in the last few months has been taken up with billing issues for MSK and Prudential Insurance.

With MSK there sending me a bill for a date I was not being treated. so far it's been impossible for me to contact a live body. I will go into billing on my next visit which is April 1st.

With Prudential Life Insurance we've been trying to pay our premium since January.

in January my wife paid her life insurance premium online like we normally do no problem, when she went to pay mine there was a problem with the website my payment could not be paid online. she called Prudential they could not fix the online problem so they told us we have to mail a check because they did not accept payments over the phone.
I personally mailed the check on a Sunday in the mailbox in front of the post office. fortunately my wife went online and was looking at her checking account and for whatever reason she decided to examine the check that she got back. someone had washed out the Prudential name and replaced it with another and cash the check in other words the check was stolen.

we spent about a week in and out of our bank making police reports, putting in FTC claim, putting in a claim with the post office. Closing that compromise account reopening another account, simply put it was a mess.

We explain to Prudential what happened and that the website still was not accepting payment so again they suggested we send the check. This time we sent the check with tracking. Per the Post Office online tracking Prudential received the check on March 4th. A day later she looks up the check online in her checking account and it shows it's paid with photos of the check.

the Prudential online website shows the payment is still due. she calls Prudential and they claimed they never got the check "we said Here We Go Again", we are still in talks with Prudential we sent them photos of the check, let's see what happens.
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Can't you call on the phone and get the, over the phone, payment option? I never send checks except for property taxes. I hope you get your cardio problems under control soon. Bad enough to deal with health issues, then just to have aggravation over billing.
 
Faye Fox said:
Can't you call on the phone and get the, over the phone, payment option? I never send checks except for property taxes. I hope you get your cardio problems under control soon. Bad enough to deal with health issues, then just to have aggravation over billing.
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They won't accept payment over the phone. We tried that first that's why we mailed the check. You would think they would accept payments in any way, shape, or form.
 
Tony Page said:
They won't accept payment over the phone. We tried that first that's why we mailed the check. You would think they would accept payments in any way, shape, or form.
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I think that says they don't trust their employees not to steal credit card numbers or to cheap to pay for a secure automated system. Now, they should be concerned about accepting checks since someone at their company altered yours. It sounds like an easy case for the FBI. All they have to do is find the person that claims the account where your check was rerouted.
 
Can you have too many loves? I'm not talking about relationships with the opposite sex. When I was young I loved animals and nature, astronomy, photography, electronics and audio, baseball, UFOs and the Paranormal, anything that cross my path and interest me I dove in head and foot. I was "Tony of all trades master of none."

I visited Cortland Street in downtown Manhattan known as "Radio Row" many times. Every store had something to offer in the world of electronics and audio. if you needed a part for a project or to repair something if you couldn't find it down there it didn't exist.

One of my favorite places to go that wasn't far from "Radio Row" was Trefflich Pet Shop. The world's largest Pet Shop it was four stories high. The owner Henry Trefflick nicknamed "The Monkey King of America", imported exotic animals to zoos, medical research, circuses, private collectors anyone who wanted an exotic animal.

My visits there were always memorable because you never know what you were going to see it was more like walking through a zoo than a pet shop.

One time out on the street a truck was unloading wooden cages they were stacked High and being rolled into the store they had these ginormous snakes I believe to be boa constrictor or pythons. Another time I went up to the third or fourth floor right at the entrance was a cage on the right that when you walked in the door a large hairy arm greeted you, it was a orangutan. I remember taking a friend of mine there a week later to see his expression when he jumped when this hairy arm greeted you.

There were these cages filled with young coatimundis, but there was one coatimundi in a cage by itself set aside. I asked the worker why wasn't he in with the others I was told he had a sore on its tail which could be infected. The worker said if you're interested in it I can sell it to you for $25. My mind swung back and forth yes no yes no. I finally decided no, he was a cute little fellow but I didn't think I could take care of him.

It was an amazing Pet Shop they had a whole floor of just Birds. For young kid with a love of animals going there with heaven.

During that time and because of my experiences with this pet store I got an idea to start a business with animals this will be a story for another time.
 
Tony Page said:
Can you have too many loves? I'm not talking about relationships with the opposite sex. When I was young I loved animals and nature, astronomy, photography, electronics and audio, baseball, UFOs and the Paranormal, anything that cross my path and interest me I dove in head and foot. I was "Tony of all trades master of none."

I visited Cortland Street in downtown Manhattan known as "Radio Row" many times. Every store had something to offer in the world of electronics and audio. if you needed a part for a project or to repair something if you couldn't find it down there it didn't exist.

One of my favorite places to go that wasn't far from "Radio Row" was Trefflich Pet Shop. The world's largest Pet Shop it was four stories high. The owner Henry Trefflick nicknamed "The Monkey King of America", imported exotic animals to zoos, medical research, circuses, private collectors anyone who wanted an exotic animal.

My visits there were always memorable because you never know what you were going to see it was more like walking through a zoo than a pet shop.

One time out on the street a truck was unloading wooden cages they were stacked High and being rolled into the store they had these ginormous snakes I believe to be boa constrictor or pythons. Another time I went up to the third or fourth floor right at the entrance was a cage on the right that when you walked in the door a large hairy arm greeted you, it was a orangutan. I remember taking a friend of mine there a week later to see his expression when he jumped when this hairy arm greeted you.

There were these cages filled with young coatimundis, but there was one coatimundi in a cage by itself set aside. I asked the worker why wasn't he in with the others I was told he had a sore on its tail which could be infected. The worker said if you're interested in it I can sell it to you for $25. My mind swung back and forth yes no yes no. I finally decided no, he was a cute little fellow but I didn't think I could take care of him.

It was an amazing Pet Shop they had a whole floor of just Birds. For young kid with a love of animals going there with heaven.

During that time and because of my experiences with this pet store I got an idea to start a business with animals this will be a story for another time.
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You have some great stories, Tony. :)
 
I was wondering if anybody knows about DNA. I know DNA can control how we look, our physique, how we are built.

Does DNA control our disposition / personality? How our brain functions? Whether we suffer from a mental illness?

Are we born with a basic brain and our environment contributes to our Behavior?

It's a subject that always interest me maybe someday I'll look into it. I'm not sure I want to know the answer because it might change my perspective on what we are.
 
Tony Page said:
I was wondering if anybody knows about DNA. I know DNA can control how we look, our physique, how we are built.

Does DNA control our disposition / personality? How our brain functions? Whether we suffer from a mental illness?

Are we born with a basic brain and our environment contributes to our Behavior?

It's a subject that always interest me maybe someday I'll look into it. I'm not sure I want to know the answer because it might change my perspective on what we are.
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That is the old "Nature vs. Nurture" controversy. I think that many times "Nature" gives one tendencies, but "Nurture" puts them into action or not.
 
Tony Page said:
I was wondering if anybody knows about DNA. I know DNA can control how we look, our physique, how we are built.

Does DNA control our disposition / personality? How our brain functions? Whether we suffer from a mental illness?

Are we born with a basic brain and our environment contributes to our Behavior?

It's a subject that always interest me maybe someday I'll look into it. I'm not sure I want to know the answer because it might change my perspective on what we are.
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You probably already know the answer, but subconsciously realize it doesn't matter. Perhaps you will receive more wisdom on the matter while working in your garden. Working in a garden can be therapeutic.
 
Tony Page said:
I was wondering if anybody knows about DNA. I know DNA can control how we look, our physique, how we are built.

Does DNA control our disposition / personality? How our brain functions? Whether we suffer from a mental illness?

Are we born with a basic brain and our environment contributes to our Behavior?

It's a subject that always interest me maybe someday I'll look into it. I'm not sure I want to know the answer because it might change my perspective on what we are.
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I have zero expertise in DNA, outside what I have learned from watching too many murders on Investigation Discovery. However in real world experience, I can tell you that my husband is a twin. No doubt sharing DNA and having been raised in the same household by the same parents, he and his brother are as different personality-wise as night and day.

My brother-in-law is a genuine jerk; a jealous and petty man. My husband is kind, thoughtful and generous. It was never more evident than when my MIL died and my brother-in-law and his wife were scavenging her home before she was even buried. "When someone shows you who they are, believe them."
 
On Tuesday night we watch our grandkids, it's a rehearsal night for our daughter she sings with a swing band. Tonight our grandkids must have had too much sugar, getting them to sit to do their homework was a challenge. They finally settled down when I told them they were going to sleep in the barn if they didn't get their homework done.

Today I started my final seed starting in the house. When the weather warms enough I will plant seeds directly in the ground.

Some of our daffodils in the front beds are starting to bloom. Looks like most of the daffodil and tulip bulbs we planted are pushing through the soil. Soon I'll have to fertilize the plants in the front beds.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to do some cleanup outside, get the beds ready for planting. I want to set up one of my larger containers with soil and fertilizer. I'd like to sow some radish and carrot seeds.
 
I haven't seen the male and female cardinals that visit my bird feeder lately. To draw them to the feeder I filled it with sunflower seeds their favorite, and "voila" I got a few photos of the female on my birdcam with a seed in her beak.

I was up most of the night with that pain in my back that goes through to my chest. My cardiologist when I saw him last week felt the pain was originating from the spine in my neck. He gave me a reference to a neurologist that he uses. My cardiologist might be correct because back in the seventies when I broke my elbow I was having a problem with my shoulder so they took a bunch of x-rays, and scans. They found I had bursitis in my shoulder joint, but they also found that I had a "degenerative joint disease" in my neck. I was told that by the time I was 50 I'd be wearing a neck brace. I haven't needed one yet and I don't believe I can sleep in one. I have a roll on lidocaine that I will try tonight on my neck to see if it works. What's weird is I only got this pain when I'm sleeping.

It's getting to be a real pain in the neck. Haha

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I was thinking about my neck problem and I remembered that when I was a kid about 3 years old I climbed up the steps of a stoop, when I reach the top I climbed up an iron railing total height was about 8 ft off the ground. I fell over the side of the stoop and hit the ground pretty hard but my forehead. To this day I can see the ground coming up at me as I was heading down. I remember being rushed to St Catherine's Hospital in Brooklyn other than that I don't really remember much. I was being watched by my 16-year-old cousin and his friends, apparently he took the incident badly. I was told my forehead was swollen a lot. That's what I get for using my head.

Maybe that was the start of my neck problems, who knows?
 
@Tony Page Have you had any fusion done on your neck? My neck always has a low level of discomfort. A flaxseed microwaveable heat pad helps that. For serious sharp pain, I use Voltaren and the pain is gone within 15 minutes. I think it is hard for someone that has done hard physical work all their life, to think of any incident that caused neck damage. It is a accumulation of wear. As I age, I use the term, "pain in the neck" more discretely than I did when I was younger. :sneaky:
 
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