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E – I would return the Brochah, but I’m not sure if you’re from the group that wants this brochah or not.

Sac – For some reason you equate romance with spending money on the girl.

“If I offer to pay thats my decision, but a gentleman gets me every time”

The truth is there are romantic men who don’t have money to spend and vice-versa. Maybe you should try role reversal on a date and see if you can just drop whatever on the guy.

Trust me, there are a lot of fakers, many guys can drop tons of money while they’re dating and then abuse and starve their family after the marriage. Test the guy’s Middos, not how much he drops, during the dating process.

cshapiro – Every Jewish girl is worth it, but can the guy actually afford it? When you’re single- whether a guy or gal and working, there is a lot of money for enjoying yourself. But once you have a family in today’s day and age, even with both parents working, with tuition costs, life can be very struggling. It’s allright to live it up now, but it’s better not to- because it’s not that easy to live on a budget if you aren’t used to living that way. Start now and it won’t be so difficult later on in life.

You must either be a PA or a NP. Either way, when did you finish school? It must be a long time ago. Anyway they still teach PE in school. They still teach percussion, but not many providers do it.

Today because of time constraints, most of us do focused PE’s. I’ve gone personally for that type of PE myself, where the provider does a ton of hands-on. But he charged good money and it took a good amount of time and it was his practice. In the reality of most exams, whether an ER or Primary Care office, you have very little time to do all you have to and move on. Most of the diagnosis will come from the history anyway. Of course, there are always those that basically skip the PE, just take a quick listen with the scope, and this is also wrong. You need to do a PE, even if it’s just focused and most do. As far as tests go, a practioner should only order tests that might be revelant. But again a lot will order everything under the sun because they are afraid of a lawsuit. I personally won’t, but a lot will. This issue is actually a hot potato in Congress. A lot of politicians are calling for tort reform, so providers will stop ordering anything they can think of. This, like you said, will lower the costs to the insurance provider!

Always here – “it can cause defects in children” .. sorry, not factual.”

I’ll assume you are just ignorant, not one of those smokers in denial.

From the CDC:

“The dangers of smoking during pregnancy include premature birth, certain birth defects, and infant death. Even being around cigarette smoke puts a woman and her baby at risk for problems.”

cs -“i hate cheap guys too…”

I can understand hating someone who is really cheap – eg. has money, but won’t spend. Who says the guy in this case is cheap -maybe he can’t afford the exorbirant toll?

Or is it your opinion that a guy is cheap if he doesn’t throw money after the girl, even if it’s not necessary, like in this case?

“She wasnt even calling him cheap she was just saying what she heard.”

Whether true or not, the girl started it with her snide comment.

Even if her comment is true, which I doubt because there are probably a million reasons why someone would take the bridge as opposed to the tunnel, it definitely isn’t nice. Somethings are best left unsaid!

“It should be pointed out that my mother has an extensive medical history and takes quite a few medications for a number of different conditions”

It would stand to reason, any long time smoker will have many medical conditions. All the more reason to quit. Let her ask her PCP about combining the patch with Chantix and/or Zyban.

She didn’t say show it to them now. But TBT is what all the shrinks say -Don’t badmouth the other parent to your kids. Some do it anyway and the kids turn out fine, but it doesn’t make it right.

yoyo -“im scared to tell my parents i dont know what they will do they most prob wont let me out of the house how should i go abt telling them”

I don’t know why you would think your parents will disallow you to leave your house. This could be considered abuse. Have they ever abused you before? Perhaps, you do suffer from paranoia.

I think you should tell your parents. If on the millionth chance they forbid you from leaving your house, let the CR know and people here will guide you who to contact to deal with this.

“It is almost as bad as being overweight.”

It actually is much worse. While obesity IS a national health problem, by and far Smoking is the Leading cause of Preventable Death! (CDC)

Mod 80 – I don’t know if this is from R. Nachman, but I did hear a quote on that. Perhaps this is the same what AOM was trying to say:

The gemorrah says “Yiush Shelo Meedas”. So whomever (possibly R. Nachman) explains -If you’re Meyouish in life (If you give up on life) -Shelo Meedas (because you don’t have [without] Daas -in other words -because you lost your mind)!

“There is a natural product called melatonin-they are drops that go under the tongue. Anybody have info on that?”

I’ve heard of it. It’s supposed to mimic the body’s melatonin, which is the hormone the body produces during sleep. Does it work? Supposedly for some. I don’t need these products to sleep, B’H!

So obviously you haven’t -“I’ve tried them all”!

Read the chap. on Insomnia in the book I mentioned. You can probably get it online at the website I mentioned!

happiest – “I think you are wrong about the criminal part.”

I’m not wrong. You’re very naive. Let’s say this a figment of her imagination (I’m not saying it is, but it could be), calling the cops could be (not definitely) considered harrassment.

Would you want someone calling the cops on you because you decided to stare at someone. I offered the most logical advice. I don’t think another high school girl is going to hurt her, nor do I think Frum managers at a grocery store are upto hurting other people.

First of all, she should tell her parents that she is not ever going back to this store and she should say why. Second of all, if she ever feels she is being followed by someone, she should call her parents immediately. They are adults -they can investigate. If they feel it is a matter for the police, they can call. If they feel she suffers from sort of paranoia, they can get her the help she needs. I feel a lot of the advice here is a disservice to this teenager. Noone here is able to judge up the situation and I don’t think anyone here except perhaps Aries is capable of judging up someone’s mental state. And this is difficult to do even for mental health professionals who do it in person.

I’ll reiterate my point – she should seek advice from her parents only and not from a bunch of anon. bloggers. Usually people can come here for advice and a lot of advice is on the mark, but I don’t see how anyone can accurately figure out what exactly is going on here. You need someone to be there in person to see how much this is imagination and how much is truth.

eclipse – No, I live in Lakewood -a NJ Judge.

s2021 – Did someone throw you down the stairs?

You can take 3-4 Advil every 4-6 hours. This works for teeth pain usually better than narcotics.

I think the OP has a valid point. I don’t think most people give 10% of their earnings to Tzedaka. This would include all money coming in, not just what you put “on the books”!

Go to your PCP and if there aren’t any red flags, you will be put on a trial of PPI’s for 2-4 weeks. If this doesn’t control it, you will have to be worked up.

brotherofurs – That’s your mistake. We are allowed to live normally and do normal things like going out shopping, even if we end up seeing things we shouldn’t. But why does a person Need to watch a movie?

tzippy -“(Despite what drs push, the best treatment is not nuking the thyroid and leaving a patient hypo for life but anti thyroid drugs.)”

Is this your own medical opinion, due to your vast medical knowledge or did you get it from somewhere?

allsgr8 – Maybe she meant that her vomit was vile, like disgusting.

“Then again,gallons of unfair criticism is what gets a person so self-critical in the first place!!”

Too much criticism whether true or not- is Unfair! Noone deserves to be criticized their whole life! The way to combat this is to have a lot of self-esteem. Sometimes it requires professional help!

“i heard they have manicures to match the shoes”

Ya’know, I can understand why a person would want shoes to match a dress, but nails to match shoes is beyond me!