It is my life goal to hug Ben Kissel

There’s a weird little park off oak grove just south of cherry. There’s a sign for it, but doesn’t appear to be any parking and it’s behind residential houses. That might be a good one to look into.

All of Springfield is your oyster.

Eden is top notch! I’ve fostered for them and adopted from them. They’re very kind and truly care for all cats.

Tell them to send you a bill because you pay nothing without one. That has worked for my wife and I every time. Thats what insurance is for. Once they pay their part, then you can be billed for the rest. They cannot legally charge you for something that they do not know the amount of. My wife and I both worked in healthcare for over 35 years each. 
One thing that has caused most of this is the deals that hospitals have made with insurance companies. It is disgusting what hospitals, physicians, laboratories, imaging services, and most other departments get paid by insurance. A physician may charge the insurance company $250 for some procedure. The insurance company only reimburses the physician $8.50 because of the deal made between the insurance company and the hospital or physician group or whoever.  Or maybe they pay $3 for that $150 X-ray. That is why everyone in healthcare has to do 10 times the work they used to do because insurance pays almost nothing for services anymore.

My two cats were adopted from two different places - my old cat from CARE and my new kitten from Rescue One. CARE is a shelter/sanctuary, while Rescue One exclusively fosters. But CARE saved my old cat from being euthanized in a kill shelter, so they give second chances to animals who might not otherwise get one, if that interests you.

I had good experiences with both.

I’ve had to prepay for nearly all procedures I’ve had. I’m with Mercy. I’m sorry you’re going through this.

I love rescue one! Such a great organization. I'm sure watching over whiskers is too, but I know R1 is overwhelmed with animals right now. They have nearly 500 in their care last I saw.

My wife just had surgery last month at mercy and we didn’t pay anything upfront. Is this very new or for only select surgeries?

i was supposed to have surgery at Cox with insurance and i got there for my surgery and they said i had to pay 1k upfront not including hospital fees to even get started so i had to cancel

acab

No, checkpoints don’t occur in Springfield anymore. They and Greene County haven’t done them for years. They do enforcement through traffic stops now.

Edit: While still they can still do DUI Checkpoints, I believe MODOT stopped funding these and now fund them through the traffic stop method.

Believe it or not there are some individuals in this world that due to the way we look, color of skin, are inherently not safe around cops.

Damn, you're still alive?

It’s a old term but was still called that due to where we live being the biggest producer of meth in the USA or atleast was when meth was bigger

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I've seen them live a few times and they are so freaking hilarious!

These things are so vile and I absolutely love them. Thanks for the heads up

Mother's Brewing Company, Ace Hardware, Lowes, not Menards

Last one I saw was about 10 years ago they set up in the southbound lane of West Bypass between Sunshine and FR 156. Took like 45 minutes to get thru to where I lived on the other side.

“Drunks do Springfield?” Are you drunk?

They usually set them up on Chestnut expressway heading towards Kansas Expressway from downtown.

Old Man Willie. That's what he goes by. Used to talk to him on the bus.
He IS funny lol.

it's Wednesday night who they gonna catch

Not me being being a dinosaur thinking it was poltergeists