"I am an eye doctor,and an only parent. They do it because people will schedule all four of their kids, and then not bother to show up. You now have a whole afternoon with no revenue, and staff with nothing to do. I don't restrict my schedule…"
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Single Parent or Widowed Parent
Started this discussion. Last reply by Leighbod Mar 9. 44 Replies 2 Likes
I've been thinking about this one a lot lately. I've been going to interviews and the inevitable question comes up- "Tell me about yourself". Well, what am I when it comes to my parenting status? …Continue
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Vettie replied to Teresa's discussion Single Parent or Widowed Parent
"I was confused as well what to say with this question. I saw on this site the term "only parent"...which I think sums it up pretty well. We have no one else to share parenting of our children we are the only ones."
Dianne in Nevada left a comment for Teresa
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Special birthday wishes headed your way, Teresa. Hope you still drop in now and then.
Dianne"
Susan B replied to Teresa's discussion Single Parent or Widowed Parent
"Insurance reimbursements to the Dr are most always keyed to individual visits. Insurance may pay only for the one visit, even though he is seeing/treating 4 patients during one actual visit. That is why they like you to come back for checkups, lab…"
WiddaWithHope replied to Teresa's discussion Single Parent or Widowed Parent
"Thank you! I finally figured it out and just hid my status."
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Teresa replied to Teresa's discussion Single Parent or Widowed Parent
"I had my status as widowed as soon as they made the option available. I started dating last year and changed it to in a relationship. I still wanted my friends to know that something had happened to Roy so in my Basic Information I have…"
twinsmum replied to Teresa's discussion Single Parent or Widowed Parent
"haleO - yes you can hide the status (just like hiding the year of your birthday). I did change mine to widowed but still hid the status. I didn't like the thought of it just out there to see if you know what I mean. "
triplemom3 replied to Teresa's discussion Single Parent or Widowed Parent
"I like the idea of switching the rings...I think I am going to take the diamonds out of my set and have them reset for the girls as earrings or a necklace, and cuff links for our son...not sure just yet, but I will never wear them again as it hurts…"
UpNorthWidow replied to Teresa's discussion Single Parent or Widowed Parent
"I am assuming that there are some of my FB friends that are very sporadic users based on their postings who don't know. These are friends from grade school and high school that I really don't connect with much but in the FB world. I also…"
WiddaWithHope replied to Teresa's discussion Single Parent or Widowed Parent
"I was looking at this the other day. I was trying to see if I could just hide the status. Mine still says married. I posted when he passed so I'm sure all of my friends know. I also have our family pic up as my profile that we took about 3…"
Krista Westervelt (whoknows) replied to Teresa's discussion Single Parent or Widowed Parent
"One more thing... when I did change it, it wasn't without some sadness. For me, though, changing it was part of the path toward 'acceptance.'"
Krista Westervelt (whoknows) replied to Teresa's discussion Single Parent or Widowed Parent
"Change it whenever you are ready. Only you know when that will be.
You said that you're not ready for the 'sorry for your loss' comments. Are there people among your Facebook 'friends' who do not know that your husband…"
UpNorthWidow replied to Teresa's discussion Single Parent or Widowed Parent
"Wow - I never even thought of this! But then again we have a family doctor rather than a pediatrician and even befor Mark died there were many times he would see the whole family at once - mom,dad, and the two boys. Of course not for invasive things…"
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- At 11:44am on May 4, 2012,
Dianne in Nevada said… 
Special birthday wishes headed your way, Teresa. Hope you still drop in now and then.
Dianne
- At 4:27am on May 13, 2011,
Alive & Mortal said… - Aw, no biggie about not seeing my post right away - I get lost here all the time, it is somewhat large and unwieldy. <3
- At 7:03pm on May 4, 2011, Alive & Mortal said…
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from the storm
to you on your
birthday...
(((((HUG)))))
- At 4:04pm on May 4, 2011, Dianne in Nevada said…
- At 2:07pm on January 11, 2011,
VOLUNTEERSupa Dupa Fresh said… Hi Teresa! It's good to see you here. Thanks for participating in this new environment. It will take some getting used to, but I'm excited to be host in a room of my own at last! :-) And introduce folks to some other terrific friends.
Hugs!
Supa
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