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Today is my sister-in-law Deb's birthday. And this is a replica of the boat her family arrived on!
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Today is my sister-in-law Deb's birthday. And this is a replica of the boat her family arrived on!
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Howard would be first.
ReplyDeleteHere it is October Fifth, and I'm still trying to grok where September went.
Um, it's actually the 6th.
ReplyDelete"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me.…
ReplyDeleteGoing to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful
—that’s what matters to me."
— Steve Jobs, CNNMoney/Fortune, May 25, 1993
Off to see my local docs to see if we can't get all this into one integrated, lump form.
ReplyDeleteMeaning, I assume, get everything that needs to be done in the hospital done in one swell foop. Sounds like a plan!
ReplyDeleteA miracle happened. For the first time in five years, since forced onto Medicare Part D, the insurance company actually *agreed* to pay for not one, but THREE prescriptions. They have NEVER paid for anything before. There is one prescription, for BP, that my doc and the pharmacist negotiated that they pay twenty on, and I pay forty-five on. Luckily, I need that one only sometimes.
ReplyDeleteMy friend Linda Rose's thought for today:
ReplyDeleteNever put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
I'm glad it's finally working for you, Puddle.
ReplyDeleteBill, that sounds great, and something of a miracle as far as the weather goes.
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed. Neither Penny nor I have ever had any problem with the pharmacy honoring our physician's prescriptions. How amuch we end up paying depends, of course, on the particular drug involved. But never full price.
ReplyDeleteWell, there you are. I don't even know where I am in October.
ReplyDeletePuddle, I like Ensure. It's expensive, though, and you can't drink very much of it in one day without getting sick to the stomach.
ReplyDeleteHere's a product you can use to make shakes with either milk or orange juice (It doesn't work with other kinds of juice).
http://www.drugstore.com/genisoy-natural-soy-protein-powder/qxp42115?catid=47743
It comes in flavors too, the chocolate is nice, but overall I prefer the natural. I like it plain or with fruit. Dad makes me a great protein shake with banana and strawberries. You can just mix it into the milk or juice with a spoon, but it works better in the blender. And, of course, you have to put in in the blender with fruit.
Oops. Accidentally deleted my previous post about the windows. Meant to reply saying that they are all done now. Look great. And -- pleasant surprise -- the installers will come back early summer to install my air conditioner in one of the windows they just put in.
ReplyDeleteAccidentally deleted the message Cat replied to. See below.
ReplyDeleteGreat! I'm glad it went so smoothly.
ReplyDeleteMy insurance, through AARP (may change this year), has a formulary that simply denies virtually every script my doctor writes. I've been on BP meds for thirty years, off and on, and *most* either don't work for me at all, or have unacceptable side effects. The insurance guys want to start me from the beginning, go through the five or ten down the ladder to prove to them that they don't. They won't take the doctor's word that we've been there/done that. The one they filled today "for BP" isn't being prescribed for that so I don't care. It's being prescribed to open the stricture a couple of mm or so wider. They would only pay for a generic of my thyroid meds, which were/are *already* a generic of synthroid. I tried for a month, and it absolutely did NOT work, so I took myself off their tender mercies, and simply paid for it myself. When I switched to Armour natural thyroid they refused again, so I simply paid.
ReplyDeleteCan't dp soy, Cat. About 90% of the soy in this country is GMO (RoundUp Ready). RoundUp is killing the soil. Phil has an ongoing information dump on the subject going on over at the BBB. Monsanto needs to be stopped, but likely won't be due to having bought up most ag resources/people. Thank god for Europe and South America who *will* publish the studies. Even there it takes a very brave researcher to threaten them. . . . I honestly believe that if they cannot be stopped, we'll have world wide famine within fifty years. So, I avoid soy like the plague it has become. And no, I wouldn't object to organic soy. It's just that it's expensive.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.naturalnews.com/002698.html About Ensure.
It really frosts my cookies that insurance companies place themselves between doctors and patients as if they know somehow better than both!! Grrrr!!! The only thing they know is how to increase the cost of insurance while refusing to pay.
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ReplyDeleteThat's great about them coming back! And the windows themselves are good timing heading into the cold season.
ReplyDeleteNot only is chocolate better than exercise, as Puddle reported a while back, but it is a brain food that m ay protect against various forms of dementia.
ReplyDeletehttp://theconsciouslife.com/brain-foods-prevent-dementia-alzheimers-disease.htm
Puddle, I don't have the luxury of boycotting everything. If Phil were alive and we were married, no doubt we'd run not only a union-friendly household, but an eco-friendly one too. But he isn't and we're not. So I'm stuck with the possible. I can't change the world and I've pretty much given up trying.
ReplyDeleteUnderstand. Also understand how frustrating to be where you are. And much love. ♥
ReplyDeleteWoo hoo!!
ReplyDeleteHmmm, guess that was kind'a snarky. Sorry. And thanks for understanding. You always do. ♥
ReplyDeleteYesterday we had rain (and hail); iffy weather with a possibility of thunderstorms today,but it cleared up in the very late afternoon and was beautiful (if a bit cool) as the sun went down. No rain in the seven-day forecast.
ReplyDeleteHad a guy come out to replace one of the garage door openers that I thought was beyond repair after a mere fifteen years. But the office hadn't looked in the records (they installed the original) and sent him out with the wrong size stuff. So since he was here, he took a look at it, managed to remove a troublesome part I couldn't have, added a bit of reinforcement at another spot, and got it working just fine, for only a trip charge. Good deal.
Got some spot carpet shampooing take care of, cleaned the swimming pool, and fixed a slat in a fence. Tomorrow some tree pruning (overgrowth from neighbor's place); I will work slowly and carefully, but Miyoko is afraid I might fall out of my tree, as it were. It works better if I am not distracted, though. Slow and easy gets the job done, and safely. Will use a hardhat.
After a break of a few weeks I have returned to Darkover; found a reference to Zenna Henderson's "The People" series, and ordered up an anthology from alibris.com. I remember seeing the covers on the bookstore shelves--sounds interesting.
I once had a need to be on a liquid diet for a while, and went for advice to the nutritionist at the hospital where I worked. She pointed out that I wasn't going to be on it for a real long time, and suggested Carnation Instant Breakfast as an economical and adequate choice. I expected to be hungry, but wasn't. I could titrate my calories to control my weight. Sometimes I would juice it up a bit with wheat germ. Worst part by far was not being able to brush my teeth...
Picked up a very nice looking slide rule on EBay.de (Germany) for a VERY low price, but the seller doesn't take PayPal. Will have to see if I can do an electronic file transfer somehow.
Managed to perk up our iMac with some routine maintenance and clearing out browser caches. Definitely better now.
TTFN
A good book title for this subject would be:
ReplyDeleteYour Brain on Yum!
:-D
Electronic funds transfer is very easy *within* Europe. I once had a British client that thought I could just give them my EFT number and everything would flow. But there's no equivalent in the US, so you may have to jump through a few hoops.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm.....It seems PayPal may have automatically taken care of it...will see.
ReplyDeleteGood news, it seems.
ReplyDeleteDidn't mention about "The People" series. I read that when it first came out. Worth reading, although it was never as big a hit with me as with many others.
How high up will you and your hardhat be, Alan? Enjoy the slowness and the view! :-)
ReplyDeletepuddle...Been meaning to say since yesterday how cool I think it would be if you created a pureed cookbook and presented a copy to the docs! You've reminded me of the time one of my little ones was sick with a mild flu and the nurse at the doctor's office suggested I give the child flat ginger ale. I remarked that I don't give my children sugar water when they're well, so I sure wasn't going to give them sugar water when they're sick! Later on I learned the benefit of ginger for settling a stomach, but you don't need it to be in sugar water for effectiveness! Instead, I made a tasty clear broth for the child, with lots of nutrients in it. Then there was the time the docs wanted to hospitalise our 5 year old son (back when we couldn't have stayed with him), and we refused. The doctor dropped us from his practice. We called our former beloved doctor (in another state) and he gave us the name of a friend of his who was a pediatrician in our area. That doctor declared that our son did not need to be in hospital at all. Hurrah for second opinions! What finally turned the tide on son's long drawn out flu was that I expressed some breast milk and gave it to him in a cup (without telling him what it was). I'd heard of that having helped in another epidemic and sure enough it changed the whole situation in a matter of hours! I only wished I'd thought of it sooner. A depleted body needs nutrition as well as fluid. Sugar water (which is also largely what the IV would have been) would have only further depleted him and made his body more thirsty. Of course, had that second doctor recommended hospitalisation we'd have done it, and negotiated like crazy to keep one of us with him. Generally speaking, the situation these days for children in hospitals is light years ahead of how it was 35 years ago, and thank goodness (and a lot of dedicated parents and good doctors!!). :-)
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