We got 2" of new snow overnight, and it's spitting snow now, even though there's nothing on the radar. LOL! Off to Norwich VT (near Hanover NH) for an afternoon guidance meeting. XOXOXXX
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I *know* I'm beginning to feel better, as interest in playing with the Spirit Trees has revived. And really, except to rescue makings from Beau, I've done not one thing with them since last May. I still think it's amazing how malnourishment can creep up on you, and you just keep making what adjustments you need to, and that it's very WRONG doesn't even register consciously. Though clearly my body was trying as hard as it could to make me give it what it needed to survive. Now that I'm mending, I'm back to not caring about bananas, or tomatoes, or chocolate and certainly back to spurning pretty much all ice cream save Cherry Garcia.
BTW, listener, did you tell us the story of getting your anti-viral meds w/o a card? If so I missed it: direct me.
I was just looking at the tally sheet from the Pharmacy for this last batch. And one the Ins used to refuse to pay for (levoxyl)(they wished me to take the generic, which I tried, and which simply didn't work -- AND levoxyl is *already* the generic for Synthroid) they are now contributing towards. But since my co pay is mostly $8, and the prescription is $12, not a big loss for them, or a big gain for me. But a big gain $8 vs $18 for the Armour (natural) thyroid. I liked the Armour better, but supplies have been a problem ever since I started, and truth told, I didn't feel double plus better, so. . . . The one I really get a deal on is the Benicar, which is like $130 and I pay only $45. But I only take it when my BP at home is high, and it usually is not. However, dealing so much with doctors this last fall (and they *always* get high readings off of me), I'd wanted not to scare them away from surgery, and started again, after 18 months off.
Now THAT was an experience!! Youngest*Grand took charge of the iPhone and took Grammie all around to see things. Mostly, though, she bounced around and I got an idear of what it must feel like to be a 2 year old's teddy bear. LOL! She was also coughing. Eldest*Grand had a very sad face on, as she came down with an illness today, tummy related. Awwww. And to think that they climbed a mountain yesterday, with big smiles on.
"Older Internet plans of getting people to sign up for online newspaper access and fill out forms with their names, addresses, etc. were too cumbersome and too likely to engender resentment." I don't know. I recently paid $77 for a one-year subscription to the on-line Chicago Sun-Times. Maybe it's just that I'm used to buying things on-line, but didn't seem cumbersome to me.
"Internet companies have the ability to unobtrusively gather information about where subscribers are." I'm not clear how this is possible unless the ISP passes along the information. And I wouldn't expect them to do that.
We've been married a good, long time. Today I drove home from a meeting that was 1.5 hrs SE of home. Mah*Sweetie drove home from work which is about a half hour SW of home. I came to the end of the exit ramp and Mah*Sweetie drove by, so now I was right behind him! Then my phone rang and it was Mah*Sweetie, and...he hadn't seen me yet. What were the odds?
Lol! I was driving with my sister down a major highway between Provo and Orem (her home town), and her phone rang. Twas one of her kids she hadn't seen/talked to a month, noting she was violating her rule of NO SMOKING in her car (by letting me smoke, lol!). But it's funnier if the car in front calls the car behind, grin.
Users also have the ability to "opt out" of most forms of information gathering, as regards advertisements. I've done so and now I get random ads instead of targeted ads. It was just too creepy to look at a pair of shoes online, then see them show up on my weather page and my Facebook page for weeks afterward.
Hey, my family doc always gets an elevated BP for me too, and I never get a bad one when I test it in the pharmacies, and my GYN doc always gets a good reading on me. Personally, I think it's a barometer of how annoyed I usually feel at the family doc's.
Funny you should ask the story, puddle; so timely of you... The anti-viral med is $278 per month. So we wanted to wait until the insurance card arrives, but it took too long to come and I needed the meds now. So we went in and explained the predicament and the pharmacist gave me a week's worth to take home, and we could pay for it next week after the card comes! (I love Vermont!)
Part 2: Today I needed a renewal on a cream the dermatologist gave me, and the dermatologist's office called it in for me, no questions asked (God bless them!). Mah*Sweetie stopped to pick it up on his way home, and the person there rang up that script ($11.42) and also rang up the anti-viral we were waiting on! Since Mah*Sweetie had gotten all the numbers that will be on the card, he thought they could put it through that way. Too late he found out they had to have the card. So he wrote a check for the whole amount. Naturally, he got home, picked up the mail, and THERE was our new prescription card. Heh. So he zoomed right back but it's one of those instant checks, so they couldn't redo it. Undaunted, Mah*Sweetie got online, read a few pages, and made an insurance claim against our card, and faxed the sales slip. We're going to be getting a direct deposit into our account for the whole amount! Sweet!!
And people who have the power love Howard Dean
ReplyDeletefor showing us that we have the power!!!
Perhaps print papers are the new Buggy Whip MFGers? I'm sure *they* didn't go quietly into the night.
ReplyDeleteWe got 2" of new snow overnight, and it's spitting snow now, even though there's nothing on the radar. LOL! Off to Norwich VT (near Hanover NH) for an afternoon guidance meeting. XOXOXXX
ReplyDeleteTODAY IS ALLY'S 5th BIRTHDAY!!!!!
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=allys
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Cold morning, then warming all week, with a couple of days projected for sixties.
ReplyDeleteGood sleeping the past few nights: the naproxen seems to be working better for the hip pain than the Roxi was. Go figure.
Boy's been out (too chilly to stay too long), in/eat, is out again, playing. The urge to play is HUGE.
I *know* I'm beginning to feel better, as interest in playing with the Spirit Trees has revived. And really, except to rescue makings from Beau, I've done not one thing with them since last May. I still think it's amazing how malnourishment can creep up on you, and you just keep making what adjustments you need to, and that it's very WRONG doesn't even register consciously. Though clearly my body was trying as hard as it could to make me give it what it needed to survive. Now that I'm mending, I'm back to not caring about bananas, or tomatoes, or chocolate and certainly back to spurning pretty much all ice cream save Cherry Garcia.
ReplyDeleteBTW, listener, did you tell us the story of getting your anti-viral meds w/o a card? If so I missed it: direct me.
ReplyDeleteI was just looking at the tally sheet from the Pharmacy for this last batch. And one the Ins used to refuse to pay for (levoxyl)(they wished me to take the generic, which I tried, and which simply didn't work -- AND levoxyl is *already* the generic for Synthroid) they are now contributing towards. But since my co pay is mostly $8, and the prescription is $12, not a big loss for them, or a big gain for me. But a big gain $8 vs $18 for the Armour (natural) thyroid. I liked the Armour better, but supplies have been a problem ever since I started, and truth told, I didn't feel double plus better, so. . . . The one I really get a deal on is the Benicar, which is like $130 and I pay only $45. But I only take it when my BP at home is high, and it usually is not. However, dealing so much with doctors this last fall (and they *always* get high readings off of me), I'd wanted not to scare them away from surgery, and started again, after 18 months off.
Phil's back after major computer crash, and lit five candles for Ally (I stole the link/cake for the BBB) but only signed one, lol!
ReplyDeleteHome!! Mailed five horses to Ally today. Gotta go call the Maine Grands before their before-bedtime snacktime. Back soonish....
ReplyDeleteNow THAT was an experience!! Youngest*Grand took charge of the iPhone and took Grammie all around to see things. Mostly, though, she bounced around and I got an idear of what it must feel like to be a 2 year old's teddy bear. LOL! She was also coughing. Eldest*Grand had a very sad face on, as she came down with an illness today, tummy related. Awwww. And to think that they climbed a mountain yesterday, with big smiles on.
ReplyDelete"Older Internet plans of getting people to sign up for online newspaper access and fill out forms with their names, addresses, etc. were too cumbersome and too likely to engender resentment." I don't know. I recently paid $77 for a one-year subscription to the on-line Chicago Sun-Times. Maybe it's just that I'm used to buying things on-line, but didn't seem cumbersome to me.
ReplyDelete"Internet companies have the ability to unobtrusively gather information about where subscribers are." I'm not clear how this is possible unless the ISP passes along the information. And I wouldn't expect them to do that.
We've been married a good, long time. Today I drove home from a meeting that was 1.5 hrs SE of home. Mah*Sweetie drove home from work which is about a half hour SW of home. I came to the end of the exit ramp and Mah*Sweetie drove by, so now I was right behind him! Then my phone rang and it was Mah*Sweetie, and...he hadn't seen me yet. What were the odds?
ReplyDeleteLol! I was driving with my sister down a major highway between Provo and Orem (her home town), and her phone rang. Twas one of her kids she hadn't seen/talked to a month, noting she was violating her rule of NO SMOKING in her car (by letting me smoke, lol!). But it's funnier if the car in front calls the car behind, grin.
ReplyDeleteVery poignant Ally update at baby ~~
ReplyDeletehttp://eatapyzch.blogspot.com/
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=allys
Sort of brings tears to your eyes, doncha think?
ReplyDeleteMy heart stopped a little when I read that two years ago the doctor's plan didn't include Ally having a 5th birthday. What a fabulous day this is!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSo glad Phil has been restored!!!
ReplyDeletepuddle ♡♡♡♡♡
Everybody is a little crazy in the (early) Spring.
ReplyDeleteUsers also have the ability to "opt out" of most forms of information gathering, as regards advertisements. I've done so and now I get random ads instead of targeted ads. It was just too creepy to look at a pair of shoes online, then see them show up on my weather page and my Facebook page for weeks afterward.
ReplyDeleteI am sooo glad to hear you are felling better such that is affecting your drive and creativity!!!
ReplyDeleteThat is the surest sign of healing of any I could imagine!! Hurrah!!!
If the Naproxin is what's doing the trick, then it's nerve endings that have been causing your pain.
Hey, my family doc always gets an elevated BP for me too, and I never get a bad one when I test it in the pharmacies, and my GYN doc always gets a good reading on me. Personally, I think it's a barometer of how annoyed I usually feel at the family doc's.
ReplyDeleteFunny you should ask the story, puddle; so timely of you...
The anti-viral med is $278 per month. So we wanted to wait until the insurance card arrives, but it took too long to come and I needed the meds now. So we went in and explained the predicament and the pharmacist gave me a week's worth to take home, and we could pay for it next week after the card comes! (I love Vermont!)
Part 2: Today I needed a renewal on a cream the dermatologist gave me, and the dermatologist's office called it in for me, no questions asked (God bless them!). Mah*Sweetie stopped to pick it up on his way home, and the person there rang up that script ($11.42) and also rang up the anti-viral we were waiting on! Since Mah*Sweetie had gotten all the numbers that will be on the card, he thought they could put it through that way. Too late he found out they had to have the card. So he wrote a check for the whole amount. Naturally, he got home, picked up the mail, and THERE was our new prescription card. Heh. So he zoomed right back but it's one of those instant checks, so they couldn't redo it. Undaunted, Mah*Sweetie got online, read a few pages, and made an insurance claim against our card, and faxed the sales slip. We're going to be getting a direct deposit into our account for the whole amount! Sweet!!
felling better = feeling better
ReplyDeleteIt's evident I'm not, yet. Ate some corn chips tonight and now my throat is raw. Oops!
That's too bad. Please get well soon.
ReplyDeleteYes, malnourishment can definitely make you feel tired and dragged out and just generally not interested in life.
ReplyDeleteSure did mine, Bill.
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