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27709. arkymalarky - 11/20/2013 12:19:51 AM If you or Keoni are we'll move it there! ;> 27710. judithathome - 11/20/2013 1:21:11 AM Good thing it's not next week, then! 27711. arkymalarky - 11/20/2013 1:38:03 AM Are y'all going to the hospital? What's up? 27712. judithathome - 11/20/2013 5:13:41 AM Keoni has a hernia and I find out this week if I need my gall bladder out.
If there were ANY more "fun" way to get old, I'd choose it in a heartbeat. This way sucks. 27713. arkymalarky - 11/20/2013 2:55:12 PM oh my. I hate to hear that. Let us know what they decide. 27714. Ms. No - 11/21/2013 8:37:07 PM Bleh! Hope they find something other than surgery to help you out. 27715. judithathome - 11/21/2013 10:41:55 PM I get to keep my gall bladder but Keoni has to have surgery...all he is upset about is that he will not be able to play golf for a month.
But his reward is that he's going to Hawaii the end of January. His mom's 93rd birthday...hope he's got her genes! ;-) 27716. arkymalarky - 11/23/2013 8:58:25 PM Oh my. What's the weather doing your way? 27717. judithathome - 11/23/2013 9:00:47 PM We are freezing our asses off! Supposed to get UP to a high of 38° today. 27718. arkymalarky - 11/23/2013 9:17:59 PM Is there freezing rain/sleet? They're predicting it for here tomorrow night. We don't need it. Stan's mother just got home from having open heart surgery and is not doing well. I hate to think roads might become impassable. 27719. arkymalarky - 11/23/2013 9:19:46 PM She got home yesterday. They told her if she doesn't drink water and urinste every two hours she would likely die of sepsis. Assholes. 27720. judithathome - 11/23/2013 9:25:22 PM Wow...well, maybe they wanted to scare her into drinking a lot. But if she gets sepsis, wouldn't that be THEIR fault for infecting her?
No sleety rain here...yet. 27721. arkymalarky - 11/23/2013 9:37:25 PM Well they also had to go back through a vein and retrieve part of a catheter that had been left in during surgery. They dropped her in the bathroom a couple of days ago and she has brain function issues due to too much loss of oxygen to her brain during surgery. She's supposed to go back to an appt with the surgeon Tuesday. A HUGE difficulty for her. But no way would they just keep her from Friday to Tuesday. She had to get out. And now there's this weather. I think the family should go to the appt without her and tell them a thing or two. 27722. judithathome - 11/23/2013 11:47:52 PM Well, the family can do that WITH her going...though it sounds like the patient is that last thing on their minds.
Keoni suggests taking a lawyer with them to the appointment.
Please give her our best regards...and keep us posted on her progress in spite of her medical "help". 27723. arkymalarky - 11/24/2013 12:25:34 AM Thanks! I will! Her SIL is a well known lawyer in AR and he's been there for everything, but he says at age 84 they rarely get anywhere legally with their medical care.
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Medical professionals lure elderly patients into surgery with the idea their quality and length of life will be improved. They make buttloads of money doing that. She would have died without the surgery but now she may have a working heart and no life quality. I read an article about this a while back. I'm not saying she shouldn't have the surgery, but elderly people aren't cash cows to be cut on and tossed aside. 27724. arkymalarky - 11/24/2013 12:26:51 AM The sil is also the state rep for the district the hospital is in. 27725. judithathome - 11/24/2013 12:46:46 AM As you know, Keoni and I fell off the non-smoking wagon in June and two months ago, decided to get Chantix to quit once and for all...took the prescriptions to the pharmacy and they said "Sorry, your insurance doesn't cover this...that will $560 for both scripts."
Came home, without the pills, and called our insurance provider. They said we were "disallowed" because of age restrictions. Keoni was taking to them and I was asking him what the reasons were...he said "We're too old...they cut us off for that drug at age 64." I literally YELLED at the phone..."So it's better to get money out of us for chemotherapy??"
I told my surgeon about this last week and she said, very seriously, "No, it's better for them for you to DIE...they want you dead."
To make a long story short, our primary care doc was so angry about this, he got us coupons and we got the scripts for $240 for both. AND we've quit smoking.
27726. arkymalarky - 11/24/2013 1:04:41 AM Good for you! Mose goes on a rant loop when the topic of insurance comes up. 27727. wabbit - 11/24/2013 1:32:02 AM Geez Louise, don't even get me started. The boss changed insurance companies in June and while he's delighted to be saving money, I told him that his savings just shifts the cost to those who can't really afford it. I'm taking almost a $1000/year pay cut due to increased co-pays. One drug co-pay alone has gone from $30 to $100 every four weeks. He has agreed to reimburse me the difference, but still...
And since the hospital I go to is now a "for profit" venture, they get your surgery co-pay up front, just to be sure. I'm having more surgery on one foot in a couple weeks (not a huge deal this time) and I had to put almost $1000 on a credit card during pre-registration. I'm lucky I can do that.
Amazing. And the rich get richer. 27728. arkymalarky - 11/24/2013 1:37:38 AM Shitfire. You're so right. It's shameful.
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