|
25566. judithathome - 8/16/2009 3:53:43 PM Well, if you decide to go the eBay route, Scotty, my neighbor, said he'd be happy to put it on his (successful) site at eBay. Just let me know.
It was made into a Spencer Tracy movie and the director was King Vidor...there's two other collector chances right there. 25567. arkymalarky - 8/16/2009 3:59:22 PM Thanks so much! 25568. judithathome - 8/21/2009 5:40:55 PM Arky, I just noticed the earrings I was going to give you (from that necklace I bought) are still here...I'll send them along when I send the pants from CostCo...not here yet but they should be in stock any week now! 25569. arkymalarky - 8/21/2009 10:16:43 PM Wow, thank you! I'm excited! 25570. arkymalarky - 8/22/2009 6:11:30 PM It is a glorious day! I cannot believe it's August! Light breeze, perfect temp, sunshine. We're going on the golf cart. 25571. Dubai Vol - 8/23/2009 8:11:27 AM Up early again. Getting only 4-5 hours of sleep a night lately. A bit worrying, as it's one of the early indicators of a "mood swing." Just went to the doc friday and got some pills for just that; after 30 years of doing without, it's a big step for me.
Trying out my new act in the sticks. Sorry, Moties. 25572. rdbrewer - 8/23/2009 11:11:19 AM Love you guys. 25573. wabbit - 8/23/2009 3:09:50 PM Good morning rdbrewer!
Hey Dubai, are you stateside? 25574. Dubai Vol - 8/23/2009 3:45:24 PM Yep, getting the finest care from the great American health care system, for as long as I can pay for it. The antidpressants the doc prescribed, that I don't think I need, nor want to take, cost $400 a month. I haven't started on them yet, and will pay good money for another visit next week to try to argue him out of them, instead of waiting a month to tell him I'm not taking them. At least he's willing to try a low dose of lithium to start. I'm taking less than he recommended for now, and may increase as I se how it goes. This approach, going to a private doc when I feel fairly normal, beats heck out of the way I have been medicated before: in a locked ward while having a full-blown manic episode. Still feeling more than a bit trepidatious.
Oh well, baby steps.
Aren't you glad you asked? :D 25575. Dubai Vol - 8/23/2009 3:47:04 PM Oh, wait, you didn't.
25576. wabbit - 8/23/2009 4:10:22 PM I'm thinking that most folks who are getting their panties in a twist over healthcare have never needed anything more than the most basic care. I hope you get the drug and dose sorted soon, keep us posted. 25577. Dubai Vol - 8/23/2009 4:30:07 PM Thanks. I know I'm an infrequent visitor, but I lurk a bit now and then and feel a friendly atmosphere here. You all seem good sorts. 25578. Ms. No - 8/23/2009 7:07:53 PM howdy, rd! 25579. Ms. No - 8/23/2009 7:29:09 PM Dubai,
Lay it on us. I can empathize with the meds debate. I got "lucky" in that I only suffer depression as opposed to also having the swings of mania like others in my family, but all of these mood afflictions seem to share an aversion to taking the meds that quite often are life and sanity saving.
I struggled with my meds for a few years for various reasons, not least of those being simple inertia, but once I got on them for good my quality of life really improved. I was able to make progress in my life that didn't get wiped out by the cyclical destruction that plagued me when I was unmedicated and trying to be brave and maintain and stiff upper lip and all of that.
A lot of it was giving up on the idea that I was some kind of pussy because I felt better with meds. Nobody thinks you're a pussy for taking insulin if you're diabetic.
Three years ago when I got laid off and made the move to Sacto to pursue my new career I had to adjust to being off meds for the first time in five years because I didn't have health insurance anymore to cover the cost, but I had too much savings to be eligible for government assistance.
Anyway, it's been a rougher three years for the lack of meds and I'm looking forward to finally being able to get them again. Hell, I haven't even had a regular physical or been to a dentist in the last three years. 25580. Ms. No - 8/23/2009 7:30:15 PM And, yes, we ARE friendly sorts and always happy to see a familiar face no matter how infrequent! 25581. arkymalarky - 8/23/2009 9:39:29 PM The lack of access to medical care without a job to provide it is criminal. It doesn't need to be free or even cheap. But if Bob or I lost our jobs it would cost over $700 to carry the two of us on the AR public ed system. And Mose couldn't get it at all. She was denied for absolutely nothing. After seeing what happened with her it was obvious if you ever get medical help, once you need to buy insurance on your own you're screwed. It's scary. 25582. arkymalarky - 8/23/2009 9:41:14 PM To be clear, she has it with her job. She couldn't get it independently. 25583. alistairConnor - 8/23/2009 10:09:58 PM Hey Dubai, good to hear from you! And yes, we are the go-to people for empathy during rough patches. Being in a (all things considered, on balance) positive phase myself, I feel robust enough to dish out what I have received here in abundance over the years... friendship and support. 25584. Ms. No - 8/23/2009 10:51:51 PM Insurance is extortion. You pay because you're afraid that if you don't, you'll end up needing that protection and have no way to obtain it.
You pay in case you have a catastrophe. The problem is that if you don't have a catastrophe you've paid tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your life for care you didn't need.
25585. wabbit - 8/23/2009 11:48:45 PM Insurance is legalized gambling and the only people who win are the heads of the insurance companies and lobbyists.
R&D is tax deductible for drug companies. Then they go whining about how they need to charge an arm and a leg for their drug to make up for the R&D costs that have already been picked up by the taxpayers. Then they open manufacturing plants in Puerto Rico where they get favorable tax status and pay nothing on their profits. Then they sell the drug at cost everywhere but the US, which helps drive up our insurance rates. Then they come up with a new use for their expensive drug, which gets them a patent extension. And one of those drugs is Enbrel, which was originally developed for RA, then used for psoriasis, then Juvenile RA, then ankylosing spondylitis...and eventually it will be granted a patent extension for every auto-immune condition known to man.
But god forbid we have "SOCIALIZED" medicine, like they have in Congress.
Maybe this can be continued in the Health thread.
|
