Knowing what to do on your own and when to ask for help ...

Or allowing the help to be received from someone else, is occasionally hard to do, but may be something that with thoughtful logic should be accepted and used.
And so that is how my day went.

Bragging about being able to muddle through all this junk called bureaucracy has become a personal effort to maintain some dignity in my healthcare network.
The main objective is to utilize what has been there for all of us to use when the need arises without guilt.
Being in a precarious situation without healthcare insurance these last few years is quite ironic to me.
Since prior to October of 2006 we were well insured and were able to maintain a wellness without stress of how or where to attain it.
And so over the last few years, since then, I have had to delve into the deepest areas of non-profits and others that were willing to give you what they provide for all who fit their criteria, and I have met that mold way too often.
Although, many are not uniform to one another, so it has been a wait and see, type process.
For some of them income is the most important thing and others it is the fact you do not have any insurance, and others it is just a competitive market “healthcare’ and they sincerely barter or bargain with their products pricing.
Shocking, you say?
Well, I am here tonight to tell you that thanks to ole junior high chum, daughter of Mom Clara I will be saving a large chunk of change on those medical ultrasounds that were requested by, my modern day, Dr. Welby clone, and he called today, this morning actually, personally to give me my blood work results, and I will get back to that later, okay?
The name of the company that has resolved my latest dilemma is Life Line Screening out of Cleveland Ohio, just copy and paste this site: http://www.lifelinescreening.com/default.aspx?sourcecd=BING001&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=lifeline+screening&utm_campaign=Branded_Lifeline+Screening Toll free number is 1-800-449-2350 call from 8A.M. to 9 P.M. EST Monday through Friday.
But the only hitch is that they come to your area at just certain times of the year and you have choices that you can make, I had three dates to choose from and although I did not choose the earliest date I chose the one when they would be the closest to us in July only three and half miles away, perfect! Five diagnostic tests including the two the doctor requested, for a very reasonable price of only $149 for the whole caboodle! And no medical scripts required and they will email you the results or mail them snail mail for a three dollar fee, or send them to your doctor or whatever. Thanks again ole chum, and to think I thought my deals were better than this and almost didn’t take her up on this. You see over the years I have received like most of all of you lotsa junk mail with what I consider to be too good to be true offers, you know the ones, hmm?
And so not having known anyone who had taken advantage of this thing, which I do believe they also sent me previous offers and I always wondered how they got my name, hmm?
So perhaps I even called them and questioned them about that, but I do not recall at this time…you know I always wonder about that sort of thing, when you don’t request something and yet they send it to you.
Any-who, when this particular ole chum put her stamp of approval on it, since her sadly deceased for eight years husband who was an attorney for over thirty years and if you think I am leery too of the too good to be true offers, she makes me look like chopped liver in that realm. And the clincher, although, she is well insured, she had taken advantage of their offer herself, so that is what sold me!
And me being me had to share this new resource with every non-profit I could call and so I did, what a day of joy!
A purpose, a reason, once again for me to help someone too and quite a few, since I contacted the clinic and the county, 211 services number, and they thanked me, and again I feel obligated to thank ole CHUM!
OK, enough gushing; it does become unflattering when you do it too much, hmm?

Back to my other good news via my Marcus Welby doc…my test results my A1C for the diabetes test was 6.0 it went down from 6.3, still not a diabetic but 6.5 is borderline or pre he warned; now on with the thyroid test not done fasting which he feels was a wash, but this time only slightly higher not enough for intervention or medication increase.
So I am good, I guess and when I mentioned that I would be going the Life Line route for those tests he ordered he said make sure that he gets the results.

Dear Mary, longest in the ole chum pal line, please know that our prayers are nightly here for you and that we are hoping that the horrid surgery that you had to endure was the end all to the problem and that your biopsy will be benign, like mine!

And to all those out there with anything causing you any immediate or perceived futuristic health issues, remember to find what works for you and be your own advocate and if someone can help you, let them.

Moving on to more good stuff, today I again dipped into our backyard pool and enjoyed it quite a bit, my fourth time in the last week or so, maybe two?

Any-who, on that note of noteworthy news, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?