Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Interesting investigating...for me...


Due to the several meanings of the term ‘investigating’, (examine, explore, look into, inspect, study, consider, probe and scrutinize) I felt that it was necessary that what I looked into was to benefit myself, although, that is not to say that others may also find it beneficial, because I hope they will. The new medication that the new gastroenterologist put me on was Nexium 40mg. in place of my previous Dexilant 60mg. both for GERD or Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease. With a few major differences, one is price, Dexilant was quite expensive and when I was not being insured I was put into a program for receiving it for free, but now with being insured even Nexium for a three months supply will be $493.31 for the first three months’ supply, but as soon as I meet my $500 deductible it will be only $4 for a three months’ supply thereafter and so will most of my other seven prescriptions too! That is now mostly around $2.99 a month and so $4 for three months is quite a bargain, NOT! Well sort of…Except of course my Copaxone, which is now free with the program, but will be $35 a month for three than $16 after for three months… or something like that. You have to be an attorney to decipher most of the double talk that I felt I was getting, imagine this insurance is for people with pre-existing conditions and if they don’t have a caregiver who speaks insurance-speak, heaven help them! And I took business law for a few years too; I know that I am not that bright, but gosh…this requires a masters and a bar passing too and I don’t mean the one down on the corner! Bud dump bum. But seriously folks… With the monthly increase causing my premiums to go now from $376 to $432 a month; I ask it is no wonder why people have left here to get socialize medicine over the Canadian border? Don’t worry though, since I was against the Viet Nam War too and I still am very proud to be an American, but we need help with this healthcare system, really! Also my Gabapentin will be more in the beginning than less as well as my Baclofen I do believe, but this is a bit confusing…NOT JUST A BIT; A WHOLE BUNCH! Any-who, that is not what I wanted to discuss, after some research on the side affects of Dexilant I uncovered my thyroid problems were on its possible side affects list and so were so many other side affects…none good, and could be blamed for enhancing the ones that my Multiple Sclerosis already had given me years before I started on the Dexilant, which was a little over a year ago. While Nexium has hardly any, including none having to do with my thyroid, and so I will hope that perhaps by my next blood work, in a few months, perhaps it will show my thyroid is just fine, an up side? Moving on… Every-time I try that intermingle thingy you all do online on Facebook with interjecting when people say things, I screw it up. My social skills are lacking, perhaps due to not actually being out in the world like I once was. My comments seem to be last or what I say is all wrong, I suspect it could be my odd sense of humor? Or maybe what my input is not in line with the ideas of the comment and my cognitive mind is not working up to par? Anything is possible I suppose. At one time I was considered quite able to hold my own with witty repartee. As a teen dating it came in handy. Even when involved in work and after in writing commentary for those fashion shows that I did for fund raising for the non-profits. Anyway, whatever it was it has seemed to have gone the way of the dinosaur in my existence and that makes me sad. Being a half wit, now that is funny! Being witless, so is that! Hey wait I still got something…hmm? And I don’t have a fever or my nose running and so … perhaps I have a wee bit of funny left and so I will have to work with that half-witless portion of my brain and make do or expand on it with the rest of my enhanced-ness, speaking of the body portion of this gal? Now who is speaking like an insurance guru? Gotcha/em, Geez, if only I really did. On that touch of showing that I am still touched… allow me to be the first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages and we will too! And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!?

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