Monday, November 11, 2013

So the doctor's office called with the results of Hubby's X-rays....



And the doctor wanted to know how he was feeling, so the nurse asked…

Hubby said that he felt 100% better and then she said that his X-rays all turned out fine!



Odd how some offices are very different than others…my gastroenterologist’s office called today too to see how I was doing, and I said that my stomach problems come and go and that I seem to need to take the Pepcid more often and of course I take the Nexium after dinner nightly.

Then she asked if I had that, Nexium, since she last remembered a problem with my insurance trying to get it!

Gosh, that was almost a year ago, last January, and after I paid the initial $500 deductible on my insurance for it, and after all that they had wanted to charge me a co-pay of over $100 a month for it and so a light bulb went off in my wee brain thanks to their Nexium commercials saying you might not have to pay anymore than $15 or less a month, and so I contacted Astra Zeneca their pharmaceutical company way back then and was able to meet their criteria and have been receiving my medication for free since!

And I have been  taking them daily since, and her office wrote the scripts/prescriptions for them, how could she/they have forgotten? Oh well, I will be looking for an new gastro doc after the first of the year anyway… they don’t seem to really listen and the abrupt call that was NOT initiated by me, since I had not called them for any reason in weeks, seemed to me to be more like a CYA call, ya know?
I cannot feel any sincerity there at all from that office.

Not the type of report I want with any of my doctors, cold.

Perhaps I am being too harsh, after all they did call, didn’t they?

I suppose many/most don’t; who knows...



Moving on…

Now on to more important things: today is Veterans Day!



“On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as "the Great War." Commemorated as Armistice Day beginning the following year, November 11th became a legal federal holiday in the United States in 1938. In the aftermath of World War II and the Korean War, Armistice Day became Veterans Day, a holiday dedicated to American veterans of all wars.”

 For more info from the above site, goto: http://www.history.com/topics/history-of-veterans-day







My brother served in Seoul Korea during that war as a medic in the Air Force and our younger son served in the Navy for six years.

My Dad was too young for WW1 and too old for WW11, he was born in 1907. Hubby had a college deferment for Viet Nam, but his father served in WW11 in the Army and Hubby’s brother served in the Coast Guard.

But between the fire department with him being a fire chief and being a deputy Hubby for all those years he actually served nearly a quarter of a century!



On that note of much note, allow me to be the very first to wish you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count your blessings and share your overages with you know who and we will too!



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

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