I posted about my ectopic and burst tube last year, but I don’t think I explicitly stated it in the title.
I had the methotrexate shot for that one and had few side effects. Hopefully it works for you and all gets back to normal soon!
I really have a love/hate relationship with health insurance. (Note: this is NOT about Obamacare).
I am on meds that are easily over $1k/month. Our current plan has a $2200 deductable which the company pays half of, and everything is fully covered after that. Saves us over 10k a year easily.
Not any more. They are changing everything and even the best plan for us sucks. The deductable is the same, but the company doesn’t help at all. And the deductable is per person. I’ll still blow through it in 2 months, but the wife and kids will still have to pay until they reach $2200. The most we could pay previously was $1100, and now it’s $8800. I guess it’s still better than paying for all of my medication my self . . .
On top of that my neurologist upped my dosage on one of my meds, and the insurance decided they don’t want to cover that much. They basically told the pharmacy, “Sorry, we only want to pay for four pills a day, not six.” Do anti-seizure drugs have a huge street value I don’t know about? Are people willing to pay lots of money for not having seizures with a side of fatigue, headache and memory difficulty?
Ok, I’m better now.
And more helping thoughts to the horseshoes.
Why wouldn’t she be happy? She got to cause an injury to a human, and she didn’t even have to commit suicide to do it.
logs in to offer more words of support for the horseshoes, then heads off to bed.
You might consider just buying one. I rented a chair for a trip to Germany, and it was something like 200 for the week, and a brand new invacare identical to the one I rented was 700, so if it is going to be for like a month, you could probably buy one cheaper. Or people do sell used chairs as well. [my old original chair I picked up for 50 bucks, from someone whose parent was in assisted living and died, so it is missing the foot rests, but we only used it to get me to the car without walking to go to the doctors. I leave it up at my moms now for my brother to use to get her to a doctors appointment if she is feeling poorly.
I understand the logic of cooking first thing in the morning, before the world outside becomes an oven: you can have the windows open and let the heat dissipate out. OK. But damnit, anybody making the whole neighborhood smell like roast chicken at 9am should at least invite the neighbors!
Seconding aruvqan’s suggestion to check whether you can get a better price from the second-hand market (or even the first-hand one). Also, and I realize the medics will tell you but it’s worth telling twice, The Other Shoe needs to be good about doing his exercises and spending time in different chairs.
WTF? Now I’m getting political calls from BIRTHERS! BIRTHERS! When has a single member of my household given the impression we’re that fucking stupid? Between the fucking Dems calling my household three times in three days (after I told them not to five times) and now this shit it’s going to be a really hellish election season.
Purplehorseshoes - does your town have a Nurse’s Lending Closet kind of set up available? I got a walker for my Mother In Law for six months at no cost at all. And they have wheelchairs, and just about everything else you could need!
Oh and suck it anti-vax nuts. My youngest had three shots this morning. A minute later she’s running around the ped’s office happily climbing on her father’s lap. You scaremongering, germ spreading, disease loving, lying morons. She’s 25 pounds, fully vaccinated and perfectly meeting all developmental milestones.
First rant: stupid kindle t9 crap changing all of my cuss words!
Balance of rant to come when I’m at my computer.
Freaking fracking stupid stuff.
I think I taught the predictive text assholes to recognize cussing.
Rant two: This is an inner ring suburb. Not really the best place to let cats roam. So a huge Fuck you to whoever it is that let Whiskers out last night. The little bastard came to my house and sprayed against my front door. I have a full screen outer door, so it hit the screen then sprayed the storm door.
Now I have three cats freaking out at the door. I cleaned the urine up and sprayed the anti-cat pee stuff, but still. I can’t calm them down and I can’t have the door open to get fresh air in here. Fuckers.
That’s a good idea. A friend of mine borrowed a ‘transfer bench’ for bathing for a few weeks, saved her several hundred dollars.
If the town nurse doesn’t have anything, I bet the elderly affairs people know of something. Even if you’re not old enough, a donation might be all they want for short term use.
Thanks, all. He was much better last night: joking a bit and everything, even had the upper-body muscle control, fine and gross, to both shave in bed (cordless electric) and do a crossword in his usual neat, even, perfect handwriting.
He is much MUCH MUCH worse today. 
His parents are sitting with him now to give me a break. Just before I left, the infectious disease doctor came in** aaaaaaand … the very scary phrase “viral meningoencephalitis” got mentioned. I got the same symptoms as him, but I cleared it, and he just got worse and worse, and keeps getting worse and worse. I can’t keep typing anymore - I’m crying too much. I’m so scared for him.
** The morning after I took him to the ER I turned on the news to learn that my county has declared a public health emergency due to WNV.
***** All that said, I can still conjure up plenty of sympathy for you, MissTake. Cat piss is teh SUX. Those motion-sensor/sprinkler combos they sell to scare off deer and other garden pests - which, come to think of it, Other People’s Cats totally count as - might help, if you have spare dough. Bonus points for spending more dough for a webcam to catch the fun.
Hey - thanks for giving me something else to think about for a moment! 
There’s many infections which have sort of “day-long cycles”: some are worse off in the morning, some in the afternoon. Ask the medics about this.
(((((purplehorseshoe and OtherShoe)))))
And while I’m here, a relatively minor rant:
My cat is a freaking weirdo. She wants to sleep in my room, but also wants to be let in and out as she pleases. When I don’t open my bedroom door, she claws at the door frame till I wake up and let her in/out, accompanied by lots of cussing on my part. She does this several times a night. On top of that, when she’s awake, if my toes are uncovered by a sheet, she likes to play with them and bite them. So my sleep is constantly interrupted, plus the frame of my bedroom door is all clawed up and looks like shit. What, do I have to install a fucking cat door on my bedroom door so I can get some goddamn sleep around here?:mad:
No, just stop closing the bedroom door.
This is a stupid and petty rant…but why is it so goddamn hard to find ear buds (the foam kind, not the plug style) with inline volume control? The only ones I find are for the current range of i-devices, and aren’t compatible with my old video iPod.
[[[purplehorseshoe}}} - you and The Other Shoe are in my thoughts
If I may be so bold as to ask of all of you…whatever you do to contact whatever deity you think fondly of - please send prayers, healing thoughts, etc to my friend Sophie. Her youngest son and a friend were involved in a car accident early this morning. Her son Thomas is being held overnight for observation but they think he’s going to be ok. Pretty banged up and they had to cut him out of the car. His friend MIchael, who was drving, may have a broken neck and broken back; he was ejected from the car.
Thank you.
Where the fuck did every single dustpan motherfucking go to in this shitty house?
They’re being held hostage by the dust-buffaloes under the bed. Soon there will be a ransom note.