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Hi Grammylew,
Amazing what it costs to have livesaving medicines and as for health insurance. It is getting harder and harder to maintain, my employer is changing plans because the old plans just became too hard for them to maintain and I am not understanding yet (we have plan meetings on Monday), it seems the same plan I had will cost me $146 a paycheck and that's with high co-pays, a deductible to meet, which being as (luckily) I am healthy, I am not sure I will even meet it for the year, oh and then our dental insurance also is going up 5%. . . I do feel for those that have none, my roommate is one of them, as she cannot afford it as she cannot get a fulltime job with benefits and to live, she cannot afford to pay out of pocket for insurance, so she has to get "charity care" when ill, pays out of pocket for her prozac and other medications. . . very sad, hopefully, this new insurance plan our president got passed will help people.
Anyway, I hope all continues to go well with your treatments!
Laureen
Amazing what it costs to have livesaving medicines and as for health insurance. It is getting harder and harder to maintain, my employer is changing plans because the old plans just became too hard for them to maintain and I am not understanding yet (we have plan meetings on Monday), it seems the same plan I had will cost me $146 a paycheck and that's with high co-pays, a deductible to meet, which being as (luckily) I am healthy, I am not sure I will even meet it for the year, oh and then our dental insurance also is going up 5%. . . I do feel for those that have none, my roommate is one of them, as she cannot afford it as she cannot get a fulltime job with benefits and to live, she cannot afford to pay out of pocket for insurance, so she has to get "charity care" when ill, pays out of pocket for her prozac and other medications. . . very sad, hopefully, this new insurance plan our president got passed will help people.
Anyway, I hope all continues to go well with your treatments!
Laureen
My Mantra is that I do not determine my success by the number hanging in my closet, nor will I let the scale determine that success either. . . It is through trial and error I will continue to grow and succeed. . . Laureen
"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland
Grammy,
So glad to hear you are doing so well with your chemo. I pray it continues this way.
Insurance is such a fickle thing. Seems like there are the haves and have nots. It is such a scary world in medicines.
I'm dealing with Long Term Insurance and boy oh boy is it complicated.
You are in my prayers
Millie
So glad to hear you are doing so well with your chemo. I pray it continues this way.
Insurance is such a fickle thing. Seems like there are the haves and have nots. It is such a scary world in medicines.
I'm dealing with Long Term Insurance and boy oh boy is it complicated.
You are in my prayers
Millie
Eileen, Yep, I was asleep when you were posting the thread. Finally slept really well last night. Did dream, but nothing to worry about. Got up at 7 am and right now it's 7:43 and still dark out. Rained last night, and the news says it'll keep up all day. Too bad Gary (hubby) has to drive up here in the rain. Pray for a safe trip.
My next goal is a size 10 jeans. I'm going to buy a pair today (I know they run large) but it's the number I'm headed toward. I'm being a bit vain these days. I hope I can corral these feelings. I'm even beginning to enjoy shopping, and want to do more of it. Uh O. I see trouble in my horizon.
Drinking protein coffee right now, decaf. I need to get out christmas shopping, just don't know what to get my one DIL. She's the only one I'm having trouble with. She's the one having my grandson next month.
Well, gotta run and pick up this place.
Hope everyone has a great day.
Jani
My next goal is a size 10 jeans. I'm going to buy a pair today (I know they run large) but it's the number I'm headed toward. I'm being a bit vain these days. I hope I can corral these feelings. I'm even beginning to enjoy shopping, and want to do more of it. Uh O. I see trouble in my horizon.
Drinking protein coffee right now, decaf. I need to get out christmas shopping, just don't know what to get my one DIL. She's the only one I'm having trouble with. She's the one having my grandson next month.
Well, gotta run and pick up this place.
Hope everyone has a great day.
Jani
Jani,
I hear you on the vainity end of things, been there myself, but hey for years I just wanted to be part of the woodwork, yet always wished I could be as "pretty" as this one or that one and as I have said the picture I posted as my avatar was the first time in my life I ever thought of myself as pretty, which is sad on some level, but meaningful on others. . . also, the shopping addiction has gotten me somewhat too, I now love buying new things for myself, whereas before I enjoyed a new item of clothing, but hated shopping. While everything I buy is on sale, it still adds up.
FYI, I have one size 10 jeans, they are Ralph Lauren's, I have not been able to wear a size 10 in anything else, am at a 12 in slacks, med/large tops, depending on material and 14 in dresses, so all in all I'm happy and have actually, as I recall way back when I began reached my goal size, which was a 12, though I had hoped I might be a 10, but who knows, perhaps once I get my butt back to the gym regularly I will get there. . .
Have a great day!
Laureen
I hear you on the vainity end of things, been there myself, but hey for years I just wanted to be part of the woodwork, yet always wished I could be as "pretty" as this one or that one and as I have said the picture I posted as my avatar was the first time in my life I ever thought of myself as pretty, which is sad on some level, but meaningful on others. . . also, the shopping addiction has gotten me somewhat too, I now love buying new things for myself, whereas before I enjoyed a new item of clothing, but hated shopping. While everything I buy is on sale, it still adds up.
FYI, I have one size 10 jeans, they are Ralph Lauren's, I have not been able to wear a size 10 in anything else, am at a 12 in slacks, med/large tops, depending on material and 14 in dresses, so all in all I'm happy and have actually, as I recall way back when I began reached my goal size, which was a 12, though I had hoped I might be a 10, but who knows, perhaps once I get my butt back to the gym regularly I will get there. . .
Have a great day!
Laureen
My Mantra is that I do not determine my success by the number hanging in my closet, nor will I let the scale determine that success either. . . It is through trial and error I will continue to grow and succeed. . . Laureen
"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland
JeanB
Jani maybe a christmas gift about her being the mother of your grandson...you know like a diamond pendant or maybe something engraved..,,,,for my first christmas in my ex husbands family and was after the birth of our daughter....i was given a pendant with a diamond in the corner and said something about how percious and loved i was....it meant the world to me. was given to me by my mother in law.....
http://community.webshots.com/user/mimicook?vhost=community
GOD BLESS YOU TODAY
JAN COOK
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