The Sun Will Come Up Tomorrow

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Warning! Do not read while eating...




Good Morning!
We are in Minnesota- Away from the maddening crowds of Flintville!

I took a few pics before we left.
Of the 5+ inches of rain we had...
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Which is very good for the trees.  And all those apples still left.
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I imagine that Sue and Glenn will fill that pickup truck more than once yet! Hopefully will be stopping by even in my absence, and take a bunch of leftover squash for their deer too.
(Gritter, they are in the fields behind the old garage).
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Now y'all know that I have a bit of a mowiss problem come Fall and its falling temps.
So I had to get the rodent killer out.
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Ok, most people call it a mousetrap...

I set it up in the attached garage-
I'd hoped that the teeny tiny bit of cheese would prove lethal for a few of those varmints.

Little did I know that the trap would set itself off almost immediately!

Since my back sucks, I grabbed a can from the recycle bin instead of carrying out each one to the dumpster. I used that to hold my little dead guys.

If you're eating, & have ignored my previous warning, do not look at the pic below.
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The first three dead bodies.
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Before we left I unplug everything. I have a little fan atop the piano that I run constantly to circulate the air in my living room.
Given the fact that it is 29' long, the air does not always get moved in the NE corner. So I use that fan...

As I reached down to unplug it, I spied one of Sputnik's little catnip toys on the side of the piano.
I was going to grab it for him until the dang thing suddenly grew legs and disappeared behind the piano.
I jumped about 5 feet, and still had to unplug that fan. (Damn. I've got another one in the house)! And triple damn!
So I brought the trap inside to set by the piano.


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Casey didn't seem to care that something could jump on her at any given point in time.
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What would YOU do?  
We did what anyone with half a brain would do, and left home!  hehehe

Of course our first stop was good old Ringle, WI for Punk to do whatever she needed to. And we get to stretch our legs too.
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Sure is pretty this time of year!

In order to get as far away from that mowiss as I could, we loaded ourselves back into the car and were off once more...

Seeing a trailer that carries "Caution Horses". 
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The trailer with the buggy on the top!

We'd left late, so were treated to the sunset off I-94
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Sorry for the blur...  Nearing Minneapolis.

Yesterday morning, the sun came right back up!

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Heading to the campus for Casey's appointment with Dr. Sutherland
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Self explanatory where we were.
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And one of the grounds...
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After a long appointment, Dr. Sutherland has ordered more than a few tests, beginning with the bloodwork from yesterday. 
Her liver tests are consistently high- And remembering that there is a cyst on her liver (which has been there ever since her very first CAT Scan), he has ordered now 3 more tests as an outpatient.  (Lord, she does NOT want to be hospitalized, ever again).

At ten this morning we are to be back for her HIDA Scan.
This stands for  hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid scan, (so I will use HIDA from now on)...

Hopefully this will be done by the time she has her EGD at noon.
The EGD is called an Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, (I will use EGD from now on). An examination of the lining of the esophagus, stomach, and upper duodenum with a small camera (flexible endoscope) which is inserted down the throat... (Click for more)...

Tomorrow will bring its own round of tests, one being another CT, and an ultrasound.

After she had been poked for blood, (much), she was hungry. We stopped at Arbys- She got some kind of taco.

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Punk wanted that taco too!
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Instead she was turned into a towel headed dog...
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Casey is still asleep.
Since she cannot eat or drink anything this morning, or tomorrow for that matter, she gets to sleep as long as possible... I would want to too.

She did wake to take Punk out early this morning. My back was being very uncooperative to say the least, (and here, it is not a matter of sending the dog out the back door to take care of herself).

It is gloomy outside- Cloudy, and the last time I looked there was frost on every car. (I did find my ice and snow scraper and made sure it was in the car for our trip). It will clear itself by the time we have to leave though.

Hopefully Kelli is not having too much fun with the mouse s(h)ituation at home. Am thinking Randy might have been there too. I'd explained to him that Kelli doesn't mind live mice, but is bothered much by the dead ones. (Perhaps she was Minnie Mouse in a prior life)...

I'd better close for now. Time to get out of my baggy sweats, and look alive for the day.

Love to all.

XOXO
Me

PS
For those of you that are diabetic or know someone who is, there is a nationwide recall of all Accusure® Insulin Syringes.
CLICK here for that info. http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm188137.htm

There WILL be a Test!

http://www.theweatherprediction.com/preciptypes/
Good Morning!
I will be posting a blog shortly, (I hope); but I found this as I was searching for a definition of "freezing fog" for The Slurk.
(I also thought it was very interesting)!

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PRECIPITATION TYPES
by METEOROLOGIST JEFF HABY

This webpage describes the different types of precipitation and explains how they form. METAR and other frequently used abbreviations for each precipitation type are given.

1. Rain (R, RA)- Rain is liquid precipitation that reaches the surface in the form of drops that are greater than 0.5 millimeters in diameter. The intensity of rain is determined by the accumulation over a given time. Categories of rain are light, moderate and heavy.

2. Snow (SN, SNW, S)- Snow is an aggregate of ice crystals that form into flakes. Snow forms at temperatures below freezing. For snow to reach the earth's surface the entire temperature profile in the troposphere needs to be at or below freezing. It can be slightly above freezing in some layers if the layer is not warm or deep enough the melt the snow flakes much. The intensity of snow is determined by the accumulation over a given time. Categories of snow are light, moderate and heavy.

3. Snow Pellets (GS)- A snow pellet is precipitation that grows by supercooled water accreting on ice crystals or snow flakes. Snow pellets can also occur when a snowflake melts about half way then refreezes as it falls. Snow pellets have characteristics of hail, sleet and snow. With sleet (ice pellets), the snowflake almost completely melts before refreezing thus sleet has a hard ice appearance. Soft hail grows in the same way snow pellets can grow and that is ice crystals and supercooled water accreting on the surface. Snow pellets will crush and break apart when pressed. They can bounce off objects like sleet does. Snow pellets have a whiter appearance than sleet. Snow pellets have small air pockets embedded within their structure and have visual remnants of ice crystals unlike sleet. Snow pellets are typically a couple to several millimeters in size.

4. Snow Grains (SG)- Snow grains are small grains of ice. They do not produce much accumulation and are the solid equivalent to drizzle.

5. Ice Crystals (IC)- Also called diamond dust. They are small ice crystals that float with the wind.

6. Sleet / Ice Pellets (PE, PL, IP, SLT)- Sleet (Ice Pellets) are frozen raindrops that strike the earth's surface. In a sleet situation the precipitation aloft when it is first generated will be snow. The snow falls through a layer that is a little above freezing and the snow partially melts. If the snow completely melts it will be more likely to reach the earth's surface as supercooled water instead of sleet. If the snow partially melts there will still be ice within the falling drop for water to freeze on when the drop falls into a subfreezing layer. The lowest layer of the troposphere will be below freezing in a sleet situation and deep enough to freeze drops completely. The lower boundary layer can be above freezing and sleet occur if the sleet does not have time to melt before reaching the surface.

7. Hail (GR, A)- Hail is dense precipitation ice that is that least 5 millimeters in diameter. It forms due to ice crystals and supercooled water that freeze or stick to the embryo hail stone. Soft hail is more white and less dense since it has air bubbles. Soft hail occurs when hail grows at a temperature below freezing by ice crystals and small supercooled water and cloud droplets merging onto the hail. Hard hail occurs when liquid water drops freeze on the outer edges of the hailstone after the outer edge is above freezing. The freezing of supercooled water releases latent heat and this can result in the outer edge of the hail stone warming above freezing. Then the water refreezes creating solid ice. Hail will commonly have soft ice and hard ice layers when it is sliced open.

8. Graupel (GS)- Graupel forms in the same way as hail except the diameter is less than 5 millimeters. It usually grows by soft hail processes.

9. Drizzle (DZ, L)- Drizzle is liquid precipitation that reaches the surface in the form of drops that are less than 0.5 millimeters in diameter.

10. Freezing Drizzle (FZDZ, ZL)- Freezing Drizzle is liquid precipitation that reaches the surface in the form of drops that are less than 0.5 millimeters in diameter. The drops then freeze on the earth's surface.

11. Freezing Rain (FZRA, ZR)- Freezing Rain is liquid precipitation that reaches the surface in the form of drops that are greater than 0.5 millimeters in diameter. The drops then freeze on the earth's surface.

12. Freezing Fog (FZFG)- Freezing fog is a fog composed of supercooled water drops. These drops freeze just after they wet the earth's surface.

13. Mixed Precipitation (MXD PCPN)- The combination of two or more winter precipitation types occurring at the same time or over a period of time at the same place.
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So what's YOUR weather like today?
(Click the link for even more info.).

XOXO
Me

Jenny Mella, Nyk and Casey

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First of all to thank everyone who is praying for Casey and keeping her in their thoughts. I truly do appreciate the outpouring of love and concern!

Will keep this private entry short(er), but just wanted you to know that we are leaving today for Minnesota. I never want to post that info out there or for everyone.
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On the FYI end of it all... (Just a little heads up).
OK OK, it's a rant.

Know that since their trip to Texas in June, Jenny Mella and Casey no longer speak.
I know it bothers Casey something awful- Not that she hasn't tried to keep open the lines of communication, (all her efforts in vain).
Heck, it bothers ME too.

Nykquee apparently has perpetuated much maligning with that one.
(Yes, Jenny has a brain, and a heart, of her own).
She made me sad.
I can promise that it is, and will ever be, one of Jenny's greater losses, something she will grow to regret.

There was crap said about the drugs that Casey was on. Which is a blog in/of itself.

Yet taking vicoden when she was on that trip was nothing compared to what she was on for the past, almost 5 years now.

Nyk, as an 'emt' in training, (is that to make her extra "special"?), apparently freaked out and said how bad Casey was for taking vicoden etc etc etc.
(Funny I don't recall Nyk even visiting Casey in the hospital, save for once, early on in her illness).
She knows NOTHING of Chronic Pancreatitis, and how it has destroyed Casey's life! She knows nothing of the pain that Casey is still in.
(C'mon, would the Pain Management Doctors even prescribe this for Casey if the need wasn't there)??? I think not.

I also think "Ignorance is bliss" 
Neither of these very fortunate young ladies have ever known anything close to Caseys pain, or what she has endured for the past 5+ years. How dare they do this to her!

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At one point on that fateful trip, allegedly Nyk had also said that Casey could not possibly have had an anxiety attack because she was not shaking etc.  Please see http://flintville.multiply.com/links/item/175 to refresh your memory, or CLICK HERE.

Again... Jenny has a brain, and a heart, of her very own.

Sorry to be so b|tchy here.  When things get so bad for Casey, I know I always want to 'blame' or rant or whine; and of course I do know how futile that is.

BUT, I also know that state of mind has much to do with recovery etc. This BS going on between how she feels still about Jenny does not help matters one bit. They grew up as sisters with their deep friendship. She has hurt Casey deeply.

Would you all take a moment to go to Casey's guestbook and send a little love? She will really appreciate it when she gets back to Multiply.

Love to all.

XOXO
Anne

Must go pack, and finish laundry. She has called and will be here shortly.

Greg is bringing Casey to the hospital as I type. (I am losing what little grasp I still have on my sanity).

Living under a rock... What's going on with daylight savings time? Why does my computer think it began already? What time will it be next week at this time??? Hmmm, and hehehe ~I am SO "cornf00sed" now. HELP!?! XOXO, Me

The Dog. The Birds. The Cat. The Kid. ~<| ;-)

Sunset
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Note: 7: ish pm, same day...
I had to add a few captions, and an important pic of Sput too. (Sorry I missed it).

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Good Morning All;
My back is something awful today, and I have been up since before one- I am in pain. I am bitchy. And I am hungry (& obviously too lazy to go cook something too).

I have just tried lying down.
I found out real fast that that is not an option at the moment.
So I will post these part~draft, (and part~current) notes that I have...
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Punk and I were out walking the other night- Close to sunset and the sky was full of color.

As we rested just a bit, there was noise from all over.  The noise of the goose! hehehe

Hundreds of geese, probably all headed to the wildlife sanctuary at Bay Beach.
The noise actually spooked my little Punkin! (aka "chicken").

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Something coming!
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The first of the bunch... from the north
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Then the second... from the west...
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From the southwest
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Arf and Grrr....
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Too funny for words. 

    Consider yourself goosed!
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I do take lots of pictures, and post them within my stories. My grandbabies might want a few of them when they get older. I have a boring quiet life by many others' standards.
My life.
I write about Casey's sickness/surgeries etc, (and whatever my other 3 girls should decide to share with me).
I have a dog and a cat that are with me almost 24/7.
So you get a few stories and pics of those, in addition to other critters that wander in... hehehe
Save for the unwelcome critters and the pain I live with, I like my life fine this way, and have no need to be wild and crazy- ('cept for every now and then). Now check the tags on my top page... The bigger the tag, the more that is said about that tag.
I know some of you would rather me stir the pot more often, some not at all.
But to those of you here on my blogsite...  Regarding those of my friends and relatives on this Multiply site. (and NOT those of you who receive this in your email).  Some of you have already gotten a change notification from me. Accept it or delete me. There have been a few people who were in the wrong place to begin with. And this should fix it. I still have a few more of these to do. (Dang dial~up). hehehe  "Also else",  -(as William would say),  I have been having a terrible time keeping up with my friends on here. To keep 'trying' to visit those who do not visit, except rarely- or do not take even a minute to comment anymore, except rarely, is silly for me to keep doing. And so I won't, plain and simple...
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On to my day...  Punk is looking forward to another day in the woods with Sputnik, (aka her "partner~in~crime").
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Or maybe Punk just looks around with her nose...
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"There's nothing here dough~head."
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"Mmmm A pile of veggies!  For me?"
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Mmmmm! Plenty of squash still here. She'll pick hers out on the way home.
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She would dig here too, but the grass gets stuck between her paws...
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Sput finally catches up to us... and checks out every little noise too.
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Sputty sneaks down the hill, unbeknown to Punk....

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But where did he go?!?!
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He goes in and hides in the little shrub down there...
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Punk thinks she knows where he is...
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In a flash, Sputty scares the hell out of Punk... And off she runs.
Around, and around, and around...
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Hilarious!   She ran wild for at least a minute...
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But still brought me a stick for her to fetch!    (I want half her energy).
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But she always knows when it's time to wander back home too.
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Please keep prayers coming for CaseyFace- She sure has been having some awful pain. Hopefully, Dr. S. will figure out her lumps and fix her this week.
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I hope that he can figure it out anyway.

I am going to eat a bit of turkey, and maybe try to rest a bit before The Pack creams Cleveland. (At least I hope they do)!

Have a wunnaful day!  Love to all

XOXO
Me

Seasons- And a Ouija Question for you

Good Morning;
In keeping with the season that is soon to be All Hallows Eve, I have been surfing and reading...
Some very intriguing stuff at times, and at others downright scary...


In keeping with the other season, (namely 'Fall'), and the obvious cooling that comes with it, I have taken a picture for you.
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MOWISS!

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I do not like him in my "howiss"...  Nor does Mr. Sputnik.  I found them both making an awful ruckus, in a cardboard box in the back entrance.
(The mouse dead, the cat toying with him).


There are a couple of things I do not want around me.


The first being the "mowiss"...


............................The second is  is this...

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• Do you think these boards are evil?
  
  
• Do you allow your children to "play" them?
  
  
• What is/are your own experience(s) with one?
  
  • (Nosy, aren't I)!?! hehehe
    

I think they are the epitome of creepy, and it will not surprise me at all to hear that no one has ever had a pleasant experience with one.

Time to tell me your own stories...

XOXO
Me

Recall: All Lots of Ketorolac Tromethamine Injection

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm187434.htm

Toradol anyone?

mad now...

What the Fah~REAK is this?

Caution: GROSS!

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& WHY the fah~reak is it on my screen door?!?
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It was about an inch long...
And it's ONLY redeeming quality is that it was on the OUTside.

XOXO
Me

Focal Points and I~Oh~Dots...

CaseyFace, 10/21/09- Ready to leave the hospital...
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Good Morning All;
And to thank you for your kind words from the last few days... I'm alright today.

As you know, Casey was twice to the hospital on Monday. 
Plus, once last weekend too. She has a hard spot that seemingly comes and goes where her pancreas pain once was.  It gives her much pain and nausea.

Suffice to say that there aren't too many doctors around here that even want to guess at this point.

This note I had sent to Kelli yesterday pretty much tells all about Casey and I...

Dearest Sick Kelli;
Should you be at work?
Or are you just getting everyone there to feel as lousy as you do?

Since I had been up since 12:30 the day before I came home as they wheeled her back to have her Cat Scan.  I slept til almost 11:30, after having gone to sleep at 2:30. Too wired from the day at hand...

Casey called a little after 1 AM- Greg and her were once again heading home.

Dr Sutherland's assistant emailed me earlier- Casey will go to Minnesota next week. Will have to keep an eye on the forecast too.

About the soup. (Tim is weird. I didn't like it at all).
I dropped some off at Randy's too. As I set it on the sidewalk, I jumped about 5 feet in the air when he came out of the garage! (He was supposed to get it when he woke up, being so sick and all).
But I stayed about 10 feet away. hehehe

*** If I get sick from anywhere, its going to be from these damned hospitals and clinics!
And I am scared;  ~not of being sick, but of fracturing any more of my spine from coughing. They (PM) told me that coughing and sneezing can be responsible for my fractures...

If I am ok come Friday then I'll be good to go from yesterday. (Incubation period being 1-4 days).

Let's see... Where was I? hehehe

A week ago, Casey had this rude ("know-it-all"), ER doctor.
You already know the kind; ~with NO bedside manners at all 

She'd asked Casey, "Do you want something to be wrong?"
Now what the hell kind of question is THAT?
(No, you idiot, she wants only to know what IS wrong)!
no I did not say it- (I should have). It will be onr of the regrets I hold when I meet my Maker.

When we went in on Monday (the 1st time), it was a long wait to see anyone. They were 40 patients behind at 4AM, but were only 10 behind when we got there.
Needless to say, even waiting an hour was good work on their part.

The PA (Physician Assistant), came in. A very, very, nice gal. To ask what Casey was normally given and at the very least to order something for Casey's pain and nausea.
She listened closely, asking and answering- She was also very straightforward about their ignorance of the procedures Casey has been through. Very kind. Very honest.  Very rare, unfortunately.
Casey even told her that she was much nicer than how she had been treated that previous weekend.

Casey's bloodwork came back OK.  She was given more zofran for her nausea and we got back here a little after 4.

An hour later, she was vomiting all over again...

Knowing that Minneapolis has always been more than helpful, I told Casey to try to call there.
She did, between bouts of nausea, and spoke to the transplant surgeon on call.
He ordered Casey to go right back to the hospital for more appropriate treatment of her pain and nausea.   -He also called to St. Mary's In Green Bay and ordered a Cat Scan for her. (They were unwilling to do this earlier; not sure of it is costs, or out of any medical concern for Casey).

When we returned, as luck would have it, she got the same raunchy doctor that she'd had a week ago.   The Dr. (and I use the term lightly), came in.

The first thing Dr. Zero wanted to know was what Casey had said about her earlier.  Hmm...  How's that for treating an obviously sick patient?

When no answer was forthcoming, she went on to say that she had heard from Minnesota, but wanted us to know that "all the doctors in the world could call, but it wasn't going to change her own course of treatment." 
(I promise this condescending bitch will be reported)!  ..."Grrrr" ...

She ordered Toradol (which is one or two steps up from ibuprofen, Advil).  Yeah, like that's going to help...
After Caseys bloodwork came back, Dr. Z. very begrudgingly ordered a Cat Scan.

My email to Dr. Sutherland was answered yesterday- Casey will be seeing him next week. Seems like a long wait, but he will only be in Mpls that one day...

We will be taking the reports from the hospital, the scans and the xray to Minnesota- Also the copies of her visits to the clinic.

So how would YOU treat this young lady with the brave face?
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She has peed in too many cups...
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And still, she braves it out as she waits for answers...
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I told her it was warm~ish outside; and to get better so she could go out and enjoy it!
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I set the camera down while I blew up a medical glove....
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Then I huffed and I puffed, and I blew it up even bigger!.
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Didn't make her better, so I did the Macarena for her....
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OK, so I can't do the Macarena anymore.
But I would have if I could have.
And it's suppose to be the thought that counts anyway-.

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The other doctor came in and even joked around about me getting a new camera, (which is not true by the way)...
I am not that ugly..
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"Smile, Honey!"
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But the real smiles came when it was time to go home.
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I'd better close for now-

Trash day today. I have decided that my entire house will have to go. Getting it to fit into the dumpster is the problem.   hehehe    

Love to all.

XOXO
Me

Guardian Insurance Co. gets rid of the "dogs"

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/guardian_gets_rid_of.php
Insurer ends health program rather than pay out big
By William Ehart

Ian Pearl has fought for his life every day of his 37 years. Confined to a wheelchair and hooked to a breathing tube, the muscular dystrophy victim refuses to give up.

But his insurance company already has.

Legally barred from discriminating against individuals who submit large claims, the New York-based insurer simply canceled lines of coverage altogether in entire states to avoid paying high-cost claims like Mr. Pearl’s.

In an e-mail, one Guardian Life Insurance Co. executive called high-cost patients such as Mr. Pearl “dogs” that the company could “get rid of.”

“The insurance companies are cheating in order to have obscene profits,” (Mr. Pearl’s father) said.

Guardian, a 150-year-old mutual company, reported profits of $437 million last year, a 50 percent increase over $292 million in 2007. It paid dividends of $723 million to policyholders and had $4.3 billion in capital reserves, according to its annual report. The company’s investment income totaled $1.5 billion that year, a small increase from the year earlier.

Original Article found here: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/14/ny-insurance-company-tries-to-rid-itself-of-high-c/



Comment:
By Don McCanne, MD (<----- Notice this man is a doctor)...

Although the individual private insurance market is infamous for discriminating against individuals with a potential for high health care costs, regulations largely prohibit group plans from singling out individuals for exclusion.

When private group plans prove to be unprofitable, they can often legally skirt the regulations by shutting down the entire plan or by withdrawing from unprofitable markets, often leaving the previously insured with very difficult or near-impossible choices. No matter how well regulated, the current proposed insurance exchanges cannot prevent an insurer that is failing in a market from shutting down. Even with guaranteed issue, other insurers would also shun unprofitable markets and unprofitable plans.

This problem is much more common than many realize. Look at the Medicare Advantage programs. This year many have declined to submit bids for renewal and will withdraw from unprofitable markets. Even this highly regulated option to Medicare can abandon patients, yet Medicare can’t. This is one more important reason why we should question the wisdom of Congress in insisting that reform be based on a market of private plans instead of an improved Medicare program for all of us.

Ian Pearl’s story has a couple of other important lessons for those supporting a public option as part of the reform package. Although private plans must always protect their business interests above the interests of the patients, a public option would have a mission requiring it to place patients first. The public option would be a victim of adverse selection since it would have to function as the safety net. Attempts to adjust risk would drive private insurers out of the exchange, leaving high-cost individuals with only very expensive options.

What about private co-ops instead, owned by the beneficiaries? That would prevent insurers from “cheating in order to have obscene profits,” as Mr. Pearl Sr said. Oops. Look at the profit statement of Guardian. It is a mutual company, and the profits are returned to the policyholders as dividends. That is essentially what a co-op is! Yet that did not prevent Guardian from jerking the rug out from under Ian Pearl. Private plans with their own segregated risk pools will always use any means legal (and sometimes illegal) to protect their reserves from being spent on health care.

Creating a public option and then throwing it into the amoral, dysfunctional private insurance marketplace to have it compete on the same perverse terms as the private insurers is a very sick solution for our health care crisis.

Single payer anyone?


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Ian Pearls own response:
By Ian Pearl
Posted: October 19, 2009 02:14 PM

QUOTED:
I am not a "dog." That's what health insurance executives called me because I have a disease. I'm also not a "trainwreck," another term they used for members like me.

Soon after I was born in 1972, I was diagnosed with..." (Read more at):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-pearl/i-am-not-a-dog_b_326137.html





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Insurance Companies Suck.

If anyone has a good, charitable, or, in any way decent, story to tell about a Health Insurance company and their benefits, please link below and let me hear of it.

XOXO
Anne


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Short, sweet, and to the point tonight...

I always know when I have a fever- My teeth hurt. (No, really they do). And all my joints hurt too... Right down to my pinkie toe. My teeth hurt tonight- as do my toes... Do you have a way to know a fever without a thermometer?

I was going to blog--> (wuzzgonna), hehehe, but after wrestling with Flicker on here, I think I will just go and relax for a while.

Casey is OK-
Her and Greg were just here to collect her car; (with respect to them, and to the way I feel I did not allow either of them to come in)!    I think that broke Punkies heart. 

Took Punk out a few hours ago, and played a bit. Tired now. (So is she).

Will write more tomorrow.  Be good. Have a 'wunnaful' night.
My love to all.

XOXO,
Me

Long Day Ahead...

They are dropping like flies...
Chicken soup is on the stove...

Casey called. I will be bringing her to the hospital as soon as she gets here. She is in pain and it is now extending to her right rib cage. She left class already- A call in to Dr. Sutherland.

Kelli sick. Flu.
Randy almost a definite H1N1.

Prayers anyone?

Love to all.

XOXO
Me