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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, January 25, 2010 - 6:03 am
RN, Thank you Happymom and Mameblanche. This is for sure another case where someone worked hard all their life doing the right thing, paying taxes, having full insurance, only for it not to be enough.
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Monday, January 25, 2010 - 9:31 am
Right Now I am eating homemade french toast. On it is homemade maple syrup, collected and made by Marysafan (and family) from her very own maple trees. It is deeeelicious!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 3:00 am
Right now, alarm on my car just went off and scared the crap out of me! Didn't see anyone when I looked outside and the motion light was off (would have gone off if anyone got near the car) so pretty sure no one was messing with it. Hoping like heck its not starting to go bad again. Been a year or so since I had a problem with the damn alarm and don't want to have to deal with that again!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 7:10 am
RN I came to report my brother called to say they made $19,000 at my dad's fund raiser. That is enough to cover his post-op meds which is what they were shooting for. I really don't understand the whole situation. It goes something like if he couldn't cover the post-op meds, then he would be taken from the hospital and put in I think state care, which the facility is nowhere near their home. I don't think he would have lasted this long if he was so far away his family couldn't visit him daily.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 7:33 am
RN Naja it sounds like a good thing that they were able to raise the $19,000.00 so now he can be closer to home
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 11:16 am
RN Naja, So wonderful that they raised enough money to really help your dad pay for his post-op meds! 
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 12:14 pm
RN I want to rip all the Progressive insurance ads out of my TV set!
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 1:45 pm
RN, I am happy for you and your family Naja. (and relieved) I am also so sad and upset (outraged really) that people must go w/o med. care or lower quality medical care due to not enough money ... in America especially.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 1:24 pm
RN, just found one of the coolest sites I've come across in a long time! It has live radio transmissions from police, fire, and EMS departments. Choose your state, then the area you want to listen in on. You'll be the first to know what's going on in your area! http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 4:12 pm
Right now, thank God for WiFi spots.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 9:30 am
RN, I just had to have a little talk with my new neighbor... he had a snowplow guy come and do his driveway, and proceeded to shove all the snow up onto my sidewalk and the end of my driveway. Suffice it to say, he is now hand shoveling MY sidewalk and driveway.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 9:40 am
RN and he should be hand shoveling you sidewalk and driveway. if that happened to me I would have had a little talk with him too.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 9:53 am
RN, I had very little control, but just enough to keep myself from a full-out explosion. I started out with this..."Are you F-ing kidding me?!?" but I didn't say F-ing, lol.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 10:09 am
RN Huck I completly understand what you are saying. I had a good little chuckle 
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 11:04 am
RN: I need 72 more votes! Click here to vote for me! http://apdemocrat.upickem.net/engine/Details.aspx?p=V&c=13620&s=2690703&i=1&m=X#SD
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 12:32 pm
Right now ... I just don't want to be at work. I'd rather be home curled up on the couch with my Maggie 
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Nightcrawler
Member
02-12-2002
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 5:49 pm
RN: I'm NOT very happy!!!!!!!!! I just called my insurance comp. to see why my cost of my med Vivaglobin went up $10.00 this mo. found out as of 2010 my out of pocket cost went up $10.00 no big deal. then she says let me check if you went over your 10,000 max on prescription. I said what is this something new? she said no your plan has aways had an 10,000 max on prescription a year' I said that has never been a problem in the past and I know my meds have been way over 10k a year in years past? she looked in too this and found out that. when I got my meds at the hospital it was coverd under medical and when I hit the cap they paid 100%. but now that you give it to your self at home it falls under prescription and when I hit 10k they stop paying and I have to pay all of it. here is the bad part Vivaglobin costs 1,850 each mo. so by May my insurance will stop paying!!!! we don't have $1850 extra for my med not sure what we are going to do. but I have 4 mo. and we are look at some options going to talk to my HR person at work and see if I can up my insurance (not likly) I hope I don't have to go back to the hospital to get this med in IV form again that way it costs around 4,000 and I was stuck with 300 each mo. Its a good thing I called about the $10 or I would not have know about the 10k cap. I'v had better days :-(
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Couchtomato
Member
09-09-2008
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 7:54 pm
RN Nightcrawler - some pharmaceutical companies offer assistance or even free meds when the cost becomes prohibitive. Financial requirements may vary, but the company I deal with only needed a copy of our income tax return. So far, I've only had to use them the last 3 months of the year (after my prescription plan's $$limit was reached). Good luck, it's worth a try.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 8:29 pm
RN, Nightcrawler, take a look at this site, specifically this subheading "For Individuals that take: CARIMUNE and VIVAGLOBIN CSL Behring Patient Assistance Program" http://www.primaryimmune.org/patients_families/ insure_help.htm
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 9:12 pm
RN NC, you might also mention it to your dr. When Caleb started the accutane (for acne) our insurance didn't want to pay for it saying it was for cosmetic purposes, not medical. Dr wrote a note to the insurance company explaining why he felt it was a medically neccessary med and that was all it took to get our insurance to cover it. I know yours is already medically neccessary, but if the other options don't work out, your dr may have a few ideas to help too.
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Nightcrawler
Member
02-12-2002
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 9:39 pm
RN: THANK YOU BOTH I looked at that site Hukdonreality that is really close to what I have and they list the med I take and just got done putting in me. I will call the number they have on the site friday Couchtomato I did call the place that sends me the med and the person that I needed to talk to was gone but will call me friday.
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Nightcrawler
Member
02-12-2002
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 9:43 pm
RN: thank you too wargod ( I was looking at the web site when you posted) I will be calling my doc. friday also. I'm just happy I have till May to figer this out.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 9:43 pm
RN, I will keep my fingers crossed for you Nightcrawler! I was on a $3000.00 a month injection for 2 years but I had good insurance at the time. I don't have ANY insurance now and it scares the bajeebers out of me, the what-ifs.
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Nightcrawler
Member
02-12-2002
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 9:55 pm
RN what I have is Hypogammaglobulinemia. it means my immume system does not work very good. most people immume system when tested will be around 600 they found mine stays around 60. I googled it and found lots of things to look in too.
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Jeep
Member
10-17-2001
| Friday, January 29, 2010 - 8:49 am
RN, listen to Couchtomato. The manufacturer of your meds may offer assistance or even free supplies. You have to ask. I know this first hand because I used several programs when my mom was on expensive Parkinson's meds. Worked great. Good luck!
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