Sun - April 22, 2007
Freaking out over health news
If it's not one thing, it's another. More
body parts failing!
Posted at 02:01 PM Read More
Tue - March 21, 2006
900 miles, 900 miles, 900 miles, 900 miles
An ambitious goal not quite met. But
still, I am proud! 900 instead of 1,000 miles is still a long way to ride!
Posted at 05:17 AM Read More
Thu - February 2, 2006
One dragon down...
Internet research and adamant insistence
on reasonable application of Americans with Disabilities Act pays off! Maryland
cannot deny me my unemployment benefits after all. Feeling powerful, slaying
dragons one by one...
Posted at 05:15 PM Read More
Fri - January 27, 2006
25 states have unemployment insurance laws that discriminate against people with disabilities
Twenty-five states deny part-time workers
unemployment benefits, including Maryland -- one of the wealthiest states in the
United States. Among other problems this causes, the policy discriminates
against people with disabilities who cannot work more than part-time.
For an update on this, go to:
One Dragon Down...
For an update on this, go to:
One Dragon Down...
Posted at 08:17 PM Read More
Wed - January 25, 2006
And the Medicare Plan D Nightmare Just Goes On and On...
More collected stories from Google News on
the Medicare Plan D disaster — current as of today at 6 a.m.
Posted at 06:09 AM Read More
Mon - January 16, 2006
Hey, Hey, What Did I Say? A Nightmare. Truly, truly a Nightmare.
I
knew
this would happen. I SAID
this would happen. Thousands of
people -- particularly low income -- unable to get essential prescriptions
because of the nightmare known as Medicare Plan D.
Dual eligibles (people with both Medicaid and Medicare) like me were forced into this program. Before, we didn't have to worry about prescriptions. Now, it's one gigantic mess. People are being turned away. States are having to step in and pay to ensure that people don't suffer. Read the latest news stories, collected from Google News, here.
Dual eligibles (people with both Medicaid and Medicare) like me were forced into this program. Before, we didn't have to worry about prescriptions. Now, it's one gigantic mess. People are being turned away. States are having to step in and pay to ensure that people don't suffer. Read the latest news stories, collected from Google News, here.
Posted at 10:33 AM Read More
Tue - January 3, 2006
CO-PAYS FOR MEDICAID/MEDICARE DUAL ELIGIBLES INCREASE OVERNIGHT
Went to get a couple of prescriptions
refilled yesterday under Unicare, the Medicare Plan D prescription plan that was
assigned to me. Lo and behold, it turns out the information I based my decision
on has changed overnight.
Posted at 09:02 PM Read More
Mon - December 12, 2005
Goal: A Thousand Miles By Spring
Finally broke down and bought an indoor
bike so I can ride through the winter. Decided on a goal of 1,000 miles by the
first day of Spring.
Posted at 10:54 AM Read More
Sun - December 4, 2005
Megan paints rocks (the project continues)
My project photographing Megan continues. Through the lens
of a camera, a friendship deepens.
Posted at 12:41 PM Read More
Tue - November 22, 2005
AARP's nonsense scripted response to my e-mail complaint
I love this. AARP responded to my e-mail complaining about the Medicare
Prescription Drug NIGHTMARE, which AARP helped pass. As you can see, this
response does not address any of the issues I raised in my e-mail and simply
provides information about the program -- information available elsewhere on the
web. In fact, this e-mail assumes I am a member, when I stated that I am not nor
ever would become a member. If this is the way they answer consumer complaints
-- without paying attention to a single word the consumer has written -- well,
then, all the more reason not to become a member!
Posted at 11:06 AM Read More
Fri - November 18, 2005
Medicare Prescription Drug Act -- Nightmare for Millions
I posted the following message in an
e-mail to AARP
after a long insomniac night...I'm trying to deal with the fact that I have to
choose from a dizzying array of prescription plans when before all I had to do
was re-certify for Medicaid each year. Until now, I have never had to worry
whether my prescriptions would get covered or how much I had to pay for them.
Because the Medicare Prescription Coverage act would not have been passed
without the support of the AARP, I am posting this specifically in criticism of
that organization. Of course, there are many people who are responsible for this
nightmare. I will deal with
them
later.
Posted at 06:04 AM Read More
Thu - November 17, 2005
Crazy Lady Rides Again -- Below Freezing, Windchill @ 20
I was stressed out today for a number of
reasons and so decided to do a ride a little after 6 p.m. Local tv website says
it's 31 degrees, but just 20 with the wind chill. Coldest day I have ever
ridden. I managed a good ride anyway. Warm & toasty upper body. Slightly
chilled lower. More on how that's possible.
Posted at 07:55 PM Read More
Mon - November 7, 2005
Fitting Exercise into a 40-hour Work Week
A friend of mine wrote, regarding the
benefits of my bike riding schedule: "Great -- glad to hear its working out for
you. Maybe there is hope for me, but I don't see how I'm going to fit anything
like that in a 40-hour work
week."
A few of my thoughts on in response ...
A few of my thoughts on in response ...
Posted at 11:01 AM Read More
Sun - November 6, 2005
Fri - November 4, 2005
Bike Riding Yields Another Major Benefit
Biking for just two months has made my
legs so much stronger I can actually kneel and get up without second thought
now!
Posted at 08:27 PM Read More
Tue - October 25, 2005
With Love from Megan (on riding in the rain in the dark)
My friend Megan wrote this on Sunday in response to my
post about riding my bike in the rain in the
dark on Saturday night. What lovely thoughts they are!
Posted at 12:17 PM Read More
Sun - October 2, 2005
Sometimes I'm Up, Sometimes I'm Down...
Sometimes I'm almost to the
ground...Pain, unbelievable, almost unbearable pain. And yet, still, I
ride...
Posted at 05:34 PM Read More
Sun - September 25, 2005
I Amaze Myself, Really I Do!
Made both Highland Park and Cobbs Hill
today -- a week ahead of schedule.
Posted at 03:20 PM Read More
Mon - September 12, 2005
Suffering in Silence: No More!
Pain returns as a daily feature of my
life. I will not suffer in silence.
Posted at 03:34 PM Read More
Sat - July 30, 2005
Megan's Garden 1: the rudimentary beginnings of a photo project and steps toward healing
I
have begun photographing my friend Megan and her garden as part of a class I am
taking with Democrat & Chronicle photographer Will Yurman at Rochester's Community Darkroom. This ultimately will be at
least a year-long project for me, as I take her through the seasons.
Posted at 08:38 PM Read More
Sun - May 29, 2005
Pain Relief from Unexpected Source
Pain has become less of a daily
antagonist for me now, thanks to a liquid nutrient supplement.
Posted at 10:23 AM Read More
Wed - May 18, 2005
One Tham Ding After Another -- My (Mis)Adventures at Highland Hospital
As if I didn't have enough health issues
to deal with already, early this month I had to have an emergency appendectomy.
This details my (mis)adventures with health care received at Highland Hospital
in Rochester.
Posted at 01:52 PM Read More
Thu - April 28, 2005
George W. Bush's War on the Vulnerable
President George W. Bush is doing his
best to eviscerate programs that help the disabled to achieve lives resembling
normalcy. This is part of the overall strategy of the neo-conservatives to
dismantle the progress toward social justice begun with Franklin D. Roosevelt's
New Deal, Lyndon Baines Johnson's "War on Poverty" and the Americans With
Disabilities Act that was signed into law by "W's" own father, George H.W. Bush.
Below is a summary of what the current Bush Administration is attempting to do
in its war on the vulnerable, courtesy of the ADA Watch and the National
Coalition for Disability Rights. Nearly all of these efforts will affect me
personally.
Posted at 11:28 PM Read More
Sat - April 16, 2005
The "sick care system": another doctor fails me...
This is a letter I wrote to a neurologist
who gave me all too short shrift a few weeks ago. I am not including the name. I
will wait to see what kind of response I get, if any. I do not know if my
suspicions about why so little time was given to me are correct: that I am a
Medicare/Medicaid patient and therefore the reimbursement levels are too low to
justify anything more than just enough consideration to provide defense against
malpractice. I could be very wrong on that. But I am finding (with a few, very
wonderful exceptions) that since I lost my HMO coverage I am being treated
differently from before. But as I say here: Quality health care should not be a
commodity available only to the highest bidder.
Posted at 01:57 AM Read More
Fri - March 25, 2005
One more case of how our so-called health care system makes people sick
Ok, I know it is nearly 3 a.m. and I
should be in bed. But I am wide awake because I am upset about something that
happened today -- another instance of how the so-called health care system
contributes to making people sick.
Posted at 02:49 AM Read More
Sun - March 20, 2005
Exhaustion...overwhelming exhaustion
I am overcome with exhaustion. About
living with Sjogren's Syndrome compounded by fibromyalgia.
About medical mistakes and doctor stupidity.
Posted at 05:36 PM Read More
Fri - September 17, 2004
A matter of the heart
Writing this from the heart evaluation
center at Rochester General Hospital.
Posted at 11:28 AM Read More
Tue - August 17, 2004
Too good to be true
Yes, the Ultracet did turn out to be too
good to be true. Its effects have been wearing off, and I am back to struggling
every day, though perhaps not quite as much as before.
Posted at 03:33 PM Read More
Sun - July 18, 2004
Bad news, good news -- really good news!
Struggling mightily -- but now there's a
light at the end of the tunnel. Or so it seems...
Posted at 12:09 AM Read More
Mon - June 21, 2004
A "Bitch" in Time Saves Nine...
Thursday I wrote of my travails with the
new construction at Rochester's airport. Today I received a reply from a public
information assistant at the airport. A better response than I expected, but I
have some more thoughts on the matter.
Posted at 02:06 PM Read More
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-- Margaret Mead
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That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all..."
-- Emily Dickinson
"In our sleep, pain, which we cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom, through the awful grace of God.
-- Aeschylus, Agamemnon
-- From "Crazy, He Calls Me"
written by: Bob Russell / Carl Sigman
Sung by Billie Holiday
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret Mead
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all..."
-- Emily Dickinson
"In our sleep, pain, which we cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom, through the awful grace of God.
-- Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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