What's on your agenda for today?

Interview tomorrow and I have to take the train. I'm the little old lady everybody tries to beep off the road...no way am I comfortable with the parkway. So I'm going on a practice run today. Just have to be careful with my reading. I used to take the bus to work. I'd be so into my book I'd miss my stop.

PS Hubby was prescribed those patches and Medicaid wouldn't cover it. Fortunate he knew someone who could loan him some. Medicaid sucks...we're still fighting for an MRI authorization.
 

fureverywhere said:
Interview tomorrow and I have to take the train. I'm the little old lady everybody tries to beep off the road...no way am I comfortable with the parkway. So I'm going on a practice run today. Just have to be careful with my reading. I used to take the bus to work. I'd be so into my book I'd miss my stop.

PS Hubby was prescribed those patches and Medicaid wouldn't cover it. Fortunate he knew someone who could loan him some. Medicaid sucks...we're still fighting for an MRI authorization.
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Yep just back from the pharmacy and medicare not covering the patches. :mad: $500. O well, good thing the pain has lessened to a large degree as to what it was over the weekend. I'll just have to walk funny for a few more days and keep up the warm compresses and otc meds and what creams I do have. I was previously give a script for voltaren gel, but, that gave me migraines and not much pain relief, that's why they were trying the patch, next will be going back under the knife, well, lasers, needles and such.
 
AprilT...check online for coupons for the patches. My son needed meds that cost in excess of $300/month. He looked for coupons online and found any number of them...some sounded too good to be true and weren't! He printed a handful and took them to Target pharmacy. They will check to see if any of them can be used at Target. They did. He paid $13 and change per month. Kroger accepted the same one and it was a dollar cheaper.

He was convinced it was some sort of scam until he checked them out.

You'd be surprised at what's out there. It doesn't cost a cent to hunt them up and maybe a few cents to print!
 

Rainy, cold and gloomy here again today. I had some errands to run, but decided to wait till tomorrow to see if the weather improves. I do not enjoy getting soaked and freezing while doing errands. Too wet to take Bonnie out for our usual walk, too. Yuck! Besides that this kind of weather makes me lazy.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
AprilT...check online for coupons for the patches. My son needed meds that cost in excess of $300/month. He looked for coupons online and found any number of them...some sounded too good to be true and weren't! He printed a handful and took them to Target pharmacy. They will check to see if any of them can be used at Target. They did. He paid $13 and change per month. Kroger accepted the same one and it was a dollar cheaper.

He was convinced it was some sort of scam until he checked them out.

You'd be surprised at what's out there. It doesn't cost a cent to hunt them up and maybe a few cents to print!
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Ok, Georgia, thanks for the info, I will look into it. :)
 
Just finished a serious cardio workout at the gym. Waiting for hubby to get out of the pool.

Will work on sorting the rest of my stuff to pack. Last winter I discovered I couldn't buy the equivalent of Sinutab without prescription and they are the thing that works if I get a sinus headache. So I'm bringing 3 boxes.
 
Bad weather flying into Dallas late last night, but the plane performed well and we landed without a hitch. Not to brag, but I sometimes amaze myself. Tomorrow we fly North.
 
AprilT, it sounds like you are in a lot worse pain than I am. Mine gets bad if I'm up and around doing things too much. I'm fortunate in that I feel pretty good when I'm just sitting around. I do better if I go on a long walk every day too, that's why I feel better when I'm away from home as my kids make me walk in museums or malls etc.

I'm getting ready to go to our daughter's again. This time we are taking our grandson (not the one who just got married) as he hasn't been down there to visit in a long time. Maybe a year. He is like me and doesn't care much for driving so if he went on his own he'd probably take a train or bus. I imagine we'll be gone less than a week but not sure. Then going back in early Dec as she's having surgery. Then more surgery in Feb. so of course, we'll go back down.

It's 10:30 a.m., I better get around and get busy. Last night on the news they said there might be icy fog today but it's sunny and beautiful (but cool) at our house. We live above the usual fog line which is nice but sometimes when we head down the mt we get a big surprise.

I need to remember to pack my small laptop to take with me so I can check in everywhere. :)
 
Linda, that's the problem, I do better if I do nothing, do as little participation in activities as possible, but, I just can't live that way unless episodic to the point I cannot move, so, I do once and a while get out and ignore what ails me even if it will mean more pain later, sometimes it's worth it. I'm having a lot of trouble walking getting up and down steps at the moment, but, the back is a lot better today. I'll be fine as the week wears on, I have other events coming up, so, I'll just rest up and hope for the best, I refuse to sit here and not get out some of the time sitting in my own misery. What I really miss is taking long walks, hiking and such, but, that's not to be, so, I settle for dancing in place when the body lets me, these hips can still get a groove on. :)
 
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:) Dancing in place April, that's cool. You have a good attitude about it. Since you feel better when you do nothing, you are probably like me and find it easy to pack on extra weight. That's what I hate about it. I like to read, paint and be on the computer and none of those burn up many calories. It's after 2 pm now so I'm going to pack and get to moving around a little more.
 
What did we do before we had computers? Mine was "updating" from 8:30 this morning until 4:15 this afternoon. Grrrrr. WTH is there to update for almost eight hours?

By now, Pappy's poor wife has had an entire day to hear him complaining about the cost of her new hearing aids:p

I just noticed that the sky is red. Um. Red sky at night, sailor's delight? We're supposed to get high winds and torrential rain tonight and tomorrow. What's so darned delightful about that?
 
Hey, Georgia, that reminds me, I looked into the coupons for the patches and it looks like I may have found some decent discounts, one, I got a 75% off code and another is sending me a permanent card in the mail where I would pay no more than about $20 for monthly supply. So thank you bunches for the info. :thankyou:

Now it's time for me to get off the pc and go do some reading. Again Thank you bunches.
 
Gotta go get some blood drawn as soon as the clinic opens, then home for breakfast .............. Then a seminar on how to sign up for Medicare .............................
 
Been to the gym this morning, doing my dumbbells this afternoon. Wil continue packing. Made an appointment for haircut tomorrow morning.

Husband figured out how to put movies and tv series on a portable hard disk when we are subscribed to Netflix and Hulu (through US). So we'll have lots to watch in the evenings in Thailand. There are English speaking movies and news etc on tv there, but not enough. Just hope he can figure out how to hook it up the tv because I'm not watching tv on a laptop!
 
Hi, kids. I'm home after a busy day and lots of interstate driving in pouring rain. Ugh. It's pouring now, and there are tornado warnings south of the city. We're way far north of the city but still have heavy rain and high wind warnings until 10 tonight and a flood watch until 10 tomorrow morning.

The good news is that the sun is supposed to be out tomorrow. Yay. I can go to Aldi and forage for food!
 
A week ago last Tuesday, the monsoon that has been dumping on my part of the world for a few weeks ceased and the sun came out. I took my Golden outside to play and while zooming the yard, she slipped on some wet leaves and tore her rt. rear ACL. She had TTA surgery the next morning. Today is the first day of the second week of physical therapy. I'm sleeping in the recliner in the living room so she will not be tempted to jump up on the bed...her normal sleeping spot. Anyway, she is getting better and this morning the sky is clear and the sun is shining. Forecast is for clear skies tonight. Since I'm only able to sleep a few hours at a time I've decided it would be a good occasion to roll out the telescope (its large and on wheels) and do some viewing and maybe some pictures of the Pleiades around midnight. Its the time of year for that. Around 5am tomorrow, Orion will creep out from behind some trees to the south and afford good shots of the Great Nebula. Think I'll do that too if I'm awake around then. Its lunch time here so the rest of the day will be feed my dog, an hour of physical therapy for her leg, play some chess and set up a viewing plan for tonight. I'll start setting up equipment after supper then kick back with my friend Sam Adams and wait for dark. Retirement is good.
 
Another horrible flight late last night. This time from St. Louis. The air has been very unstable that last 2-3 days. The airline pilots that I have been speaking with have been complaining about above average turbulence. One pilot from Southwest said he flew from Tampa to Baltimore in the a.m. yesterday and was up at 39,000 ft. in his B-737 at a ground speed of 600 mph. IMO, for a B-737, this is really getting close to crossing the line.

Home now and glad of it.
 

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