Wednesday, May 21, 2008

5/21

1:45p

Appointment with DrIV#2. I had already seen the x-ray from Monday. I will post it tomorrow with the updated wound picture. We are officially off the IV. The PICC will stay for another 2 weeks to see how the oral antibiotics go. The antibiotics are Doxy, one twice a day, cibro, two twice a day and ciplo, 3 four times a day. In addition to her other stuff. The big deal is no dairy 6 hrs before and 2 hrs after the cibro.....will make feeding Victoria - always a problem, much worse.

Dr suggested a year on this course of antibiotics. We will see the cost soon enough, I go to Walmart later.

I left to get CJ and Victoria went off to infusion. There is an antibiotic they add at the end when a PIC is not going to be used daily. Working out a schedule for dressing change and such took a little time. We will be back in IN on Tuesday. SLEEP IN WEEKEND!

We picked up some ice cream....Victoria will not be having much for a long time.

6 comments:

Aviva Gabriel said...
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Aviva Gabriel said...

A public option is just what your partner needs. If she can't get insurance, she deserves to have affordable medical insurance. Private insurance companies are wrong to make big profits by refusing to cover sick people.

Our country is rich--why should we let the U.S. deny your partner the right to as much life as she can possibly have? Why is it right for her to suffer, while insurance company executives live like rich pigs?

We need low-cost or free public medical insurance for Americans who can't get insurance any other way. It's not right for our rich country to let your partner get sicker, live a painful and limited life, or die early.

It's not right for private insurance executives to make OBSCENE amounts of money or live like KINGS -- by collecting $$ to cover medical bills -- and then refusing to deliver the services they were paid to deliver by working people.

It's not right for insurance companies to take our money, promise to assume our medical bill risk--and then go canceling policies, denying care, and overcharging working-class people who can barely afford the basics of life!

But it's ALSO NOT RIGHT for you and your partner to EXPECT TAXPAYERS to PAY YOUR PARTNER'S MEDICAL BILLS when SHE CAN'T PAY.

UNLESS YOU HAVE ASSETS + PROPERTY that you can sell to pay your partner's medical bills--people like me will get stuck paying her bills (indirectly, through higher premiums and taxes).

Right now, every taxpayer is FORCED to cover YOUR PARTNER'S MEDICAL BILLS by paying higher premiums and more taxes. We have NO SAY in the matter! Insurance companies just raise OUR rates to match the MUCH HIGHER FEES charged by doctors and hospitals who end up giving FREE CARE to uninsured people like your partner.

WHY is it okay to FORCE the working poor and middle class to pay for your partner's medical bills--but it's NOT okay to FORCE the government to provide free or low-cost insurance to your partner, or FORCE your partner to accept a free or low-cost public insurance policy (if she can't get insurance any other way)?-

If you owned property (house, car, savings, IRA) it could be seized by hospitals and doctors for non-payment of medical bills.

If you don't own property, every poor working class slob who pays taxes or pays for their own medical insurance is FORCED to pay big $$ in higher insurance premiums + payroll taxes(to cover people who can't pay--like your partner).

If private insurers won't do the right thing--then government should help people like your partner. Private insurance companies charge people premiums for years--and when they get a serious disease, they cancel their medical insurance policies! That's immoral.

If there's no other way to get private insurance companies to play by the rules WE ALL FOLLOW--if private insurance companies can't be stopped from breaking the laws of fair business and fair profits--if no one can get private insurance companies to be honest in their business dealings--if no one can stop their corruption and fraud--if no one can stop them from stealing people's money (by collecting big bucks from premiums and then refusing to pay medical bills)--- then GOVERNMENT has no choice:

I'll say it again. Here's my bottom line:

GOVERNMENT can (1) watch people get sick and die by ignoring INSURANCE COMPANY FRAUD; or (2) it can create a PUBLIC OPTION, a public medical insurance plan, a FREE or LOW-COST PUBLIC plan which WON'T BE ALLOWED to DENY COVERAGE OR CARE, for those who CAN'T GET INSURANCE ANY OTHER WAY.

Aviva Gabriel said...

If you like your "catastrophic care" policy, but fear that you'll be charged a 2.5% penalty for not joining the public option plan--just get a "high deductible" care policy. It's the SAME THING. Then, you won't pay any penalty.

Meanwhile, your position on health reform is unfair to poor people, or people like your own partner. It's selfish to want your country (and all of us who live in the U.S.) to design our nation's healthcare policy around YOUR needs, while ignoring EVERYONE ELSE'S needs.

AREN'T YOU WORRIED ABOUT YOUR PARTNER? How will she pay her bills? OR IS IT ALL OKAY because WE PAY, NOT YOU, for her MEDICAL BILLS? Will the STATE pick up the tab? The doctor? The hospital? If so, I'M PAYING for YOUR PARTNER every single time I send in my $589-a-month medical insurance premium to Blue Cross.

And I may STILL wind up in your partner's position if I get sick, and Blue Cross cancels my policy--after 19 years of paying into their insurance program. They can DO it. They can just CANCEL me--and never deliver on the care they promised!

Aviva Gabriel said...

I'll say it again. Here's my bottom line:

GOVERNMENT can (1) watch people get sick and die by ignoring INSURANCE COMPANY FRAUD; or (2) it can create a PUBLIC OPTION, a public medical insurance plan, a FREE or LOW-COST PUBLIC plan which WON'T BE ALLOWED to DENY COVERAGE OR CARE, for those who CAN'T GET INSURANCE ANY OTHER WAY.

Aviva Gabriel said...

And I'm truly sorry to hear about so much suffering. I wish you and your partner the very best with all of this.

I can't even begin to imagine what you're going through, but I sure do hope things lighten up on both of you very, very soon.