Surgery--Again

Pin cushioning is new to me too - but it's on a lot of sites to do with reconstruction after surgery, especially round eyes, nose and lips. It is actually quite a good description, come to think of it!

Page 11 of this document explains pin-cushioning

http://www.utmb.edu/otoref/grnds/Nasal-reconst-060104/Nasal-reconst-slides-060104.pdf

I found it here -
http://www.drlamperti.com/blog/post/pin-cushion-deformity-and-bulbous-nose-repair

That's a great help, Osso. Mine isn't so bulbous, but covers a larger area of the nostril. Seeing it like that, with before and after photographs, I guess it will be worth having the plastic surgery if the puffiness hasn't gone down by November. After all, it's free! Thanks for that - most helpful.

Hope you don't need additional surgery. Free? Thud.

Don't! Makes me feel guilty! As Izziethepush said the other day, in this country we complain about a petty £3.50 charge for the car park. We don't realise how lucky we are!

You're welcome.

I see it makes sense.

I've run out of yet another expensive asthma medication. I didn't know that breathing had become a luxury item. Live and loin. Assuming, of course, that I keep on living.

First med: $178
Second med: $120

Too steenkin' much. I just don't have it. I'll soon be running out of other expensive meds. I reached Medicare's infamous donut hole. Ich hubse in drerd from that donut hole.

Giganto one-way sigh. Breathing in is fine. It's the exhale that ain't working.

I have some emergency meds in the house. Expired but here. Not tremendously old.

Is this any way to run a healthcare system. Donut holes? At least with bagel holes you can shmear the cream cheese over them.

Butrflynet, How you doin'?

lonny, I know how you're doing, but I'm thinking about you.

Why am I up at this crazy hour (11 a.m.)? Can't sleep. There's a shocker.

BTW, the check I'm gonna deposit tomorrow won't cover the meds. Well it would cover one, but then I won't have any money to live on.

Should I have posted this on the Kvetch thread? Nah. It's health related.

Rambling is over. I'll say some dirty words and try to sleep again.

those little purple discs are stupid expensive.

mr vw fights that battle.

paying for it is enough to give you an attack...

wishing you some sleep.

(((B)))

The purple disk is the expensive one. But I rely more on the other one. BTW, the prices above are the co-pay! Not the whole price.

LOL, I'm convinced at this point that half the problems I'm having with asthma are from the stress of not being able to get the meds.

there is more truth to that than you may know.

stress is not our friend.

hope some of yours lifts soon...

we have become seattle on the prairie.

I've forgotten what the sun looks like. (and my AC has been quiet for a week...)

and my rotting old back porch smells like a boat dock.

as soon as I can learn to downsize a photo, I have some squirrel pictures I will send youz...

There are some natural alternatives you can try. I researched natural alternatives to all of the meds I was prescribed when Mr B's COBRA ran out and we were looking at private insurance for the family and no insurance for me. Asthma is a tough nut to crack naturally, but there are some tips. This one looked interesting.



Here's the whole list

Can you re-apply for Medicaid?

J, Yes, I can reapply for Medicaid. It could take months. The last time it took over a year.

Thanks for the fruit info. Not big on fruit. I have to slice them all up. Can't bite into things. And citrus makes me choke.

how about bite-sized cherry tomatoes?

(I got them coming out my ears right now)

How long is that for? A week's supply, a month's, longer?

RH, Love dem cherry tomatoes.

vonny, That's a month's supply.

The very next person who tells me that America is a wonderful place to live will get seriously laughed at!

Those drug prices are appalling! As is the health service, generally.

it's gonna get worse margo.

state governments are de-funding the clinics...

But wait....

I can't get seen at the audiology clinic at unm unless my First Choice clinic doc sees me (she f'n knows I can't hear and so does everybody else, and I have had tinitus since 1985) - I have to have the referral.

I can see it from the hospital pov too, strongly.

If there are no First Choice clinics, the equivalents thereof, that is a giant slam to troubled strugglers.

Looking at it re clinic administration point of view, she knows me, she knows I can't hear a bunch of the time, but by rules I need to make an appointment, probably two months away.

I get medicaid now, maybe I can get hearing aids, I walk into this round of constraints.