That’s what it cost me to have 103 pages of medical records from a previous health care provider scanned into .pdf format. I wanted to get them to add them to the records I’m accumulating now, particularly things like colonoscopy results and vaccinations. That’s not such a bad price ($13.20), but it only covered the …
This is a fine how-do-you-do. I just got notified my income will be cut this month and all future months in order to pay my Medicare premiums. It’s all well and good to know that will happen, but to actually see it occur… I am not old enough for this stuff. I’m not, I’m not!
I’m supposed to have a routine blood test tomorrow, including cholesterol levels and other things which are affected if I eat. I have to fast for 10 or 12 hours. The doc called me to tell me about the results of an x-ray done on my long-ago damaged and repaired knee and I had the …
I went back up to Tripler today for another exam by the ENT guys. They poked around and sent the fiberoptic laryngoscope down my nose, looking for any tumors or spots. They always spray an anesthetic up your nose before they run the scope in, and lemme tell you, once it drains into the back …
Now it’s getting personal. I just got a notice from HHS that I’m going to be automatically enrolled in Medicare Part A as of the first day of November, four months from now. I’m also going to be enrolled in Medicare Part B on that date unless I opt out of it. Okay, what’s covered …
Somehow I have gotten into a rhythm with my dentist and my periodontist. I see one or the other every quarter. Tomorrow is the regular dentist’s turn. It’s a good racket. Each of them gets paid once every three months. The patient benefits, I guess, but it gets tiresome.
Big day today. It’s Opening Day around Major League Baseball, with 14 games scheduled around the country. Then this evening the Wisconsin Badgers play the Duke Blue Devils for the national basketball championship, and if you had both these teams playing for the title in your bracket you should quit your day job and try …
Or so I hope. Back here I related the tale of my attempt to go to Wal-Mart or Costco to see how much a pair of single-vision glasses would cost me and my giving up due to traffic woes. A couple of days later I did get to Wal-Mart and got a quote of about …
Have you gotten your flu shot yet? I got mine a few weeks ago. If you’re a vet this is a pretty good method: get it at Walgreen’s and the store will update your VA electronic health records automatically.
Hawai’i doesn’t fluoridate its water, mostly because people think its the best water in the world and don’t want it messed with. I think that’s foolish, but I’m no policy-maker. What this means, though, is that the policy maker at my periodontist has decided that when a patient comes in for a cleaning his teeth …