RITE AID; DRUGS :( AND OTHER INCONVENIENCES

First of all I want to apologise for my absence, I've been helping some one's moving sale, and trust me it's so frustrating when I see someone holding onto things she can't keep but won't sell for cheap.

NOW! I get a voucher for free insulin, please see the right side column for information if you need free or reduced meds. Anyway I took it to Wal-mart the first time, they took my voucher, handed me the insulin and off I went, NOT so with our lovely local Rite Aid.

**How can I tell the truth about a business?

**It's my blog and I can if I want, since it is the truth and people should be told the truth, if you find this harsh; oh well.

First of all the clerk was new and the computer wasn't functioning correctly, OK, I can understand that, but it was compounded by more, much, more.

They tried to charge me for the insulin, tried to give me the wrong kind, and then when a pharmacy tech took over they insisted I had to fill out a form so I could "be in their system". I'm allergic to about, well everything I've ever taken and I had to list those on the form, and I had already waited 15 minutes for three other customers, on those hard floors!!! [Hard floors; especially when standing for a long time is very hard on legs, hips and lower backs. I have a full compliment of each that don't like hard floors.] Finally while they put me "in their system" I had to wait a day for prepaid insulin!!!!

I'm not sure if y'all know where I stand on big government and "systems" but I absolutely HATE it. I'm an intensely private person, you only get the information I want to give out, and even if it seems I'm giving out personal stuff, remember, you don't know me. I'm on the Internet and you really don't know me. At least that's what I keep telling myself. But now the government has my information. My weird mind slides to the book 1984 and how the government managed to have the knowledge that the protagonist was terrified of rats. Yes, that does sound like a contradiction, sorry....

It isn't bad enough that the FDA is trying to kill us by approving "medicine" that is dangerous, but the pharmacies are collecting information to give our government to use against us.

I want to take this opportunity to add that this is not the first time I've had a problem with Rite Aid here in my small town with one pharmacy. I went there to buy Insulin last year and they tried to charge me $50.00 for a small vial of insulin that Wal-mart charges $19.95 for. I called the Rite Aid corporate office concerning this and was assured that they were supposed to match the Wal-mart price, so the very next time I needed insulin I went in and sure enough they tried to waaaaaay over charge me. They used the lack of a prescription as an excuse not to match the Wal-mart price. I want to let y'all know something, you do not NEED a prescription to buy insulin legally. I've found our local Rite Aid pharmacists tend to be arrogant and smug the service is awful and I won't go there again.

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It was because I don't have insurance. Let me stop here and explain something,
People who do not have insurance make up for the short fall the drugs stores claim they have from accepting insurance payments. In other words, if you don't have the funds to pay the $800-$1000.00 per month for medical insurance, then you must pay extra for the test strips, the insulin and probably all the other 'medicines' people buy for their various illnesses. Doctor's office calls and all other hospital costs fees are higher too for the uninsured. If you don't believe me, why not check it out for yourself.
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If you are not already outraged here's more: If you are not in an emergency situation, broken bones, lacerated skin, damaged organs due to trauma, a doctor's only, ONLY, sole function is to give you drugs or carve you up. Since I no longer want or need either, I will do my best to stay as healthy as I can and not be a candidate for either.

Most, I guess I'd say all; disease that's not congenital, and at age 60 anything that is congenital would have shown up on ME by now, is caused by exterior factors, poor food choices is number one and then environmental pollutants, the second cause of disease. So GUESS WHAT? No matter how you slice it we are responsible for our own health, no matter what kind of health insurance we have and I'll wager that I'm right this minute even with the diabetes still hanging on by it's little fingertips, I'm healthier than most people who do have health insurance.

I eat a decent diet and avoid as many pollutants as possible and therefore have fewer free radicals running around in MY body than most people I meet. I'm losing weight and I feel so much better I know the CellPower™ ; with it's cellular oxygenating power, the pH adjustment and bacterial/viral/fungal control has really CHANGED MY LIFE!

I know I keep saying that but it's absolutely unbelievable how much better I am. I went from extremely sick to feeling great most of the time, my injuries still let me know all about it during bad weather but all in all I am really a changed woman.

The only other things I take are::coconut oil

is great for cooking and for continued weight loss. I really notice the difference in my weight control when I'm out of it for a while.
AND:
FLAX SEED OIL for my colon, but of course FLAX SEED OIL is also a great source of omega-3 essential fatty acids. And one each of the four essential minerals each day:
~SELENIUMhelps immune system,fights infection and aids circulation
~MAGNESIUMhelps to relax you, aids stress and muscle relaxing
~CHROMIUMimproves insulin sensitivity, and helps lower blood sugar.
~ZINC

I wish all of you the robust, vigorous health I'm getting closer to each day.
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~~~~Jokes And inspirations~~~~
It is better for civilization to be going down
the drain than to be coming up it.
-- Henry Allen

The town where I grew up has a zip code of
E-I-E-I-O.
-- Martin Mull

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to
swim in but hard to swallow.
-- Arthur Stringer,
How my achievements mock me!
-- William Shakespeare,

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Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections

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The other day a young person asked me how I felt about being old. I was taken aback, for I do not think of myself as old. Upon seeing my reaction, she was immediately embarrassed, but I explained that it was an interesting question, and I would ponder it, and let her know.

Old Age, I decided, is a gift.


I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not my body! I sometime despair over my body, the wrinkles, the baggy eyes, and the sagging butt. And often I am taken aback by that old person that lives in my mirror (who looks like my mother!), but I don't agonize over those things for long.
I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become more kind to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend. I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant.
I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.
Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon?
I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60&70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ... I will.
I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set.

They, too, will get old.
I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.
Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.
As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong.

So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day. (If I feel like it)
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Have a blessed and healthy day

TAKING CONTROL OF MY HEALTH~winging it

I go to see 'my' doctor about every 4-6 months. Since we have no medical insurance and in all my years of working for others I haven't had medical insurance, I've been forced to take care of myself. I found, very early on that I'm extremely sensitive to drugs and refuse all offers of them. I go to a free clinic here and usually get the nurse practitioner as my 'doctor'. I decide how much insulin I give myself. I had no teaching except the bare basics because we have no insurance. The only thing I was taught was the shot locations I was to rotate to, and why.

Since I learned about rotation, however I found out that giving shots in the belly made more of the insulin I did take available to my body. Arm and leg shots somehow are less efficient. I read that somewhere, I forget to put all the little nuggets I find in my blog, I'm trying to rectify that.
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I prefer my natural solutons to druggish things. My girlfriend stays on the ADA diet, exercises like a guinea pig on a wheel she takes the Avandia type diabetic drugs and her blood glucose levels are all over the place every day; way up and way down. I'll stick with CellPower™ .
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Anyway I make decisions on how much insulin I give myself, by myself, I base them on a day-by-day reaction to how well something worked the days before, I used to [in my opinion, overdose myself using guidelines I yes, devised myself] but recently way slowed down on how much I give myself. I generally hold it to 15 units regardless of how high my blood glucose goes. I like to keep a regular schedule but you know how that goes, I get away from home and must eat before I get home and check my blood levels. When that happens and I finally take my readings of course it will be higher. But since I know I do well, even best with 10 units twice per day I try to keep it at that amount. When the reading is below 100 I give myself 5 units, anywhere above 125 it's 15. But since I want my body to adjust to less and less insulin, and stop being insulin resistant I am trying to give myself less and less.

Now here's where the doctor stuff comes in. They never ask me how much insulin I give myself. Now when I took care of elderly people with insulin therapy, the docs used to pour over the ledger of blood sugar readings and adjust the amounts I should give at certain levels, 'course They had insurance. For instance if the average was 200-260 they might recommend 30 units, at 180-200 maybe 25, and so on, I'm making this up so don't go by me. The language the doctor used was always iffy sounding like, "Well, let's see, why not try this and this, and this." No science behind it no hard and fast rules. Just by guess and by golly, or so it seemed to me. I took my original cue from that. Now I go by my gut. I gauge how I'm doing and how my diet is affecting the levels. I'm not suggesting anyone else follows my ways of doing things, if you have a doctor, let him/her decide for you. I am however, forced to be extremely sensitive to my own needs and to do these gauges for myself, and also I must forge into virgin territories here because officially there is no literature on this reversing process, just, yes, it can be done, but the day to day stuff is purely by winging it.

As I said I'm without much guidance in this area and I'm on my own, but I'm making good progress even though, it seems to have slowed to a crawl. I have other issues that are being resolved along with the diabetes, my candidiasis is going away, It was a multi-systemic problem that is slow to release it's hold on me.

All of my body has been healing up and yes, Diabetes itself affects the entire body's functioning; the candidiasis and IBS are related to each other and exacerbated by each other and the diabetes. With All this interrelated stuf, add to the mix the stroke damage and it seems to have affected so much. I'm just digging myself out of my personal health morass.

Weight is going too, but that also has slowed probably because it's just not the personal push it was. I am comfortable here and it really is hard to actually lose weight [pounds per week rather than pound per month]if one is past menopause. It means days/weeks of going hungry, and I gotta tell you the truth here, it is easier to fast than eat such bland small starvation portions. I also have a balancing act with my beleaguered colon, it works best if full and on starvation diets it doesn't get full enough to empy regularly. Also getting enough fiber is still an issue and on the starvation diet [well it's not really starvation, it just feels like it] I simply can't get enough fiber, no way!

I used candidate for candidiasis
when I first started out on this reversing diabetes diet. I wanted to get a jump start on the complication factors. I also take probiotics in the form of acidophilus and FLAX SEED OIL for my colon, but of course FLAX SEED OIL is also a great source of omega-3 essential fatty acids.

The biggest changes for the better hit me after I started taking CellPower™ with it's cellular oxygenating power, the pH adjustment and bacterial/viral/fungal control has really CHANGED MY LIFE!

The coconut oil

I'm still using is great for cooking and for continued weight loss.

Write to me at Webriter@verizon.net or use the comment or chat features. I do appreciate the feedback even if it’s negative, Christian Biblical stories
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-----THE GARDEN GNOME


~~~~Jokes And inspirations~~~~
State Of The World Message

I've had the opportunity to evaluate the condition of the world over the course of the last 48 hours and I'm pleased to report that there are many reasons to be hopeful.

In this short amount of time I've seen a very diverse group of two-year olds build sandcastles together and I stood witness as a nineteen-year-old Japanese woman learned to ride a bicycle for the first time. I watched as the sun rose twice, set twice and became partially eclipsed by the moon. I stared into the eyes of a sea lion and saw myself in his reflection. I shared a table with a seventy-seven year old woman inTijuana who offered me cookies and Seven-Up. I witnessed a car accident on Interstate 5 and a middle-aged trucker sprinting towards the wreckage to see if he could help.

I know that there is much adversity and suffering in today's world... and sometimes I think this is the path we must take to greater wisdom. But there's a lot of love out there too... and I'm convinced that this is still the most powerful force in the world.

By Ron Atchison

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THE GOOD NAPKINS...ahhhhh...the joys of having Girls...

My mother taught me to read when I was four years old (her first mistake). One day, I was in the bathroom and noticed one of the
cabinet doors was ajar.

I read the box in the cabinet. I then asked my mother why she was
keeping 'napkins' in the bathroom. Didn't they belong in the kitchen?

Not wanting to burden me with unnecessary facts, she told me that
those were for "special occasions" (her second mistake).

Now fast forward a few months....It's Thanksgiving Day, and my folks are leaving to pick up my uncle and his wife for dinner. Mom had assignments for all of us while they were gone.

Mine was to set the table.

When they returned, my uncle came in first and immediately burst into laughter. Next came his wife who gasped, then began giggling. Next came my father, who roared with laughter.

Then came Mom, who almost died of embarrassment when she saw each place setting on the table with a "special occasion" Kotex napkin at each plate, with the fork carefully arranged on top. I had even tucked the little tail in so they didn't hang off the edge!!

My mother asked me why I used these and, of course, my response sent the other adults into further fits of laughter.

"But, Mom, you said they were for special occasions!!!"

Pass this on to your girlfriends who need a good laugh or anyone who has a daughter!

Life is too short for drama & petty things, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, Love truly and forgive quickly .

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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging
thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any
thinking going on inside it.
-- Terry Pratchett
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Gracie Allen's Classic Recipe for Roast Beef
1 large roast of beef
1 small roast of beef
Take the two roasts and put them in the oven.
When the little one burns, the big one is done.

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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose
business it is to separate the wheat from the
chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
-- Elbert Hubbard

2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of
2.
-- Grabel's Law

I believe that all government is evil, and that
trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
-- H. L. Mencken

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all,
you could be missing out on the joke of the
century.
-- Dame Edna Everage,
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Have a great day and make this one the best by starting on your road to recovery even if you have to wing it.