The story of my health insurance crisis, by the numbers.8 --The day in February (not March, FEBRUARY) that my doctor first sent in the pre-authorization for my medication.17-- The day in February that I picked up my last prescription for my medication and found out that the pharmacy had only filled ...

OK, I admit it right from the get-go. This episode kicked my ass. I got so mixed up between the 3 years forward and backward that I was feeling like I was jumping in time after a while. This was one complicated episode, and I'm still trying to digest it, so excuse me if I say something that really i...

Our snowfall was rather overdone last night. We are now dealing with a lot of snow. Like 11" of snow that nobody wanted and nobody wants to deal with. Including, of course, our plow guy. That jerk has outdone himself. He came at around 4:30 this morning and did the driveway, but it was still snowing...

One of the things that drives me the absolute craziest about the hate bloggers is their inability to read. Oh, they THINK they know how to read, but when it comes right down to it, they have no clue as to how to pick up nuances that make a sentence readable. Like the subject, verb and adverbs. I may...

I don't think I've mentioned that the Boy got into the college of nobody's choice. Stubborn to the end, he only applied to one school because he honestly thought that I was going to let him lay around all year for his 'gap year'. Well, eventually it must of sunk in that there was no way in hell that...

Although this isn't really a topic of discussion in my own house, it's been coming up a lot in my real life as well as on the internet, and today my parent's group really dug deep into the issue. My thinking is that when your daughter becomes sexually active, it's your duty as a parent to take her t...

I have told my kids at least 100 times today to wash their hands. Considering their age, it seems ridiculous to me to have to constantly remind them, but damn if they can't seem to remember that constant handwashing is helpful in kicking lingering diseases collective asses. My kids have been sick fo...

For someone that does as little as possible to avoid pain, I have three different and equally compelling blog topics for today. But seeing as not only am I doing as little as possible, I'm also thinking as little as possible (hello Percocet goodbye brain), so I can't decide just what to talk about, ...

The Girl has worked at our local Panera since last August. In that time she's been sick a couple of times and they have given her an incredible hassle about missing her shifts. By hassle I mean demanding a doctor's note, making her find people to fill in for her missing shifts, and being generally f...

I 'll be honest. I'm the most cooperative patient on earth. I'll do pretty much anything they ask of me without complaint except the IV potassium because it burns like a mother and it takes hours to go in. I'd rather drink the juice concoction they mix up with the potassium and choke it down. But ot...