Re: Health and money purrs needed

On Aug 3, 8:22 pm, "jofirey" <jofi...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"CatNipped" <lcr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I had scheduled a visit with my doctor because the pain from when I broke
my arm has just continued to worsen over the last year. I've been to
several orthopedists and all they do is take an x-ray and shoot cortisone
shots into my funny bone tendon - yet the pain continues to worsen. I have
a feeling that when I fell, since I was airborne for a second and my right
hand was the first part of my body to hit the cement, that I did more than
just fracture and partially shatter my wrist bone. I think I injured
something in the spinal column of my neck (the pain there is really bad and
when I move my head around it sort of crunches there). Also, not only has
the ring finger of my right hand started feeling funny and numb, but the
corresponding toe on my right foot is feeling the same. Anyway, I thought
I'd see my GP and get him to recommend a neurologist. Besides, I've had
quite a number of other health issues lately.

Since it's been a while since I've seen him, he wanted to do some blood
work before I came in, so I went to have my blood drawn this morning.
When I got home Ben told me that I'd gotten a telephone message from my
doctor's nurse asking me to call her back immediately. I did and she told
me that I was *severely* iron deficient and anemic and my doctor wants me
to go back to the lab first thing Monday morning to have an iron panel and
a hemoccult done. He also wants me to start taking Niferex 3 times a day.

From the symptoms I'm having, having looked them up online (I know, bad
idea since it only scares you more), two possible causes of the severe
anemia are leukemia or colon cancer.

Now the really, really bad news. My new insurance only pays for
preventative treatment up to a $1,500 deductible per year and then after
that still only pays a portion of your cost. So I have to pay for all the
testing and all the treatment out of our non-existent savings!

Some purrs for both my health and my pocket book would be greatly
appreciated.

Try not to worry over the weekend. And quit looking it up on the internet
until the doctor talks to you.

BTW, if I'm reading this right, you ARE anemic. That is a medical condition
in and of itself and treating it isn't preventive.

Looking for the sources of pain are diagnostic, not preventive.

Preventive is when you are getting tests for something you don't have
symptoms for but want screening to be sure. Flu shots and pap smears and
mammograms are essentially preventive but I'm pretty sure they have to cover
those anyway.

A complete physical just to see if the doctor can find anything wrong with
you would be preventive.

But I've just had tons of experience and a patient and with my insurance.
Somebody here should have better information on what is and what isn't
preventive.

Jo- Hide quoted text -

Jo, I agree with you, but my insurance also has screwy notions of
what is preventive. I was having erratic blood
pressure readings and the cardio fitted me with this contraption that
measures BP and records it every 1/2 hour. I
took the thing back in 24 hours, and they dowload all the readings
onto a computer so he could see what was
going on during a normal day. Insurance would not pay a penny of it.
They said it was "investigative." WTF? Isn't that
what they have to do to make a diagnosis?
Insurance companies look for excuses not to pay. Can you believe I had
to mail them a copy of our marriage license to
prove I was a legal dependant?

Sherry

Sherry

Sherry

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