The Drip Factory: NonInsured Nightmare Cost of Cancer

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Thursday April 30, 2009 · 11:49 PM PDT

2009/04/30 · 23:49

As most of you know by now, I have cancer. The bad kind. I started chemo two weeks ago, it’s the beginning of what few options I have to exercise with this disease. It’s an expensive trip into the land of the non-insured. Like everyone else in the country, money’s been pretty tight to non-existent for us, save this past year, when we thought we were pulling out of the hole.

The bills have started to come in now, and I'm getting a pretty good idea what a non-insured person will be subjected to economically and thought I'd share below the fold.

LRLine

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Saturday April 04, 2009 · 9:36 AM PDT

2009/04/04 · 09:36

It's been a long while since I did a dKos diary. Been fighting a few things over here that kind of came to an interesting sort of head last week -- plagued by what I thought was a swollen gland condition, that wouldn't go away after four separate rounds of antibiotics, and three different medical facilities, including two trips to the ER -- I finally got into see a doc at the local elder care facility. I hit 60 last 3/17. That was my ticket in.
He took one look at the "swollen glands" and sent me for a CAT. Read about it and my reactions to entering "the system" below the fold.

LRLine

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Monday December 22, 2008 · 8:14 PM PST

2008/12/22 · 20:14

CityLightsLover and her Mister are busy this evening with Holiday plans, from what I understood her to say on 12/19. The Countdown Show was so very excellent that I'm compelled to offer a summary of what occured and encourage commentary, just to keep the ball rolling so to speak.

Tonight's show reviewed the favorite people of 2008 in basically five segments, which are described for those who might have missed the show below the fold.

LRLine

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 6:58 PM PDT

2008/10/31 · 18:58

If ever I had cause to be grateful to Countdown, today was the day.

Today, after first going to our polling place at the local Methodist Church, to be told by the head of the kindergarten education program that she had no idea about any of that early voting stuff, we came home, called the election office, and were told that for all precincts early voting would take place downtown. So, we piled in the car and off we went.

In this small Republican town in NE Oklahoma a small line formed outside the tiny courthouse...we entered and walked back into the 1950s. I got my green paper filled out, listing my name and address, and handed it to the registrar. In spite of having registered just two weeks prior, and having received my card, I was not in the system.

More below the fold.

LRLine

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Saturday October 18, 2008 · 12:28 PM PDT

2008/10/18 · 12:28

Today I'm going to discourse a little on the role of talk radio in holding together the Republican party. Were it not for the likes of Limbaugh and the some 1000 stations that carry his and others messages, there wouldn't be much of a Republican base outside the beltway. Radio power, especially that of the local talk show, goes a long way towards maintaining fictions that Republicans need to maintain their sense of identity.

Many people who would naturally veer more toward independent or even to progressive positions are held captive in a sense by the false illusions these radio moguls create. Pat Buchanan said once, on a Rachel Maddow show, that republicans really don't have leaders, it's really every man for himself, or words to that effect. That was the one statement of his I really heard, because it hit too close to home in my own family. More below the fold.

LRLine

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Thursday October 16, 2008 · 11:04 AM PDT

2008/10/16 · 11:04

In the eye of John McCain, a doll that had a modern look but a 1957 mentality would be more than a perfect running mate. We only have to look back into doll history to see that the perfect model for such a person was the Little Miss Revlon doll, that was manufactured by Ideal toys in February, 1957. She was a 10 1/2 inch vinyl doll, that was every bit as charming as her larger 18", 20" and 24" sisters. Little Miss Revlon was marketed towards fashionable women who wanted to give their little girls a doll tied to one of the most famous names in cosmetics -- Revlon. Considering Palin's current preoccupation with lipstick, and her totally stone age views on women, I can think of no better example. More below the fold.

LRLine

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 9:27 AM PDT

2008/10/15 · 09:27

This message coming to you from Radio Da Da, direct from Our Lady of Studies. Cheeky little monkeys everywhere will remember some 25 days or so ago, when a little hand puppet appeared in front of the camera on the Craig Ferguson show, and spoke to the People of Earth. He said soon, soon, the cheeky little monkey would be beloved even of the ladies who liked cats. And so it has become truth. Barack Obama, you are loved. In fact, this is a message to all monkey-carrying white bread republicans: In the midst of your cleverness, did you somehow think we would not get your meaning? The subtle escapes you, my friends. You are truly wrapped around your own axle to think that what you represent is the spirit of America.

We love our cheeky monkey, for we ourselves are cheeky monkeys, at least in spirit. I leave more messages for you below the fold. It's time to wake up, time to get into something new (Stones, If I were a Dancer, Sucking in the Seventies).

LRLine

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 11:04 AM PDT

2008/10/14 · 11:04

Ah, the markets. What does it mean really, to say that trillions in stock market value has gone up in smoke? All the money gone? For those who relied on the markets as a safe haven, clearly the words "caveat emptor" meant little or nothing. If you don't have the money any longer, just who does? An article by Eric Carvin, AP, may help shed a bit of light on this great financial mystery, revealing it for the gossamer fuzz it is.

Eric Carvin' article
Follow below the fold.

LRLine

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 10:48 AM PDT

2008/10/13 · 10:48

Today's musical header take off comes from "The Very Best of Robert Palmer", Guardian Records. I was determined this morning to move into the headspace that might give me some clues to bridge my usual full metal jacket memes with something a bit more sophisticated. It occurred to me late last night that the difference between low information voters and low information voters for whom content means something might have a musical, radio-based solution.

In order to build up any kind of counterattack to the Limbaugh's of the world, the words and music have to mean something to the listeners of equal strength and meaning, reflecting their values, and translating the progressive message into songs and lyrics they can understand is of paramount import. Otherwise, why should they stop listening to the likes of Hannity and Rush? Follow below the fold.

LRLine

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Sunday October 12, 2008 · 10:29 AM PDT

2008/10/12 · 10:29

I've always loved the ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz. Were I ever to reappear on stage again, it would be with those on my feet, in black leather capri pants, and a bandeau made from desert army fatigue material with a black satin underlining, an off-shoulder asymmetric model. One that reflects my hair, cut in an asymmetric style. Because that's the word that describes me: asymmetric. Am I some kind of size 3? Heck no. I was a body-builder. I had real muscles, and lifted real weights. Bulked, no, just really really strong. Hard. I'm a woman. I like it that way. And, my sunglasses. Neo style, from the Matrix. Long coats. Skirts cut on the bias, soft material, texture, wild to no jewelry.

My politics are the same. Fiscal conservative, social liberal. Somewhere between King (R) and Kusinisch (D). The old shoes I was given the choice to wear growing up just don't fit. Tell me where in either the Republican or Democratic party would I fit, exactly? When what I think is that we need money for social programs to help those who have worked, or who can't work, and still allow for businesses to have room to breathe without corporate corruption. Free markets, not ones that are manipulated into coiled springs that pop out of jack in the boxes when Pop Goes the Weasel is finished playing. More below the fold.

LRLine

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 12:49 PM PDT

2008/10/10 · 12:49

John McCain would do well to consider just how bad the State of the Nation really is, before pandering hate above telling the American public just how he plans to create jobs. That the failed Bush economic and fiscal policies are behind the current maelstrom of pain and suffering goes without question. Barack Obama has had little or nothing to do with this fiasco, in fact, has been the only candidate to offer concrete broad plans about what to do to ameliorate the problem. I can't say the same of Sen. McCain, who just seems to have nothing better to do than waste my time with his slurs, innuendos, misstatement of fact and obvious doublespeak. At this point, his inflammatory old school Huey Long rhetoric just wears on the nerves of any sane human being living in 2008. McCain redefines anachronism in his own time; he is a stopped Railroad Pocket Watch, period.

Just how badly have the Bush shadow economies impacted the real economy in terms of jobs? Follow below the fold.

LRLine

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 12:31 PM PDT

2008/10/09 · 12:31

So, the world was coming to an end. ARMAGEDDON. The last days. Now, we find out that Treasury Secretary Paulson is planning to buy stakes in a wide range of banks within weeks as the credit freeze increasingly threatens to tip the U.S. economy into a deep recession, according to Bloomberg News. Apparently they are still noodling out exactly how this would work. So, in addition to troubled mortgage-backed securities from financial institutions, we're buying banks. We the people certainly are getting diversified. We have "weeks". Oh joy.

The article is below the fold. Makes me glad I saved my diary space for today.

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