OT - Good Medical News

congradulations !!!!!!!!

Michael Lane
n Flatrock, Tennessee

On 7/27/2011 12:08 PM, CatNipped wrote:
I went to my PCP today and h e gave me my blood test results. First, I
weighed !!) on his scale (OK, I didn't take my heavy shoes off)! But
better than that, medically, I'm almost where I need to me, as follows:

Test Type Jan. 3 Jul. 18 Normal Value

T-Protein 3.3 g/dl 6.0 g/dl 6.1-7.9 g/dl
Albumin 1.3 g/dl 3.0 g/dl 3.5-5.6 g/dl
Prealbumin ??? 30 mg/dl 20-40 mg/dl

So, as you can see, all my "proteins" are way up. One, the Prealbumin,
is well in the "normal" range and the other two are pretty darn close
and *WAY* higher than they were last January.

So, yay me!! Here's hoping I can continue improving fast enough to have
the reversal surgery before the end of the year while my costs will
still be zero. After that we'll have a $3,000 and then 10% of all costs
until we reach $5,000. Then, as we are now this year, we'll have maxed
our "out of pocket" expense and we'll go back to not having to pay for
anything medical.



Wonderful news.

--
Ann

in Connecticut

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:21:29 -0400, "J J Levin"
wrote:

"CatNipped" wrote in message
...
I went to my PCP today and h e gave me my blood test results. First, I
weighed !!) on his scale (OK, I didn't take my heavy shoes off)! But
better than that, medically, I'm almost where I need to me, as follows:

Test Type Jan. 3 Jul. 18 Normal Value

T-Protein 3.3 g/dl 6.0 g/dl 6.1-7.9 g/dl
Albumin 1.3 g/dl 3.0 g/dl 3.5-5.6 g/dl
Prealbumin ??? 30 mg/dl 20-40 mg/dl

So, as you can see, all my "proteins" are way up. One, the Prealbumin, is
well in the "normal" range and the other two are pretty darn close and
*WAY* higher than they were last January.

So, yay me!! Here's hoping I can continue improving fast enough to have
the reversal surgery before the end of the year while my costs will still
be zero. After that we'll have a $3,000 and then 10% of all costs until
we reach $5,000. Then, as we are now this year, we'll have maxed our "out
of pocket" expense and we'll go back to not having to pay for anything
medical.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped


This is good news and I hope you get well really fast, because I have lots
more questions about cats and I need you healthy so you can reply!!! :-)

Ain't co-pays a pain? I needed surgery a couple of years ago, in December,
it was a sort of emergency thing, and my health insurance broker asked me if
we could delay the surgery for a month (we could NOT!) because then I'd be
taking care of next year's deductible and co-pay instead of wasting it this
year in December.

Jay




Another example of our insane medical system is the medical Flexible
Spending Account we have at work. You have to guess how much money to
put into it at the beginning of the year - that is, how much money you
are going to spend on medical/dental care. That money comes from
pre-tax dollars in the paycheck. Then, as you spend money on covered
medical/dental bills, you get it back from the amount that you set
aside. So, deductibles, things like that, you end up paying for with
pretax dollars. So far so good.

The problem is that whatever you don't spend is simply lost. So, if I
set aside $2000 and only have receipts for $1500, the extra $500 goes
somewhere, where, I have no idea. My company? The government? Thin
Air?

If the idea is to make medical expenses deductible, then just do that,
don't play this insane game with us. Or, as I prefer, let's just
expand medicare for everyone and everything will be a bit cleaner.

On 7/28/2011 7:54 AM, dgk wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:21:29 -0400, "J J Levin"
wrote:

wrote in message
...
I went to my PCP today and h e gave me my blood test results. First, I
weighed !!) on his scale (OK, I didn't take my heavy shoes off)! But
better than that, medically, I'm almost where I need to me, as follows:

Test Type Jan. 3 Jul. 18 Normal Value

T-Protein 3.3 g/dl 6.0 g/dl 6.1-7.9 g/dl
Albumin 1.3 g/dl 3.0 g/dl 3.5-5.6 g/dl
Prealbumin ??? 30 mg/dl 20-40 mg/dl

So, as you can see, all my "proteins" are way up. One, the Prealbumin, is
well in the "normal" range and the other two are pretty darn close and
*WAY* higher than they were last January.

So, yay me!! Here's hoping I can continue improving fast enough to have
the reversal surgery before the end of the year while my costs will still
be zero. After that we'll have a $3,000 and then 10% of all costs until
we reach $5,000. Then, as we are now this year, we'll have maxed our "out
of pocket" expense and we'll go back to not having to pay for anything
medical.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped


This is good news and I hope you get well really fast, because I have lots
more questions about cats and I need you healthy so you can reply!!! :-)

Ain't co-pays a pain? I needed surgery a couple of years ago, in December,
it was a sort of emergency thing, and my health insurance broker asked me if
we could delay the surgery for a month (we could NOT!) because then I'd be
taking care of next year's deductible and co-pay instead of wasting it this
year in December.

Jay




Another example of our insane medical system is the medical Flexible
Spending Account we have at work. You have to guess how much money to
put into it at the beginning of the year - that is, how much money you
are going to spend on medical/dental care. That money comes from
pre-tax dollars in the paycheck. Then, as you spend money on covered
medical/dental bills, you get it back from the amount that you set
aside. So, deductibles, things like that, you end up paying for with
pretax dollars. So far so good.

The problem is that whatever you don't spend is simply lost. So, if I
set aside $2000 and only have receipts for $1500, the extra $500 goes
somewhere, where, I have no idea. My company? The government? Thin
Air?

If the idea is to make medical expenses deductible, then just do that,
don't play this insane game with us. Or, as I prefer, let's just
expand medicare for everyone and everything will be a bit cleaner.

I'm lucky that my company has a Flexible *Savings* Account. They take
whatever you like (up to the amount the company matches on your
deductible - IOW if my deductible is $3,000, my company adds $1,500 - to
my FSA each year so I can put $1,500 aside, proportioned over each pay
period, from pre-tax dollars). The money in it earns interest and
whatever is left at the end of the year carries over into the next. I
never did use the pending account - I can't balance a check book much
less plan medical expenses for a year! They give you a "credit card"
good for whatever amount you have in your FSA, or you can submit
expenses and have them reimburse... I just use the credit card. It's
good for either prescriptions, doctor visits, dental visits, or even OTC
medications (anything that is tax deductible.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped
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"CatNipped" wrote in message
...
I went to my PCP today and h e gave me my blood test results. First, I
weighed !!) on his scale (OK, I didn't take my heavy shoes off)! But
better than that, medically, I'm almost where I need to me, as follows:

Test Type Jan. 3 Jul. 18 Normal Value

T-Protein 3.3 g/dl 6.0 g/dl 6.1-7.9 g/dl
Albumin 1.3 g/dl 3.0 g/dl 3.5-5.6 g/dl
Prealbumin ??? 30 mg/dl 20-40 mg/dl

So, as you can see, all my "proteins" are way up. One, the Prealbumin, is
well in the "normal" range and the other two are pretty darn close and
*WAY* higher than they were last January.

So, yay me!! Here's hoping I can continue improving fast enough to have
the reversal surgery before the end of the year while my costs will still
be zero. After that we'll have a $3,000 and then 10% of all costs until
we reach $5,000. Then, as we are now this year, we'll have maxed our "out
of pocket" expense and we'll go back to not having to pay for anything
medical.

That's really good news. One of my grandmother's sayings after one of us
had been quite ill and was recovering was "it looks like we will rear you,
after all!"
It looks like we'll rear you, Lori ;-)

Tweed

On 7/28/2011 3:22 PM, Christina Websell wrote:
wrote in message
...
I went to my PCP today and h e gave me my blood test results. First, I
weighed !!) on his scale (OK, I didn't take my heavy shoes off)! But
better than that, medically, I'm almost where I need to me, as follows:

Test Type Jan. 3 Jul. 18 Normal Value

T-Protein 3.3 g/dl 6.0 g/dl 6.1-7.9 g/dl
Albumin 1.3 g/dl 3.0 g/dl 3.5-5.6 g/dl
Prealbumin ??? 30 mg/dl 20-40 mg/dl

So, as you can see, all my "proteins" are way up. One, the Prealbumin, is
well in the "normal" range and the other two are pretty darn close and
*WAY* higher than they were last January.

So, yay me!! Here's hoping I can continue improving fast enough to have
the reversal surgery before the end of the year while my costs will still
be zero. After that we'll have a $3,000 and then 10% of all costs until
we reach $5,000. Then, as we are now this year, we'll have maxed our "out
of pocket" expense and we'll go back to not having to pay for anything
medical.

That's really good news. One of my grandmother's sayings after one of us
had been quite ill and was recovering was "it looks like we will rear you,
after all!"
It looks like we'll rear you, Lori ;-)

Tweed

LOL! I'm looking forward to it, my friend!


--
Hugs,

CatNipped
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On 7/29/2011 10:59 AM, hopitus wrote:
On Jul 27, 2:35 pm, CatNipped wrote:
On 7/27/2011 11:08 AM, CatNipped wrote:
Wow! That sounds like Ben's insurance from the last job he worked - it
was almost as bad as having no insurance at all (especially since it
takes an act of congress to get Ben into a doctor's office - his heart
attack and diabetes diagnosis has changed that a bit, but not enough to
make him quit smoking and eat right).
CatNipped
You *did* have lotsa life insurance on Ben before he had his heart
attack and
diabetes dx, didn't you? Fate doesn't always follow through with the
one you think
will go first....going first. Ben sounds like one of those "Russian
roulette" patients
from what you say.


Nope, no life insurance on him - given his weight and the fact that he
smokes, he couldn't even pass a paper physical.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped
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On 7/30/2011 10:18 AM, Judith Latham wrote:
In ,
wrote:
I went to my PCP today and h e gave me my blood test results. First, I
weighed !!) on his scale (OK, I didn't take my heavy shoes off)! But
better than that, medically, I'm almost where I need to me, as follows:

Test Type Jan. 3 Jul. 18 Normal Value

T-Protein 3.3 g/dl 6.0 g/dl 6.1-7.9 g/dl
Albumin 1.3 g/dl 3.0 g/dl 3.5-5.6 g/dl
Prealbumin ??? 30 mg/dl 20-40 mg/dl

So, as you can see, all my "proteins" are way up. One, the Prealbumin,
is well in the "normal" range and the other two are pretty darn close
and *WAY* higher than they were last January.

So, yay me!! Here's hoping I can continue improving fast enough to have
the reversal surgery before the end of the year while my costs will
still be zero. After that we'll have a $3,000 and then 10% of all costs
until we reach $5,000. Then, as we are now this year, we'll have maxed
our "out of pocket" expense and we'll go back to not having to pay for
anything medical.

What excellent news! How are you going to celebrate?

Judith


I don't know, I just know it will involve food! ;


--
Hugs,

CatNipped
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