I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Lovey looks petite, but she weighs 10 pounds! She has a bit of a pot belly. I actually took her to the vet, who X-rayed her and said she had gas, probably from eating too fast. LOL

The new apartment is available Aug. 28th. Yay!

In other news, my doc switched me to Cymbalta and gave me a 2 week sample first. Loved it. Then she wrote the script for it and my insurance had a hissy and demanded I try Effexor first. (And people are worried that the AHA will lead to people being denied treatment prescribed by their doctor - irony, much?) After a week of Effexor, I was having crying jags, getting mad, getting offended, crying some more. The doctor tried telling the pharmacy I really needed the Cymbalta, but they insist I must take it an entire 4 weeks and then have the doctor document my SEs, and THEN they'll OK it. I went back to my doc and said the insurance company was trying to kill me, and we came up with a plan to give me enough samples of Cymbalta to get me through, then redocument my symptoms as though I'd been taking the Effexor the whole time. And they told me if I needed more, they'd call the Eli Lilly rep and they'd bring more (who says all drug companies are evil?). And then the doctor said, "This officially ends our visit, but wait for the nurse to bring in your chart before you check out." When she came in, she casually dropped the bag of samples on the table and handed me my chart without a word. These are the gymnastics doctors have to go through to get their patients the help they need? And people question that the system is in desperate need of change?

Getting off my soapbox now. 

Glenna-that's wonderfully not boring! So glad to hear of the regression!

Mary 

Riley, the Cymbalta website has a coupon for a 30 day supply (free). Walgreens filled mine with no questions. Hoping the insurance will approve by the time I need refill.

YEAH   GLENNA!! 

Glenna, great news.

Riley, my PCP gave me a year's supply of my blood pressure meds after insurance rejected paying for that particular drug. Just saw him and he wrote another script and I sent it off. Fingers crossed it will go through this time. Yeah, I love the argument about gov't interference with docs and tx. What rock have these people been living under?

Wishing Lovey will find a forever home soon.

Thanks for the tip, scuttlers!

Good luck, Cherryl, and thanks. I really hope Lovey and this lady hit it off.

Boring Glenna!!! Yippeee

Just want to let everyone know:

I'm in email contact with Sunflowers
she finally got an email & supposed to be banned until 8/9, but after
an unusual email exchange initiated by the Mods, she doesn't know now

Moderators, we sure will take pics!

Sue, hope you get some serious zzzzzzz's soon! 3:30 a.m. is way too early!

susieq58, what a nice wife doing that for your DH. I won't mention it to my DH he would get quite jealous.

Hi Friends,

Just got back from taking my mom to my sis' house in Roanoke.  A storm broke out on the way back and we're getting quite a bit of rain right now.

Glenna ... Great news!  I'm so happy to hear your scan results.

Alexandria ... Please give Sunnyflowers my love.

Kira ... Will Barbara be joining you for the BCO lunch?  Hope you have a great time and take lots of pics!  I love getting together with my friends from BCO.

Susie ... Hope you get some rest.

Riley ... Sure hope it works out for Lovey.

I'm afraid the power is going to go out any second now.  Hope everyone is enjoying their Friday.

hugs,

Bren

He's gone!!! Yay - a week for Poppy and I to do anything we like - pity I have to go to work during the week.

Still up - had breakfast - doing washing. Will go to get food at 8. Could go for a ride but it's quite cold -can do it later in the day - maybe

Don't fancy living on Lean Cuisine for the week