Well here we are October 21st.

GO GIANTS!

Mom has been doing pretty well the past couple weeks, she is eating more consistently after some necessary lecturing!

Uncle Jerry's wife Merede passed away a week or more ago at the tender age of 95 or 96. Wow.
RIP MEREDE

Going to be a memorial at John and Marias Sunday November 2nd in Sausalito

Will be taking Mom and Aunt Marge to the memorial and with that in mind I have the Physical therapist Josh working on stairs with Mom. She is motivated and has been doing well. When she puts her mind to something her inner strength takes over!

The house in Sausalito is not handicapped accessible at all. 27 steps up and the same down.

I'm pretty sure I'd get in trouble if I wrapped her in bubble wrap and rolled her down the hill. But it's an option. &*)

Okey Doke. Back to topical news about family, political rants over for the time being.

We went to see Dr Aguilar yesterday for another follow up on her cataract surgery and the doc was very pleased with the progress of the eye.

The eye surgery and the healing are, by design, a fluid process. There is still swelling even after three weeks but that is to be expected. She is off the antibiotics and just on one medication/eye drop twice a day for the next two weeks.

He was very impressed with the visual progress so far and the tests that I saw were definetly better than just two weeks ago! She's about 20/40 now. Wow.
 


Mom, unfortunately, had a fall in the kitchen last night and got a visit from her favorite paramedics. (when you start knowing the paramedics by name.......... Well you get the idea.

Apparently the breakfast of a piece of toast and then no lunch before the adventure to the doctors office (wheelchair only this time) contributed to enough fatigue that she fell while preparing some soup for dinner. I also understand that her crappy shoes (comfy but sloppy) contributed to the problem. If they are still there when I take lunch to her today they are going in the trash!

 

We'll have a shoe intervention and resolution by Saturday.

Once again, a year later we are having similar issues with nutrition and will have to redouble our efforts to get the worlds stubbornest mom to eat regularly/properly.

Who is Behind the Campaign to Stop Proposition 45’s Consumer Protections
The Health Insurance Industry

Contributor                Amount
Kaiser                     $14,590,350   
WellPoint/Anthem Blue Cross         $12,770,000
Blue Shield                 $9,693,200
HealthNet                $135,000
United HealthCare            $70,000
CA Ass'n of Health Plans        $60,000
Lisi,Inc.                $50,000
BenefitMall                $7,500
Word&Brown Insurance Administrators Inc.$50,000
Beere & Purves Inc.            $25,000
Nat'l Ass'n of Health Underwriters    $50,000
Warner Pacific Insurance Services    $50,000

TOTAL*                    $37,551,050

Meanwhile my "deductible" for my "Platinum" Plan is $7000 a year, my "co-pays" are $30

a visit, my dental has paid less than 7% of my dental bills, (teeth cleaning, filling,

etc) and my company B Shield does not even pay for a flipping FLU SHOT!

Count the ads against, paid for by your premiums, do the math, why are the insurance

companies spending SO MUCH??

Well this time it's only October 6th and I managed to get back for an update!

Mom's vision is getting much better, too bad they don't have cataract surgery for the ears! Just sayin.

Or to get rid of/reduce thickheadedness!

Second follow up appointment this Thursday, I expect all will be fine, and yes we'll be taking ber BFF the wheelchair.

She made it through the heat wave, (which those of who live in the really foggy areas are just reveling in!) though it did take some intervention (as in I opened the back, ocean facing windows and then had her across the hall neighbor Anthony close later in the evening)

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Now for the INFORMATIONAL/MY HUMBLE OPINION part of the blog.

Propositions 45 and 46

You'll HEAR tons of ads about "those nasty trial lawyers" (cynically poll tested pejorative buzzword) having wrote and paid for blah blah blah.

My advice..... Do a little critical thinking, study, read, and FOLLOW THE MONEY, look who is against the props and ask yourself WHY would the insurance companies, (Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Kaiser, Aetna, Humana) spend SO MUCH money on so many ads? WHY would they outspend the other side 10 to 1? WHOSE MONEY? are they using ?(hint, it's called YOUR MONEY, higher premiums, higher deductibles, etc)

The ads for 45 are just as insidious, although I do give them a little much deserved credit for not stooping so low as to dig up Pop Walton and fill him full of Viagra and Botox and trot his dead ass out to shill for them. (I believe they *tried* but just couldn't pull it off)

So listen LISTEN to the words the "NO" folks use, carefully, you'll hear that "state and local" entities are against these props. But they'll try to couch it in "all the regular one leg at a time PEOPLE are against these horrible propositions.

AND PROP 'E' for those of you in the city.... Well I guess if you love the NANNY STATE, then vote for it, but really, the crackheads who came up with this would legislate everything THEY believe is bad for YOU and POCKET the ReVENUE.. Today sugar beverages, tomorrow caffiene, coffee, french fries, hot dogs, where do they plan on stopping...... (Here's a news flash....They DON'T! Plan on stopping ) Please if you disagree, then convince me that say, a hot dog, or a hot fudge sundae,  is nutritionally better for you than a Sweet Tea, or a Snapple, or god forbid a Pepsi or Coke!

How about we just leave personal choice up to the people and let them manage their own lives without inane business killing laws like this one?

MOTL

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