Category: Interesting (Page 8 of 10)

This is incredibly true. I spent a lot of time during my MBA doing group work and there were only a few people that I trusted.

I think I’m dying. I just played 20 minutes of basketball and I can’t stop coughing and my nose is running like a waterfall. Not good. I know I’m out of shape, but come one this is ridiculous. I played well, I had to guard a guy who is 6’4″ or so. Blocked him once, had a couple of steals, a few assists and some baskets. Overall I played well, and one of the guys I was playing with invited me to play with them after work (they play at 4:30). Another guy said “Damn you have fast hands” because I made some steals. Overall, really good.
But I also think my mind is going. I spaced out on an appointment yesterday and another one today! That is not like me at all. Today I missed my Remicade. Yikes. I need to slow myself down and look at my calendar first thing in the morning. I have great automated tools, like Google Calendar and Evernote, so I don’t forget anything and yet I am.

End of the year and I am going to do the same thing I saw from Penn Jillette years ago.  I have been keeping track of all the movies, DVD’s, plays seen and books read throughout the year and here is where I ended up.

I saw 3 live performances: Harry Anderson, American Idiot and Jersey Nights.   I liked them in that order too. Harry was great!

I went to 3 movies in the theatre this year: Ted, Wreck-It Ralph and Hotel Transylvania.

Didn’t read as many books as I should have. Only made it through 5.  I have 3 other books that I have started that I haven’t finished, so I can’t put them up here even though I’m only a chapter or two away from finishing.

The big number, which is down from previous years, is 17 videos watched.

All in all, it was a good year. I’m glad to not have watched as many videos because it means I have been healthier and spending time with Cooper and Angie.

Yippee! The Toronto Star is reporting that the CRTC is threatening to deny the license for Oprah’s OWN network in Canada because it is not meeting the educational mandate of it’s original license.  While I have seen some commenters noting that TLC and the History channel are both bigger offenders of not meeting educational requirements, with such lovely shows as Honey-Boo Boo (which I am very proud to say I have never seen) and “Ice Road Truckers” (again, never seen).

I’m just happy because Oprah is consistently one of the worst promoters of woo in the world.  Dr. Oz is a joke, promoting homeopathy and naturopathic (or more rightly naturopathetic) medicine that has a body count against it.  Her own show has featured Jenny McCarthy who is actively killing children by telling people not to get their kids immunized.  Dr. Phil has psychics on that are “proven” to work.  This is without even mentioning “The Secret” or any of the people that talk to the dead,  the ‘psychic surgery’ freak she promotes (John of God).

Hopefully we get rid of the network, just to mess with Oprah and her legions of followers.  Then the next step is to put some real shows on that help to educate the masses. We can only hope.

It’s been 8 weeks since my last infusion and I’m starting to hurt. I’ve just started to take some Vimovo to try and mitigate the awful pain.  Since I left Rogers and their 100% health coverage (less a deductible) and joined my new company, I need to get approved to take Remicade with the new insurance provider.  And they only cover 80% of the drug cost.

Every 6 weeks I was getting infused with Remicade at a cost of $5,355 per infusion.  Under the Rogers plan that was covered 100%.  Now under my new plan I will be responsible for $1,071 each infusion, and needing 8 infusions per year that works out to be $8,568 per year to the drugs.  I can’t afford that on a single income earner’s salary. And that is only IF the insurance company deems that I am insurable for this pre-existing condition.  Otherwise its the full $42,840 myself. YIKES!

One of the things I am going to try to do is contact my BioAdvance coordinator and see if I qualify for some compassionate assistance where they will cover the cost of the delta in what I pay versus the insurance company.  Here’s hoping.

Today was the first day that I actually took one of the Tylenol 3’s that my Rheumatologist gave me years ago to help cope with the pain.  So far, not working too great I must say.