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Smitty500mag,,
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How are you and June doing?
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+1 I was thinking of them last night hope all is well
We’re thinking of you, brother.
I was going to ask the same question too. I hope he is just too busy to get on the computer.
Joe
Sorry guys for not checking in for so long. It's nice of you all to inquire what's happening to us. We appreciate the well wishes and prayers as usual.
Things are about the same here. It's about 5 in the morning and I'm sitting here beside of June listening to her moan in her sleep from the pain. I've given her as much pain medicine as I can which includes morphine and Hydromorphone (Dilaudid) and it's still not enough at times. The sleeping pills help more than anything but I have to be careful because they along with the pain meds can imped her breathing to where her body will, for the lack of the medical term, just forget to breath. I find myself standing over her with my ear to her face listening for her to breath a lot of times during the night.
The medicine she supposed to start taking next week on the 16th for the tumor in her lung has been approved by the insurance company and the manufacture has given me a break in the price that I have to pay. The meds are approx. $10,000 and our part was to be approx. $2,000 but the manufacture has waved the $2,000. The medicine she's already taking now is ridicules in price. Yesterday I picked up one of her inhalers at the pharmacy and the insurance company paid out over $500 for it and I paid an additional $47 for it. The 7 ml Lovnox blood thinner injections I give her twice a day cost over $700 a month. Luckily my portion to pay on it is only $100. The hospital bills we've received already passed the half million dollar mark a long time ago and they're still coming which our part is 20 percent. If you want some advice buy all the medical insurance you can afford because the hospital bills alone from one stay will deplete your retirement savings in short order.
It's not easy just keeping up with the meds and times I give it to her each day. I've made up a chart with all the meds listed on it and put down the time and amount that I give it to her, otherwise I would have already overdosed her. There's 23 different meds she's taking and 19 of them are once or twice everyday. This includes the misc. meds she was already taking before all of this came on.
Thanks again for keeping us in your thoughts. I'll check back in as time allows. I've still not been in my bed since the first of October. I live here in my recliner beside of June's hospital bed.
God Bless you Greg All I can do is keep praying
That sounds like a very difficult row to hoe. Prayers for both of you to have the strength to endure. Bob&Judy
Prayers continue from here, Smitty.
You continue to be in my daily prayers, you and June both. I have been where you are. Be sure to take any offer of assistance from friends, family, and neighbors. Even if it is just someone to sit with June while you take a short walk. During hospital stays a step out to their in house Starbucks was a good mental reset for me.
Thank you for letting us know Greg.
Joe
Yes, thanks for the update. Sorry to hear how things going. Hang in the Greg.