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Good thing I checked

March 5, 2007

I saw Psychiatrist Guy today and he upped one of my prescriptions.  So I went to Walgreens to get it filled along with my bajillion others.  The previous dosage cost me $9.99 (60 15 mg pills) for a month.  The pharmacist gets done and says to me, well I only had ten of the 60 pills you needed, but you can pick up the rest tomorrow.  I pay the total, noting that I paid $20 for the new dosage.  At first, I think this makes sense since it is double what I was taking before.  Then I look at the prescription receipt and it says partial pay.  I had to go to Meijer to get a couple things and as I’m walking around, it dawns on me that I may have just paid $20 for 10 pills.  Hmmm… that does not bode well for the budget.  On my way home, I decided to call the pharmacist at Walgreens to ask if that is indeed the case.  Yes, it is. The whole cost for 60 30 mg pills is $102.  Uh. Not a chance. Then I ask if it cost me $9.99 for 60 15 mg pills, what would it cost me for 120 15 mg pills?  The pharmacist says…..

$11.99

We determine that I can handle taking 2 15 mg pills in the morning and 2 at night to save myself $90/month.

It is definitely a good thing I checked!

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Lenten Reflections II

March 4, 2007

I had an interesting discussion with #5 during my session yesterday about what it means to be healed and if you can ever be healed from grief or another emotional trauma. This has been something I have been thinking about with regard to my own experiences, although the original topic came up on an adoption forum related to relinquishment of a child and how it affects the women who placed on an ongoing basis. #5 expressed that he looked at healing from grief as being ongoing but he also thinks there is a way to achieve a balance in your life so it is no longer overwhelming because when you are grieving, you are completely off-balance. Your body tires more easily, life just weighs heavily, the grief just takes over.

He also talked about how emotional healing really has to come from within a person. He told a little story of how his daughter came home from school and talked about a speaker they had who was a “self-proclaimed” healer. The speaker felt by the laying on of hands and saying certain prayers, God used him to heal people. His daughter said she thought he was a “nutcase” and he said, while he has heard of instances where things of this nature have healed people, he was skeptical mostly because in his work, healing comes as people achieve balance by working through their feelings about what has happened in their lives.

As a Christian, he emphasized that at the center of the balance was a relationship with God. No one can understand pain, anguish and grief better than God as He sacrificed His son to save us.  Remembering His grace and forgiveness also helps us reconcile our guilt and sins to work towards healing.  Healing doesn’t mean we won’t feel any pain or sadness anymore.  If we didn’t, we wouldn’t be human.  We can never be completely healed here on this Earth but through God and within ourselves, we can work towards a balance of healing.

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Alabama tornadoes

March 2, 2007

I found out from my sister M that some friends of theirs who are stationed at Fort Rucker in Alabama had their home destroyed in the tornadoes yesterday.  They lived not very far from Enterprise High School. They were not at home but in West Virginia visiting family on emergency leave because his father is ill.  If they had been home, she would have been home alone with their younger son (I think he’s 1) and their older son (he’s about 6) would have been at school.  From the sounds of the damage, the bathroom she would have used to seek shelter in had completely collapsed in on itself.

I met and frequently saw the parents and the older boy while visiting M in Tennessee before they were transferred since they were neighbors.  M and K have actually known them since they were first married and stationed in Colorado.

They were hoping to get home today and see what could be salvaged.  I can’t imagine being there and seeing the destruction of your home.  I don’t know if they left their boys with relatives or if they had to bring them too.  I hope for their sake, they did not have to bring them.

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