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Yes, this bit of news is really discouraging to me. In one of my former posts, I indicated that I wanted to explore the possibility of an acupuncturist for my health needs, as I’m just plain not too keen on the medication route that I just know my doctor would prescribe for me. I have to admit I’m fed up with my joint pain, yet in no way do I want to take the number one prescribed medication, Celebrex as it has a severe warning that it can trigger heart attacks…so do I want to take that? No way! Yes, yes, yes, I realize that the chances might be real slim of something like that happening to me, but why risk it?

So quite near me are a few acupuncturist, right? Within walking distance. Well, a few days ago, I emailed my health provider. Being on SSI I have both Medicaid and HIP…well, got an email back from them. It seems that I would have to sign up with this other company, but the bottom line is that NO…alternative forms of healing such as acupuncture are NOT covered. This other company might do some kind of discounted benefits to me, but I would still have to pay most of the visits and treatments out of pocket–how fair is that? No way could I afford it.

Okay bit of a rant here. It just goes to show you how the medical profession and pharmaceutical “industry” has a stranglehold on our health needs. It’s like our country sanctions the drug companies and is all too willing to shove prescription medications down our throats, in which many cases the medications can have serious side effects, but if we choose NOT to go this route and want a more natural means of healing ourselves, we can’t…How stupid is this? We even have to pay out of pocket if we prefer to use vitamins and herbal supplements.

Does anyone else see the stupidity of it all?

Anyway, I ordered a book via Amazon.com on Acupressure…sort of similar principles as Acupuncture but without the needles that are used and one can do the techniques themselves…as soon as I get the book, I’ll give it a go.

©2009~Melanie Neer aka pyewacket

Well I happen to belong to one of the busiest discussion forums going, that is MyLot.  I’ve been there three years now and have bonded with a lot of great folks there.  We can more or less discuss anything there, that is news items we wish to share, bits of our lives, especially rants which is great for letting of steam, share our joys, triumphs, sorrows, fears.

In the past, there have always been glitches on and off, but this is the worst ever.  Beginning late Friday night, it was like MyLot became the Twilight Zone.  It seems we can PM each other (no problem), reply to older discussions that have replies on them already, give responses back to our friends who have replied to our own discussions, but new discussions??  Nope.   There are pages and pages of new discussions started by people but we can’t reply back.  Most of the discussions are about the glitch and since it’s the weekend the admin and moderators usually aren’t there to straighten things out–all of us feel kind of lost, like we’re having withdrawal symptoms since we can’t participate the way we would like to.  Sure hope they straighten things out Monday, in the meantime, I’ve been hanging out at Facebook, playing many of the games there that I’ve gotten addicted to and at least I can interact with my friends there…the vast majority being fellow MyLotters.

Will update this if MyLot is back on track..hope so!

©2009~Melanie Neer aka pyewacket

I hadn’t realized how much time had passed since I did my last entry. Besides being busy with other things, I’ve been having a bout of bronchitis that I still haven’t shaken off yet. If you’ve read some of my previous entries you’ll know that I’m not a big fan of the medical profession, but the one thing I will accept as far as meds, will be antibiotics…or at least the penicillin type. My experiences with the non-penicillin type hasn’t been too stellar. I remember one time many years ago, my doctor prescribed Zithromax, and it was a one a day type antibiotic and about 400 mgs. but must have been a potent dose, since about 20-minutes after taking it, I really regretted it. Needless to say, I asked my doctor to switch the medication.

Well, it’s October…can you believe it? Where o where has this year gone to anyway? And as usual, at this time of the year when there’s a real chill in the air, my landlord hasn’t provided heat yet and it’s darn cold in my apartment. It doesn’t do any good to complain to him. Technically speaking by law, here in the NYC area if the temperature falls below a certain point heat is supposed to be provided by October 1st, but it seems our landlord for the building has his own agenda and never provides it until after October 15th. And yes, we complain each and every year at this time when it’s cold and we need heat but still he never provides heat. So this chill in the apartment doesn’t help with my getting over my bronchitis.

©2009~Melanie Neer aka pyewacket