I Keep Saying I’m Smart and You Keep Thinking You Are Smarter Than I Am Smart. OK, Smarty, Prove It!

Explain this to me...

Ø As you know I just had 2 stents put into me.

Ø I have been given prescriptions for 2 drugs that are very important to me and my heart that is in me.

Ø One of the prescriptions is supposed to Prevent Clotting around My Stents.

Ø My pharmacist looked me straight in my disbelieving eyes and said, “That will be $261.89 for a one month’s supply”.

Ø My pharmacist did not seem the least bit sympathetic as I started to whimper.

Ø I said, “How many months will I have to take this prescription?”

Ø She calmly said, “That’s depends but you have been given 11 refills.”

Ø At this point my mind is racing to try and calculate how much 12 times $261.89 is.

Ø I won’t say I got it calculated exactly right in my head but I came close enough to almost have my heart attack me.

Ø Later my calculator and I figured it out exactly...$3,142.68.

Ø My mind was still racing as I thought to myself, “It’s really more than $3,142.68 because I am almost certainly going to be taking this pill more than a mere 12 months!”

Ø I accepted my predicament.

Ø I paid for my prescription.

Ø I went home and started taking my pills.

Ø Yes I whimper as each pill is taken.

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Here’s the part of this Blog Posting where you get your chance to prove that you are smarter than Fella.

Eight days after the operation I had my first follow-up appointment with my Cardiologist (It gives one pause when he realizes that he now has his very own Cardiologist.)...

Ø My Medical Advisor (my daughter) says to my Cardiologist, “What about Plavix? Could not Plavix do the same thing as the $261.89 prescription?”

Ø My Cardiologist says, “Yes it could. I’ll write you a prescription for Plavix”.

Ø I did not yet know the significance of what my Cardiologist had just said but my Medical Advisor (my daughter) did and did she look pleased with what my Cardiologist had just said.

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We are getting near the bottom of this Blog Posting so here is the Bottom Line...

Ø Plavix costs $6.00 per month.

Ø You don’t need a calculator to get to the annual cost of $72.00?...Or do you?

Ø Do you need a calculator to figure out that that $72.00 is $3,070.68 less than the $261.89 times 12 drug?

OK, smarty, show me how smart you are...

Why was I prescribed a drug that costs $3,070.68 a year more than another long-used proven far cheaper drug that does the same thing?

Don’t jump to the conclusion that it’s all about some the drug company and/or doctors making a lot of money. That the easy way out of this question and could not be the answer...Or could it not be?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Nothing to Worry About...Or is there?

For those of you have been wondering where I have been this is part of the answer. I have been in an out of the hospital. But the good news is I still have the stamina and presence of mind to peck out Foolishness...Or Is It Blog Postings...Or is that good news?

There could and might be several Blog Postings about my 72 hours brush with death. There were lots of good things that happened while I was in the hospital. A really good thing is I am still vertical and very thankful for the professional, talented and caring people who kept me upright.

There were other things that happened where the best that can be said about some of the people who had my life in their less than capable hands is, Wow! What great fodder for someone who writes a blog called, Foolishness...Or Is It?!

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Here is one of the several negative Blog Postings I could but may not write...

• It was about 12:30am. 
• I’m hooked up to 3 different machines. 
• A nurse rushes in and says, “Your oxygen is falling!”
• I start asking questions. 
• She does not respond but keeps clicking on the computer. 
• Then she rushes out. 
• I think to myself...Is she is going to get a doctor? ... Or is she going to get some big uncomfortable probe to stick into me!? ... Or is she getting out of here because she thinks I am dying and she does not want to be anywhere near me as I fade away cuz she might be blamed for my fading!?
• I started taking deep breaths to get much needed oxygen into my failing body.
• About an hour later a different nurse comes in and I take a chance and pause my deep breathing and say, "My oxygen is falling!" 
• She looked at the computer screen and said, “Looks good to me”.

Then she left leaving me and my heart laying there wondering, if I could get myself unhooked and was able to get over to that closet, is there something I could use to bar the door that would prevent any more Caregivers from getting in to “Care” for me?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Oh yea, why was I at death’s door? I needed to have 2 Stents Inserted in an artery running down the front of my heart and during the stent insertion the artery was punctured and you know what happens when that happens. If you want to know the Rest of the Story you gonna have to wait for the movie to come out.

Let’s Call It A Whole Bunch

There have been many figures thrown around recently by our News Media estimating how many Americans are trapped and/or stuck in the Gaza Strip. I have heard 400 and I have heard 600. (Isn’t it strange how our News Media always throws around Rounded Figures?) For the sake of getting along with the pecking out of this Blog Posting let’s just go along with the Subject Line above and say it is A Whole Bunch.

Whatever the exact number is is not important to Fella and the Foolishness he is about to create. The important thing is, What The Heck Were They Doing In The Gaza Strip To Begin With?

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I’m not one to propose to waste American Tax Payer’s Money but I think that a Whatever It Takes Tax Increase ought to be imposed on us to do the following...

As each of these Gazan Trapped and/or Stuck Americans sets foot back in the Good Ole USofA, if and when they are released, they ought to be met by a Team Of American Tax Payer Funded Psychiatrists with American Tax Payer Funded Couches and the Gazan Escapees ought to be immediately laid down on these American Tax Payer Funded Couches and asked a series of questions like...

Ø What the hell were you thinking?

Ø Have you not been watching TV for the last 40 or so years?

Ø Don’t you know that Gaza is a Hell Hole?

Ø Don’t you know that Lucifer has been running short on living accommodations for the condemned for the last 10 years he has been sending his overflow to Gaza?

Ø Have you not seen the Rioting in Gaza during the last 10 years?

Ø Don’t you know that 95% of those riots are caused by the Gaza Condemned demanding that they be sent to the Real Hell instead of the Gaza Substitute Hell?  

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On the other hand, maybe we ought to stop trying to get them back. Our Immigration System has always had quotas and, from what I have been seeing recently on TV and in our 9% Approval Rated Congress, we must already be far over our quota of Dumb People.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella