Province Will Not Fund Insulin Pumps

The Liberal Caucus has had a private member’s bill on the order paper since 2008 to get the Province to fund insulin pumps. Neither the previous nor current government has even bothered to call the bill. Here is coverage from the government’s most recent refusal to fund these vital pumps.

Zach Churchchill – MLA

I read on the Chronicle Herald about how the province said they had no money to fund those with Type 1 diabetes – about $6000 for the insulin pumps to keep them alive – this is just so sad.   The cost cannot be justified according to the Deputy Health Minister – Mcnamara *rolling my eyes*

I have Type 2 diabetes and a few years ago – my family doctor insisted on putting me on the needles too – I had flatly refused and asked for a second opinion.  Had I been one of those who are dependent on the insulin – I would be devastated to have to fork out $6000 for the machine.  Now if I had a kid who needed the insulin – and don’t have the device – I would be worried to death as to when they might need the needle and not have it in hand.

I think it is incredibly selfish of the Province not to support the funding for the insulin pumps for these young kids especially – since they suffer a lot more than adults.  I seriously hope they would consider it – especially for the younger kids before 15 – but of course that’s just my opinion.  But I believed it can be done – especially when I hear about the amount the province is spending on parties during Christmas.

Getting Some Good Sleep

Missy Moo had been waking up every now and then in the middle of the night and coming to our bed to sleep.  Even though it’s easy to get her into her own bed a little bit after – I find it hard to go back to sleep and thus, do not get enough rest.  That’s suxs big time – because I become I zombie for days.  As for why it doesn’t bother Mr Moo?  he’s oblivious when Missy Moo comes to our bed and can turn around and fall straight back to sleep in seconds – literally seconds.   Sometimes, I’m so mad at him for being able to go back to sleep so easily  – I wanna smack him up – hahaha!!  but studies shows that women with less sleep are more irrtable and stressed than men.  So it’s time for the men to step up !  Going to have a talk with Mr Moo about this wake up – make sure he does the waking up – so that my sleep will not be interrupted.

Filed under General Info, Health, Missy Moo, Mr Moo, Random Ranting

Canker Sore On The Gums

So my headache didn’t go – nor did the pain in my mouth after my dental visit more than a month ago.  I was pissed – and I called the dentist – because I didn’t know it was canker sore  but they did take me in today – and he pronounced that it was canker sore – and it would take at least a week or so – before it would go.  He also recommended a paste to use – instead of oral gel and to gurgle with salt water.   So hopefully – it will go away soon – I can’t be taking Advil for a month now – it suxs!

Temporomandibular Joint aka TMJ

When I went for my tooth filling some 3 weeks ago – I thought that it was a simple procedure and that I was taking good care of myself but instead I end up with not being able to open my mouth wide enough for a fishball or a timbit without feeling pain.  I developed a bad headache in the course of the last 2 weeks and even after checking with my dentist a week ago – he claimed that it was muscles.  Today I called again – and the receptionist told me that he had spoken to the dentist and he thinks it is TMJ – a joint muscles that got pulled too long during the filling.  I asked her how long it was going to take to heal – since it had been almost 3 weeks now – she said it could take months!  JOY!!!!!!  Anyhow, I checked up on TMJ and found that it was also known as the Temporomandibular Joint – which can caused headaches and cheek muscles being sore – so for those going to the dentist – please make sure that your dentist do not stretch your mouth wider than needed.  This is terrible – I wonder if I can sue the dentist for malpractice – I’m pretty pissed.

Teenage Pregnancy

When I first arrived in this town of Canada – Mr Moo and I was driving to work – I saw a kid – maybe 16 or 17 – pushing a stroller with a baby in it and she was puffing a smoke away.  I told Mr Moo – that the babysitter wasn’t such a good sitter eh?  In which, Mr Moo replied that – she was the mother and not the sitter *slap forehead*.

In my many years in this town – I’ve heard and seen teenagers as young as 13 years old getting pregnant and they are darn proud of it.  If I was a pregnant during my teens – my mother would have disowned me and published on the local papers to disown me.

Anyhow – according to recently studies on the students here – aged between 15 to 19 – 52% are having sexual activities regularly and 14% before the age of 15 are also doing it and with more than one partners and with no condoms usage.  According to the study – students with low aspirations and rarely attend religious services or those who do not live with both parents are the ones who fall victim of teenage pregnancy.

More than half of this town do not have both parents together – more than half of this town’s parents have more than 1 sexual partner themselves – so how can their children be different.  To some kids – having a kid is a way out of their parents place and going into welfare.  Over here in Canada – there are lots of subsidies and money from the government for young kids who have kids and no place to stay.  And once they are in the system – they never get out of it – nor want to work.

I do feel so sad for these kids – for the world is so huge – there are so many things to see – so many things to experience – and yet – they just want to sit around this small town – not work and smoke their life or drink their life away.

A Bubble Of Wind

Yes! you heard me right – the bubble of wind – is either on the right hand side of my tummy or the left at times.  And the bubble of wind causes lots of pain and discomfort.  I tried exercising it out – tried massaging it out and even drank my ENO to try and get the bubble out.  But nope – it’s as stubborn as can be – and I need to wait it out.  So pray tell me if anyone has the same experience.  It’s not pain, pain- it’s just a lot of discomfort – sometimes it can happen at night and sometimes anytime.  It can come in simultaneous days – it can come every 3 days – it’s random.

Painful & Bloated Stomach

It happened so suddenly – I didn’t even know what to think last nite.  I was sitting and watching a movie with Missy Moo and putting her to bed shortly when I felt so bloated and so sick to my stomach – no pun intended.  Nothing I did helped.  I tried the massage chair to massage the gas/wind out – but nope it wouldn’t do nothing.  And then I tried exercising – still nothing – and then I tried drinking Eno – and then I felt just as lousy.  Then I felt so bad – I went to throw up to see if it would helped.  Nothing solid came out – just the eno – and some acidic thing  – but after the puking I felt a lot better.  Slowly but surely after an hour – I felt good enough to have a cup of hot drink.  What brought it on?  I really don’t know – but mannn!! i was scared ! i haven’t puked in so long!  I thought for sure I was going to the hospital this time.  Have you had such experience?

So I Twisted My Insides!

Yes !  I was trying to hug a baby on the floor and instead – accidentally twisted my stomach – because the floor was slippery and I was trying to prevent myself from falling on him.  My insides felt like it was twisted – and it hurt like mad !  this isn’t the first time – when I accidentally bend over to do something – but why is this happening only after my hysterectomy – it sure doesn’t make sense at all. It felt like my intestines twisted over !!  have you had that happened before – I’m definitely gonna ask my family doctor next week when I see her.   Oh and it hurt the whole night too – but after a night’s rest – it’s ok now.

Calories! Calories! Calories!

And here I thought I was being good and eating my fruits – but apparently bananas has lots of calories according to a friend ! bummer! and here I was gorging myself with bananas!  so I stopped eating so many bananas a day – and minimized it to only one a day.  So if you don’t know that bananas has lots of calories – about 140 for a big banana – now you know.

Psychiatrist Gets Fired

Minding my own business and doing my acnepril reviews when a customer came in and told me that a psychiatrist in town with 11 patients later was fired because he had his medical license  revoked and apparently lied about it.

Now what i don’t understand is during his application – shouldn’t the officials in the hospital checked his credentials already?  or can anyone just walk in and say – i want to be a doctor here?  Makes no sense that the health officials are such slackers right?  what if he was an operating doctor – he would have operated without a license.  And what is a 62 yrs old man going around lying about his credentials?  shouldn’t he have earned enough to retire by now?   Even though the hospital said that the patients this psychiatrist had saw was with supervision – how true is that i really donch know.

Dispensing Fees

So here I am trying to get  cheap car insurance quotes when i found out today that there were dispensing fees for every prescription that i fill or refill.  And it’s not cheap either!  how do one afford medication in Canada – every bottle of medication you get at the pharmacy – you pay between $9 – 10.50 and it’s every bottle i am talking about!  We never had to pay dispensing fees back home – so this comes as a real shock to me.

Being diabetic, i take a lot of medication every month – and i was happy about refilling my medication every time  - and didn’t know about this dispensing fees until someone at the car insurance place was chatting about it and that was how i came to know.  I tried to find out if i can refill the entire years medication – and be only charged once – to find out that it doesn’t work this way.  Mannn!!  this is expensive – no wonder the pharmacy i get my medication from – has so many employees because even if they pay their pharmacist – $20/hr that would only be for 2 prescriptions  and the amount of medication that goes out that door ! wow!!  I think i better make sure Missy Moo is in this profession instead of any others.

More Doctors Leaving Y-Town

The rumor has it that 2 more doctors are leaving town  *sigh*.  Just yesterday while shopping for some   boots – friends from the  hospital was in telling me all about the situation and I cannot but feel really upset about it.  Yes, Missy Moo and I have a family doctor – but what about the rest of the town – the 100s of people who don’t already have family doctors and now more are losing theirs?  Mannn!!  with businesses closing in this town – left, right and center – now more doctors leaving ..??  what is this small town coming to..??  i’m guessing that the doctors are leaving because they can’t find jobs for their spouse’s?  and they feel that they have nothing to offer their kids?  in terms of private schools, shopping, entertainment and any enrichment courses?  I can’t really blame them for wanting to leave right, afterall, you have to take care of your own first before you can take care of others no?

Another Doctor With The Same Question

So I went to see the family doctor a few weeks ago – because  of my blood test – and this time – they had a new doctor – so they had to get to know me all over again.  I really don’t mind to be honest – just grateful we have a family doctor – and i get asked all over again for the same questions – but that’s ok too.  But one question that irks me a lot is they asked when is the last time i had my menses or if i am still bleeding normally even though i told them i had a full hysterectomy?????!!!!???  *roll eyes*  now what gives..???  should the doctors know that one don’t bleed no more after a full hysterectomy..???  Mannnn!!! how irritating is that..!!!  Is there a way a woman can still menstruate after having a full hysterectomy..??

Optician and Optometrist

So I’m ready to get new glasses for my eyes and am due for my yearly eye exam as well  – the last time i went for the eye exam locally was a year ago.  And since the previous Optometrist I have been going for a long time – wasn’t available – i decided to try a new one downtown.  So  happily ever after – i went after doing some noxycut reviews and to learn that i was being charged for my eye exam – the reason the “eye doctor” gave was because I was already seeing a specialist.  I didn’t think much of it – and paid up and left.

Two days later – i went to get my prescription filled only to learned that my specialist shouldn’t have interferred with my yearly check up – that my health insurance would have paid for it.  So we called up MSI Canada to learn that I was truly covered.  So back and forth from MSI to the optical shop – why i call them an optical shop was because MSI had told us the “eye doctor” apparently wasn’t a optometrist – and the optical shop claimed that i didn’t tell them that i was diabetic – which was pure bullshit.

Anyhow to keep the long story short – we had no choice but to take it up with the college of physicians in Nova Scotia because you see an Optician, an Optometrist and a Refractor Engineer/doctor are all different people – with different capabilities.. and remember – if you are a diabetic – you have to see an optometrist and not anyone else – else MSI will not cover you.

I am truly disappointed with this whole event – I felt that i was mis-informed by this optical shop and I’m not the only one who was fooled apparently – a short chat with our friends and relative – they too thought that this “eye doctor” was an optometrist.  So sad that a professional like this “eye doctor” – is doing what he is.  Truly sad!   So folks if you are going to see a eye doctor – make sure you know for sure that they are really eye doctors.

Missy Moo & Her Cough & Colds

I swear I feel bad for Missy Moo because of the nature of our work – we are out in the open so much – she gets to meet all the healthy as well as the sick customers at our store – it makes it hard to keep her healthy for long.  So once again – she is having a cold and coughing her lungs out – she is a trooper that one but we feel absolutely bad that she caught something again – when she had finally recovered from the long winter cough and cold for the last few months. Anyhow, time to take steps to build up her immune system with not only more nutrients in her diet but more vitamins to help boost her health too.   I can’t wait for the summer to come – she is usually not so sick during the hotter weather.

Canada’s MSI Health Card

So I started paying again for 2 medication – awaiting for my subsidy to kick in.  I don’t know when it will start because when we received the letter that tells us that we were eligible for subsidy – they also said that it was according to how much we make.  Anyhow,the two of my medication out of 6 cost about $100, therefore – I have to put off the business card printing for now – until the subsidy kicks in.

Alot of people are mistaken that it’s better to migrate to Canada because health care is free – it is – when you go to the hospital and sees a doctor – but if you are a diabetic like myself – and needs to take tons of medication – well, you are outta luck buddy – you still have to pay for it.  And it seems that the doctor recommends the most expensive – if they think that you can afford it – that was what my ex- doctor did.  The most expensive ones he will be prescribing it – i sometimes wonder if he gets kickbacks for doing it.  So yes, the rest of the world – it’s not all free!!

Contac Complete Cough, Cold & Flu

I have been having a cold for the last 3.5 weeks – actually i believed it’s 2 cold  – one after another.  What a bummer eh?  but the second one took a toll on me – i was grumpy and grouchy .. and couldn’t get enough ambition up to do anything except for what must be done.   I didn’t even get to sell used books for my kid’s school for their fund raiser.

Anyhow, like usual i had been taking my Contac but this time it didn’t wanna work for me at all.  2 days ago – i switched to Vicks syrup instead because the other nite i woke up coughing so bad – the spouse couldn’t sleep at all.  Usually i didn’t think that cough syrup can help but lo and behold – 2 days into it .. and my coughing stopped and so did my sneezing and drippy nose.   So i am guessing that Contac is no longer working on my body no more – maybe used too much of it for the last 10 yrs or so – luckily i tried that Vicks syrup – my kid who have been having this stubborn cold too – i’m wondering if they have it for kids – i’m gonna check it out and see if it will work for her.

Tummy Update

So I wrote about my tummy hurting the other day – and it stopped after i took one tylenol.  The next day I was helping a friend get her bridesmaid gifts  and was quite worried that it might hurt again during shopping but I was good the whole day.   The last nite – it started again – and i didn’t wait till it hurt a lot .. and took the tylenol right away.  This morning it didn’t hurt.. but i had a very late breakfast and of course right after breakfast it started again.  I’m leaning on it being wind that is hurting my tummy – but can wind really do that much hurting.  I’m gonna be monitoring really closely to make sure that nothing worst comes on – and if it persist.. i’m gonna go see the family doctor  – but wait..  should i see a gynae instead…??  hmmm..  we’ll see and i’ll update you all on it.

Not Impressed With Doctor’s Office

So yes! we’ve gotten ourselves new doctors.. after the old one left.  I was scheduled yesterday for an appt but was 10mins late because of the snow.  Upon arrival, they told me, they had to reschedule, yes.. WHAT THE HELL …! RIGHT..??  never mind.. i was patient. .afterall, having a doctor is  better than not having any right..??  so she looked at her computer .. and did some barcode scanner and scheduled me for Wednesday.

Today, the clinic called and said they had urgent cases to see .. and had to reschedule me..??? !!!???  WTH right..??  i mean i was 10 mins late.. and you had to reschedule me.. but they can anyhow reschedule me..  and that’s alright..??  So mine is not urgent.. so can anyhow move my schedule and appt..??  my time isn’t time. .but yours is..??  Not impressed at all..!!

I guess i cannot really expect really much from the doctors .. or the clinics here.. there is just no justification in what they do.. and they don’t have to justify .. because they must think they are GODS..!!

Not Serious About My Health

My old doctor who left late last month – accused me of not being serious of my healthy… because i keep missing my appt and didn’t do my blood test.  He seems to forget i have an online job, a store and also a kid – he forgets i don’t have a filipino maid.. or a pakistani one nor do i have a house husband .. like has has a housewife .

Yes.. blunt and without good bedside manners were some of the comments and views of his ex-patients who also happens to be our customers.  It’s bad to criticize your patient .. without even considering their feelings whatsoever.  And for someone who a year and a half ago.. didn’t wanna give me my diabetic medication .. and now doing it in full force .. *shake head* – no lost to the ppl in my small town – as far as we are concerned.

PS :  Does any doctor in the right frame of mind thinks that anyone wouldn’t be serious about their health?  only the really dumb ones.. or the ones with I DONCH CARE attitude would think that way.