It doesn’t take much. This used to be a lot of money, but now, it’s a mere pittance. We started out by putting gas in the car — $55.75. We couldn’t put it off any longer. Peter Pump was beeping…. Read More ›
Medicare Advantage
STATE OF THE STATE: LAST YEAR, REDUX
It took me five months to see an oncologist from Fallon who ran my 2013 Medicare Advantage plan. In 2014, I switched to Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Value Advantage PPO. It came as a blast of clean air. Life has been so much better… Read More ›
Prompts for the Promptless – Ep. 9 – Gallows Humor: Dying Is Easy (Comedy Is Hard)
After I was told I had cancer in not one, but both breasts — they were having a two-for-one special at the Dana-Farber — I had them removed and replaced by silicon Hollywood quality implants. I stopped short of adding the fake nipples…. Read More ›
Weekly Writing Challenge: The State of the State: Dying of Laughter
It took me five months to get a new oncologist from Fallon, the HMO that runs my Medicare Advantage plan. It began last November when, in a necessary cost-cutting move, I gave up my Medigap policy and signed on with… Read More ›
There ARE stupid questions …
Let me start by saying that I thank God and Lyndon Johnson that we have Medicare because without it, I would not be sitting here and writing this. I would be long since dead and buried. For the most part,… Read More ›
Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth 