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I have a date tomorrow! He's from Egypt, and I met him when he drove me somewhere (he is an uber driver).

They were the only place with a psych that was taking new clients

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Depends on the plan.....I have to pay the full deductible before they will pay anything.....I think it's around $400 so more similar to odys plan, also $100 a month through work not obamacare...

Anyway like 1 pdoc visit kills the deductible then they pay 90% of the rest....

Cool, my boyfriend is a limo driver it's really handy being with a guy who doesn't mind driving everywhere

Hope it works out for you, good luck

Oh right.....that's such a pain

the bills on these things make my head spin. its why im so reluctant to get treatment at all. i wouldnt be seeing my therapist if he werent doing it for free, bless the dude. my deductible is $1000 off, $1000 on, and it goes back and forth. insurance covers a thousand, then you pay the deductible, then they pay, then you pay, etc. so if you have a chronic condition theyre constantly milking you.

my T cant take my insurances (medicaid and medicare) so he offers me a super low reduced rate. i hope once i get my certification in medical coding and get a job in that i can pay him his full price cuz he is worth it. sometimes i feel bad cuz i cant pay much.

How is the storm prep going....I saw pictures of bare shelves in the markets......we don't really do that up north but I can understand down there you just don't have the snow plows....

Unfortunately there isn't unless I leave and then I'll lose my pup and end up on a w sit list somewhere

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This iPad typing is for the birds. It keeps changing everything. Pup is pnp and w sit is wait

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You might like Swift key, or another 3rd party keyboard better. Not sure what the good ones are for Apple.

I think you can turn off autocorrect but it comes in handy at times......it's also funny

My Medicare deductible is about $150 and the monthly payments for it are $104. My copays are always between $15-$20 bucks. All my prescriptions together costs under $5 dollars right now.

But thats disability. SSDI.

Need.. To.. Stud.. Injec.. *sleeps*

I'm not sure how my insurance works. I don't pay for very much. The blood tests cost me $15 a pop, and the clinic copays are something but I forgot what. My monthly premiums are something like $20 or less per month. I'm not sure why it's so low. Maybe because I have extra help with Medicaid.

I don't have any problems with my iPad... which model do you have and which version of iOS are you running?

I did have some of the problems that you describe with early betas of 9.2, but no problems with the gold master of 9.2 nor the dev version of beta 9.3 that I'm running today.

Now typing on the iPhone is just an exercise of humiliation for me.

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Yeah people are freaking out. We don't get these big snow events that often so ppl flip their ****. I didn't go to any stores. I am at my mom's tending to the fire while she's at work. We have everything we need here. It's supposed to start around midnight tonight. I'll post pics tmrw of the catastrophic snow lol

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I was reading thru my old threads I created and I'm super embarrassed... I don't even recognize myself in those. I was really not well...just off the rails and not in reality at all. Looking back on those has helped me appreciate where I am now and the progress and growth I've made. It's weird to think back to those times... I do feel embarrassed about all of it

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I think they delete after a certain point, one of my threads is missing from sz success stories....

I've never really monitored it very closely...

I dunno some of mine are from 2012 when I first started posting here. 8 think the more u create it deletes the older ones but I haven't started many threads. I just feel weird about it. And kinda gross

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I've been there. Don't feel bad, the good thing is that you are in a better place now. 😊

Angelique,

I'm on some sort of state Medicaid program that seeks to help those who are largely capable of caring for themselves to get out of nursing homes get out and stay out. After it became apparent that I had much more than 1 to 3 or 3 to 6 or 6 to 12 months to live, I was the first in my state to apply for consideration. I was approved in November 2011 and of the 200 spots available FIVE (5) have been used.

There is also a program available to keep people out of nursing homes in the first place and I believe that it has a higher rate of participation. If you have a Medicaid case manager you could ask him/her if similar programs exist in your state.

I have no co-pays for anything (not meds, doc visits, surgeries hospitalizations, etc.), I have no limits on the number of annual rides for medical purposes nor number of times that I may make annually, etc. It makes life so much simpler when you don't have to play around with your finances in order to pay for your meds, etc.

Check into it. I had to do all the work myself until I finally stumbled onto a woman who was one of the program administrators.

My three psychiatric meds alone would cost $1,600+ monthly if I had only Part D without Extra Help. It's been more than three years since I've added the costs of all of my scripts together, but without the program, I would be stuck in a nursing home for the remainder of my life —>> a repulsive thought.

My State government didn't do this out of kindness, of course. Someone did the math and found that the average price of subsidizing a patient in a nursing home was five (5) times that of the cost of subsidizing a patient in his or her own rented or owned dwelling.

I do, sometimes, feel guilty about costing the government so much. But when I do the math again I discover that I collectively paid millions in taxes, of one kind or the other, that should be able to continue to subsidize others long after I'm gone.

I know that if you ever get into a program such as these you'll have the fury of nursing home social worker's to deal with and that you'll only be championed by your nursing home doctors (and envied by your fellow residents).

Good luck — it can be so difficult to sort out your meds, finances, whatever —,

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Hi, ciderguy! Thank you for posting this, I'll have to find out what programs there are in my state. I never want to end up in a nursing home.

I just woke up at 3:30 am and I don't think my brain is in gear yet but I'm getting an amazing recording of my dear neighbors triggering me.

Hopefully you won't need therapy by then

Angelique,

I hope and pray that you never have to enter a nursing home, either. The one that I was in for close to eight years wasn't a bad place. There were worse (or so I was told by other clients and staff who had worked at other facilities), but I have a difficult time imagining anything worse.

Going back to a nursing home psych ward is worse that anything that I can imagine. I don't have any experience with having "nursing home hallucinations": hallucinations where I find that I am back in a nursing home. But when the idea of going back into any institution was first presented to me as "only a short term period of evaluation" I had a certainty that if I went in (nursing home, psych ward/unit, etc.) I would never come out.

I'm going to have to check my gun at the door. I haven't slept in about 28 hours and I'm having some hyperactive feelings (if that makes sense?).

My brain is so engaged that I just can't stop doing whatever it is that I'm doing at any one time. These are the kinds of days that make me physically ill as well as giving me an opportunity to dwell within myself. Not pretty.

Until April 2015, the program(s) that I'm involved with were staffed by the Department of Human Resources. Now they are staffed by folks who have experience as Medicaid Waiver case manager advocates. If you have a Medicaid case manager (someone who, perhaps, visits you monthly or someone you visit?) then you could start with them and after a month or more of being jerked around you MAY be able to get a contact name.

If you don't have a good Medicaid contact, I would begin calling around until you make a big enough nuisance of yourself that someone wants to get rid of you enough to actully do something on your behalf.

My case manager is great - she's an RN but specialized in psychiatric nursing before going to work for the state. She's funny, smart, checks up on me randomly, and I feel comfortable talking to her about anything. Even when I confessed to her that I lie to my doc on occasion, she had me promise her that I would never lie to her. And, except for one instance, I haven't.

I should turn that into a poll – "How often do you lie to your therapist?" I don't tell direct lies but rather lie by omission. I have this "thing" about direct lies – I don't lie to others, and I don't expect others to lie to me. And if/when I find that someone has lied to me (in the past – not so much these days) that causes my calm and quiet anger to erupt.

How did your appointment go yesterday? I haven't looked around much this morning to see where you may have written of it, but I am interested and concerned. And for reasons unbeknownst to me, my lack of sleep has blessed me with a dull, flatlining grace that I am thankful for.

I also had a message from my First True Love this morning. It is two years since we last conversed. She writes of herself using disparaging words, but if you ever met her, I think that the words lovely, bright, charming and terribly witty would spring to mind.

Getting way off topic... what type of communications do you have with the world outside of your door? A cell phone, I'm guessing – is that what you use to message this board? A computer? A tablet? Anything else?

If you have access to the web, you should start Googling for programs in your state that might provide some of the services that I've mentioned. Or you could start at the city or county level and make a couple of calls.

I would still be lingering in a nursing home if I hadn't put some effort into finding a way out. Now I linger in the privacy of my private home. During the time that I was looking for a way out, I was shot down, belittled and discouraged many times. The first three years out were beautiful. The last year? Not so good. But I won't go back. If I were in your position, I would make staying out of a psych ward/hospital/nursing home a priority.

And I wish you the very best of luck,