dear ginnie
 

that is so great about your teeth. the dentist sounds like an angel. did you have any inkling she was like that? how was she recommended? your son sounds like such a dear. you must have been a wonderful mother to produce him. i have been procrastinating about my teeth. if i am going to lose them, i figure i might as wait as long as i can to avoid the trauma. i am not good with traumas. i go to a dental clinic. a teaching school. I still am afraid of what it will cost.
enjoy your house while you can. I didn't think of the possible flooding. it must wonderful to wake up every morning.
take care
bobby

I saw dr m. this saturday and asked if i could get off of prozac. i ran out of it two weeks ago and haven't felt any different. when i told him i am still depressed, he said he still wanted me on it along with the welbutrin i am on.
i usually wake up very depressed every morning. it gets better as the day progresses. i don't know what to do about my diet. my appetite has definitely returned and i am definitely fed up with chicken soup. i don't know what to eat. i am still having oatmeal and ordered more steel cut oatmeal from amazon.com with splenda. i can't have oatmeal every night. my teeth make some foods difficult to eat. i am eating more salad but i eat so much of it at one sitting. since i think that meat diet caused my constipation problems i have been staying away from meat besides it being so expensive. maybe of these days i will start a thread about what to eat that is healthy.
ifinished the road less traveled. i highly recommend it. you can get a used copy cheap at amazon.com I have to digest it now. I am going to lend it to a couple of friends and then try to reread it. I usually never reread a book. I really liked his writing on grace and spiritual growth and synchronicity. it was a great book. i am looking forward to getting the other book i ordered by him.
I just wish this depression would go away. I don't know if it is bipolar depression or my fear of impending getting my teeth done and having an eye appointment and having to take laxatives. I wonder if i could stop those now. Also my close friend is going through a very hard time now and i have been listening a lot to her problems and some overlap mine and i think that is also bringing me down.
bobby

Dear Bobby,

I can see why your pdoc wants to keep you on Prozac.

I wonder though if you are starting to feel less anxious now that you are off it for two weeks. I recorded the halftime show last night. Maybe I will watch it tonight when I have time.

Maybe I should find a copy of the Road Less Traveled.
I am sorry about your friend. I worry about your talking to her to help her and then getting down when you talk to her.

M

I am glad that you enjoyed the book, not sure how many countless people have read it before you and appreciated it. I think I read it a long time ago, I should order it and read it again.
I hope you make it to the center today.
HOw is your weather?
(((((HUGS))))))
bizi

Hi Bobby
 

Hi Bobby, I had put off my teeth due to finances. The last doc wanted me to spend 3 grand to save a tooth, that I found out with a second opinion was not salvagable. so that doc was out for $ only. SoI prayed, no joke, and called the referal line and asked for a compassonate doctor, to this stranger on the other end. He gave me her name. It had been 8 years since I had seen a doc, and already had three teeth pulled due to looseness and peradontal disease. This stuff she is doing for me totals over 3 grand, I looked over all the things that need to be done to save the rest of them. Deep root cleaning begins this wed. I do not know why shegranted me mercy like this with my bill. Tears just streamed down my face when she told me she wouldn't charge, I had handed her a copy of my health records. She did know I have been through H___. with my medical conditions.
My son does not want me to except that much chairity, he wants to work on the weekend to help pay for some of it. I will give her a couple of hundred on Wed. with my gold crown tooth that was pulled. That gold is worth something, and she can use it for somebody else. No sense keeping gold that can help another to have a crown. I will do all I can to pay her back, because this kindness was just because she is a good soul. I have a need I guess, and she responded knowing that medicare/medicaid do not pay enough for people to have dental care at all. This kind of doctor is RARE. She only asked that I tell my friends about her practice, which I am doing. I am also telling the whole internet! Try and find a good doctor and try to keep your teeth too bobby, it is worth a try and you just might find another good soul who will grant you mercy too. ginnie

i hadn't thought about the anxiety. i dont know. yesterday i really got stressed out and wound up having a difficult time sleeping. humana walmart drug plan is awful. they had a hard time reaching dr m. so they supposedly sent back two of the prescriptions,one being klonopin and the other prozac.
at first they wouldn't fill the klonopin because they said he needed to fill out something to do with new york state. on saturday he said he spoke with them. now i had to pay fifty nine dollars to fill the clonopin generic prescription at my local drug store. eeks...i won't see dr. m. for another month and then i hope he calls them up and then i have to send in another prescription which would be much cheaper if they fill it. i don't know if they will resolve the conflict between taking both risperdal and prozac. dr.m. already talked to them he said and they did. yesterday they said they had no record of it. I think the cost of my medications will go up over 1000 dollars if this isn't straightened up....clonopin alone will be i think over 700 dollars. risperdal unless i can get it free will be a lot too. maybe the drugs will be over 1500 dollars.
bobby

the weather is fine. the book is definitely worth reading again. i made it to the center. one of my friends is leaving for haiti on thursday for three months. i will miss him.
bobby

dear ginnie
the dentist and your son sound like gems. i am so happy for you. i went to a dental teaching place nyu and they said i needed dentures several years ago so i don't think they were after money. my teeth are a lost cause. i just hope they take me back when i get enough courage to go back again. i am not sure how much mine will cost but they are usually half the price of a regular dentist.
bobby

(((Bobby)))

been thinking of you too.

love

~ waves ~

sorry you are in a crappy mood but my first thought was it could be worse. i hope it isn't worse. oh boy....that is really hitting the dregs. i was just on http://www.rxoutreach.org/ looking at prices for prescription drugs. i think i will apply to them for my drugs and forget about buying most of the drugs from humana walmart preferred drug plan.....i guess i can't take any stress.
my reaction was really over the wall and i wished i were dead again. i have to discover a book i can escape into again. i don't seem to have tolerance for anything. I am glad you wrote.
love
bobby