It's cheaper to be sick than it is to stay healthy.

Not if you're me, no. My last ER visit shouldn't cost more than a couple hundred, but the one before was five or six. Lord knows how much I'd be out if I'd stayed more than 4 or so hours.

Not if you're me, no.

You're ER visits aren't 100% covered?? See? Insurance = craxy.

I'm not one to run to the ER whenever I get a twinge, and seeing as you went to work after fainting, I'm guessing you aren't either. Why aren't ER visits covered?? Craxy. It seems like that should be BASIC coverage.

Boobies are very nice. Bras, however, are not.

Gott im Himmel, I love bras. If there were no such thing as boobular containment devices, I don't think I'd ever leave the house.

Word. Fifty cent sounds better.

Heh.

Did I ever tell y'all about our last contract management company? As with many companies, we paid part of our health insurance costs out of pocket and they covered the rest. Except they stopped paying the insurance company for three months (while continuing to deduct our part of the cost from our paychecks). We found out when someone took their kid in for some routine thing or other and discovered that oops! We had no health insurance.

I like our current contract management company much better.

Aimée, I have weird insurance. It'll cover some of most things, but not all of anything, except for the first $1K of expenses, for which it covers everything. However, a wee ER stay with some morphine eats that personal care account right up. And no copays ever.

It's just weird. But, hey, acupuncture!

If there were no such thing as boobular containment devices, I don't think I'd ever leave the house.

Oh, me either. It's finding one that fits right and doesn't make me want to run into the house screaming to take it off when I come home that's the problem.

But, hey, acupuncture!

This frightens me.

Signed, Does. Not. Like. Needles.

Speaking of things medical, does anyone know if taking more Benedryl (or generics thereof) than listed as a dose would be terribly harmful? I take it at night, so the drowsiness thing wouldn't matter. The standard dose just isn't clearing up my allergies as well as I'd like anymore.

The Wacoal bras I bought after my fitting fit so well that I soon threw out all the VS bras. They were pretty, but dude. I'm choosing pretty breasts over pretty bras. Though I refuse to buy any in beige. They look like the undies equivalent of old school nurse's shoes.

Signed, Does. Not. Like. Needles.

Honestly, with your eyes closed, you'd not know what was happening. Unlike my ortho surgeon, who treats me with a novocaine/steroid injection -- to make sure he's putting it where it's needed the most, he wiggles the needle around until he gets a maximal pain reaction. Which from me Monday was much like "Yeah. Yeah. There. Oh! Hahahaha! Oh, dear."

Works, though.

Speaking of things medical, does anyone know if taking more Benedryl (or generics thereof) than listed as a dose would be terribly harmful?

You can take 2 without any problem other than extreme drowsiness. Physicians routinely give 2 benadryls to hospitalized patients who get agitated or violent.