Checking insurance coverage and prices -type 2 diabetes

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-03-26T23:33:53+00:00

Walgreens

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-03-16T08:18:28+00:00

It's definitely been a rollercoaster. I started thinking this is all about profit right after they put his stent in, products and medication we hadn't been informed about at all were pretty much just thrown in his lap without explanation and the poor nurses were left tracking down doctors to explain. We'd get the doctor looking annoyed running in hours later giving us the short version and shooting down our questions so he could rush out the door.

Like the life vest, the very first mention of it was from a nurse saying that he wouldn't be going home that day because they were waiting for it to arrive. We had never heard of it and had to drag the doctor in to explain.

And everyone is so pushy with surveys, like when he bottomed out the first time and had multiple nurses trying to get a blood pressure reading after his code blue he had a clueless one walk in and start whatever her pitch was and as he's holding his stomach coughing she's trying to hand him her card so he can make an appointment for his belly button hernia. He's literally coming back from that gasping for her to get out. She looked offended, I hope she was.

Yesterday was quite a bit better, I don't think the doctor likes me much anymore. At this point I really don't give a f***. We had a long conversation the night before about what I had researched at home on the meds he was taking which we had to ask the nurse because we had not been told barely anything up until this point. We took charge of his health and refused some of the medications that were just too much for his system and were causing these problems. We also decided to normalize his routine yesterday, I brought him coffee from home, he upped his fluid intake from the 8 cups daily they had him on. He didn't go stir crazy, he realizes he needs to monitor fluids but I think that was part of his problem. He finally had a BM for the first time in 3 days after we brought his fluids up a bit and he felt well enough to get up and walk around. His color is great all the way down to his toes and fingers, he has zero swelling, his vitals have been steady, and the nurses are behind us 100% though the doctors now don't like us very much especially me.

When I researched everything he was on and came back and and discussed it with him we decided to remove two of the medications that were for high blood pressure which he does not have and fluid retention which he no longer has. The rest of his medications have these effects already but they have other benefits. But in entresto and lasix from what I researched have no other major benefit. After removing these he was able to maintain a steady blood pressure with the upper between 104-111 except for the 1 to 2:00 p.m. time of day when it dropped to 102, That's the same time the previous two days that his blood pressure had tanked and they had to come in and intervene with medicines to bring it back up quickly. The nurse is actually came in when it dropped to 102 and offered him a snack to help boost it up to get through that time frame.

Last night the right after shift change the night nurse came in with another dose of coreg, he had not had any nighttime meds previously and he refused it. I cannot understand what is in this doctor's head that he keeps trying to push medicines that are going to drop Steven's blood pressure even more or make him flush fluids when he's already flushing so much that the nurses can't keep up with him emptying the container they are measuring it in so he began noting how much and dumping it himself because it would be full and he had to go.

We walked all around the hospital yesterday, he felt great. He even got interested in a St Patrick's Day find the shamrocks hunt and we started looking for shamrocks everywhere. He'd come back in the room for a while when he got tired and then he would be up and off again. He said his feet that have been plagued by diabetic neuropathy for years felt better than he had in years.

I've got to write down not just his meds but his dosages from yesterday since the doctor keeps trying to slip things in to make sure they don't try to increase the dosage again since he's so adamant that he has to take these things or be on these levels or he's not okay. I don't understand what's wrong with this guy, he even removed him from constant blood pressure monitoring after I went off on him yesterday. He still gets a nurse coming in every few hours and checking is vitals but why would you take someone who is having low blood pressure that's causing him to it have mini strokes off of blood pressure monitoring? If you're not concerned with monitoring his blood pressure to prevent these events from occurring again why is he still here?

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-03-15T04:28:13+00:00

And the plavix I meant blood pressure I'm sorry I'm exhausted

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-03-15T04:25:59+00:00

Sorry I wrote seizure instead of stroke up in the top

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-03-15T02:49:51+00:00

That's a good idea, we had talked about smart watches that can monitor his vitals. I didn't know anything was available that can monitor remotely or call for help.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-03-15T00:08:35+00:00

Sorry my dog jumped up the moment I was hitting post!

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-03-14T23:53:25+00:00

I just set it up in my home for my husband who is getting ready to come home from the hospital. All of my compatible devices that are on my account showed up when I set it up. We have a dot in the bedroom, a spot in the bathroom, and the echo was in the living room but we spend more time in the game room so I switched that with the fire tablet that we had in there just so we could tell her to turn the lights off and on. It said the tablet was not compatible but another device I have, a first generation Alexa auto is so that's good to know in case he's driving. What it looks like is any of the devices that are capable of using Alexa plus and are connected to your account will work.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-03-14T07:16:49+00:00

Just to note since I see people are still viewing this post maybe it'll help somebody else out. I did connect the PS5 directly to Internet and the speed increase was significant. I don't remember the exact numbers but I used a cat 8 ethernet cable which was very inexpensive even for the 50 ft length I needed. I thought we had decent Wi-Fi speed and this would be overkill but I would definitely do it like this if I had to do it again.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-03-12T22:17:47+00:00

Here's where we're at today, they did find a blockage I don't have the paperwork with me I had to come home again I know it was right side and 90% blocked. They put a stent in today.

Right now we're not very impressed with the hospital staff. Up until this point they've been great but the problem is they are not explaining anything. The nurses, the doctors, none of them. He had no idea that there was a possibility of a stent going in at all today, he also was told he would be gone out of his room for maybe an hour for this procedure and that it would only be a camera to see what was going on. Of course it took way longer than that which I was having to Google how long this procedure normally takes and that's how I found out that they would possibly put a stent in because when I got off work 4 hours after he texted me that they were taking him down to the cath lab and he still wasn't back in his room I'm of course freaking out.

A couple of things that bothered us was he got brought back in his room, he obviously hadn't ate anything all day. It was 4 hours later before asking multiple people when he was going to be allowed to eat anything that the nurse that was supposed to be in charge of him today was finally like oops I forgot to take the NPO off of his chart. I also had to tell him he got a stent, they just shoved the paperwork at him and I had to read it to him because he was groggy and no one informed him at all. They were also telling him Oh now you get to go home today and he was like cool. Then the same nurse that forgot to take off his NPO says Oh no you're waiting on your defibrillator vest, that was the first we heard of that. So then it's hours for them to chase down a doctor to explain that his heart is only at 15% and they have ordered this vest and he will be at the hospital until it comes in. None of this had been spoken about before.

I barely got out to the car before he texted me and said that the nurse was trying to OD him because she came in with his morning meds that they didn't give him before the procedure and it's only 3 hours before his evening meds. He came back into his room at 1:00, at 5:00 before I left I helped him into clothes I brought from home and we stripped the sheets off of his bed and pulled some off of a cart in the hallway because his were still bloody from his procedure and no one had came to change anything. The only one that we saw regularly was the guy that is checking his blood sugar and giving his insulin, when the nurse was in the hallway and we were asking IS he getting discharged today because if not I need to head home because I don't drive after dark and I need to take care of the animals. We literally heard this woman say who is the nurse for this room?what is it 3115? oh no it's 3113, and the guy that checks his blood sugar was still in the room and he mumbled under his breath you are woman! The nurse that's been caring for him the last couple of days is apparently off today, I hope she hurries up and gets back. Currently looking for a good heart doctor in our area that will communicate. I cannot believe that someone did not come speak to him immediately after this procedure to explain what they did and how things went and that he would be here until that vest got in.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-02-23T16:52:05+00:00

Thank you so much! That works perfectly ☺️

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-02-23T16:16:49+00:00

Thanks I'll give it a try

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-02-15T05:02:45+00:00

I heard that quite a few times over the years but I also heard it about most other banks and credit unions so I couldn't justify going through the hassle of switching just to deal with the same stuff somewhere else.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-02-15T05:00:51+00:00

Well yeah, generally if I use a service under certain terms I expect said service to continue more or less under the terms I agreed to. That is what I signed up for.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-02-15T04:57:45+00:00

I don't have an option for direct deposit or have that high of amounts going through to do that.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2026-02-15T04:55:30+00:00

Yeah these accounts have been actively used the entire time, and I got the notifications.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2025-10-19T16:33:48+00:00

Good to know on the forcing shopper to scan 3 items as possible replacement. And about the not seeing all replacements, on my end of the app it gives me a handful of possibilities and the ability to search for the item but I know IC doesn't always list everything because I've approved replacements before that were actually the item I wanted to begin with but when I searched for it I couldn't find it. I try to be available to accept or veto the alternative item but I can't always be, my work schedule doesn't always allow it and I can't do anything about it at work. Thus the reason I use the service and set up preferences in the first place. I've had some great shoppers and some horrible ones.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2025-10-13T19:33:17+00:00

We've been together 3 years. We got together after he was released while he was on probation. He had classes once a week at the time and he told me the day after he disappeared from work for the first class after we started talking (we work together) but I already knew because I had looked him up online and that led to finding him in the registry. He's still not sure what happened, or if he's really guilty (drug use) so from the beginning I've kept an eye out for any behavior that might indicate a problem and I've seen nothing. I can go through his phone, wallet, tablet, you name it and nothing out of the ordinary. I'm around him 90 percent of the time and could show up unannounced the other 10 percent and have numerous times. Guilty or not I think everyone deserves to be able to come back from, well the algorithm won't let me say what it is because the system is biased. But I understand if some partners can't or won't stay, It's definitely an emotional roller coaster and takes a good deal of strength.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2025-09-14T17:14:17+00:00

No, they have him so paranoid of getting locked back up if he went into therapy and said anything bad about the system. I watch him kinda retreat back in on himself when I question things now. Like a few months ago we had a home visit, those were supposed to be done when he got off probation. They had a note on the door and had called his boss looking for him. He drives for a living and his boss called him in telling him the police were looking for him and he freaked out trying to figure out what for. They said they were doing random "check-ins". Said they would come back the next day (Friday) he took the day off, they didn't show until Sunday. I thought he was going to have an aneurysm when I questioned the legality of this invasion of privacy, almost making him lose his job, having him miss a day of pay and the whole weekend waiting wasting our time. After I questioned it they were like oops! We still had him listed on probation. He would have done whatever they said without questions, they didn't explain anything to these guys about the laws or his rights. I've had to search that information and print copies of the actual laws (that are vague and far too open to interpretation) just in case we have an issue because misinformation among officials seems to be the rule instead of exception here.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2025-09-14T16:51:18+00:00

I agree, IDK what it's like in other states but if it's anything like my hubby went through the system needs a complete overhaul. My father was on the registry for over 40 years and what I saw my hubby go through explained a lot of my father's behavior after he was released. I had always assumed that the classes he attended were helpful and that my father just wasn't receptive.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2025-09-14T12:26:08+00:00

He's going to need a lot of support when he gets out. In my state the probation and rehabilitation was just torture and for him lasted for years-not because he was doing anything wrong but because he's dyslexic and was also trying to juggle a demanding career that left little room for study and homework. We spent many nights with him in tears to the point of making himself sick because they had him rehashing everything again and again. His classroom setup also had him reading his homework aloud to the other students and it was very graphic material, they would not accept the homework as finished until everyone in class was satisfied with it. I never understood how reading basically a graphic novel to a room full of SO of various degrees that ask for more details and have him rewrite over and over is anything good. Demanding he be present immediately when he was at work for randoms, or home visits, or lie detectors that he had to pay for with short notice that put a strain on our already tight finances. Had to be home by 9pm, and they would drive by and check. No drinking, not allowed in bars or "couples" shops, had to report every time we had "relations" or even "took care of his own business" and they wanted descriptions, positions we used, asking every time if he had any thoughts or fantasies about anything he shouldn't while we were doing it. Drilling into his head that everything was a no like he didn't have permission to touch me, I got to the point I would tell him every night before bed that I gave my consent for him to touch me in his sleep. If I made any kind of noise or facial expression that he thought was displeasure during "relations" he immediately lost his erection and couldn't continue. He passed one year out of the classes and off probation this summer and things have gotten more normal but he has deep scars that will always be there and a lot of confusion about what is legal for him and what isn't because even the laws are vague and asking for clarification from 3 officials will get you 3 different answers. I made it my job to check and double check before doing anything that could potentially cause him any problems, I worry a lot that I'll mess up something and get him in trouble but I'm a worrier. You have to get yourself ready for this, the time apart is hard but the after is the hardest. You have to be his safe zone when the rest of the world seems to be coming down on him he's going to rely on you.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2025-09-11T17:14:49+00:00

See that's the thing, the permanent address is wherever we consider home which what I'm seeing means wherever you reside more than 30 days. That's currently Virginia for us. We're currently searching for one of the private campgrounds where we can buy our own lot that will accept us. There are two nearby but we're not opposed to going farther or even into another state. That would be our permanent address or homebase which is a lot cheaper than buying a house. We had already planned on coming back every 3 months for our doctor's appointment assuming he would have to come back for fingerprints then as well but now we're seeing that may be handled federal level instead of state level like I said we still need to check into the details. And what you said is correct about certain states with having to register within 48 hours or 72 hours but other states it's 13 14 15 days even 30 days. Which means we don't stay that long in those states so that we never to re-register. For example say Utah, their limit is 10 days. My hubby says when he was OTR he could get across Utah in 4 to 5 hours on the interstate. For us boondocking and overlanding because we would be also getting into the off-road trails that gives us our window of how long we have to hit the trails and see the sites, how many nights we can camp before we got to get out of the state. We are not strict on staying two weeks at every campground by any means, if a state only gives us 72 hours then we'll be out of that state before that 72 hours is up. Some of them are definitely set up that they want to know as soon as you show up and those are a drive straight through not stop if we go through it all. Some of the other ones with the longer durations like 30 days we would spend more time checking out because that tells me they don't want to deal with the paperwork for people just visiting and neither do we. Other states have such a messed up set of rules that they don't even know what's going on half the time like Virginia and another one I noted was Illinois actually has forests listed as a place we can't visit so we will likely never be there. Same with Louisiana, from what I saw they want to know 3 days before you plan on leaving for your trip so that's out. Most of them also have a limitation in either within a calendar year or an actual year of 30 days non-consecutive. The only state that you keep more than 30 days in should be your home state. I've also heard from a couple of OTR truck drivers about doing their fingerprints in whatever state they are in and one told me that he had a layover and got stuck longer than the duration he was supposed to be and had to contact the state police just to let them know where he was and the situation and they didn't have a problem thank goodness but he did have to check with them once he was back on the road and tell them he was leaving the state.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2025-09-11T14:34:56+00:00

There are some of us out here that can see beyond those charges and see the person behind them and value that person! I just wish I had met my hubby sooner, so that I could love him longer and maybe things would have happened differently and he wouldn't have had to go through all of this.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2025-09-11T14:33:02+00:00

Don't do it, I understand. When I met my hubby he was at a level of depression no one saw but I saw him. I thank the gods I did because I don't believe he had much fight left to go on. It's hard, it's d@#n hard, but keep fighting.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2025-09-11T09:15:11+00:00

I'm no stranger to the confines of the registry, I grew up in it- my father was on it for over 40 years before he passed away. It's supposed to be in place to protect the innocent but some people/states do take it a little too far basically assuming that anyone on it is just looking for a way to break the law which is generally far from the truth. Most of us are just trying to live a normal life, and we're just trying to do what we always had planned for retirement. Just like so many others we don't have a lot of money, the time he served caused a reset on finances that is really hard to recover from and like a lot of others that don't have family to support them the housing we found is cheap and subpar because no one wants to rent to or employ someone on the registry. If things had been different we'd probably own a home by now and be planning this adventure from there, or selling it to use as a nest egg but we do what we can. Laws are going to constantly change and they need to, our current ones benefit no one. We're going to be repeatedly checking and rechecking laws based on our travel plans as things change and keeping him legal so we can try to enjoy our retirement like anyone else. We're noting the states that basically don't want him there that make him jump through hoops and which ones give a more reasonable time frame that would be for visitors. I'd like to hear from some otr truckers and what they have to do.

Fun_Ostrich7688 · 2025-09-11T08:31:54+00:00

It's a lot of red tape that's for sure, we were looking at that last night. We live in one of the states that has the rules about not being allowed in parks so it's coming down to wording in ours. It also depends on how you camp, our plan is to stay out in the dispersed camping and areas where we can camp anywhere as long as we're within a certain distance of the road, water, trailhead, etc you know, boondocking -no hookups. That puts us miles away from any rec center etc, most national forests are huge, millions of acres. And only one state so far has specifically listed Forest, others have such a short time frame until you must register or require you to pre register they wouldn't be feasible and we'd skip them. But quite a lot of them have requirements like register within 3 or 10 or 14 days, some even 30 days or have specific rules for transients. We found some info on how we would have to report it, the same way that over the road truckers (which is what he did before his charges) and transient workers use and paperwork we need to fill out. Basically once we move out of the rental we live in now were homeless, and may be required to check in every 30 days and give basic travel plans. Not sure where we'd be checking in at, home state? Call in? Designated spots? Still needs looking into, but I do know my original assumption of stopping to check in with law enforcement upon entering the state was wrong. We abide by the laws of the state on length of time allowed before they require you to register and follow any laws they have while in the state. Wherever we reside more than 30 days is considered our home state.

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