MOVING RIGHT ALONG SKIN AN ALL

DAY TWO OF THE NEW YEAR WAS DEDICATED to clearing out my 2022 BILL BOOK filled with the year's receipts for expenditures.  I've used a BILL BOOK each year from Dollar General for probably 5 years now and continue to want to use one as it makes LIFE easier for me to place the monthly expenses in one place that I can quickly grab, stash, recall where I put the bills.  My mini-office at my finger tips.  All the bills right there in the proper month pocket.  I wish the size of the book were a 8 x 10.  May have to look on the internet for a larger one or make one myself.  

Collecting and grouping all the receipts with like-kind, the receipts are now in the desk drawer paper clipped together in neat piles.  

Not sure what my personality classification is that makes me feel better having order instead of messes.  Let there be order.  

More paper work was worked on along with dishes, laundry, gathering goodies to mail to my Mom, typed a long letter and made copies of pictures from Christmas.  Started taking Christmas decor down.  Ate well.  Researched about cholesterol.  Got into my health portal and did some comparing on my numbers since 2018.  Making notes to take with me when I go to my doctor's appointment later this month to talk about this BIG C cholesterol.  Studied up on food and health.  Pretty much sums up my day.  

The weather was rainy and foggy.  Stay inside kind of weather.  

DAY THREE.  Made a list of things to do.  The list keeps growing.  

I want to order some TUDCA for my gall bladder health.  Nobody told me that NOT HAVING A GALL BLADDER CAUSES CHOLESTEROL TO RISE because there is no longer a way to store the bile from the liver that the gall bladder use to hold.  Cholesterol increases.  Sort of like a malfunction.  Potty TALK: stools may be more yellow in color which indicates more fat in bowel.

That's a strike against me.  I have no thyroid either which causes cholesterol issues.  My Vitamin D has been lower than it should be.  Another strike.  AND I'm elderly.

I want to continue eating more veggies and drinking spring water.  I compared how my facial skin looked from about 2017 until 2022.  It looks healthier in 2022.  Earlier my skin looked splotchy with red spots.  Zooming in, I was surprised to see the difference.  I'm older, but my skin looks better now.  That's a win.  I need all the help I can get. 

2017ish

2022 December

TUESDAY ALRIGHTY!
Each day I need to be working at packing boxes.  AND away we go.  Downsizing continues and so must I.

All the best and may we keep moving right along in the right direction in LIFE,

~d

         

On The Rebound

Bill Day came and went.  Soon another one will come.
I wrote out so many checks my hand hurt.  One big swoop and I paid off most of the medical bills and a bunch of other bills.  The majority of the medical expenses were paid in full.  A VERY GOOD FEELING.  This didn't come without sacrifice.  For now, we have two balances left.  Unfortunately it's going to take longer to zero out.  SO be it.

It has been tough balancing the budget with the medical bills hanging over my head and requiring monthly payments.  Even with good insurance, the charges are outlandish.  A little here and a little there I have paid until paid in full.  I think it funny when the medical statement has this message within the statement, "The rest is your responsibility to pay."

It's ALL our responsibility to pay in the first place.  The insurance was engaged by us paying our insurance premiums.  WHO do the medical facilities think paid for the premiums in first place so the insurance was activated?  Tadaaah.  OUI.  MOI.  

Balances are what they are.  Facility charge what they do and turn amount into the insurance company applying what is allowed toward medical facility, then the medical facility forwards the unpaid balance to the patient.  This medical machine is a well greased piece of machinery.  The grease they use is made up of hard working people and then some.    

A cramp in my hand from holding a pen and writing.  CRAMP.  Shake my hand and be comfortable again.  Shake, shake, shake.

One check to our family physician paying the balance.  PAID IN FULL. 
One check to a Topeka Hospital paying the balance.  PAID IN FULL.
Another check to our Endocrinologist paying the balance.  PAID IN FULL.
Check to a Radiologist paying the balance.  PAID IN FULL.
Check to OBGYN paying the balance.  PAID IN FULL.
Check to another hospital.  Not all paid.  Ongoing.
Check to dentist.  Ongoing.
Phone bill.
City Bill.
Are you with me?

It takes a while to pay the entire amount due.  Not to get discouraged, but this is an ongoing saga.  Seems like I get the medical bills paid in full then another round of expenses takes place.  It's a good feeling to be owing nothing.  Doesn't last long, but when it is paid...it is paid.  NEXT... 

Thankful to be alive and living at HOME,
d