Travis has a check-up next month with his neurosurgeon at Stanford. When we got the insurance approval in the mail I noticed on the bottom of the letter from TriCare that it mentioned that travel reimbursement maybe be available if you are traveling more than 100 miles from your PCP. Travis called the number on [...]
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TriCare Can Pay for Travel Expenses
February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: doctor · follow up · health insurance · medical bills · MRI · Stanford · Trigeminal schwannoma · Uncategorized · usefull info · visit
Bye, Bye Meth! Working to be medication free
May 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
I have not had time to write lately. A lot has been going on. The latest medical news on Travis is that he is tapering off his medication. Just one month ago he was taking 1000mg of Neurontin three times a day. He was also taking 5mg of Methadone twice a day. So in total [...]
Tags: back pain · Dr. Moon San Diego · everyday life · Gabapentin · help · memory · Methadone · Neurontin · Neurontin Information · Pain Management · recovery · stress · Uncategorized · Vicodin · Withdrawal
Grey is the new pink…
May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
…coming soon…
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Help abolish the Feres Doctrine
February 4th, 2008 · 14 Comments
Sign the petitionhttp://www.petitiononline.com/fd1950/petition-sign.html The Feres Doctrine,I probably read about it on high school but I don’t remember. Now, years later it is haunting my family as well as many other military families. (Taken from Wikipedia) …Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135 (1950), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled [...]
Tags: Carmelo Rodriguez · Feres Doctrine · loss of consortium · malpractice · medical malpractice · Sgt. Carmelo ROdriguez · Uncategorized · wrongful death
Helping to explain cancer to little ones
January 28th, 2008 · No Comments
I came across this website and though it is sad it is also sweet. http://www.kimmiecares.com/ Kim Goebel lost her battle to breast cancer but before she did she created dolls that can be used to help explain cancer to children. Here is a description from one of the dolls: “Kim is Causasian. She has blond [...]
Tags: brest cancer · children · doll · help · helping families · Kim Goebel · Kimmie Cares · Uncategorized
I came across a sad poem that I can relate to.
January 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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Traveling, Radiation, and our place is falling apart :)
October 31st, 2007 · No Comments
You would think that because my husband has a brain tumor we should get a “free pass” for everything else in life. Too bad that is not the case. A few days before we left for Indiana our washing machine broke. We went to Indiana for four days were back in San Diego for one [...]
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“Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
September 2nd, 2007 · 17 Comments
“Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” (The Serenity Prayer is the common name for an originally untitled prayer written by the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1930s or early 1940s.) One day I went [...]
Tags: everyday life · family · grandma · help · helped us · mood · positive · prayer · serenity · support · tip · Uncategorized · words of advice
Under Construction but here is something to get you started.
August 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Over a year ago he was diagnosed with a Schwannoma tumor. He was in perfect health otherwise and we were completely shocked when the doctors told us that he had a “brain tumor.” We were told that he needed surgery so we followed the doctors’ recommendation. He had an 11 hour surgery and a long [...]
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