Hi anyone! I thought I would start this up again, after being pretty discouraged about no one reading it. Hurts my ego. Well, my t2d experiences have been less than profound. I live in Canada, in the western Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and yeah, we have really good medical care. There's a lot of bullshit in the media about waiting lines, but we Canadians love to complain all the time no matter how good things are. The waiting lines are for elective surgery in some areas, but anyone who is really sick with a heart attack or cancer or whatever gets top care, free and quickly and anyone who says otherwise is either a politician in opposition playing to complainers or a union worker who wants a raise, more power or more jobs. However, it bugs me that diabetic stuff - drugs for type 2 and test equipment - is not covered by our medicare. It should be. Lately, it has really bothered me that lots and lots of people who have type 2, diagnosed or not, don't take the meds they should to reduce damage from high sugar levels - metformin and glyburide, lipitor - usually needed for high chloresterol - due to the cost. I can pay for it, I'm a self-employed professional, and I can afford the $300 - $500 per month, and I get to deduct it from my taxable income. However, there's lots of working people - not welfare or aboriginals who get free drugs usually - who don't have private supplemental plans - I don't for that matter - and who can't afford to buy the meds or testing equipment. The meters are free - if you buy 100 test strips at the cartel controlled price of about $1 per strip. If you test 2-3 times a day, that about $100 a month on top of the meds costs. I'm trying to come up with a plan to attack this need. I don't want to align myself with the megaceuticals or equip makers, or a partisan group. The Cdn. Diabetes Assoc. is just not an activist; they're dependent on the big pharma and equip makers for ads and money. I think one thing I'm going to try to do is to set-up some kind of adoption program where someone like me can adopt a t2d person who needs meds but can't afford. Not sure where to start, maybe the Salvation Army. Stay tuned. Keep your chin up, t2ds!
P.S. That's Daisy Q. Dog - prettier than me to look at.
