Flu Shots – Don’t Get Sick!
September 30, 2017 10:18 Book stuff | Food for Thought
Flu season is fast approaching. Are you ready?
When fall comes, like a good girl, I schedule my flu shot. I have had the flu and shots to prevent the flu are a good thing. But it wasn’t that easy this year.
I called my Presbyterian High Resort doctor starting the beginning of September to schedule my shot. You don’t really get to talk to your doctor. After waiting about a half an hour total and calling for three days, I got through. Great! The first five minute appointment for a flu shot was the end of November. I said, “Isn’t it kinda late to be giving flu shots the end of November when they take two weeks to activate?” The scheduler said the doctor was going to be out for medical leave in October and there was no substitute doctor. So the message is, don’t get sick if you have that doctor, until November!
So, I went to my old trusty Walgreens store two minutes away, and it took five minutes. BUT, I thought when I talked to the pharmacist I would like the new, enhanced, senior flu shot that is all over TV. I am over 65 so it was something I might want. I like coverage. The pharmacist and I were shocked. Presbyterian did not cover one cent of it. They cover 100% the regular flu shot but seniors can die as far as they are concerned. Presbyterian would rather pay for complications if you survive. I got the regular flu shot and didn’t opt to spend $60 for the senior shot.
I was mad so I filed a number of complaints for discrimination (because you have to be over 65 to get the shot) and wrote a nasty letter to Presbyterian. Everyone is now mad and they had no idea. What a wonderful health care system we have in the US and repeal and replace won’t fix it. Someone with smarts has to do it. You heard me – someone with smarts – not politicians!
Barbe Awalt
Nov 12: 4th Annual Albuquerque Balloon Museum Arts & Crafts Fair, 9am to 5pm
HENRIETTA CHRISTMAS & PAUL RHETTS ("The Basic Genealogy Checklist")
Dec 9: Los Lunas Public Library, 10am
January 6: Hispanic Genealogy Research Center at National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, 10am
January 9: El Castillo Living Center, Santa Fe, NM, 7pm
RILEY MITCHELL ("The Essential Paranormal Bucket List")
Oct 21: Santa Fe Public Library, 2pm
Oct 30: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
SLIM RANDLES ("The Fly Fisherman's Bucket List")
Nov 9: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
JOSEPH SANCHEZ ("Historic Route 66")
Oct 7: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 4: Hispanic Genealogy Research Center at National Hispanic Cultural Center, 10am
Nov 18: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 3pm
JOHN TAYLOR & RICHARD MELZER ("Tragic Trails & Enchanted Journeys" & "Captain Maximiliano Luna")
Nov 11: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 16: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
ROBERT TORREZ ("Voices from the Past")
Nov 4: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 30: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
ROSS VAN DUSEN ("What Makes the Lightning?", "How the Crocka Dog Came to Be"; and "Lyle Got Stuck in a Tree")
Oct 28: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Dec 1: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 6pm
I called my Presbyterian High Resort doctor starting the beginning of September to schedule my shot. You don’t really get to talk to your doctor. After waiting about a half an hour total and calling for three days, I got through. Great! The first five minute appointment for a flu shot was the end of November. I said, “Isn’t it kinda late to be giving flu shots the end of November when they take two weeks to activate?” The scheduler said the doctor was going to be out for medical leave in October and there was no substitute doctor. So the message is, don’t get sick if you have that doctor, until November!
So, I went to my old trusty Walgreens store two minutes away, and it took five minutes. BUT, I thought when I talked to the pharmacist I would like the new, enhanced, senior flu shot that is all over TV. I am over 65 so it was something I might want. I like coverage. The pharmacist and I were shocked. Presbyterian did not cover one cent of it. They cover 100% the regular flu shot but seniors can die as far as they are concerned. Presbyterian would rather pay for complications if you survive. I got the regular flu shot and didn’t opt to spend $60 for the senior shot.
I was mad so I filed a number of complaints for discrimination (because you have to be over 65 to get the shot) and wrote a nasty letter to Presbyterian. Everyone is now mad and they had no idea. What a wonderful health care system we have in the US and repeal and replace won’t fix it. Someone with smarts has to do it. You heard me – someone with smarts – not politicians!
Barbe Awalt
UPCOMING CALENDAR:
RIO GRANDE BOOKSNov 12: 4th Annual Albuquerque Balloon Museum Arts & Crafts Fair, 9am to 5pm
HENRIETTA CHRISTMAS & PAUL RHETTS ("The Basic Genealogy Checklist")
Dec 9: Los Lunas Public Library, 10am
January 6: Hispanic Genealogy Research Center at National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, 10am
January 9: El Castillo Living Center, Santa Fe, NM, 7pm
RILEY MITCHELL ("The Essential Paranormal Bucket List")
Oct 21: Santa Fe Public Library, 2pm
Oct 30: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
SLIM RANDLES ("The Fly Fisherman's Bucket List")
Nov 9: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
JOSEPH SANCHEZ ("Historic Route 66")
Oct 7: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 4: Hispanic Genealogy Research Center at National Hispanic Cultural Center, 10am
Nov 18: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 3pm
JOHN TAYLOR & RICHARD MELZER ("Tragic Trails & Enchanted Journeys" & "Captain Maximiliano Luna")
Nov 11: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 16: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
ROBERT TORREZ ("Voices from the Past")
Nov 4: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 30: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
ROSS VAN DUSEN ("What Makes the Lightning?", "How the Crocka Dog Came to Be"; and "Lyle Got Stuck in a Tree")
Oct 28: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Dec 1: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 6pm