This sucks

This may be getting too personal, so if you don't like that kind of thing, ignore this post.

12/11/25:

   Actually, a small subsidy could help pay for the Ivermectin I'd like to use. That bill is now before the Senate, or it may have been voted down already. Not to complain here about getting or not getting a subsidy to pay for a highly overpriced generic, but the GOP needs to DO SOMETHING, and not be seen doing NOTHING in the face of Democrat intransigence. The Dems don't give a rat's rear end about helping anybody, they just want to exploit the situation.

   The position that the party is taking is not going to win votes. It won't make any difference in MY vote, but I don't speak for anybody else. The GOP is screwing up here. The GOP is allowing the filibuster rule that the Democrats don't want to stop THEMSELVES, but will use to STOP THE GOP. If you don't fight fire with fire, you are going to lose. That is all.

12/10/25:

  This may be too personal, but here goes anyway.

  The ObamaCare vote is of interest to me because of my own condition. Unfortunately, it may be getting worse. The reason for this is unclear, but there may be a way of settling that issue. I don't look forward to that. But that is something I have to decide for myself.

  I bring the political fight over it into the discussion, not because I want more subsidies for myself, but I'd rather have CHOICES. I feel as though I'm being herded into doing what I don't want to do, all because of what some powerful people want to do to all of us.

  I'd like to try Ivermectin for awhile. My doctor advised against this, but things being the way they are, I have my doubts about her advice. It's all because of the way things were handled during COVID. The trust is gone, and that didn't have to happen.  I feel that chemo is being pushed on me, when there may be other options.

  There's nothing wrong with trying Ivermectin, but I object to the prices being charged for a generic drug. I could pay for all of it myself, but why so much for a generic drug? Unfortunately, I think that the prices for generics are way too high because policy makers, in all their wisdom, want the prices to be high. Those of us who may need help are being denied our choices.

  I've sat on this for months now, without taking action. I feel as though my options are being limited by those who have power to affect these things.

  Now it is becoming clear that this may have bad results for me personally, but I accept the consequences of my own decisions. For better or worse. But the cost of this treatment, and having to do it the way that I would have to do it, leaving me frustrated and angry. Why SHOULD I be denied something that MIGHT work?

  I know what they'll say. The doctor said that it wouldn't work, but didn't these doctors say a lot of other things too? That's the way it is now, and none of this was necessary. It was a struggle over politics. The answer is not reward these people, but to hold them accountable. But how do you do that?  BTW, the doctor gave some lame-ass answers to my questions.  Another opinion.  Maybe.  I'm kinda stuck here, though.  Just bitching to be bitching, I guess.

  People won't listen. So there it is. It may be too much to share, but that is what it is.
 
  My tone has gotten a bit nasty, I'm trying to be reasonable here. But it isn't a reasonable time these days. Anyway, that is all.