I just had an annual physical and they wanted to do a colonoscopy- yuck! I wouldn't mind if all my plumbing was still in the right place. But after the accident I was in, everything is a little off from where it should be. So I decided to have a virtual colonoscopy- where they only put 8 inches of tubing up your ass and not 18 inches.
Medicare would pay for it so I signed up at an out patient facility that my Dr. recommended. I dutifully took all the gunk to clean you out 2 days prior. I walked into the pleasant facility early in the morning and was seen right away. My tech looked like my brother only with light brown hair. His demeanor was calm and friendly and he mistakenly thought that I was nervous. I was- but not for the reasons that he thought.
In my mind I was trying to figure out a way to gently let him know about the gross disfiguration under the thin patient robe that he was about to see. He went about explaining the procedure as if to put my mind at ease. I finally blurted out-"Well, I was in a bad car accident and I have been in 4 hospitals over 4 months and had over 20 surgeries."
"Oh, so you are familar with all of this." he said as if relieved of the burden.
"Oh, yes, I am okay with this". Then I lifted up my gown for the show and tell tour.
As I lay still on the table, he preceded with the predictable solace-"when I was 18, I was on the football team and got tackled by a 300 pound teenager that hit me so hard ithat my entire shoulder had to be reconstructed."
"Wow", I said wondering why people always want to share some of their own personal medical history with me as if to say they've been there, too. I know that we ALL have been there. And if you haven't ---well, prepare yourself.
My colonoscopy came back negative but it did show thinnng of the bones. So a month later, I had a dexa-scan which is a fancy bone mineral density test. That test came back with the diagnosis of osteporosis -or thinning of the bones. That diagnosis came with a prescription of Fosamax which I am not taking.
I have been able to be drug free for a long time and wish to remain that way as long as I can. Maybe my time is ending. I am still researching this Fosamax thing and I don't like what I am reading. I would appreciate any comments on what you all know about this drug.
Check this out on why I am opposed to Fosamax-http://www.womentowomen.com/bonehealth/bonemineraldensitytests.aspx
"Financial Advisors forged customers signatures at least 96 times in order to articficially inflate sales volume. and to hide the fact that they hadn't met commitments to deliver completed financial plans." -WSJ4/10/08
Okay, you say, a few bad apples. So what?
The firm's signature product is its low cost financial plan delivered to clients in a book form to sell them products.
What happened to Financial Advisors acting as a fiduciary? Oh yeah, I forgot. The SEC still has that rule in force that brokers are exempt from acting as a fiduciary (that is, putting their client's interests first) because they really aren't Advisors but Salespeople. That's funny because they call themselves Financial Advisors.
Are you confused yet?
So if the American public.