[Magdalen] Shingles update

[Grace Cangialosi]

Jay, check with your local Board on Aging to see if they offer assistance in this. I did that in C'ville when I first took Plan B. The service is free, and they have well-trained volunteers. That's how I found out about USAA's supplemental plan. I saw all the plans available, with the costs, and the woman enrolled me on the spot. Since then I've managed various aspects of it myself. Your area may be served by the Shenandoah Area Board on Aging, but you can check. They offer all kinds of helpful services, all free.

> On Aug 29, 2015, at 9:40 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have Medicare. No supplement at the moment, mostly because I can't find a
> website that will let me compare and decide for myself; they all want me to
> talk to some damn insurance agent and I will NOT do that. I hate them and
> just won't do it. Why can't I look at the specs and make up my own mind?
> 
>> On Saturday, August 29, 2015, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I got my Shingles vaccine at my pharmacy and it was covered by insurance.
>> 
>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Charles Wohlers <
>> charles.wohlers at verizon.net <javascript:;>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I got mine at my doctor's. It was free, or close to it.
>>> 
>>> Thanking the Lord for Medicare,
>>> 
>>> Chad Wohlers
>>> Woodbury, VT USA
>>> chadwohl at satucket.com <javascript:;>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Grace Cangialosi
>>> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 8:01 PM
>>> To: Magdalen
>>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Shingles update
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Esther, I got mine at Walgreen's, and I think it cost around $60, maybe
>>> less.
>>> 
>>>> On August 29, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Esther Williamson <momohl1 at cox.net
>>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Praying that you soon get relief, Jay. I must quit procrastinating and
>>> get in to get a shingles vaccine.
>>> 
>>> Esther
>>> 
>>>> On 8/29/2015 7:44 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Well, the scaliness and any bumps and blisters have abated, so I look
>> like
>>>> I never had shingles at all. My eye *feels* okay, except that it waters
>>>> now
>>>> and then, which has more to do with the fact that I blink a lot because
>> my
>>>> eyelid itches. The itching, now, THAT is the problem. Seems I now have
>>>> post-herpetic neuralgia, or something. I don't know, that's the best I
>> can
>>>> come up with because I can't get in to see my doctor; I've called and
>>>> "Sorry, we don't have anything until sometime late next week. If it's
>>>> urgent you need to go to the ER." (Forgive the language, but scr**
>> that.)
>>>> When the area isn't itching, there's kind of a creepy-crawly feeling, or
>>>> the rest of the time the feeling you get when your foot's been asleep
>> and
>>>> it's "waking up". And the headache, which isn't too bad most of the
>> time,
>>>> just kind of *there*. Where it's been now for 3 weeks. I'm really,
>>>> seriously over it all. Boy, am I over it.
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry for the whine.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Christopher Hart
>> 
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