2 posts tagged “clinton”

heeeeelp !! 

... i'm really at a loss now .. at first i was leaning towards hilary, then i found myself leaning towards bahama momma, or what the hell ever his name is .. now i have no clue wtf's going on
.. my only concern is the one who has the better health issues plan .. the one who can provide health care to all, or at least for those who truly need it ..

ya, i know, they're politicians, so they're all full of shit and nothing of what they say they'll do will happen anyway ..

can any1 give a quick run down of which of the two might actually care that some of us don't have insurance, or can't afford it, and truly need it ? maybe have something similar to what canada has in mind ?

pissed is not the word to describe how mad i am right now ... livid doesn't even do it justice .. more like

i'm ready to rip hubby a new asshole !!!  >=(

he comes in here just a few minutes ago to show me what he'd been working on in the garage all morning .. ok, nice, then he leaves
... just as he's leaving i get this whiff of a familar odor trailing behind him .. an odor that i know only too well .. so what do i do ? i follow my nose .. i ended up following him from the house into his garage in the backyard

i walk up to the door only to find it's locked .. mind you, he juuust walked in there and i was only a coupla steps behind him .. apparently he didn't know i was following him .. or my nose for that matter ..

so i knocked on the door & he asks me what i want .. told him i want in ... NOW ! .. so he opens the door lets me in and he's sitting down in front of one of the pc's that needs to be fixed .. i tell him to put it down cuz i have a beef i need to settle w/him ..

apparently the 'ol familiar smell i was onto was the smell of his favorite cigars .. normally this wouldn't irritate me in the least .. i smoked for many maaany moons & attempted quitting a number of times on my own to no avail ..

.. until i found  this .. this link in particular is based in ohio, but there's others around the country .. we just chose to go to this one cuz it was closest to us ..

long story short ( ya, like i can make a long story short pffft ), this clinic has two main services .. one of them being help w/weight loss .. and the other to quit smoking ..

ok, so i set up an appt. to have this done for both of us, we both want to quit smoking .. least i thought so ..

what they do is they make you watch a video about how bad smoking is, how nicotine affects your brain, blah blah blah .. if ya ask me it's just a time waster .. my best guess is they do it so they can set up shop cuz they had us watch it behind a shower curtain looking thing .. then, once the video's over, they tell you about these pills you're going to take for the next coupla weeks .. one's for motion sickness and the other is an anti-seizure medication, one that i used to take until i grew a tolerance for .. it's all part of the treatment ..

lemme back up a sec just to throw in a minor detail .. the entire trip to ohio i was chain smoking like a fiend .. even once we got there i stayed outside for a few minutes so i can smoke the last one in my pack .. i'm totally convinced this is a bunch of hooey and i'll be right back at it by the time we get out of there ..

ok, so onward and upward, back to the treatment et al ..

they make you watch the video, tell you you'll be taking these meds for 2 weeks thereafter, and then set us all up one by one in our own little clinical rooms & sit on the exam table and wait ..

by the time the witch dr. ( if that's what ya wanna call her ) comes in i'm antsy as hell ..i want outta there, it's been over 2 hours and i'm jonesin' for a smoke soooooooo badly .. she tells me what she's gonna do & explains to me once again that after it's all said and done for, you can not drive for at least 8 hours and you'll feel pretty tired and groggy .. ( we got a hotel room close to the clinic and doc's daughter picked us up and brought us back afterwards ) .. 

what they do is, other then the meds, video & some preaching, they give you a series of shots .. one in the ass and one behind each ear .. sounds goofy i know .. and most certainly doesn't sound like a successful way to quit smoking .. kinda like acupuncture i guess

.. so i get my shots, hubby gets his shots & we're ready to leave ..

becuz we couldnt' drive back we had to wait in the waiting room for this chic to get us back to our hotel room .. it wasn't even 10 minutes after our shots that we were both passing out in the waiting room .. jeez, i'm thinking, this lady wasn't kidding ! there's no way we could drive like this .. even if it is only a coupla miles away

well, ok, i promised to make a long story short & apparently i'm not capable of that lol ..

both of us ended up passing out from 4pm until 3pm the next day .. out like a light, both of us .. once we've got our scruples about us, we leave to go home ..

now, their guarentee is you won't have any cravings, no mood swings, no side effects, no nothing .. and on top of it, they also guarentee that if you start smoking again within 6 months of having these shots, they'll do it all over again for free, all you have to pay only for is the office visit .. not bad, not bad .. and if you start smoking again within a year's time, they'll do it again, except this time you will have to pay for the visit, but still not the treatment itself .. ok, pretty fair .. how can ya go wrong, right ?

well, we had it done a coupla weeks before xmas last year, it was our xmas pressies to ourselves .. pretty good ones if ya ask me .. and now, here we are in may, 5 - 6 months later & going strong .. they weren't kidding when they say there's no withdrawls, no cravings, no headaches, no mood swings, nothing ... i was soooo suprised & i'm a super skeptical person ..

what happened earlier is when he left the room i could smell it .. and followed my nose into the garage where i reemed into him like no one's business .. mind you, this is not the first time we've gone round & round about this one .. this is not the first, not even the second time, but the third time !! 3 times a charm right ? grrrrrrrrrrr

.. he claimed he had no more & threw away the box .. ya, wtf ever .. i heard this one last time too .. he assured me he wasn't going to smoke anymore and had no more left ( some places you can buy cigars by the singular vs. a pack ) ..

now before ya go, pffft, no big deal, just a coupla cigars won't hurt no one .. well, no, maybe not .. but when they're $2,000 cigars they do !!! plz allow me to explain ...

the shots themselves cost $500 each .. each location has different fees .. ie - arizona charges $700 for theirs, so i guess we lucked out in ohio w/the rate of $500 .. soooooo, put together $500 twice, for both of us getting the treatment, you're up to $1,000 .. then on top of that, add another $500 for each cigar the sob smoked since .. that gives you another $1,500 .. which brings you to a sum of $2,500 .. now, to be fair, let's take out the $500 it cost for my treatment .. you're still stuck w/a $2,000 cigar  >=(

does he care ? hell no .. and yet i do remember him saying over & over again how once we get these shots we're not buying anymore smokes, albeit cigarettes or cigars, no more, none, nada, zilch .. and jeez, being as they're up to at least $5 - $6 for a pack for generics, who can afford it ? a month's worth of smokes is a car payment fgs ..

am i pissed ? hell ya ! do i have a right to be pissed ? you're damned friggin straight i do !!
.. it's not easy to quit, i know that only too well .. i smoked for over 18 years and last time i quit i was smoke free for almost 4 years .. then it got to the point where i was around too many smokers and i just couldnt' handle it anymore .. i caved ..
.. tack on the other 2+ years since and it equals to i've been smoking at least 20 years .. not easy to quit a 20 year habit .. and goodness knows i'm such a creature of habit .. but ya know, this whole witch doctor shot voodoo crap actually worked .. for both of us .. at least until now it did  >=(

the desire to smoke comes and goes at times, as it did last time i quit .. that's just a given .. i've heard others say that even after many decades that they still find themselves wanting one .. makes sense to me, it really does

the clinic & the shot does everything it possibly can to make it an easy, bitchy, mood free clean break from a dirty habit .. what more could you ask for ? they can't hold your hand fgs & smack it if ya reach for one .. something i think hubby obviously needs

ok, well, now that i've ranted & raved this much, and bless your soul for reading to this point, i'll call it quits .. i just can't emphasize enough how easy it was to quit after these shots and how there was absolutely no side effects & no cravings at all .. seriously, if you can raise about $500, which might equal out to only a coupla month's worth of smokes to some, it can be a means to an end .. unless of course, you're a weak wuss like my hubby  >=(

mind you, we had to raise the $1,000 on our own to have all this done, along w/the gas expense for traveling out of state, and a hotel stay .. but i'm tellin' ya it's sooooo worth it if you're serious about quitting ..

i've sent all the paper work, receipts & all else that our insurance company asked for, cuz there's a good chance they'll reimburse us for the cost of the visit & the shots as well .. and ya know, if not, it's still worth it to me .. it's nice to be able to have sex w/out huffing & puffing 2 minutes into it, and also nice to have my sense of smell and taste back

.. speaking of taste, he'd better enjoy the taste of that friggin $2,000 cigar .. cuz next time he's not gonna taste it .. that is, unless he has a tongue & taste buds up his ass  >=(