Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

Last year our medical supplier said that the batteries were $298 each but we got the two installed for $198 at Batteries plus. Medical supply place will only replace the entire controller for the Hoyer standing lift for $300. We get replacement batteries installed at Batteries Plus for $57. They last about 2 years. Her wheelchair batteries have lasted between 2 and 3 years.

It is so hard to get this kind of information. They will tell you that you cannot use the batteries but what they took out of the Hoyer was the exact same battery that they put in the Hoyer. The batteries in the power chair were a step up because they had come down in price.

Also you are obviously living in the wrong US state to be disabled and survive and that is a crime and a sin of the GOP.

I helped two transplants come here to Minnesota get low income housing, sign up for medical care, Home Health Care Aides Independent Living skills counselor to get you settled and other programs to keep folks like us out of nursing homes and active. The Minnesota Legislature does not have a problem with folks living here and going to visit family they stated when they were revamping the Food Stamp program to eliminate multiple dippers. Or bring the family. Job hunting is hard but can be done.

If you can breathe and type you can contribute mightily and we need you for those who cannot do those things but should be able to live as long as they want to live and do as much as they can do.

I also had an advocacy group arrange to fly one of those people on an Angel Flight to Missouri to visit someone who could get her back on her feet. Minnesota has very good medical care but not always the best in all areas. I don't know if they do revocations but you could check it out. A few years ago a medi cab driver told me that sometime in the previous year he had driven a Medicaid patient to and from to Johns-Hopkins in Maryland for life saving surgery that they were only doing there at the time. There are options if you want them and are willing to take the help. Please don't give up if you are just going through a rough patch. Any accident or illness needing 3 or more weeks of recovery can lead to depression which is treatable. The kind of depression where you use up all the chemicals that keep your brain functioning the way insulin keeps your body functioning if your pancreas checks-out.

Wishing you better health and easier thoughts soon.