I noticed on my page I actually have my 1st response. I have not clicked the link to find out any more information on this 75% off perscription medicine program. I was more inspired to share what I have found to be an even better deal that anyone and everyone is able to apply for. Pharmacudical companies have what is called a patient assistant program. My doctors office actually got me started on it. I was aproved and a perscription that would normally cost me $165.00 a month cost $5.00. I had another perscription that would have cost $130.00 a month that cost me $10.00 a month. The one perscription had a generic that still would have cost more with out the patient assistant program. I know many doctor offices are swamped and this does require a bit of leg work and some organization if the doctor is not willing to handle the paper work for you but very much worth it when medication is a necessity and money is tight. One of my cellular customers actually works for a pharmaceutical company who is totally opposed and considers the idea of socialized medical actually a scare and a threat to his industry. I do not share that beliefe and love Michael Moore's movie "Sicko". The thing he said to me is that so many people complain because they can't afford their medication and if you ask them if they have even applied for patient assistance they usually say no or they don't even know its availabe. Or the real kicker is they don't think they will qualify. Well if you can not afford medication or it is a finacial stress in your life chances are you will qualify. So I had the amount of what my medication costs down to the place I could afford it. The next issue I had was the fact the Dr. was charging me a fortune every month to simply write out a perscription or two. My doctor's office was more than helpful with the patient assistant program but there were several times I could'nt pay my balance and they refused to see me or write my perscription. This meant I went with out my medication for several weeks at one point. Finally the same lady in the office handed me a form to fill out applying for county assitance for my doctor visits. I was aproved and had no co-pay. This all was very helpful and Michael Moore dosen't mention any of this in "Sicko" which I will admit is a very biased move showing the extreme cases proving socialized medicine is a necessity in America. Until we as Americans can all look forward to being able to see the doctor when needed, have good dental care, and rest assured we will not go with out medication, this is the information I was inspired to share with you. If you would like more information on this I have some resources that will probably explain and share more information with me on where to get the applications ad how it works. I was lucky enough to have a great doctors office that handled all of it for me. I am pretty sure that every pharmaceutical company website will have a link for a downloadable application. As for the county assistance I believe it would or at least should be listed on your states department of human services web page. I will try to post some links on my home page. Right now I am working strictley off my cellular PDA and will hopefully get settled and my desktop up and running soon as I have just moved.

This new years resolution was not my normal superficial new year resolutions. I also have broken the tradition of not breaking the new years resolution. I have always been a very extreme person and when I say my life was in a chaotic wreck it was a chaotic wreck in the most extreme way possible. All of my time was spent at work and getting my kids out the door or settled in the apartment for the night with a babysitter so I could go back to work. My run down apartment was a mess. No organization and was a dirty mess. I was only there a couple of hours a day but my kids were forced to spend more time there and I couldn't do anything about it. I never had time it was work and more work to pay the bills for going to work. I would hear "mom, mom, look at this" or "I need help with this" at first. I was to busy trying to get things ready for the babysitter or them ready to go out the door to daycare. Then the fits started and the demands for my attention and it was obvious there was a serious problem. On top of all of this I still couldn't make ends meet. Life was spinning out of control. Then comes the New Year. Like anything in my life at that time I was at least a week late on everything other than work, work, work. I finally had my resolution however late....it was for balance. Great resolution right. The problem that followed that was I needed a game plan which I never acomplished. I reacted one day and have been on a path that is still very much unbalanced yet has me feeling a little more balanced and my kids are much happier now. I struggle financially right now but I was doing that before. I now have food in the fridge, know my kids, and just moved into an apartment that has dramatically improved our standard of living. I am not sure how the bills are going to get paid but the roof over our heads is taken care of and we can still eat. I find it is the small things in life the greatest at this point and have opened my eyes to the amount of things more valuble than a rat race for finances that get you furher behind in the grand scheme of things. To me the meaning of balance was highlighted by improving the quality of life for my family.

I am a 30 year old single mom. I am beyond struggling and making ends meet. The stress from my financial problems has exughsted me, stressed me out to the point of causing medical problems. I was working one job full time and received some assistance from the state. I was living with two kids in a tiny run down apartment that should never be rented to anyone. I live in a small town in a rural area and it was all available to me because I worked a full time job. On average my pay was $9 an hr. Some weekscommissions were better than others. The state cut all of my assistance and I had to get another job to pay the bills created by going to my full time job. 8 couldn't pay my bills, put food on the tabel, pay child care, my medical bills...ect. On top of all of that I would see my beautiful children that didn't know me and I knew very little about them about one and a half hours in the morning and one hour at night. I was a walking zombie at this point. I was so tired that my first job (dealing with large corporate cellular accounts and internet services) I would have clients talking to me, I could see them talking to me, I ould hear them, I was unable to comprehend a word they were saying. I was making just enough money to makemyself extremly poor and kill myself at an early age. I guess I was feeling really sorry for myself because I would break down and cry when ever I went to the bathroom or was out of the public eye. I had a huge break down and flipped out. I quit my job. I actually have no job at this point. I would like a part time job but there is no child care available around here for the hours I need. I am going back to school in May to finish my A.A. and continue on to my B.S in buisness management and need a night time job. Since quitting my job I have moved in to government houseing which is up to code and has room for my kids and myself. I actually have gotten to know my kids again and well we are able to eat. The other problems of how to pay my electric, water, gas, and phone is another story. Yes I need help and have had a lot of people critisize me harshly for quitting my jobs and well I probably deserve to get everything shut off but I had to do some thing and quitting was the only thing that came to mind in the middle of my exuaghstion and break down. I have since lost my car and there is no real public transportation. I sometimes receive a little childsupport from one dad which gets diapers and stuff but no extras. We are living with no television service so we watch old movies and I am riding out my last few days on my phone service before they shut me off and connecting to the internet this way. I have got to say that even with these financial concerns, in the midst of loseing it all, I am less stressed and much happier than when I was exaughsted, ready to drop, all to provide for what was then two little strangers that are now once again my kids. If anyone can help me, would like to help me that would be the most welcome and unexpected surprise I could get right now. I can be emailed at bellarjewels1@hotmail.com I have been critisized endlessly by my family and even by some people who I thought were friends so be better than me(like any critque thinks they are) and keep it to yourself....please