2022.10.13 THROW BACK THURSDAY - I'M BAAACK WITH MORE ON BROOKS PLUS LOTS OF CLASS NEWS
THROW BACK THURSDAY - I'M BAAACK WITH MORE ON BROOKS PLUS LOTS OF CLASS NEWS
Our local hero who became a national hero, Brooks Robinson, was recently honored again by the Baltimore Orioles. Enjoy this film showing how loved and revered he is in Baltimore and then watch him throw out the first pitch in an Orioles game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4K42qWCv90
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You didn't hear from me last Thursday because I was in the Heart Hospital here in LR. Nothing wrong, but testing to see if a new pill would jerk me out of Afib. It didn't, but a good ole shock did the trick and I'm back to normal - whatever that is! Since learning of Afib, I have been introduced into the "US medical world of 2022", and boy, is this an experience. There is one thing I've learned that I want to share with all of you, just in case you haven't heard about it. Up until a couple of weeks ago when Afib raised it's ugly head, I took one high blood pressure pill each day that I don't even have to pay for. Humana just refills the prescription every three months and I never get a bill. But then all of a sudden I was taking several pills and I was being billed. For awhile not so bad. Then this new pill emerged and I was told the doctor couldn't contact my insurance company, only I could to see if they would cover it. I am to take "Tikosyn" 2 times each day, 12 hours apart. Humana approved the generic, but would only approve the real stuff after an appeal. Here's the important part:
Tikosyn 30-day supply (remember I need 2 a day) - $99
Generic Tikosyn 30-day supply - $89
Enter "Mark Cuban's Costplus Drug Company".
I learned of it from my cardiologist. I googled, emailed them and low and behold, the Generic Tikosyn 30-day supply - $8.60! The only additional cost: $5 shipping.
Now maybe this is old news to many of you who have been on meds for awhile. It was a shocker to me. If you will get on Cuban's email site, it's easy peasy to sign up and you can see a list of all drugs covered. Hope this helps someone!
Vernon Newman could use a little love and help here in LR. He has been diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma. He cannot drive. If anyone can give him a lift from time to time to Carti, that would be wonderful. He lives in Leawood.
Just got off the phone with Dee Dee Bowers. She is in hospice with congestive heart failure. She was so disappointed when she learned she couldn't make the Reunion. She had been planning on it forever. We sure missed seeing you too, Dee Dee. We're all thinking of you!
We just learned of the death of LaVerlle Coker who passed away May 29, 2018. McKee, Corinne LaVerlle (nee Coker) 79 yrs. surrounded by her loving family on May 29, 2018. Beloved wife of the late Garold H. McKee; loving mother and mother-in-law of Charles Alex,(Kathy) McKee, Gregory “Scott” (Theresa) McKee, Gary McKee and Susan (David) Rumpf; cherished grandmother of Alex McKee, Ian McKee, Nathan McKee, Corinne Rumpf, and Garrett (Dolly) Rumpf; great-grandmother of Jayson Rumpf, Abbigail Rumpf and Natalie Rumpf; dear cousin and friend of many. Corinne also leaves her companion “Boo”. service 11 a.m. at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, 315 Graham Rd., Florissant. Interment will be on a later date at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.
As soon as I can find someone who can post some Reunion pictures, they will be on our website.
In the meantime, if you miss a TBT or want to look back on an old one, just go to our website
Our October Birthdays
OCTOBER
2 Carroll Forbush
4 Ed Stebbins
5 Nancy Newsom
6 Curtis Cook
7 Judy Stout
8 John Len Burnett
9 DiAnn Powers
10 Paul Brower and Joe Crow
11 Bill Heath
13 Sandra Snow - HAPPY DAY, SANDY!!!!!
14 Marsha Jones
18 Judy Callaway
19 Jim Diffee and Kay Lanford
23 Clara Dean Stoddard
24 Carl Smith
26 Ann Vines
27 Jean Rogers
28 Jo Lynn Hill
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Rosemary Ridgedill has just learned of the death of Ann Mack Boles in Flowery Mound, GA. So far I can't
locate an obituary. If anyone else has it, please send and I'll post next week.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BILL SHEPHERD, IT'S YOUR DAY!!!
10/28 will be Lana Douthit's big day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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3 THINGS YOU NEED IN LIFE:
1. SOMETHING TO DO
2. SOMEONE TO LOVE
3. SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO
TBT fills all three slots for me!
ML