wow lou! i appreciate you telling me yr story, though you didn't have to.thanks for entrusting me with it. that's horrible. i didn't think you had done anything really wrong, it would seem so out of character.
i agree with you. despite all the crap going on, life is pretty good. i got a cheap karaoke machine from craigslist today to practice using a mic, on the advice of one of the artists at work- he used to have a band. so i;m gonna plug the thing in & try singing into it like an idiot. at the very least, my friends will ham it up at the next party i throw. so what the hell? why not?
how are things going with yr daughter? have you told her all or part of what really happened? i hope you're able to mend things with her. i just started dragging my 82 yr old father to therapy with me cuz he was driving me crazy lately & i couldn't take it anymore, but i don't want to drift apart at the end of his life or near it, so if someone else says the same things i wanna tell him & he pays for it, he'll listen. 2nd session today. it's tough but we're working thru some deep shit together. it's never too late, but i'm not taking any crap from anyone ever again. not even my dad. i've had all i can stand, lou. i'm really good at unconditional love, but dad's too insecure from his own deepseated stuff to understand that it's unwavering and constant regardless of whatever happens and whether i say it from day to day. it's kinda crazy at my age to go thru all this, but it's about growth & change, so i'm down with it. heal the past and change the future. for my dad and for me. he's still wounded from his dad. we just got to that one today. i've been waiting for someone to call him on that one for a long time. i always saw it. we carry such burdens with us, all of us. it's nice to lighten the load a little. as the witches say, perfect trust, perfect peace. that's not easy.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
everyone suffers and knowing that, takes away a lot of the pain and disappointment in my own life.
Hi Hippie Dave Appleseed,
I enjoyed talking and listening and although some of what I heard was sad news, I'm grateful that you trust me enough to share it. One thing I've learned in all my sufferings through life is that everyone suffers and knowing that, takes away a lot of the pain and disappointment in my own and helps me to be more open-hearted and less opinionated. I have my bad days too when I simply cannot understand why things and people are the way they are, but when i remember that everything that happens to me is impersonal (because everyone suffers whether I am there or not), i'm better able to just let it go and move ahead. It seems like that's what is happening for you! ♥
To David Webster, an industry consultant, flu vaccine is like a mixed investment portfolio.
To David Webster, an industry consultant, flu vaccine is like a mixed investment portfolio. Some is pre-sold at low but secure profit margins, like bonds. The rest, like stocks, might be sold at varying prices in a "spot" market.
To Mark V. Pauly, a health economist, flu vaccine is like avocados. It's a perishable product whose price can go up, producing a windfall for the distributor when supply is short. On the other hand, if you don't unload your avocados quickly, they go bad and must be tossed out.
Neither is surprised at reports this week of prices reaching $600 or more for a 10-dose vial of a vaccine with a normal price tag of $85. A production problem blocked distribution of nearly half the country's vaccine supply, which has set off a scramble by providers to get their hands on what's left.
Although the production and safety of flu vaccine is tightly regulated, it is distributed through a complex and free market in which the balance of supply and demand can bound between extremes. While the system provides a chance for some distributors to profiteer, it also makes wide-scale price gouging unlikely, industry experts say, because much of the supply is committed under contract, at set prices, to customers who ordered it months ago.
Vaccines are distributed differently from other medications, which reach patients through retail pharmacies. Because they must be administered by a doctor or nurse, they get to the patient through hospitals, physicians offices and clinics, including inoculation clinics designed to generate customer traffic at stores and malls.
And flu vaccine, although sold through many of the same distributors to many of the same users, is unique within vaccines.
While most vaccines have a shelf life of about two years, Webster said, flu vaccine is made fresh each year, to match the strains of influenza expected, and sold during the fall and winter flu season.
Some years, when supply moves smoothly and demand is slack, "I have thrown out 5,000 doses," Lessans said.
Other years, supply is short.
Typically, Webster said, distributors base their orders for flu vaccine largely on early commitments from customers, then order extra to "set aside 30 to 40 percent for the spot market."
The distributors, he said, "have decades of experience, and they know if there's a shortage or delays, they're going to get a higher price."
Up to 40 companies are in the flu vaccine distribution business, which grosses about $350 million annually, Webster said.
But a handful of companies dominate, including Schein, which had ordered 20 million doses from Chiron, and PSS World Medical Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., which has been adding a growing number of flu vaccine doses to its doctors office sales in recent years.
Vaccine gap shows faults in supply system; $85 vial may cost $600 amid shortage in U.S.
By M. William Salganik and Julie Bell
October 08, 2004|
To Mark V. Pauly, a health economist, flu vaccine is like avocados. It's a perishable product whose price can go up, producing a windfall for the distributor when supply is short. On the other hand, if you don't unload your avocados quickly, they go bad and must be tossed out.
Neither is surprised at reports this week of prices reaching $600 or more for a 10-dose vial of a vaccine with a normal price tag of $85. A production problem blocked distribution of nearly half the country's vaccine supply, which has set off a scramble by providers to get their hands on what's left.
Although the production and safety of flu vaccine is tightly regulated, it is distributed through a complex and free market in which the balance of supply and demand can bound between extremes. While the system provides a chance for some distributors to profiteer, it also makes wide-scale price gouging unlikely, industry experts say, because much of the supply is committed under contract, at set prices, to customers who ordered it months ago.
Vaccines are distributed differently from other medications, which reach patients through retail pharmacies. Because they must be administered by a doctor or nurse, they get to the patient through hospitals, physicians offices and clinics, including inoculation clinics designed to generate customer traffic at stores and malls.
And flu vaccine, although sold through many of the same distributors to many of the same users, is unique within vaccines.
While most vaccines have a shelf life of about two years, Webster said, flu vaccine is made fresh each year, to match the strains of influenza expected, and sold during the fall and winter flu season.
Some years, when supply moves smoothly and demand is slack, "I have thrown out 5,000 doses," Lessans said.
Other years, supply is short.
Typically, Webster said, distributors base their orders for flu vaccine largely on early commitments from customers, then order extra to "set aside 30 to 40 percent for the spot market."
The distributors, he said, "have decades of experience, and they know if there's a shortage or delays, they're going to get a higher price."
Up to 40 companies are in the flu vaccine distribution business, which grosses about $350 million annually, Webster said.
But a handful of companies dominate, including Schein, which had ordered 20 million doses from Chiron, and PSS World Medical Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., which has been adding a growing number of flu vaccine doses to its doctors office sales in recent years.
Vaccine gap shows faults in supply system; $85 vial may cost $600 amid shortage in U.S.
By M. William Salganik and Julie Bell
October 08, 2004|
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Why can't people just fall asleep wherever they want, Lou?
I'm holding a Clothes Only Yard Sale at my mom and dad's house. Trying to get rid of clothes I have been too fat for over a decade now. Some of them are quite nice. You can have three closets' full of sz 14-18 clothes with a couple sz 12's thrown in for the low low price of $100. Some of the suits and dresses were bought for speech meets, etc. Two or three of them max combined would have easily set you back $100 when they were new. If anyone is remotely interested, please hit me up. I have pants that look like "chefs' pants" and a sz 12 purple dress that is sure to turn heads at any interview.
will you be using the proceeds for your walk across the nation?
So far the clothes have been out there all day and I have only made $10. Someone idled by and stole my cutest jumper too while I was inside fixing a hamburger. The George Foreman Mini Grill is very quick but not quick enough, apparently. If I could just find a sponsor, I would be planning my walk right now! Subway, Nike, Weight Watchers, Heart Association, Cancer Association...No one is interested. :(. Why can't people just fall asleep wherever they want, Lou? I could easily sleep in a sleeping bag alongside a highway if it were legal. Tired of all my dreams being dissed, Lou. This is one Wagon very much in need of a faster, more powerful Star. A Star with blond hair and twinkly blue eyes a plus but optional at this point.
i've always claimed to be lover of intractable problems...so i will scratch my head on your walk across the nation...but i think there's a way, honest to god...blonde haired/twinkly blue eyed star, that one you're on your own :)
will you be using the proceeds for your walk across the nation?
So far the clothes have been out there all day and I have only made $10. Someone idled by and stole my cutest jumper too while I was inside fixing a hamburger. The George Foreman Mini Grill is very quick but not quick enough, apparently. If I could just find a sponsor, I would be planning my walk right now! Subway, Nike, Weight Watchers, Heart Association, Cancer Association...No one is interested. :(. Why can't people just fall asleep wherever they want, Lou? I could easily sleep in a sleeping bag alongside a highway if it were legal. Tired of all my dreams being dissed, Lou. This is one Wagon very much in need of a faster, more powerful Star. A Star with blond hair and twinkly blue eyes a plus but optional at this point.
i've always claimed to be lover of intractable problems...so i will scratch my head on your walk across the nation...but i think there's a way, honest to god...blonde haired/twinkly blue eyed star, that one you're on your own :)
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