Financial options

As you might all know or not, I recently lost my job ( about 2 months ago). Fortunately I qualified for unemployment but unfortunately this amounts to about a third of what my salary was. Due to my numerous health problems in the last year ( I've been hospitalized 5 times in the last year) my financial situation is pretty bleak. The butcher job my kidney surgeon did on me has left me with extensive nerve damage on my right side causing me constant pain. I've tried everything, nerve block, acupuncture, nerve pain medicine, opiods, etc. All of this costs me anywhere from $500-$1000 a month in prescription costs. Now, I get the news that my cardiologist is no longer going to supply me with the anti-coagulant medicine that I have to take daily to prevent clots from forming in my heart stents. This is going to add another $200 a month in prescription costs, which I'd not have a choice as this could mean life or death:( I started this blog with the Latin phrase of "seize this day" but currently it's a hard thing to do.. I guess I'm looking for some financial advice, anyone recommend a good bankruptcy attorney? and thanks for listening, that is if anyone is:)


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Off The Subject......

I know this has nothing to do with micro living or electronic do-dads, but i had to write it hoping to get some opinions. I don't know if anybody reads my thoughts but i want to put it on "paper" anyway. So here it is:
Thursday I had oral surgery scheduled to remove 3 teeth ( 1 was broken, dentist said "while i'm in there I might as well extract these other 2") My cardiologist would not let me go off my anti- coagulant medicine as he was concerned about clotting on my stents- Yeah, I'm 37 and have 4 heart stents, but that is for another post! Back to the subject at hand, I was supposed to be put under but due to my tolerance for pain medicine I was awake for the whole procedure, the pain medicine tolerance? yeah thats due to the fact my kidney doc cut a major nerve in my flank and now have chronic pain in my side, hip, and back-thats for another day two! So they get the 3 teeth out and send me on my way, with bleeding....surgery was at 1pm, by 11:30 pm i felt like i had lost a gallon of blood so I decided to go to the ER. By the time I get there I look like I got shot in the face, it is nice how you get immediate treatment when you walk in covered with blood! So I spend the entire night until 6:30 the next morning spitting blood- the ER room looked like a horror movie bloodbath, finally they get a dentist from the same practice that I had been to, his opinion was it was a combination of medical & surgical bleeding, meaning they screwed up and 1- did the surgery while i was still on anti-coagulant medicine therefore my blood would not clot. 2-didnt get enough stitches in to close up the surgical wounds. Which he proceeded to do in the ER with, God bless their souls, ER nurses who are not trained to handle oral surgery. Therefore I experienced pain that i did not know was possible. After finally getting it stitched up they decided to keep me for at least another day as they had to give me 2 units of blood due to the fact I spit out so much my blood count was low. I spent the next 30 hours in excruciating pain and trying to keep my sanity because of it..This leads to the question at hand, I don't think I should be financially responsible for their screw-up, so what do I do? get an attorney? What are my options???

hello again, its been a minute since I've updated this blog, had a lot of personal drama going on. but that is for yet another day! I decided to rename my blog as most don't speak Latin and I felt I wasn't reaching my audience. ALso I have decided to step away from reviewing electronic do-dads as there is SO many more established sites and blogs doing that I felt lost in the shuffle. After a lot of thought and soul searching I am going to focus more on something I am learning about due to my current living situation. I am talking about mico-living. By this I mean not only learning to live in a small space but also how to give up the unnecessary things in life that we tend to start hoarding - by this I mean trying to keep up with the Jones's. I will try and update as often as possible bringing interesting articles about micro living and my own path to minimalistic living. stay tuned..

Apple is not my big brother!!

I want to touch on the current apple crisis, I'm referring to the news that the iphone and ipad running version 4 of the IOS software has a file embedded that has been tracking the position of said devices for about 10 months now. According to the report this is accomplished by utilizing cellular towers to triangulate current positions and then the info is stored locally on the device or your computer after syncing with itunes. Supposedly Apple Inc. is not privy to this info but the information is not encrypted unless you encrypt your back ups and seems to be pretty easily accessible. Now whether or not this information actually provides much use to anyone is debatable, but perhaps it could allow a potential thief to know when someone is typically at home or not, or a potential stalker to know where he is victim is at. Either way this reeks of an Orwelllian aftertaste and something that Apple Inc. needs to come clean on and eliminate in its next update.

A case For The Ages..

Wow,
I have truly slacked in my writing responsibilities lately, perhaps its my preoccupation with trying to find a paying job:) anyhow, today I would like to review something that has zero bells and whistles but yet makes my "want meter" kick into high gear. I'm talking about the MacBook Pro cases by the guys at Blackbox Cases out of Golden, Colorado. These guys are handmaking cases from red oak and now bamboo to fit the MacBook pro's sleek designs. Nothing screams custom fit like a case hewn from our natural resources.These are sure to be a head turner and not something you are going to see on the shelves @ Best Buy! I have spoken to my woodworking guru and we are going to attempt to costruct something similar but unique to try to add to our ever changing inventory of sales possibilities. Its nice to see a company thinking outside the proverbial "box" and constructing something so basic as a laptop case into what I consider truly a work of art.They come in 13,15, and now 17" sizes, and they have also released a case for the iPad2. Kudo's to these guys and here is a link to there site.http://www.blackboxcase.com/

im sorry if I have missed a post or two, I've been preoccupied with setting up a back linking network, anywhooo I would like to discuss the new port technology issued on the latest MacBook Pro's the Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt technology gives you two channels on the same connector with 10 Gbps of throughput in both directions. That makes it ultrafast, and ultraflexible. You can move data to and from peripherals up to 20 times faster than with USB 2.0 and more than 12 times faster than with FireWire 800. You also have more than enough bandwidth to daisy-chain multiple high-speed devices, without using a hub or switch. For example, you can connect several high-performance external disks, a video capture device, and even a Mini DisplayPort display to a single Thunderbolt chain while maintaining maximum throughput. Some are saying this will supersede USB 3.0 but from my understanding Intel is attempting to work right alongside USB 3.0 to give the consumer more flexibility when it come to data transfer. This being said the amount of current devices supporting this technology is slim at best, but down the road we will be transferring data between devices faster than we ever thought possible. As we all know time is of the essence...

Why everyone should have the iPad2

Trust me, I know the title might sound a little over the top but I truly believe that the computers of yesterday have pretty much met their collective match. Granted, you cant do everything on an iPad that can be accomplished on your desktop but pretty darn close. I have spent about a month with the newest incarnation of Apple's iPad and I have to say- Im sold. I purchased the first iPad soon after its release and thought, " how can this possibly get better?" Well, it has! the iPad2 is lighter, faster, and now has 2 cameras enabling Facetime video and a decent camera to shoot video as well. I used to lug a laptop with me everywhere I went, not wanting to be out of touch from my email & internet- like I couldn't survive without either:). Now, Ive pretty much ditched the laptop in favor of my shiny new toy, a 32GB white iPad2 with the leather smart cover. This thing is fast! and the wow factor you get from most people is priceless.. You would think Im an alien from another world showing off unimaginable technology to the frightened masses, I'm not kidding, thats the reaction I often get- one of utter disbelief and amazement. Not to say I wasn't a bit inspired when I first held it as well, its just cool to watch the faces of people as they experience it for the first time. Now some say tablets will replace laptops or desktops in the near future, I just don't agree. Sure, I can get my email, surf the web, even write this blog post, but I believe there will always be a place for the home computer, where else am I going to store my massive music collection and years of Jersey Shore episodes, the iPad2 maxes out at 64GB...