Just a Brief Note – on Drug Prices and Some Other News

Happy New Year, to all!

I hope this year brings you health, hope and happiness!

I am starting this new year with yet another renewed goal for more exercise and healthier living choices. As you would expect, the older I get, the harder it is to keep myself in shape, and to keep my numbers in check. I am also starting this new year with renewed hope and gratefulness. Many a doctors predicted I would be much sicker, or even dead way before my thirties. With God’s will, I will be 37 this year, and I am still living a full life. There are no words to say “thank you” for that. To the stars, God, nature, my doctors, and my body, too.


I stumbled upon this article the other day and it made me pause for a while and re-live my life, in a way. A lot of folks had negative reactions at the new guidelines for screening kids, but if there is even a small doubt that, for whatever reason (family history, lifestyle, etc) your kid might have high cholesterol, I believe you can’t do the screening early enough. The more you know, the earlier you know, the better a chance you have that you shape your kid’s lifestyle in a way that will ensure they can live a well rounded, full life and manage this disease better, before the damage is done to their hearts and brains, and before they can’t breathe while going up a flight of stairs. After all, it’s just a blood test! We’re not talking about donating a kidney here. Just my humble opinion, of course.

On a completely different note, I filled my prescription for the generic Lipitor the other day. I do hope the efficiency of the drug is the same, as I am really liking the price! I am paying $15 for a three month supply, as opposed to the $50 a month for the real thing (with insurance, of course). That’s a $135 discount every 3 months! I am really hoping the “you get what you pay for” shan’t apply here!