wrote:

This is posted to the three groups I normally subscribe to, and
decidedly off topic in any of them. However:

My daughter just came home, a week ago from a two month stay in the
hospital. She now has a tracheostomy, and has, in her room, an oxygen
concentrator and nebulizer that she is hooked to, 24 hours a day.
Needless to say, with her birth defects, there is no insurance company
that will touch her, and Medicaid is all she has. She has had a
urostomy for nearly twenty years, the cost of her supplies, the
adhesive wafers to hold the bag and the bags themselves, one box of
each costs $134. That is, six bags and six wafers, no guarantee, they
might last a week, or an hour. Sorry, they're not guaranteed to work.

Snip far too common story.

It sucks Richard. Here's to hoping in November.

Shawn