Ozark Oddments: What can you get for four grand?

Saturday, September 11, 2010

What can you get for four grand?

Well, for $4,000 you can get quite a few things on a wish list, and you might have change left over if you’re careful….

A decent used car
A cruise to Hawaii and Tahiti
New kitchen appliances
New furniture
A minor renovation to your house
A dental implant to replace a missing tooth

Or 5 days of chemotherapy drugs...

that might save your son’s life.

Round 2 of the treatment began today, and there are 10 more to go. I am so thankful that there is still a safety net in this country to pay for drugs like this for people like our son, people who are not deadbeats and who worked hard at a job, and are not welfare cheats, and are not abusing the system, and who truly need help.

2 comments:

Far Side of Fifty said...: Unreal isn't it..what makes them so expensive? Do they have gold in them..it makes you wonder how much they really cost..and how much they are marked up:(; 1:42 PM
Oklahoma Granny said...: You are so right.; 3:53 PM

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Most of us go through life so absorbed in the cocoon of ourselves that we rarely stop to consider the other. Of course, we think that we do; indeed, we may pride ourselves on our capacity for empathy; we may be considerate and thoughtful in our dealings with others, but how often do we stand before them. so to speak, and experience what it is to be them?--Domenica Macdonald

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, by Alexander McCall
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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering -- because you can't take it in all at once. --Audrey Hepburn

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.--Agatha Christie

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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.--Katharine Hepburn

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― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

"Two people... told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is. I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities. I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being thrown to the lions. I do mind, desperately, that the word "Christian" means for so many people smugness, and piosity, and holier-than-thoughness. Who, today, can recognize a Christian because of "how those Christians love one another"?--Madeline L'Engle, "A Circle of Quiet"