Reply #45: We both belong to Senior Advantage, which is an HMO plan --

[Radio_Lady]

that supplements Medicare through Kaiser Permanente here in Oregon (and Washington state). So far, it's been fairly good and not too expensive ($94.00 a month for each of us). It's hard to get through on the telephone -- but we now have a speaker phone so I can wait in their queue listening to their (music???).

I've had lots of testing this year and face some (hopefully) minor uterine surgery in May. My husband had to have two inguinal hernia repairs, one last October and another one in February. Our primary doctor is quite young, but he's been cooperative about my requests for care. We're working on a puzzling thyroid condition which seems beyond him, but when I read up on the subject, the whole thyroid disease field is quite challenging. I'm supposed to see someone in the Endocrinology Dept. next month.