NOTE: This era of stalking and identity theft mandates that we alter the real names and situation in the following story to protect the innocent while retaining enough story for you to understand its message. For the Absolute Purist - consider this a work of fiction.
Arizona beauty Martha Abernathy thought she had a dandruff problem. She used all the right shampoos and conditioners and yet the dandruff persisted such that some of her friends jokingly referred to her as "Flaky."
Over time, the little verbal jab moved from humorous to right down embarrassing causing Martha's self esteem to plummet.
Now Martha's family was of moderate means and Martha's Mom quite in tune with current medical conditions and ailments. Her loving Mother set up an appointment with the area's best dermatologist. The analysis indicated that Martha had psoriasis and that was the true source of the dry skin and flaking.
The dermatologist set forth several treatment regimes for the Mother and Martha to consider. One of these was light therapy.
Using the Internet, Martha and her Mom ran across the Sperti Psoriasis Treatment Lamp, a true medical device requiring a doctor's prescription. Being of moderate means, the lamp was just too expensive, but Sperti offered tanning lamps at a lesser cost which the family could handle with their credit card and they would help, but not treat psoriasis like the the psoriasis lamp would do.
Martha read every word of the Sperti psoriasis lamp description and there close to the end was a link over to something called a letter of necessity. Martha clicked on the link and what she found was a sample letter from her dermatologist to her insurance company recommending that Martha use the Sperti psoriasis lamp and home treatments to cure the psoriasis.
The Dermatologist used the sample letter to pen a real letter which the insurance company approved at a thirty-three percent coverage of the cost of the Sperti psoriasis lamp.
The Dermatologist kept his patient for follow up visits, the insurance company served their client while saving the in-office treatment cost expenses, and Martha's psoriasis was cured.
Martha was last seen giving her all school speech on why she should be homecoming queen. Did she win or did she lose the honor? Well, now that is a totally different story. Using a Sperti Psoriasis Lamp, being cured and getting her self esteem back - that is the moral of this story.
