May or may not have hit a snag. The Tri-Care DH & I have may make me ineligible for the $75 dollar price for 2 CGMs.
Means I might have to go to the affordable care websites and buy a minimal policy, which will function as secondary, the way state law works.
Do people who donated specifically toward the devices mind me putting any of the money toward a policy that would permit me to get the discount?
And I will post information. And yes, I know that the boychik may be the original source of information..
Oops-- I mean the Affordable Care policy will be primary and Tricare will be secondary.
If it sounds like spending money to save money, Tri-Care will pick up the copay on everything, so I will no longer have to pay a cent directly for care, and I will probably be a little better off. Not a lot, but a little.
For example, Tri-Care may have to start picking up the $98/month for the inhalers after all. And I take a few other meds with my insomnia and IBS.
It’ll probably be a break-even proposition, but at least health care will no longer hold any surprises, especially if I have an unexpected hospitalization, which has happened before.
Which means that – because I never even looked at the picture in the GFM page – I was wrong.
Apologies to @Knowed_Out , and … I’m smiling for @RivkahChaya because – all things being equal – having a dog is a chunk better than not having a dog.
Please scratch Evie for me. She’ll know who it’s from.
Well, Evie is adorable. Make that two scratches.
My panicking nature aside, successfully purchased two CGMs for $75 this afternoon.
So, currently wearing my free one, and have two more locked and loaded.
Also, the boxes of inhalers are two per, and each BOX is $98. That means right now, one for work, and one for home. I will probably buy two more next month-- keep one right by my bed, and one in the bag I take pretty much everywhere, plus one in the medicine box. After that, I won’t replace them except as I use them (they are single-use), or as they expire.
Factory-reset my old phone, and planning to see what I can get selling it.
I donated so that you may become healthier, so do so in the manner you determine is best.
I am dismayed at how freaking complicated all of this is! You just need an inhaler, not neurosurgery. Best wishes.
Much appreciated response.
I’m confident Czarcasm speaks for all of us.
Well, if it were easy, I probably wouldn’t have needed to go begging for money in the first place.
Rumor has it that my group will be the next to have insurance opened to us. That is, hypoglycemics with 1) documented, frequent lows below 55; 2) hospital admissions over low sugars; 3) episodes of confusion or other altered consciousness during low sugar episodes.
I have only one #3, and that was years ago, when diabetics and hypoglycemics where having low sugars after the flu shot that year, but my doctor says when you have as many #1 episodes as I do, your brain “learns” to function effectively on ketone bodies, so you can walk & talk with your sugar at 25. I have at least 1 episode of sugar under 40 a week, and sometimes as low as low-20s. 0 is dead, no matter how well you do on ketones. 85-90 or so is normal for me, even after eating. Non-diabetics are 90-140. Controlled diabetics are 100-160. Poorly controlled diabetics can be 120-200 as a matter of course.
I’ve been hospitalized twice for episodes where my sugar dropped below 30, and I could bring it up, but it would not stay up for more than about 15 minutes. Once I went there by ambulance, because I couldn’t get my sugar above 80.
It’s a market saturation thing. They market it to one group, and cover it for them, then when that market is saturated, they open it to another.
Well, that proves there is a first time for everything.
A day or ten late to the party, as usual. Donation made and good luck.
Oh, ignore the GFM now-- you guys have done plenty.
It’s been upped just a little, because I might need an initial insurance payment; albeit, it’ll carry me through several months. I’m posting a few places my brother has found, though, and he is a master at this.
