Seems it’s the day for no sleep. I fell asleep around 3, for no reason other than insomnia. I got up at 6.
MiL left. Huzzah! On her way out she helped herself to various things from around my house, all small enough to carry onto the plane. I just gritted my teeth and shoved her suitcases in the car. Safe travels!
Everyone is out of the house now. I am eating my toast and then I’ll probably go back to sleep if I can.
Happy Weds all.
Well apparently Mumpers don’t sleep on Tuesday nights. I myself didn’t get to bed until just after midnight-thirty, a scant 3.5 hours before the alarm at 4. Made for a very drowsy drive into work this morning.
sends shots of virtual espresso to everyone
Like money, jewelry?
[QUOTE=The Vorlon]
Piker! The wife was on Lovenox, an injectable anticoagulant, that retailed for 30K for 90 days. And I got to stab her every night. How many other husbands get to stab their wives every night?
Now it is a little dark red pill that goes for $50 a day.
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Probably Xarelto. Looks like a little Klingon insignia?
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
It costs me $100 a month. It is $1,000 a month. The pharmacy has to eat $900 until the insurance company reluctantly ponys up.
There is a guy at the insurance company whose only job is trying to find a reason to kick me off.
So far, he has been unsuccessful.
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I know I mention this now and then, but it’s worth repeating. If you’re on traditional “commercial” insurance that wasn’t bought through one of those new exchanges, you can almost always go to the drug maker’s website and find a discount program. When DH was taking it, his Xareltowas free instead of the $100/month copay it would otherwise be.
Similarly, there’s a program for Simponi.
So far, my biggest savings coup was finding the program to get Neulasta for $25 per shot instead of roughly $13,000. :eek: The stem cell doc coordinated getting him onto the maker’s program to get the new chemo med for free, saving us about $180,000, so I can’t take credit there.
eta: How long ago was the Lovenox? It’s available as generic now - I’ve got a couple boxes of the stuff here that we got for our usual $7 copay.
I think I have the flu. I should probably go to the doctor, but my doctor’s office is in Mispronunciationton which is an hour away. If I go I can get a Doctor’s Note which will excuse me from irk. But that would require driving while I feel like crap.
Really wish we had sick days at irk instead of having to get Doctor’s Notes like we were all in first grade. :mad:
The pain guy says that works if I do not have insurance.
Or maybe not. 
Lunch has been ingested. **FCD **called a bit ago. He was in pain, but he hadn’t taken his pain pill - claimed he had to work. Um, how good will your work be if you’re in agony?? I convinced him to take a pill and go to bed. Hope he’ll follow thru. I’ll stop on the way home to pick up his percocet. Tomorrow afternoon, they’re going to shoot him in the spine - I sure hope that helps.
I can’t believe I’m still more or less functional. OK, I’m dragging, but I don’t think I’ve nodded off, so there’s that. Three more hours to go.
Howdy from South Miami! Day two of the horsepistol is dragging by. Hubs is bored and starting to be cranky. I hope we can go home tomorrow after his cardioversion but a white board in his room has Firday as expected release date. We will both be crazy by then.
I found a target and bought me a little cooler and got my beers chilling for later. I had a “healthy meal” from the cafeteria for lunch. It weren’t bad and only $3.
All the staff here are very nice and most are Hispanic but speak English too. Time just seems to have stopped. Come on Firday.
Mmmoooommm Poor FCD hope he gets some relief. My hubs had some shots in his neck that worked very well so hopefully they work equally well for FCD.
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We seem to be a sickly bunch lately. {{{Mumpers}}}
I didn’t sleep too good last night either, but it could have been the afterirk Starbucks, the before dinner ice tea, and the after dinner Starbucks.
I’m reasonably healthy for once, but pushing end-of-semester homework.
Home and not going to work; someone will be getting their head shaved and I’ll miss it. I didn’t really mention since it wasn’t me and I know she reads here now and then but ------ the Old Wench had some outpatient surgery this AM - Five-freaking-AM - and I’m hanging close to her. Everything went fine and in 4 weeks or so we’ll know more. She has been having various and sundry issues but this one (girley stuff) probably had us both the more concerned.
Howdy Y’all! Hump Day has been survived. YAY! Dindin shall be at the church house tonight so I don’t have to cook. Double YAY!
MOOOOOOM hope FCD took his pain pill and that what he gets tomorow does the trick.
Butters here’s hopin’ this does the trick for Hubs and y’all get to go home tomorrow.
{{{BigKitty}}} feel better soonest.
It was xarelto. With MassHealth, the copays were zero, our biggest issue was finding the sharps container from a vet supply house. Dang things would not fit in a retail sized one. The shipping for the 13 gallon ones were three bucks more than the charge for the container was. Filled two of them up.
You know that if you have enough scripts, you hit the semi-mythical land of no co-pays? In her case, she got there the second week of January. At least I take until May, or so.
No, random things like my hairbrush, all of my cloth grocery bags, and a crochet hook. I’m not sure what else yet. I suppose I’ll figure it out as I un-do all of the re-arranging she did of my house whilst here.
Drive to the doctor! Or at least find a local urgent care and go there. It’s worth it to be able to recover at home. Feel better. {{{BigKitty}}}
I believe it works with your insurance and helps cover the difference between what insurance covers and a specified maximum out-of-pocket to you, usually $25.
:eek: I’m thinking we found our culprit!
Speaking of that, I’m up from my nap (yay - nap!) and drinking coffee. Based on WetOne’s experience, I shall cut myself off before too much longer.
Happy Hump Day!
Another wet, gloomy, dreary day.
Must have been something going on last night. I woke up and couldn’t get back to sleep. I fell back asleep around 7, almost overslept for irk. Went back to sleep after irk, and totally wasted the day.
{{{to everybody who needs them, or even if you don’t}}}
Home, exhausted. **FCD **is able to lie on the couch, so his meds are helping. I’m thinking I’ll sleep with Mel tonight. We’ve got a meeting in the morning to discuss what’s coming up this summer and I should probably stay awake for that.
I had to load the pellet stove - damp chill in the house. It’s not supposed to be like this in May!! Dammit!
Dunno what we’ll do for supper. We’ve got leftover wonton and hot-n-sour soup - maybe that’ll do. At the moment, I just don’t care.
I think now would be a good time for all Mumpers and mumper-affiliated family members to knock it off with the medical issues. Healthy up, folks! I have spoken!!!
Blurf. We’re talking about stuff at work that I actually went to college to learn, so it alternates between “Oh, God, not this shit again!” to “Wow, that’s actually kind of interesting.”
The local farmer’s market is back outdoors. It’s held every Wednesday in front of the local Presbyterian church, where George Washington went to church when he was in town to rough up some tax protesters out West. He slept here, too.
Anyway, the sprog and I like to go, and we got some fresh potato chips and an amazingly good donut; some asparagus; a cup of vanilla mint lemonade; an apple and some apple schnitz; some strawberry jam; and some other odds and ends.
And paperwork is moving between us and the realtor. Double blurf.
[QUOTE=The Vorlon]
It was xarelto. With MassHealth, the copays were zero, our biggest issue was finding the sharps container from a vet supply house. Dang things would not fit in a retail sized one. The shipping for the 13 gallon ones were three bucks more than the charge for the container was. Filled two of them up.
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Thirteen GALLONS of sharps? :eek:
Makes me glad that the saline and heparin syringes that we’re using to flush DH’s PICC have no needles. They just screw onto the “claves” at his elbow, then we toss 'em in the trash.