[Diabetes-Talk] Somebody ground me, please?

[Amber Wallenstein]

Veronica:
I feel your pain for sure. I just went to the pharmacy and paid $150 for 21 days of insulin and needles. I almost cried. It’s like, what am I working for if all of my money is going to go to this? So I’m having a pity party right along with you. I’ll even give you a diet Pepsi. :-)
Yours in sympathy,
Amber

> On Feb 9, 2019, at 4:13 PM, Veronica Elsea via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Well, writing my post in response to Doula kind of calmed me down a bit but
> I don't know what else to do here. It's either spit out a bunch of bad
> regrettable language or cry and beg for hugs or something. Today I paid a
> visit to my local pharmacy only to discover that my insurance arbitrarily
> decided to cut my monthly insulin allowance by a third. No warning. No
> nothing to or through my endo. Nothing. Heck, I just got all of this
> authorized in October. The pharmacy said they just do stuff like this
> because it's January. Somebody answer this. Why in the world do we even have
> doctors any more? I told all of you about my fights over my rheumatoid
> arthritis injectable drug, 3.92 doses indeed! I had a horrible doctor's
> appointment this week where all he did was yell at me about what a victim he
> was and how they go above and beyond for me. All I do with my endo is work
> on the next batch of forms for someone. It probably isn't helping me that I
> can't shake this sinus infection and with no good echo location, I smacked
> my head but good the other day, but somehow, after the three-hour battle
> with Dexcom yesterday which resulted in nothing, then to run into this
> today, I'm just exhausted. Obviously I don't really mean this, but standing
> there in the pharmacy, I felt this momentary flash of anger that almost made
> me feel like, well I'll show you and just not take any of it! Like I said,
> that's obviously not my plan, but I sure feel like nobody gives a blankity
> blank about me the person right now. I don't understand why such a well-off
> country seems so bent on killing off its citizens who pay the taxes.
> Anyway, I know you guys don't have magic beans or instant answers, but I
> just had to rant somewhere in the hopes that I can put this down and get
> something done with my afternoon. Thanks so much for listening.
> Veronica
> 
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