[Diabetes-Talk] Somebody ground me, please?

[Mark Feliz]

Veronica, thank you for ranting about what am a sure we all are want to say. My insolin cost went from 20 dollars to 75 dollars for one of them. Write/call your legislators please.

Mark


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> On Feb 9, 2019, at 2:21 PM, Amber Wallenstein via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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