Tuesday, January 8, 2013

FINALLY!


Being a consumer can be hard some times, but I don’t have to tell any of you that for you are consumers too! Trying to return items, get the ones advertised at the advertised price, etc., you all know the drill. Well, the same is true for medical needs. And I feel that after careful tedious persevering banging my head against the wall with stubborn resolve have finally gotten my medications all sorted out into a manageable, financially doable availabilities to meet my current needs, for now. I felt the need to apologize to the Shared Solution lady, Carla, who told me to call The Assistance Fund and when I called yesterday they no longer had any funding left for Multiple Sclerosis co-pay help and so they told me I must have the wrong number and gave me another number to call Medication Assist and they too had nothing available. So I contacted the other ones I listed here last night and crossed out the two that said they had nothing to offer. Well, just because I didn’t want Carla to tell anyone else to call The Assistance Fund and not get anywhere I thought I should let her know what happened and so today I called her. She was quite insistent that they do have funds for exactly my needs, a person with insurance but with high co-pays and she said let me get them on my other line for you, and she did. Apparently, new funding came in late last night/evening and I had no idea, when they told me they had no funding I really thought that was it, but it wasn’t! And I was interviewed on the phone and met their criteria and so now I will be receiving my Copaxone without any interruption and without ANY CO-PAY for an entire year! I spent quite a bit of the day contacting the other doctors too for all my other prescriptions and whew, I do believe it is all going to somehow work out… at least I hope so. Who knew being ill was a fulltime job? Manage care, now I get it… You get insurance and then you have to manage your care! Any-who, I miss the good ole days when insurance really did cover everything and we had no work to do on our own behalf, and I can recall that our two sons with Blue Cross and Blue Shield while working and living in good ole NJ, out of pocket cost only $2 for the one and $6 for the other, for the phone and TV use, births/ deliveries were included in the hospitals with fulltime nurses on staff, way back when…1972 and 1976, those were the true carefree days…what happened to that? Gosh, memories are more vivid when you have comparisons, has anyone else realized that? Now I know why my parents knew what truly was what. On that note of finding some wisdom somewhere, anywhere, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too! And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!

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