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So I definitely had some sort of asthmatic episode yesterday. Bad scene. My friend K from Pennsic/elsewhere was the only person who responded to my various desperate tweets/texts/emails; I needed someone to more or less talk me through surviving my day, and he came through in spades, as he has been lately. Poor Z was busy at work and sent me one message: "Don't die." and then made me dinner.
The doctor was unhelpful; by the time I got to him my chest was tight but I was a lot better than I had been, and he shrugged; he couldn't really hear anything wrong. But at least we went over my options for medication again; the things I'd been prescribed at my last visit were $300/mo for the maintenance steroid and $70/mo for the rescue inhaler. I'd put a call in to the doc about it but the thing is, you usually wait on hold forever, and I hadn't had time to follow through.
I got home from the appointment and got an immediate call from the pharmacy, saying that the prescriptions were now $300/mo and $58/mo. They were going to call the doctor back, and get back to me today, but for the record, there is no covered version of the rescue inhaler. They're all within a couple bucks of one another. My insurance plan just doesn't cover albuterol rescue inhalers. They're just something I'm expected to buy out of pocket.
What the everloving fuck? I could see if it was something cosmetic, or something like Viagra where it's not crucial to your actual respiratory success or survival, but a fucking RESCUE INHALER? They invented the albuterol rescue inhaler in like 1955. And they're RESCUE INHALERS. They're to RESCUE you. They're IMPORTANT.
Not covered!
I'm so ready to move to a socialist state. Take me away, Norway! I'll give you almost all of my income in return for not worrying where my fucking rescue inhaler is going to come from. I make $200/week after they take out the $40 per paycheck for insurance. Just for the record.
Ugh.
So I'm fighting off the lingering effects of this asthma thing with caffeine instead, which has made me rather... excitable.
And I squee'd myself into a wheezing fit over the news that Buffalo is getting a real ramen bar! OMG so exciting.

So I forget what I've put on LJ and what's elsewhere. I mentioned that K from Pennsic (AKA The Prettiest Princess) and his wife are seriously working on moving to Buffalo to start a restaurant with me, didn't I? We're still doing feasibility stuff but I'm increasingly fixated on the idea as The Only Right Thing In The World.
K has like a bajillion stories, it's kind of what he does. We spend a lot of time talking, lately. So I've been writing down his stories. The added layer, of course, is that I never take notes while he's talking, so there's probably a whole bunch of inaccuracies. Which just makes it even better.
I'll post some once I've collected a few more. :)

Date: 2011-10-13 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kittyc1978.livejournal.com

Me too! I need mine about 3 mos a year, and my ins. Is a pita about it! (severe scotch broom allergy)

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