Sick & Cranky

So, all weekend I was sick with a cough and sore throat. I was starting to feel better Sunday, but woke up Monday feeling even worse with congestion and couldn't breath. I don't even know how I got sick. That was the start to a rough day. Pat had a horrible time at school and had little things that kept going wrong, and when he came home it passed on to me. When I called to set up delivery of the meds for this cycle, they told me I had an $800 copay!! That was a huge surprise and they went on to tell me that my plan has a $2,500 cap on prescriptions, which was contrary to what the nurse told me at the REs. When I looked over the insurance materials, I saw that there really is a cap. So I called back wondering what the price of the 2 meds were and no one understood what I was looking for. They kept telling me how much I was responsible for...finally a woman got on who was a fertility specialist and understood what I meant, but was not very nice. It turns out that the nurse ordered 10 pens of the Gonal F since she had thought I had unlimited cap on prescriptions. Ok...that makes sense. (On a side note, the total cost of the 10 pens of Gonal F and 1 Ovidrel shot was over $3,900 - WOW!). By this time the REs office was closed, so I would have to wait to get an answer on that. So then I decided to go to the urgent care center to get an antibiotic for this cold or whatever that I woke up with. I get there and realize that I forgot my wallet at home from when I was making phone calls to the insurance company. They won't see me without photo id/insurance cards. I even offered to have Pat email it and they wouldn't let me. So I drove to meet Pat half way with my wallet and went back to wait 1.5 hours to be seen for 2 minutes and the doctor telling me I should really have a doctor in Buffalo that I see regularly. Well, yeah, I know that, but its a little late now. He goes on to say that its expensive to be seen here. Ok, but I have insurance. So he told me I have a sinus infection...no, I don't, but who cares, he gave me an antibiotic that I wanted and sent me on my way. THEN I went outside to see that the lights were on in the jeep...just great. I was there for close to 2 hrs, and no one came in and said anything. Luckily it started!! So I drove home and got myself some Panera and went to sleep.

Today was a much better day compared to yesterday. I talked to the nurse at the REs office and she said to only get 5 pens and that was much better, only $1,100 - I only had to pay the $30 copay. I did wake up feeling better and am able to go fill my antibiotic to make sure I get better. I just don't know what it is about the end of the month, but it always feels like things just pile on. I can usually handle it, but yesterday with being sick and everything I was a mess. I'm so lucky to have Pat who just put me to bed and made sure I was ok. I really am lucky and I know that, I just need this luck to come through in other parts of my life as well.