Thu Jun 14, 2007
"With Glowing Gemstone Eyes" [Observations]
You know that it's been a crappy day when the BEST thing that happened was that the Grim Reaper showed up. Of course you know I don't mean The Grim Reaper as in THE Grim Reaper, because if he had you either wouldn't be reading this or I'd be writing it to you from a very distant location....and I am willing to believe a lot of things about the afterworld, but that they have internet access isn't one of them. Unless, maybe, it's hell. Hmmm.
But, I digress....
The Grim Reaper is, as promised, on the pill box I won in an e-Bay auction and came....
just as described "with glowing gemstone eyes" - red. Like I said before, this was the best selection I could find for a pill box - the rest had too many cherubs and waterfalls and stuff that made you feel as if you'd rather be dead already, or at least as if you'd lost your sense of humor, which is nearly the same thing.
And, I didn't go back to work today because my company and my DI company are still batteling it out.....but that doesn't matter, because my medical insurance company denied my doctors request to pay for the monafidil. So now I have to start all over again with something else and no sense going back to work til we see if it will work.
Mind you, it took me 3 hours to get my medical insurance to own up to the fact that they were denying coverage. Wimps. If you're gonna deny some crippled woman her medication you at least ought to have the stones to say so.
So, if I have to spend that much time getting simple answers I won't have TIME to work!!
Have your doctor request a "doctor to doctor" with the insurance company's physician. By law, the insurance companies must comply with this request if the prescribing doctor makes it. Your doc will explain that the drug is a necessity because you are already on it and at a theraputic level and to change the med at this point would do more harm than good. There isn't much the insurance company can say, other than that they'll cover the prescribed medication, assuming their doc agrees. If I were you (and I've been there...recently), I'd ask my doc to make that call for me.
Posted by: yobruva at June 15, 2007 9:28 AMWhat you really need is a "Doctor to Insurance Company" smack-down.
Posted by: Theresa at June 16, 2007 11:13 AM