Bah. I am so worn out, and as a result I've been so lazy. The little bit of stuff I am getting done around the house is taking some tremendous inner-dialogue pep-talks. My Tysabri infusion didn't make my stomach as bad as it had been this time. Thankfully so, the increase in steroids has me starving. I'm constantly hungry. It did make me itchy as all hell though. So.itchy. That's annoying.
I've been getting some serious nerve pain in my right hip/leg/foot the past few days. This is the same hip that I broke in a car accident a few years ago and had major surgery on. I'm not sure if the nerve pain is a result of the slow nerve regrowth reaching a certain point after all these years, or if it's my MS. I hate things like this that could be from multiple things. Especially when there's really no way of telling which. If it is from my MS I likely have a flare starting, which is bad news. Last time I had nerve pain in my leg like this that turned into a flare I fell down a set of stairs randomly when my leg went numb.

My grandmother's been doing our dishes for me the past few days since my cortisone shot in my hand which has been really helpful. My hand's actually starting to feel a bit better, at first it felt worse. So at least I got that for a plus.
I'm really worried about upcoming health insurance changes. Chris' insurance through work doesn't have either of my DMD's on the drug formulary. I have no idea what to expect with that, if it's possible to fight to get it covered, etc. I've had the same insurance since my diagnosis so I haven't had to deal with this. It could be a really huge problem for me. The policy comes with a hefty deductible and out-of-pocket max as well, and the prescription coverage isn't all that great. I'm going to be paying out a lot.

Although with the cost of deductibles, co-pays, and prescriptions with this policy I don't know how we're going to afford my healthcare.
We've been looking forward to the moment I could get on insurance through his employer and be able to start banking some money so much. I've tried to be optimistic about it; for the average person this policy would be great, but I'm not the average person. I don't know what we're going to do.
It's really frustrating.
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