This week has gone by fairly quickly considering it’s my first week back to work since the last week of August. I can’t believe I lost September like this. Aside from having to extend more pleasantries than usual, it’s been mostly not unlike any other week. There were user issues to resolve, reports to write and hardware failures to address. I guess I shouldn’t speak too soon, though…today hasn’t really started yet.
I slept really hard last night once I finally fell asleep. My dreams have been strange and vivid ever since the surgery…or was it since my week of bedrest? Last night seemed especially strange, although they always do when I just wake up. I was on a field trip with a group of people again in this dream. Although, the place we went to started out as a nightclub type setting and turned into a cheesey conference hall. I got yelled at for using this strange machine that you put coins or anything really into its front slots, pull back the tray it’s on and release it so it flies into the machine. It then dispensed random prizes…mostly chintzy candy. Then as we were filing out, they were giving communion, but the process was all fucked up. We had to get in line for this buffet table type thing where they had matchstick cut vegetables that we were supposed to put on this weird edible doily. Then we were to sprinkle kosher salt on it and the hand that held it and douse it with holy water. When we got to the priest, he poured oil on it and then we were supposed to eat it…which brought up the whole ‘to chew or not to chew’ concern. An old friend of mine from high school was in that one for some reason. Before that dream, it was one about trains. My family got on one, but I had to go back to pick something up and somehow manage to meet them at “charlston station” by the time they get there. The train I was on seemed like one you might find in a third world country. We drove through incredibly impoverished areas and at one point, the train lost it’s top and we all had to duck to avoid being beheaded by various things we passed under. Some were not so luck as to avoid it.
I got a call from the pharmacy that dispenses Lupron yesterday. My insurance only covers 80% of it, and my 20% is $409. I have never had to pay so much for a prescription before. My first reaction was to tell them to forget it, and Fruitpie did not seem to disagree at first. Later on, she told me to just do it…that my health is more important than a hefty copay. Still, I’m having a hard time justifying it. I put a call in to the doctor to ask whether there might be something else that isn’t as scary and spendy, but they have not gotten back to me yet. I pretty much already know the answer. The pharmacy said they’ll send me a mail-in rebate for $175. That would make it fall somewhere around $75 a month. When I think of it that way, it doesn’t seem so bad…but it’s a far cry from my $5 copay for prescription drugs. Endometriosis really sucks.
