Oh my stars!! So much has happened in the past few days.....not sure where to begin.....
Let's start with PANIC TIME!!
Wednesday....Every Wednesday I go have blood work done to see how my red cells, white cells, ect....are doing and as I am getting ready for this, I call the pharmacy to see if they had heard yet from the Prescription assistance program in regards to my almost $800 per month co-pay. They have not yet approved it....OK it's Wednesday.....I do my treatments on Thursday.....I have no more Pegasys.....I DON'T have $800 to pay for the shots! I called my doctor and he didn't have any extra samples - I was just kicking myself for day1....remember, the wasted shot? I was so upset, my mom told me to go get a massage (my son had given me some free massages to use during treatment) so I make the appointment do attempt to de-stress....the therapist was great!
I felt so much better afterward. I got out to my car and noticed that I had missed a call from the doc's office......they found some samples for me! I was so excited! I had to drive about 30 miles to go get them but that was ok!! I went in and received the box of shots from the nurse and was so far on cloud nine that I didn't even look in the box!
On Thursday afternoon I received a call from the Doctor.....White count is falling already. So we are going to continue treatment and monitor more closely. The good thing is that now they have an additional treatment they can put you on to assist in raising white blood cells. They didn't have that 10 years ago for Hep C patients. We just have to get pre-approval from my insurance. So Thursday evening I am getting ready to take the treatment, I opened the box and noticed there were 3 weeks worth of pre-loaded pegasys shots! WITH NO NEEDLES! Panic again!!!! Dr office closed!! What am I going to do? Then I remembered the day 1 shot that never got used.....Luckily I still had the needle from that shot! WHEW!!! I tell ya.....my emotions at this point are on a roller-coaster ride!
Still not sleeping well at this point - a few hours a night. I am totally exhausted. I had a very busy weekend as well - two vendor shows! Thank GOD Wendy, Randi and Stacie were there to take up my slack on the longest one (Draper Days - a two day show)....I am so grateful for each of them :) And my Baby Girl went with me to the other......and she made a sale!!!
Here it is Sunday night and I was able to get quite a bit of rest today! After church Jaxon & I took a nap and then I took another short nap and off to the massage therapist. My son was a member of a local Massage Envy and he had 13 prepaid massages that he gifted to me to help releive the stress of the side effects. Thank you Joey! I am going to head off to try and catch up on even more sleep for another very busy week in my business coming up.
I have a whole team of prayer angels praying for you right this very moment...we are all so concerned and are by your side in spirit Lori... never give up! We got your back!
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