Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

surreality · Feb 1, 2018, 1:48 PM

I thankfully have a doctor that recently stopped being stupid about this. Instead of fighting through calling in refills every fucking month to his office about things, he set one of the prescriptions up for half a year, the other for a full year, with 'only x per time period' or something.

Needless to say, pretty sure all of us are happier for it. Since I have no car, either one of my folks always had to pick the scrip up when they would go in (we all see the same guy) or my husband would have to wedge it in on one of his days off from work when he's even in the same state (one of which, the doctor's office is closed... )

One of the two will expire at the end of this month, but six months of not having to go through that song and dance? Fucking priceless. We plan to bring him a thank you card when we next go in, no joke.

Still nothing to help with the migraines, which I have to ask him about this go round, finally, since our insurance is finally seemingly stable(maybe... ?)

The disgruntlement part: almost all the women on one side of my family (father's mother's) get migraines. Literally ALL of us. Every single one. (Some also get cluster headaches, which is what the folks at the hospital were convinced I ended up with as well, lucky me!) But, well, I'm the one who had no insurance for decades, and <just points upward> the price point was too high to do anything about it.

The cousins: "OMG how did you not go to the doctor years ago and demand a prescription for X, Y, and Z?! I would never have been able to survive without it!"

Me: "I have only had insurance for a little over a year."

The cousins: "BUT HOW DID YOU NOT DO IT ANYWAY?!"

Me: "...because you were just bitching about how it's $200+ month after insurance whacks most of the price down? And we can't even afford anything near that even now with insurance?"

The cousins: "BUT HOW DID YOU NOT DO IT ANYWAY?!"

Me: . o O ( I dunno, magic pixies? And fuck you all so fucking much. )

Lisse24 · Feb 1, 2018, 3:42 PM

So Viagra, that ubiquitous little blue pill, works because it improves blood flow. That makes it a very useful medicine for people who are struggling with heart problems, which is why it was prescribed for my niece when she left the NICU and was struggling with blood pressure still.

Now, because she was an infant, and because everything needed to be given to her via a tube in her stomach, she needed it in liquid form. Turns out that one-month's supply of liquid Viagra is $7,500. My sister's insurance wanted her to pay for that out of pocket.

Ganymede · Feb 1, 2018, 3:45 PM

They released an infant from NICU while she was still have BP issues and taking Viagra for it?

Not meaning to cast aspersions, but you may want to check with a pediatrician about that. That sounds very wrong and dangerous to me.

Lisse24 · Feb 1, 2018, 3:55 PM

@ganymede She'd been in the NICU for 8 months at that point and you reach a point where babies will progress farther at home than staying in the NICU. She was also hooked up a monitor that measured her heart rate and O2 levels 24-7.

She's been home ten months, and while there have been some ER visits, they were always more precautionary than necessary, and only one visit to the PICU which is better than most preemies with her condition do.

Ganymede · Feb 1, 2018, 4:20 PM

@lisse24

I'm not a praying robot, and do not necessarily believe in God, but for what it is worth I shall pray for the child. Mine were in NICU for a month, so I can only imagine what 8 months must have been like.

No child should have to go through that.

Auspice · Feb 1, 2018, 4:33 PM

@sockmonkey said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@sparks said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

When I was on naratriptan, they'd give me three pills per month—and prescribe 'take one at onset of attack, and a second if attack continues'. Three pills.

The math just didn't quite work there.

I wish I could say I am surprised buuuuut...

UGH.

That's kinda how my sumatriptan is. 6 pills a month. Take 1 if attack hits, 1 if it persists.

If I end up in an attack cycle, I usually have 3-4 in a week.

Sparks · Feb 1, 2018, 5:29 PM

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@sockmonkey said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@sparks said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

When I was on naratriptan, they'd give me three pills per month—and prescribe 'take one at onset of attack, and a second if attack continues'. Three pills.

The math just didn't quite work there.

I wish I could say I am surprised buuuuut...

UGH.

That's kinda how my sumatriptan is. 6 pills a month. Take 1 if attack hits, 1 if it persists.

If I end up in an attack cycle, I usually have 3-4 in a week.

Yeah, likewise. But at least 6 is divisible by two, so your doctors and insurance are at least doing something slightly more sensible than what mine allowed! "Take two per attack" and then issuing only three pills still confuses me.

Quinn · Feb 1, 2018, 5:34 PM

Maybe they were using the metric system.

Ortallus · Feb 1, 2018, 5:38 PM

When your cat yowls you awake, and you realize it's the litter box, so you go to clean it, and before you even get started he jumps in and drops the big stanky.

Cobalt · Feb 2, 2018, 6:19 AM

If you watch your delivery driver slip and fall on your fucking /muddy and slippery as fuck/ driveway, and have to hold onto her car to not /fall to her fucking death/. And just sit there and stare and don't even bother to ask if they are okay, and then don't tip, you are a garbage person.

Lisse24 · Feb 2, 2018, 4:17 PM

The entire West Virginia teaching force is is about to go on strike, which is nearly unheard of, and their state legislature is still like, "Nah, we don't need to do anything about teacher pay."

Sunny · Feb 2, 2018, 4:32 PM

@cobaltasaurus I got stuck in someone's driveway once. Snow and ice, couldn't make it up the hill. Dude (that did not tip me) stood on his porch eating his pizza and watched me struggle, then watched as his neighbor came out and helped me escape. Waved as I finally made it up the hill.

Cobalt · Feb 2, 2018, 4:53 PM

@sunny What a fuck head.

Ortallus · Feb 2, 2018, 6:13 PM

@sunny said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@cobaltasaurus I got stuck in someone's driveway once. Snow and ice, couldn't make it up the hill. Dude (that did not tip me) stood on his porch eating his pizza and watched me struggle, then watched as his neighbor came out and helped me escape. Waved as I finally made it up the hill.

As you're pulling out, you yell, "I spit in your pizza!" and enjoy the look on their face. If they call your manager you say, "I never said that. They must be trying to get free pizza. Who would say something like that?"

Lithium · Feb 2, 2018, 6:58 PM

I make just above the poverty line last year cuz of move, swapping jobs, etc.

Somehow, I end up /paying/ Taxes above and beyond what I paid, when I got paid.

And people still think this new tax plan is going to fucking /help/ me?!

Assholes.

Sunny · Feb 2, 2018, 7:13 PM

@ortallus I don't work in that industry any longer.

surreality · Feb 2, 2018, 8:39 PM

@lithium FWIW, it's probably the cross-state-lines idiocy. If you haven't paid taxes to more than one state at a time, it's a horror show the first time it happens, depending on the state.

In all seriousness, NJ felt entitled to take a higher percentage of my husband's income last year than normal because we were filing jointly, despite the fact that my business had made something like a whopping $2 profit or something after all the chaos that went down that year. (And what they took was more considerably more than $2.)

Even the accountant just stared at that one and shook her head in complete disgust.

Arkandel · Feb 2, 2018, 8:55 PM

You know how sometimes we talk to someone on a MU* and think "wow, people online are assholes"?

About that... a guy posted on Reddit recently about his daughter dying, and his wife leaving him shortly after that. He went there looking for closure thinking it might be a good outlet for it.

This is what he got instead:

Ortallus · Feb 2, 2018, 8:59 PM

@arkandel And this is why I do not and will never have an account on reddit. If the internet is a cesspool, reddit is the film at the bottom.

surreality · Feb 2, 2018, 9:00 PM

@arkandel This is a trend, actually.

People specifically seek out and go to memorial sites and similar to deface them in the same way for people who have passed. They do the same thing in cases where someone is missing, a child has been kidnapped, etc., often claiming they are the one responsible and won't be caught and how much they're enjoying raping the person's family member/child/sister/wife/etc. or how they have mutilated them or how they've murdered them and so on.

There's a reason I genuinely loathe people sometimes.