It's HOW much?

Friday, June 9, 2006.

Andrew was finally taken off one of his IVs.

The goal is to ween him from IV medications and replace them with the pill form of the medication. The bad news is that the medicine we got to replace this particular IV is a hell of a lot more money than the IV. (Insurance would cover 100% of the IV medications now, however for prescriptions, there are copays and different pay scales). With this medication down, he was down to one IV once a day, and one IV ran once a week. We were making progress.

My mom was the "babysitter" for the day. She took him to pick up his new medication at the doctor that day. While Andrew was in the clinic, my mom tried to be helpful. She walked down the pharmacy to pick up his prescription. When she got down there, she quickly changed her mind and returned to the clinic. I got a call on my cell phone.

"How much money do we have in our account?" This question usually means that what is about to follow is not a good thing.

"Enough, why?"

"I'm here to pick up my prescription to replace the IV."

I continue to lead him. "Well how much is it? $60? $70?"

"It's $886.00." The only response I could muster was to laugh. Never had I imagined that I would pay nearly $900.00 on one bottle of 60 pills. I could only laugh. I told him I would move some money around so we could pay for it.

Bitching about $70 prescriptions was a thing of the past.