I continue to fight with my insurance company about my prescription benefits. The thousand dollar HRA that my company provided me is supposed to go toward our $1100 deductible, and according to my account online, is billed automatically. This has worked when I go into the actual doctor, but it’s not working for prescriptions. When […]
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Fried zuchinni with cheese and a slice of pumpkin pie. Mmmmmm pie. And then I put together all my paperwork for my endo appointment tomorrow: MMMMMmmmm diabetes…..
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Yes, sometimes you are crazy. “My boyfriend is Type 1. Before I met him almost 4 years ago, I knew next to nothing about diabetes. He has always insisted that he can feel when his blood glucose is high or low, and that he doesn’t need to test that often. He limits his sugar intake
1/4 piece of a Killer Brownie from Dorothy Lane Market eaten at today’s workadoo holiday potluck + 1 spoonful gooey macaroni + dollop of oreo cream puddy pie = OMFG. I never fucking eat this stuff any more. There’s this moment of loss and longing, after you eat it, realizing that you’re just never going
Money I’ve saved in the last three months while being insured: Hospital costs saved: $896.94 (two more claims for over $800 are still pending) Meds costs saved: $611.51 That’s $1508.45 saved on medical costs in three months. Just three months. I wasn’t joking when I said these costs-to-keep-breathing – pre-employement – were literally killing me.
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Just because cheese curds are carb free does not mean I should eat the entire bag, blissfully satisfying as it may be to munch without fear of sugar overload.
One of the ways I control my sugar when it’s been out of hand over several days or when I eat something I don’t generally eat for dinner is, I set my alarm clock for midnight and do a midnight sugar check. What this allows me to do is adjust my sugar to keep it
It occurs to me that I don’t handle stress as well as I used to. That, or I was just never in a position where I had to balance so many different aspects of my life – and the lives of others – all at once. It’s a challenge. I’m up for it, but it’s
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We had a big meeting today at work because our health benefits will change Nov. 1st. I’d known this was coming since I signed with the company, so I was nervous and busy doing math and looking up tiered drugs and in-network providers and going through all the paperwork and thinking, wait a minute, this
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