My biggest fear

I know that if we were forced out of our home and away from our preps, my daughter might not survive long. She isn't on meds, but is on a special diet. If she were forced to eat the food that is considered a "normal" diet in America today, she would die painfully in weeks to months. Even if something happened to me so she was put in a care home, she isn't likely to survive it. I just do the best I can to keep that from happening but there could come a day that I wouldn't be able to protect her any more.

We none of us knows the future, we just have to do the best we can and leave the rest to God.

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I believe in God's willingness to heal.

Cyngbaeld's Keep Heritage Farm, breeding a variety of historical birds and LaMancha goats. (It is pronounced King Bold.)

What Cyngbaeld said, down to the situation with the DD. My daughter is autistic (takes an anti-depressant for that), has lupus or something very close to lupus (takes plaquenil for that, and has taken prednisone for short periods), has celiac disease so she's on a gluten-free diet, and I started giving her Vitamin D3 because she's in the sun so little (sun is bad for people with lupus) and have found that that helps probably more than all the other stuff put together. I try to stay ahead on the meds, but if we couldn't get them, she'd be miserable. Don't know if she'd die from it, but she'd be in discomfort and screaming, thus making ME miserable, too! Some things all we can do is prepare the best we can, and then the rest is up to God.

Kathleen

I do this all the time!! Our insurance is co-paid for $5 for EACH script. ONE MONTH AT A TIME ONLY--- NO EXCEPTIONS

Walmart has their meds for $4... I quit running them through the insurance... asked the dr to write for 3 months at a time with 4 refills... I usually wait a month inbetween reordering the script) and pay $12 for each 3 month script... in about 3-4 months depending on income, I have our entire years scripts filled.... no worries about it, we use it based on the dates I had them filled!

Now the more expensive scripts (those that Walmart doesn't have for $4) I have a plan worked out that I call it in one week earlier every month... so for my sons epilepsy meds I now have almost 4 months of backup meds for him... it takes awhile, but it really pays off if you keep track of it all... my DH has just been diagnosed with diabetes and I am just starting his "backup" supply....

I have even gone as far as putting all our meds on a spreadsheet so I can call all 12 of them in at once .... its a great resource to have keeping track of who's taking what and how much... along with the dates of refills... no mistakes and no misses!

I take our scripts very seriously!! Can you tell??

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Tami

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6

I use Pulmicort twice a day, inhaled from a capsule. I get it from Alldaychemist.com for a small fraction of buying it for cash $120/mo or our insurance copay ($50/mo). I also use a long acting albuterol type drug called Foradil, inhaled from a capsule. I also have albuterol inhalants for emergencies. If your daughter is old enough to inhale from a tube type dispenser instead of a machine, I urge you to check out getting her meds online. You can order a year's worth for less than a couple of month's copay.

I am so blessed that my children don't have any health issues that cause me to lie awake and worry about. My asthma probably won't kill me if I don't have my meds, but I'll be almost an invalid, and that does worry me. And for those of you whose children depend on medication to survive, my prayers are that the day never comes that you have to do without it.