ack! Plague Monkey!

Just miserable.

I had a tickle in my throat that changed to a scratchiness. I was keeping on top of my vitamins, eating the right things, and trying to get enough rest. Oh, and drinking fluids CONSTANTLY. In fact, I was indeed thirsty all the time and that made the hydration easier to manage.

But I got up this morning with a Plague Monkey on my back. Damn. To be fair, I can remember a fair number of Thanksgivings where I came down with something. Never anything huge, just a cold or a 24hour bug or something. I'm hoping that's all this is.

Gah.

This is ill-timed for a variety of reasons.

This means my need for helpers tonight is seriously intensified. I won't be able to work as hard, which means a few extra helping hands will make the work go more smoothly. I'm hoping that having gotten a nap and some soup, I can do the re-arrange necessary upstairs (while I have light). I am accepting helpers any time after 5pm. In truth, I'll take some helpers any time after I post this.

Doing my part

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To be fair, I don't even have insurance, so a co-pay option isn't really going to change my life one way or the other. HOWEVER, I have always been bothered by medications not being covered by insurance simply because they're for preventing pregnancy. In some cases, preventing pregnancy itself is important to a woman's health; I know people for whom a pregnancy would be life-threatening, and several more for whom it would be an expensive and arduous process due to their high-risk factors.

Also, hormonal birth control can be used to treat other factors, as well. Look around you; many of the women you know have irregular periods or wild mood swings or other health issues that can be resolved with a simple hormone regimen. I'll bet that you know someone who suffers from endrometreosis (diagnosed or not) who would benefit greatly from a hormonal treatment system.

So why would THIS treatment be treated differently than antibiotics or anti-inflammatory drugs?

I've always wondered that. Even during the brief periods when I was covered by health insurance, the birth control pills were never covered.