Harrison has been coughing a lot and complaining of a headache. He has struggled some with asthma, so I wanted to have his breathing checked by the doctor. Yesterday, the boys were all home for a snow day, but the roads weren't bad... so I took him to the doctor. She tested him for strep throat (even though he had no fever and wasn't complaining of a sore throat) and guess what? The quick test was positive. Not. what. I. expected.
So... for 2010, our medical insurance prices went way up... especially prescription prices. We do not often have prescriptions and have no daily meds in our family. Our prescription insurance was going up to almost $19 per WEEK! (from $5). Yikes! Our medical insurance went up by about $9 per week also. We felt that we could easily pay out of pocket and save money. However, our insurance requires you to have prescription insurance with your medical. So, we took the cheapest one that ONLY covers mail order (completely worthless to us)... but cheap!
When Harrison was a baby, he had hives after taking amoxicillin and has been labeled with a penicillin allergy ever since. So, his antibiotics are the expensive kind. Really expensive. At Wal-Mart, his antibiotic was going to cost me $140 - YIKES! All of the penicillin based antibiotics are $4. Yep. FOUR dollars. So, the mean momma that I am... I called the doctor to see if we could try penicillin again. Because I'm cheap. So, we got him some amoxicillin with the promise that I would closely watch him and have benadryl on hand in case of an allergic reaction and be ready to run out to buy the $140 medicine if needed. We started the amox this morning. And...
drum roll please...
he is fine! Thank you, Jesus, that we are not stuck paying for expensive medication for the rest of his ever-loving life!!
1 comment:
What a blessing that he is NOT allergic! It's amazing how expensive medicine and insurance can be, huh?
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