My $6K Miracle

The pharmacy at Shady Grove is amazing.  The nurses at Shady Grove are amazing.  I am feeling incredibly blessed today.

The price that was initially projected for the Gonal F was $6,000.  My heart kind of choked at that and I took a big breath because that was just one of the medicines.  I knew it was one of the more costly ones, but still that takes my breath away.  But immediately the financial counsellor directed me to Compassionate Care and I received a 50% discount.  That's great.  So instead of $1,250 per vial, it would be $625.  When I went into the pharmacy, the tech said she thought there might be insurance for some of my meds.  I said I didn't see how there could be as none of the treatment was covered.  She told me drug plans were different and we should double-check.  My insurance does cover several of the medications.  Bottom line was that all I was to pay for the Gonal F was $200 and the pharmacy had a coupon for $100 off.  I paid only $100 instead of $6,000.  How amazing is that?  I paid 1.6% of the initial cost.  This has to be one of the best pharmacies in the world!!  I should probably send that tech flowers... 

One of the nurses - not my primary nurse but the one that taught the injection class - told me that sometimes she gets medicine turned back in when a woman has been successful and doesn't need to have the meds for future cycles.  On Friday, she gave me 450IU of Gonal F.  On Monday, she gave me 15 vials of Menopur and the needles I will need.  She is hoping she can get me some more and that she might be able to get me the hCG trigger shot.  Speaking of injections, I'm feeling like a wuss.  Was anyone else nervous about self-administering shots?

I'm flying back to Texas tomorrow and school starts on Friday for the teachers.  I'm somewhat apprehensive about both of those things.  I'm supposed to start my cycle on Thursday and I feel like I might be early and start tomorrow.  I really hope it doesn't start until Thursday or Friday because that would work so much better with the school calendar.  Already my principal is going to be displeased.  It would be better if I was able to finish the first three weeks of school and get progress reports done before having to leave.  I'm trying to figure out when I'll have to take off for the monitoring, too.  I'm hoping that can be morning only and not be an entire day.