If I guilt myself into posting, does it count? Should I even blog? Who knows. But I do… and I’ve been opening myself up recently to real people I know about my blogginess. In one respect, its disturbing to get emails from my friends about a blog post — once I write and post it, its gone, ne’er to be thought of again. Not really… but I still have a mental disconnect between what I write here and my real life. On another side, its been nice to have friends say, “Hey, read your blog and thought I’d write you.” In other words, I am opening a path of communication between lazy friends. Due to one of my recent posts, I am having tea on Monday with very good friend from college who is way to busy for her own sanity (doctoral programs will do that, I suppose…)
Our week here was a busy one. One of Hamza’s stand-in grandma’s came up to visit for a day to get her kid-fix. It was refreshing to have her here and listening to me in person instead of via the phone. She’s in my corner regarding my life drama right now.
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I’ve had terrible, bad, horrible, very bad allergies this winter. I’ve drugged myself with any number of legal decongestants on the market, all to poor results since they are not what I need. A girlfriend’s MD brother and I talked on the phone (he’s very nice, masha’allah) and he said I have allergic rhinitis, to take my claritin again and that he would call me in a steroidal nose spray prescription. Here’s the fun part — since I quit work, we are woefully without health insurance. I’ve gotta get the kid on the county system… but it requires paperwork and work from my other half which isn’t getting done without me cracking a whip… But, I digress… I called up the pharmacy and found out he called me in Nasonex and that it was (sit down for this) $88 for a tiny little bottle of liquid gold to shoot up my nose.
I asked an almost pharmacist to find me a nasal steroid that does the same thing but has a generic and was pointed toward Flonase. Fine. Let’s go check that out. $77 for the GENERIC at WallyWorld????? And you know that bottle, giving out two good squirts for each nostril per day, isn’t going to last beyond two weeks or so. For the love of God and little green apples, I can only breathe through my mouth for most of any given day! I’m so tired of my woolly cotton mouth in the morning! There is no Carmex for my tongue and palatte to avoid drying out! (something to investigate for potential patent application)
Would you believe that little old Google tossed me a bone? I looked up Flonase and it gave me a Canadian Pharmacy website. Holy smoke. Flonase is OTC up in Royal Mountie Land! Three bottles of it are only $42!!!
Let’s just say there’s a little box from the B.C. that’s got my name on it and its heading my way.
Breathe in, breathe out, wet tongue, snort nose, still not working, breathe in, breathe out…
salam alaikoum
ahh swiss health insurance….lemme know if I can ever mail you some (it make take a couple of weeks)