A Young Wife’s Tale

I have a lot to be thankful for this week.

David’s six month contract with his company here in New Jersey ended Friday, and they told him he will start as a permanent employee on Monday. Although we’d love to be going back to Texas, we are very grateful God has provided David with this employment.

I called the Humira Financial Assistance Program yesterday and they were so helpful. They said that it was no problem. They told me to have the rheumatologist’s office call Humira to give a verbal prescription (I’d never heard of that before.), and then I should call back and schedule a supplemental shipment.

Thank God! Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! God is good! Happy Day! DAVID HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR THE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE DRUG MANUFACTURER! He’ll take his first injection next Thursday. He is approved for free Humira for a year! We are so thankful and excited. It could take up to six months for the Humira [...]

We’re big fans of Dr. Fan, David’s new rheumatologist. He and his staff are wonderful! We get in and out in 45 minutes instead of four hours at the old rheumatologist’s office.

Today David saw Dr. Fan and they discussed the anti-inflammatory, Celebrex, that David has been taking for two months. David told him that it’s helping so much more than Naproxen was, but it’s $225 a month. Dr. Fan wrote a prescription for a different, generic anti-inflammatory drug and told David to see if it helped. He said there’s another generic David can try if that one doesn’t work. We’re so happy to have a doctor that’s willing to work with us!

A representative from My Humira Financial Assistance contacted me last Friday. She wondered why David hadn’t started taking Humira since they’d issued his discount card for $500 off a month for 12 months. My first thought was, “Well, now we know why Humira retails for $2,200 a month. They have employees who sit around keeping [...]