A Young Wife’s Tale

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 [...]

David has psoriatic arthritis. He was diagnosed a year ago, at age 23. The rheumatologist thinks he should go into remission. It could be today, it could be next year. There’s no time frame. The arthritis is quite a strain on our marriage…