No arguing with taste.

I think I should not make any more decisions today. I've only made little ones so far but they all seem to have been wrong.

I have my shifts for Denver Comic Con! I'll be working the Celebrity Photo Op Booth all three days in the morning. Then I can wander the Con in the afternoon. I have never been to a Con but am VERY excited.

To improve my Monday, I'm watching Obama and Larry Wilmore's White House Correspondents' Dinner speeches. It's definitely helping. Obama just thanked Joe Biden for not shooting anyone in the face.

Obama just thanked Joe Biden for not shooting anyone in the face.

His whole speech was excellent. He really has zero fucks left to give.

"We asked if you wanted steak or fish, but some of you wrote in Paul Ryan."

Man, Tim's rheumatologist wants to switch him to an injectable drug that -- for one month -- costs 4 times our mortgage payment. (Though I think our insurance might bring the cost down to 2 times our mortgage payment.)

For the record, our mortgage payment is NOT $10. So, you know.

Now, the drug company has a program for people who can't afford upwards of $2500 a month, which is a nice thing. But I'm genuinely curious: how many patients CAN afford that cost? Or maybe other people's insurance is better than ours (because it is, admittedly, shitty about some drugs).

So I'm kind of flipping out like a mammal, but I'm also reasonably sure that, in the end, the cost will be affordable via the drug company's program. But I have to get this freakout completely out of my system before Tim gets home.

Also, I have to take over lawnmowing duties, which I am not thrilled about. But the dude has RA. It's not like he's just being a jerk and making me do all the chores. But, meh. (OTOH, mowing the lawn will add to my Fitbit step total, so...yay?)

Epic, much health ~ma for your mom, and coping ~ma for you. That's all so hard to deal with. I hope they can get the infection under control.

Steph, the exorbitant cost of some drugs makes me so mad. Rich companies getting richer on people's pain and desperation, fuck that.

Steph, the exorbitant cost of some drugs makes me so mad. Rich companies getting richer on people's pain and desperation, fuck that.

I get that R&D costs are high, but I still don't understand the point of pricing a drug so high that no one can afford it without assistance. Just price it lower in that case.

(Okay, part of me is going to be stuck on perpetual freakout until I know for sure that we won't have to pay $2500 a month for this medication. We don't earn that kind of money.)

That is, in fact, more than I earn in a month.

Dang, that is a lot of money. IIRC from my days billing IV drugs for Home Health, the pricing is often set so that when insurance or Medicare pays their negotiated percentage of the price that actually covers the cost, it's not really what patients are expected to pay, although that was a long time ago. I guess the idea is that the people who CAN afford it will, in effect, subsidize the people who can't, but there has got to be a better way.

Speaking of Fitbit steps: I just walked a mile and it netted me 1435 steps, so 10k steps still seems impossible as an every day thing. I think the only times I've hit it are days when I've run a 5k. I"m working on hitting 250 steps every hour when I'm at work because I figure sitting all day is really what I want to avoid, but while my Fitbit is happy to track my hourly steps it doesn't seem to have a way to remind me to get up or nag me that I haven't hit that goal yet.

I watched tiny bits of the correspondence dinner, I think I will need to watch the whole thing at some point.