Today Would Be A Lovely Day For H1N1 Or The Like.

Mr. MM informed me this morning that we are sans health insurance coverage until the beginning of December.  He started back to work at his previous company yesterday, and while everything else is reverting to the way it was, we miss out on a couple weeks of health insurance coverage.

Let me just say I am thankful we HAVE ALWAYS had coverage, considering the fact that so many people have none.  Even back when we were piss poor and could not get any additional help from the State of Massachusetts, and friends of ours were scamming the system and getting free health care.

My concern is the obvious.  For a family that never gets sick, it WOULD be our luck for something catastrophic to occur right now.  My children are never sick, never at the doctors, I mean that.  We have had nothing but well-child visits in at least a year.  The only medical bills incurred have been via my stay at the Penthouse Neurology Suite for a week, and my Awesome Anemia Iron Intravenous.

I was not aware that we would have a lapse, I did not even concern myself with that, because I don't recall it happening before and we are never sick.  Of COURSE that means I need a refill on the ONE PRESCRIPTION I take, today, with $10 to my name.  Imagine if I needed 5-10, or if the family took anything?  Yikes.  I never once looked down upon someone needing to use that pharmaceutical company on the street or in Canada, (or in my SPAM folder!) because this shit is EXPENSIVE.  I'm fondly recalling my $500 Topamax prescription last year.  Ugh.