Flu/COVID Same Thing

So my tickle turned into a cold or flu…whatever, I’ve felt lousy all week.

When I went to the doc on Tues he tested me for the flu, said it was negative but put me on Tamiflu anyway. I swear I felt worse after taking the meds but it’s probably because it brought all the junk in my head I didn’t know was up there down into my face.

Then a couple of days later Dave started with a tickle and said he wasn’t feeling good. He saw a doc yesterday and they tested him and his came back COVID. Well, they gave him a Z-Pak plus PAXLOVID. He tried to save time and dropped it at CVS but we don’t use them so I was irritated that he didn’t drive the couple of extra miles to Walmart. Sometimes he just doesn’t think. Anyway, I chock it up to him not feeling good.

So I waltz down to CVS, knowing it was gonna be a pain in the rear and what happened is they told me they aren’t contracted with BCBS so the PAXLOVID will be $1900. Say what????? My eyes popped out of my head and I said, “That’s just stupid!” I’m laughing now at my reaction because of how things ended up but long story short, it didn’t matter because he ain’t gonna take it anyway. He will take his Z-pak and move on down the line. (he didn’t take the COVID vaccine either, it was killing people)

When we got to Walmart this morning, the whole ball of wax was $1.17! (insurance didn’t cover his cough syrup so they can keep it) So who’s at fault for a medication quoted at $ 1,900 in the first place?? Lawyers, that’s who. And what about all the poor people with no insurance that stay sick because there’s no way they can afford their medication? We paid a dollar in the end. How crazy is that??

I’m fed up with it all and sick of feeling sick. It’s all a racket and I feel guilty for being able to afford my medicine when so many others can’t. Still, the look on the pharmacy tech’s face when I said I thought it was stupid was priceless. She’d had a day already and there was a very rude customer behind me that had been griping and complaining for 30 minutes. I wasn’t being rude to the lady, I just told her that the jacked-up price is ridiculous and she agreed!

They really need to fix the whole mess Big Pharma and the lawyers have caused.

Meanwhile, I’m going to pray that I don’t get re-infected since Dave insists on me being in the same room with him during the day. 😆 (it’s funny -we’ve been sleeping in separate rooms for three nights now) I sound like a stuffed up frog when I talk and my head feels full of cotton.

I prayed Psalm 91 over our situation last night so how is it he feels better than me? Renda says they are the same thing anyway (flu/COVID) 🤣

All I know is I want to be rid of it ASAP! I have two more days of Tamiflu and Dave just started his medication today.

The PAXLOVID still sits unopened in the box.

I’m hoping we are both completely back to normal in time for our trip home.

It’s bad enough we are missing out church’s Thanksgiving meal, but I was able to get Renda to pick up my cans of cranberry sauce and my donation of cans for OCS. I still feel bad we won’t be making food for it but no matter how carefully we would be in preparing it, they would still question eating it knowing where it came from. We don’t want to be responsible for making someone else sick 😷 either.

There will be plenty of food, I’m sure. 😊