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Earlier this week, we shared the concerns of patients who are struggling with the rising cost of EpiPens, injection devices that can save lives in the case of a severe allergic reaction to foods or…
“A medical professor who has tracked the cost of insulin over the
years says that a one-month supply of a popular version that cost $45
wholesale in 2001 cost $1,447 14 years later, an increase of almost
3,000%. That’s the wholesale price, not the retail price that an
uninsured patient would pay.“
Yeah, that’s messed up.
Wow, it’s really rare I see something cross my dash that’s actually directly tied to my life on a personal level, but yea, I’m Diabetic Type 1 and this is a problem.
I’ve been off insurance for the last three or so years and have been working around through channel I can to continue to obtain insulin and supplies for my insulin pump (of which is currently a problem, fun) for free or at reduced costs.
The Lilly Cares program is one I heavily endorse if your insulin is a Lilly product. They’ve been incredibly helpful to me.
Please spread the word on this. There are a lot of young Diabetics like myself that do not have a support system, do not have insurance, and do not have jobs. Insulin is literally a life-sustaining medication for T1 Diabetics. Please do not just ignore this.
T1 diagnosed over 20 years ago here. Back when I was out of work in 2009 I contacted Lilly Cares and I swear I would not be alive if not for that program. T1s need insulin to live. Daily. Our bodies do not produce the hormone because our immune systems backfired and killed our pancreas’ islet cells.
These days one bottle of insulin costs me approx $600 (before insurance) and lasts 2-3 weeks, tops. Less than ten years ago the cost was closer to $200/bottle. The insulin manufacturers keep “tweaking” insulins like Humalog so the patents can be extended(*), so we don’t even have access to a generic option.
The price gouging on insulin in this country is cruel and damn disgusting.
Please, please boost this info. It WILL save lives.
(*) a fact that even my endocrinologist has confirmed!
Lilly Cares saved my husband’s life when he had no prescription drug coverage. Please, please utilize this program if you can. It’s wonderful.
I’m really glad that KC Green’s work is being more widely recognized after the whole “This is not fine” comic came out.
He’s been in the comic making game for a really long time and he has…a bit of a knack for creating things that are used as reaction images and never credited back to him.
He’s a really cool guy and a great artist and I HIGHLY recommend following his work.
i feel like its important to add that hes also responsible for dickbutt. thats an important part of his resume
Some lesser known KC Green Career Highlights:
honestly I swear he’s like. the best at unintentionally making reaction images
He also did the “I guess!” comic, didn’t he?
We’ve all been fans of KC Green this whole time and never even knew
there’s also THIS classic, which is usually reduced to this:
so who else is in the mood to run off to a series of small, interconnected caves with me, and be cave neighbors for the next ten years,
cons: we wont know about any new memes
pros: we make our own cave neighbor memes about the bugs we see doin weird shit and that one cave that leaks when it rains except we can’t find the hole it’s leaking through
cave memes i’m submitting for your consideration:
*aiming hunting implements at anything that isn’t a bird* this bird is gonna be delicious
personifying rocks, constnatly,
“my digging skills are delightful, which you would know, if you ever bothered to know me the way you know your beetles”
throw the stone, Maurice.
one of our cave neighbors is a geologist. they know the names of all the kinds of rocks. the rest of us mispronounce them constantly on purpose and correct each other’s pronunciation with even more wrong ones.
making up elaborate insults towards bugs, and saying them, to the bugs
the implications of Ji-won’s moss beds (the joke is nobody can ever agree on the implications)
mushrooms in places they dont belong
yelling “hhchruckkkk!” in a high-pitched voice, several times in a row, whenever
“the best tasting dirt comes from Jamal’s cave”
worm disco
feel free to submit your own cave memes
these are some of the best memes ive seen all year in all honestly
Something I’ve noticed over the years: symptoms of trauma will be mocked and trivialized as angst, especially if you’re a woman, and only a trained eye will pick up on this
Further observation: if you let on even in the slightest that the reason for your behavior stems from trauma people will immediately freak out because they can’t handle what they can’t understand, and they don’t want to have to take you seriously because it’s much easier to dismiss you as an angsty girl
And one of the worst side effects of this is cringing relentlessly at your own suffering because you’ve learned and internalized that people will only regard it as a joke, anyways
Like “triggered” is a cheap joke now. I’m legitimately embarrassed whenever I’m actually triggered by something and it’s not fair I don’t even feel like I can use language literally intended to describe experiences with trauma
Native American tribes and their supporters headed to the US capital for four days of demonstrations against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline and to raise awareness of other issues affecting Native Americans.
Activists from indigenous tribes from across America had set up a teepee encampment next to the Washington Monument, before marching on Trump Tower and the White House
The protests follow a year-long battle by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and environmentalists against the construction of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline and the desecration of tribal lands.
The Washington DC protests, organised by Standing Rock along with the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Native Organisers Alliance, have asked the Government to require tribal consent when considering major infrastructure projects crossing through their lands.
There are clubs people can join to
hang out and make their own coffins.
New Zealand is home to at least a
dozen coffin clubs, where elderly
folks gather to build and decorate
their own caskets. Participants say
that, aside from saving money, the
club also serves as a support group
that brings people together and
helps them face the inevitable. Source
