And literally every month when he has to refill his Ritalin, he has to drive to his doctor's office to get a hand-written prescription on paper, because he can't call in a refill, and the doctor can't do it electronically. Every single goddamn month.

This is us for Em's meds. It's so damn frustrating.

Are the companies only doing this with mental illness meds, because that goes back to the "isn't really a sickness" train of thought, which also sucks. I mean, would they for example, ask someone to pay for extra insulin or blood pressure meds?

Nope. Grace is on Xoponex which is non-formulary and therefore buttall expensive. Both insurances WILL cover it together, but only a 2 month supply and she cannot be refilled until 3 months have passed.

We can and do substitute albuterol. But the difference is albuterol makes her tachycardiac and is not as effective.

We also get Xoponex inhalers which work for 4 hours but not 8. We could get enough inhalant and then nebulized solution for her to make it a month, but not night time stuff.

Also, her Singulair comes in pill form which they will pay for and granule which can actually go through her tube which requires the use of both insurances to work.

We're blessed that we have a light med regimen.

Also, Aims, Amy, Naomi, dcp (I think), Polgara, lisa and ita and anyone I missed -- THANK YOU SO MUCH. K and I are both humbled and appreciative.

Ok-- I am not even sure how I did this, but I just lost 2 of the heating elements for my stove while cleaning the burner pans. I threw one out because it was broken and left one by the stove. They are not in the oven, in the cupboard next to the oven or in the garbage. What the heck!?!

And I found them. They must have fallen in when I lifted up the top of the stove and they were in the part of the stove underneath the burner area. Since I am cooking something, it is pretty hard to get them out.

No problem, Kat. I hope the email I sent her is useful too.

I went through paperwork and threw out a small bag of trash. Victory!

Now I want to do nothing else for the rest of the day.

My MacBook Air died. Then later it came back to life.

Or maybe it just didn't want to wake up. Kinda' like me.

The remains of martyred saints, as photographed by Toby de Silva.

Cool. Martyred saints sure get buried with a lot of jewels. Looks like they could be on the set of an Indiana Jones movie, except they're not covered in cobwebs and dust.

My favorite detail is the Bible with a bunch of bookmarks still in it.

FOOTBALL!