On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:06:52 +0000, ogden <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:

> V, for that is her initial, suffers from debilitating headaches
> (inherited from her mother, it seems) and the most astonishing chronic
> asthma I've ever seen. Without medication for one she'd be pretty much
> perpetually incapacitated, and without medication for the other she'd
> probably be dead. Yet she still has to fork out the thick end of 120
> quid a year for the (admittedly vast quantity of) drugs required to keep
> her alive.

Hmm, that's rather less than the cost of my hypertension medicine
-- *IF* I were to pay for each prescription. A Prescription Pre-payment
Certificate caps my cost at a little bit south of £120 p.a.[1], IIRC.
Does she have one of them?

[1] Actually, per 13 months if you get your scripts in 8-week lots like
me; you can fit 7 lots in if you arrange for the PPC to start on the day you
put in a script. There's the danger that you might need some emergency
script in the "free" two-month period, but you can backdate the start of
your PPC and claim the cost of scripts in that period *IF* you get a special
receipt from the pharmacist with a view to a refund.

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"Dr Ivan D. Reid" wrote:
>
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:06:52 +0000, ogden <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
> > V, for that is her initial, suffers from debilitating headaches
> > (inherited from her mother, it seems) and the most astonishing chronic
> > asthma I've ever seen. Without medication for one she'd be pretty much
> > perpetually incapacitated, and without medication for the other she'd
> > probably be dead. Yet she still has to fork out the thick end of 120
> > quid a year for the (admittedly vast quantity of) drugs required to keep
> > her alive.
>
> Hmm, that's rather less than the cost of my hypertension medicine
> -- *IF* I were to pay for each prescription. A Prescription Pre-payment
> Certificate caps my cost at a little bit south of £120 p.a.[1], IIRC.
> Does she have one of them?

Yeah. If she didn't, the combined meds for all her chronic ailments
(honestly, she makes Phil look like a poster child for perfect health)
would cost her several hundred quid a year, easy.

--
ogden
sv650 & rgv250

Dan L wrote:
>
> ogden wrote:
>
> > DR wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:44:08 +0000, Adie <(E-Mail Removed)> is
> > > alleged to have written:
> > >
> > > >"Hog" <(E-Mail Removed)> :
> > > >
> > > > > Heh, as a sugar mong I do get free prescriptions.
> > > >
> > > > what I don't understand is why sugar mongs get free scripts when
> > > > other long term medications don't.
> > >
> > > It's not universal; I don't get free prescriptions as I can (so far)
> > > adequately control my blood sugar without recourse to medication.
> >
> > V, for that is her initial, suffers from debilitating headaches
> > (inherited from her mother, it seems) and the most astonishing chronic
> > asthma I've ever seen. Without medication for one she'd be pretty much
> > perpetually incapacitated, and without medication for the other she'd
> > probably be dead. Yet she still has to fork out the thick end of 120
> > quid a year for the (admittedly vast quantity of) drugs required to
> > keep her alive.
> >
> > Less critically, my eyesight is hit. Without specs, I'd be partially
> > sighted at best - able to carry out basic functions, even reading a
> > book would be an uphill struggle with the page held 3" from my face.
> >
> > If either of us were on income support, we'd get drugs and a lovely
> > set of retro specs gratis, but means-testing means that we don't.
> > Tbh, I'm not overly fussed - I'd rather spunk 400 quid on a decent
> > set of goggles than wear the Joe 90 efforts they give away for free,
> > but it all still depends on income at the bottom end.
> >
> > What's my point? No idea, blame the shiraz. But think about it. Or
> > something.
> >
> > And if I was a somali refugee? Oh lordy, don't get me started. It
> > ain't like this in Israel, I can tell you...
>
> Has V consulted her dentist?

Probably. She's been like it since she was a kid, same as her mother.
She's had MRI scans and everything.

I don't know how she feels pain in her head anyway, given it's mostly
full of cotton wool and silly putty.

--
ogden
sv650 & rgv250