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Diabetes Patients Are Losing Limbs And Sight Because They Can’t Afford Insulin

twistedingenue:

mintyliciousbjd:

dizzy-pup:

dr-archeville:

jewishdragon:

merc9andazombie:

More on skyrocketing drug costs in the United States

@fangirlinginleatherboots 

“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.

Diabetes Patients Are Losing Limbs And Sight Because They Can’t Afford Insulin

Multiclassing… With Style

adungeonaday:

Your character is close to levelling up, and you’re thinking about taking a level in another class. That’s great! However, let us not forget that this is a roleplaying game, and therefore this new character development deserves some narrative attention.

The Guild of Fifty One Hands does share secrets with anyone off the street.

The Archfey Council will not grant to power of the natural world to those it deems unworthy.

The Circle of Seven will not train an unlearned plebe to manipulate the fundamental elements of the universe. 

You must first prove you are worthy of the powerful abilities associated with this new class. For each class (in the 5th edition PHB) you will find a list describing trials you may be set to prove your suitability for training.

Barbarian (1d6):

  1. Survive a night in the gulch with only a spear
  2. Capture a live bison (or similarly large beast) with only a rope
  3. Cross the river at the rapids
  4. Using only your bare hands, touch together the two ends of an iron rod
  5. Turn the granite sculpture in front of the palace to face the opposite direction
  6. Beat up a bear with your bare hands

Bard (1d6):

  1. Compose a sonata in the style of a famous composer
  2. Construct your own instrument
  3. Perform at every inn Brognar Dovecap played at on his final tour
  4. Recite the epic tale of Gray Wolf from memory
  5. Sit through the entire 28 hour “Ode to Warm Milk”
  6. Get a groupie

Cleric (1d6):

  1. Translate a page of the Mad God’s Tome
  2. Acquire the ingredients for incense and prepare it
  3. Read the scripture cover to cover
  4. Learn the fundamentals of the morningstar
  5. Work for a time as a beadsman at the local alms-house
  6. Finish all the paperwork in your to-do bin

Druid (1d6):

  1. Learn the hunter’s last rites and perform them after slaying a bull elk
  2. Allow a bird to nest in your cupped hands
  3. Cultivate the notoriously fickle winter ivy without using magic
  4. Earn the trust and friendship of a myconid colony
  5. Return a defiled place to a state of natural health
  6. Beat up a lumberjack

Fighter (1d6):

  1. Learn the basic defense and attack forms
  2. Win a medal in the King’s Melee
  3. Apprentice under a blacksmith for a time
  4. Learn the art of diplomacy
  5. Read through Muin Wild’s ‘’The Art of Conflict”
  6. Defeat the galloping hordes AND one hundred bad guys with swords

Monk (1d6):

  1. Do 10,000 pushups
  2. Learn meditation under a master
  3. Give up your worldly possessions
  4. Learn to perform a tea ceremony
  5. Fast for a fortnight
  6. Learn crouch with tigers and hide with dragons

Paladin (1d6):

  1. Provide palliative care to the dying
  2. Seek out a wanted criminal and convince them to amend their ways
  3. Commit to a vow of silence, chastity, or poverty
  4. Compose your oath and commit it to memory
  5. Undertake a pilgrimage
  6. Spoil a shady plan by being a huge stick-in-the-mud

Ranger (1d6):

  1. Retrieve the herbal ingredients for an antidote before the poison overwhelms you
  2. Capture and train a bird of prey
  3. Climb to the peak of a mountain
  4. Construct your own bow
  5. Track down the cause of a blight afflicting the nearby forest
  6. Escort some needy halflings to the nearest elf settlement

Rogue (1d6):

  1. Steal the Red Wolf’s signet ring
  2. Spring The Pig from the local jail
  3. Brew a potent poison
  4. Walk atop the city wall from one end to the other
  5. Craft a set of skeleton keys
  6. Go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line

Sorcerer (1d6):

  1. Trace the history of the dragon bloodlines
  2. Inscribe on your skin the tattoos of magic channeling
  3. Read the Manual of the Planes
  4. Pen a thesis on each of the four natural and seven supernatural elements
  5. Construct a wand
  6. Fetch water and perform other menial tasks for an Arcane Master without using magic

Warlock (1d6):

  1. Retrieve a lost relic for your patron
  2. Capture and tame your familiar
  3. Perform a moonlit sacrifice for your desired patron
  4. Craft your pact weapon
  5. Destroy a relic belonging to a rival patron
  6. Start a cult

Wizard (1d6):

  1. Identify an artifact without the aid of magic
  2. Master the process of growing crystals
  3. Read through all seventy-seven tomes of Arcane Foundations
  4. Learn the fundamentals of life, death, undeath, and false life
  5. Perform the rituals required to convert a regular cauldron into a suitable potion brewing vessel
  6. You put on your robe and wizard hat

thecheshirecass:

black-to-the-bones:

He was an activist who inspired millions to fight for their rights. He knew what was wrong with our country and risked his life to help his people achieve equality.  In the society where black were treated like animal he did everything possible to change this. His brave soul, his will and courage changed the history of America , changed the people. He made us believe we can win this war. He payed for it with his life. He will always be remembered.

Respecting his memory also means acknowledging that his fight is far from over, black people are facing the same issues that ha birth to the Black Panthers, and that the FBI is basically trying to launch COINTELPRO 2.0 against BLM and other black activists. Hampton should be more than a history lesson, he should be a rallying point.

“Tell your boss I️ hate this new system!” Me too buddy. Complaining to me will not make a difference. Complaining to my manager will not make a difference. These are corporate decisions that we have to follow. If you’d like to make a complaint, I️ suggest contacting corporate directly, whether by phone or email. But the minimum wage worker just trying to get through their day? We can do nothing for you. Please stop yelling at us for things out of our control.

Tomorrow, I will take a klonopin before work, because this hormone-induced rage-crying over rude asshole callers expecting me to magically fix is for the birds.

Edit: I remembered I have tomorrow off and rejoiced. Will still probably take the klonopin hormone-brainchemistry combo will probably still be in the mood to not play well together.

Mexico loves Coco

maritzac:

Friendly reminder that Coco has become the most cinema-popular movie in the history of Mexico, with more than 16 million people watching it in only 17 days. It is expected to become the highest grossing movie in history too, with beyond 1000 million pesos made (40+ millions USD).

Friendly reminder that Jorge R. Gutierrez, director of The Book of Life, loves Coco and gives it his seal of approval.

https://twitter.com/mexopolis/status/929138787698880512

The movies are nothing alike (I have seen them both.)

Do not, I repeat, do not be outraged for whatever reason in behalf of Mexico and mexicans. We went, we saw, we embraced it. And we hope you do, too. Because we would love it if you could walk in our shoes for a bit, so to speak. And the more succesful it is, the more stories about us can be produced later.

maguneedsalife:

your periodic reminder that “golem” is not a word you can throw around without context. i know golems are pretty ingrained as earth/elemental spirits in a lot of fantasy settings now, but i wish more people understood that golems are extremely important to jewish people in an extremely specific way. 

the legend of the golem is a direct response to antisemitism in europe–specifically the blood libel; it was the golem’s job to expose asshole christians who tried to frame jews for child murder. the golem was a uniquely jewish response to a uniquely jewish problem: a sort of proto-superman who could come to our aid when all else failed. the golem is for the most part a benign protector (though there are legends of them rampaging after their rabbis lost control of them, but really, that one’s on the rabbi for not being specific enough). it is a positive and much beloved figure in jewish folklore.

so i want you to understand the full extent of jewish revulsion when we see people throwing around the word “golem” in regards to trump. 

trump is not a golem. you do not get to use that word. it does not mean “vaguely human-shaped unfeeling lump of excrement trying to pass as a person.” If that’s what you’re trying to convey with the word “golem”, please just use those words instead.