My new job...

Its now been two weeks since I started my new job. Just got my first paycheck in three months.

I can't believe the differance between this factory and the last one I worked in. Its very clean and organized. This company makes nearly all their shipments ontime, which is a huge differance from my old job.

So far I'm basically in a confused state, learning a totally new process that I knew nothing about coming into it. Of course my main job is managing people (supervision) and these people don't behave any differant than the people at the other plant. People are pretty much the same no matter where you go.

The largest differance in the people is the fact that most of them barely speak english. Most are Croatian. I've already mananged to learn a few basic words from them. My feeling is that if they are in America, working for Americans, they are the ones that have to learn the langauge. The other thing I've noticed is they are hard working. They are not afraid of work, unlike the lazy Americans at my last job. They appreciate their job and are thankful to have it. They are paid very well for their efforts, as this is a union shop.

After about another month of training I will move to afternoon shift. After seven years of working midnights, maybe I will sleep alot better. This should help with any mania that I have. I look forward to the change.

It was kind of nice being out of work for three months. It was like a long vacation( a long boring one). But I am glad to get back to work and start a new chapter in my life.

Spitting nails angry !!!@#$%@

I called the pdoc to see if they processed my free meds forms. She said they were done but never sent out!!. There is an administration charge for filling them out and they needed to talk to me before sending them out.
I gave them the forms a month and 1/2 ago and their just now telling me this. I'm so mad I could... (don't even want to think about would I'd like to do).

So now I had to have them give me prescriptions that will carry us over for now. That all comes out of my pocket.

I'm so pissssssssssssssssed offfff right now I could scream !

Where's my free prescriptions?

Towards the end of January, we ordered all of our drugs from the manufactures through their patient assistance programs. It's now been over one and a half months with no drugs or letters. I've been told it takes two months or longer to recieve them.

Even though I have a new job starting next week, I still won't have the group insurance plan in effect until May 1. I'm starting to get worried we will not see these free drugs and that I'll have to go to the pharmacy and pay full price for the drugs because we will run out of drugs before that.

If you've had any experience with patient assistance programs, please leave your experience in the comment section 0f this blog or email me @bipolartwo@gmail.com.

Currently the medicines my wife(schizoaffective disorder) and myself(Bipolar 2) are on is Risperdal, Lamictal, Lorazapam, Klonopin, Benztropine. I quit taking the Risperdal and have seen no ill effects from it. I haven't taken any Risperdal since I lost my job. I wanted to save my prescription for my wife to use in case we ran out of drugs or money.

My state has a "discount" drug card. I already have this plan in my possession. According to their website the Risperdal is $185/month and the Lamictal is $116/month at the DISCOUNTED prices. Multiply that by the two of us and thats $602/month just for those two drugs. The other drugs are alot cheaper than those. I do have a little bit of money in the bank to cover this if we have to but it would destroy us in the end. COME ON FREE DRUGS- WHERE ARE YOU???