4 September 2002

Astonishing. I actually had a productive day yesterday. I got everything I'd wanted to get done at work done, plus a little more - though I'm going to need some help with the next bit, I think. And I wrote a little over 2000 words on the novel (though I got stuck right around 1700 and wound up banging my head against a wall for about two hours).

And on top of that, I put gas in my car, stopped at the drugstore to pick up my vitamins, got my mom's and brother's birthday cards into the mail, made the grocery list and went (with Matt) to the grocery store, changed the cat's litter, and made dinner. I did not do the dishes, though. So nyah.

So I'm feeling pretty good about yesterday. Which is good, because Wednesdays are pretty low on the productivity scale. Ah, well, any writing I get done, I'll just add to tomorrow's goal.

When I dropped off my prescriptions on Saturday, the pharmacist told me that my insurance company doesn't cover prenatal vitamins.

(Why prenatal vitamins are a prescription anyway is beyond me. My doctor made it sound like they were reguar multivitamins with an added boost of folic acid. Is folic acid dangerous in higher doses? And if so, why is my doctor having me take these vitamins before I'm, um, prenatal?)

Anyway, he told me my insurance wouldn't cover them, so I asked how much they'd cost. $9.99. My regular multivitamin is like $6 for sixty of them - about ten cents a vitamin. $10 for a thirty day supply is more than three times as much. Gotta love it. Ah, well, I want to get pregnant, and I want the baby to be healthy, and I want me to be healthy. Prenatal vitamins it is.

(Anyway, my co-payment for drugs is never less than $15, so I'd be paying the whole $10 anyway.)

So yesterday, I stopped at the drugstore, and the lady pharmacist came around and told me again. I nodded and told her that I'd already been informed.

"But it's the same price for a ninety day supply, so that's what we gave you."

Blink. Blink blink. $10 for thirty days. Or $10 for ninety days. That's only eleven cents per pill. Much more like it.

Of course, they're supposed to be taken with food. Which means I can't take them in the morning along with my synthyroid pill, which has to be taken on an empty stomach. So I guess I'll be bringing most of them to work with me, to take at lunch. If I can remember.

(Maybe it will inspire me to remember to take my calcium supplements, too. Ya never know.)

--Liz