Cancelling Winter Trip
Well, shoot. Wife's colitis still uncontrolled and Doc says cancel trip, stay close, will try some experimental injections ---- Humira. The shots are experimental, need about 30/yr, and cost $4000 e...
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Perhaps I am confused, the doc first tried to get the wife into trials for tocifinab(sp?), a pill I think you take daily. With it you have to be interviewed by the doc, personally, once a month. However, further investigation said the trial was limited to non-segmented colitis; the wifes is segmented, ie skips throughout the colon.
Failing that, he recommended the humira injections, and yes I can give the injections myself after the doc first does a series of 4 injections himself, then two weeks later does a series of 2 injections himself. After that, I can do the injections. However, he first has to get approval from my insurance company, medicare, and the company making humira ---- which takes 10 plus days under normal circumstances --- who knows how long with Christmas and New years coming up. I assumed all this meant another trial. Anyhow, we are stuck at home until at least late in January, probably longer. We will want to make sure the humira is effective for her; nothing else has been to date.
So, we can travel again if humira all works out. I'm an old farm boy and my job was to inject the cows for blackleg, shipping fever, etc, so shots don't worry me. What does worry me is how to drive my wife into a corral, rope her, and tie her up before giving the injections. She may be harder to handle than the cows were.
Failing that, he recommended the humira injections, and yes I can give the injections myself after the doc first does a series of 4 injections himself, then two weeks later does a series of 2 injections himself. After that, I can do the injections. However, he first has to get approval from my insurance company, medicare, and the company making humira ---- which takes 10 plus days under normal circumstances --- who knows how long with Christmas and New years coming up. I assumed all this meant another trial. Anyhow, we are stuck at home until at least late in January, probably longer. We will want to make sure the humira is effective for her; nothing else has been to date.
So, we can travel again if humira all works out. I'm an old farm boy and my job was to inject the cows for blackleg, shipping fever, etc, so shots don't worry me. What does worry me is how to drive my wife into a corral, rope her, and tie her up before giving the injections. She may be harder to handle than the cows were.
