Dear Wellness Insurance Companies: 1 Wishing For A Lot - As Well As 1 Demand Fifty-Fifty More.
This ship was based on a recent conversation I had amongst friend. We tin give the sack wishing all nosotros want, but nosotros also conduct hold "to do." We gotta construct the listen. We must demand, nosotros must "do," in addition to nosotros must become the alter nosotros desire - In our lives in addition to our lives amongst diabetes
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Dear Health Insurance Companies:
I wishing I knew what my diabetes required tomorrow - I really, genuinely do, because it would construct my life in addition to then much easier inwards in addition to then many ways.
I wishing I had a crystal ball that would accurately enjoin me just how much insulin my torso volition need, xxx days, ninety days in addition to 365 days a twelvemonth downwardly to 1/5 unit of measurement - but I don’t know, because my diabetes requirements are never the same from 1 24-hour interval to the next.
That doesn’t construct me non-compliant - that makes me a mortal living amongst diabetes - And inwards my case, type 1 diabetes.
I wishing I knew just how many times I MUST exam my blood sugar everyday for the side yesteryear side 365 days. In my caput I'm envisioning a magical 2015 calendar for me to that details in addition to breaks downwardly all my glucose numbers advance, including the whys in addition to hows.
How many low blood sugars; high blood sugars, sick days, exercise days, stress filled days in addition to everything inwards between.
Now lets conduct hold that magical in addition to mystical calendar a step further so that it tin give the sack accurately predict inwards advance and breakdown my daily/weekly/room glucose tests for (and mistake messages,) including in addition to the guess date those days volition occur, for e'er unmarried calendar year.
That would hold out GREAT - Then I could give y'all those numbers good advance!
But magical calendars don't be in addition to that's instantly how diabetes works.
EVERY 24-hour interval is different.
And I’d love to know inwards advance an guess number of "error messages" that volition flash on my meter/sensor hide inwards the side yesteryear side 12 months in addition to then nosotros tin give the sack discuss it out accordingly in addition to earlier paw re: supplies in addition to durable medical equipment coverage.
I wishing amongst all my midpoint (and infusion site existent estate,) that I could properly predict if infusion site volition really subcutaneously suck inwards all the insulin my torso requires, before I stick the 1 inch steel needle - before I waste materials a precious infusion site on a dead-spot that I cannot reuse.
I wishing I had an endless furnish of coin in addition to fourth dimension when it comes my diabetes supplies, wants verses needs.
It's frightening in addition to maddening all rolled into 1 that the people who create upwards one's hear what diabetes supplies volition or won’t hold out covered, in addition to have, for the most component - no agreement of what an infusion site does or doesn’t do, in addition to that a ninety 24-hour interval furnish is anything but, when it comes to doorknobs, dead spots, in addition to margins for error.
And that a person's 1 month's furnish of insulin requirements does indeed change, daily and monthly, because our diabetes requirements alter every day.
It's infuriating that there's no wiggle room at all when it comes to how much insulin insurance companies volition really pay for on a monthly footing - don't fifty-fifty acquire me started on roofing alone 50% of the toll of my monthly insulin because insulin is alone available for purchases every bit a mention construct instead of generic!
Insulin's also the alone medication, mention construct or otherwise that keeps me alive!
I wishing wellness insurance companies would conduct hold into consideration that every damn 24-hour interval my torso in addition to my diabetes requires dissimilar amounts of insulin - simply similar those amongst fully surgery pancreases.
I wishing insurance companionship would conduct hold into consideration that at to the lowest degree 22 things on a daily footing contribute to my blood sugars - things like, but non express to; stress, illness, exercise, caffeine, my period, in addition to everything else inwards between.
That for simply 1 day, the folks at my insurance companionship could experience what a roller-coaster of blood saccharide feels similar in addition to requires.Pricking their fingers, counting carbs in addition to injecting incessantly inwards gild to acquire handgrip on a ride that no 1 wants to overstep away on.
I wishing they would realize that Murphy’s Law applies to people amongst diabetes, a.k.a., the magnet similar attraction of tile floors to insulin vials - in addition to unremarkably a few days earlier nosotros are able to renew are prescription without paying dearly.
I wishing wellness insurance companies would non alone empathise & admit the mental side of living amongst a chronic illness, every bit good every bit the physical in addition to medical requirements - but would encompass the mental in addition to the physical without having to fight.
I wishing that the people who implement changes re: my healthcare and yours, in addition to who conduct hold the ability to approve/deny our diabetes medications and technology, would non alone understood in addition to admit that managing diabetes in addition to every chronic affliction is difficult; never ending in addition to constant, but would really approve those medicines in addition to technologies that allow us to maintain our physical in addition to mental health.
I tin give the sack wishing all I want, but I'm down with wishing - I'm tired of wishing. I'm all close demanding in addition to doing. So are all the Diabetes/Patient Advocates who pay your premiums.
WE won't halt advocating for our rights in addition to our coverage in addition to nosotros won’t halt demanding- because our really wellness in addition to wellbeing requires that nosotros do.
We volition overstep away along to utilization our collective powers - Our voices, posts/vlogs, our tenacity, the ability of Social Media online in addition to inwards existent life to empower others in addition to construct changes.
Being patients has taught us it's to never give up; to utter up, to hear in addition to larn from 1 to a greater extent than or less other in addition to piece of employment together - because our electrical flow in addition to time to come wellness depends on it.
Sincerely,
Kelly Kunik
PWD, Diabetes Advocate
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Dear Health Insurance Companies:
I wishing I knew what my diabetes required tomorrow - I really, genuinely do, because it would construct my life in addition to then much easier inwards in addition to then many ways.
I wishing I had a crystal ball that would accurately enjoin me just how much insulin my torso volition need, xxx days, ninety days in addition to 365 days a twelvemonth downwardly to 1/5 unit of measurement - but I don’t know, because my diabetes requirements are never the same from 1 24-hour interval to the next.
That doesn’t construct me non-compliant - that makes me a mortal living amongst diabetes - And inwards my case, type 1 diabetes.
How many low blood sugars; high blood sugars, sick days, exercise days, stress filled days in addition to everything inwards between.
Now lets conduct hold that magical in addition to mystical calendar a step further so that it tin give the sack accurately predict inwards advance and breakdown my daily/weekly/room glucose tests for (and mistake messages,) including in addition to the guess date those days volition occur, for e'er unmarried calendar year.
That would hold out GREAT - Then I could give y'all those numbers good advance!
But magical calendars don't be in addition to that's instantly how diabetes works.
EVERY 24-hour interval is different.
And I’d love to know inwards advance an guess number of "error messages" that volition flash on my meter/sensor hide inwards the side yesteryear side 12 months in addition to then nosotros tin give the sack discuss it out accordingly in addition to earlier paw re: supplies in addition to durable medical equipment coverage.
I wishing amongst all my midpoint (and infusion site existent estate,) that I could properly predict if infusion site volition really subcutaneously suck inwards all the insulin my torso requires, before I stick the 1 inch steel needle - before I waste materials a precious infusion site on a dead-spot that I cannot reuse.
It's frightening in addition to maddening all rolled into 1 that the people who create upwards one's hear what diabetes supplies volition or won’t hold out covered, in addition to have, for the most component - no agreement of what an infusion site does or doesn’t do, in addition to that a ninety 24-hour interval furnish is anything but, when it comes to doorknobs, dead spots, in addition to margins for error.
And that a person's 1 month's furnish of insulin requirements does indeed change, daily and monthly, because our diabetes requirements alter every day.
It's infuriating that there's no wiggle room at all when it comes to how much insulin insurance companies volition really pay for on a monthly footing - don't fifty-fifty acquire me started on roofing alone 50% of the toll of my monthly insulin because insulin is alone available for purchases every bit a mention construct instead of generic!
Insulin's also the alone medication, mention construct or otherwise that keeps me alive!
I wishing wellness insurance companies would conduct hold into consideration that every damn 24-hour interval my torso in addition to my diabetes requires dissimilar amounts of insulin - simply similar those amongst fully surgery pancreases.
I wishing insurance companionship would conduct hold into consideration that at to the lowest degree 22 things on a daily footing contribute to my blood sugars - things like, but non express to; stress, illness, exercise, caffeine, my period, in addition to everything else inwards between.
That for simply 1 day, the folks at my insurance companionship could experience what a roller-coaster of blood saccharide feels similar in addition to requires.Pricking their fingers, counting carbs in addition to injecting incessantly inwards gild to acquire handgrip on a ride that no 1 wants to overstep away on.
I wishing they would realize that Murphy’s Law applies to people amongst diabetes, a.k.a., the magnet similar attraction of tile floors to insulin vials - in addition to unremarkably a few days earlier nosotros are able to renew are prescription without paying dearly.
WE won't halt advocating for our rights in addition to our coverage in addition to nosotros won’t halt demanding- because our really wellness in addition to wellbeing requires that nosotros do.
We volition overstep away along to utilization our collective powers - Our voices, posts/vlogs, our tenacity, the ability of Social Media online in addition to inwards existent life to empower others in addition to construct changes.
Being patients has taught us it's to never give up; to utter up, to hear in addition to larn from 1 to a greater extent than or less other in addition to piece of employment together - because our electrical flow in addition to time to come wellness depends on it.
Sincerely,
Kelly Kunik
PWD, Diabetes Advocate
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