What Does $7,000 Look Like to You?

Here’s what $7,000 looks like to me and to others with M.S.

This isn’t my story.  I didn’t write it.  Someone much more powerful, much more educated about Big Pharma, the health care industry, and public policy wrote this story.

 This picture and the story that goes with it impacted me.

It made my stomach turn.

It made me feel immense guilt for that one time I didn’t get the cap on the top of my AutoJect just right.  I hit the button and then I lost all the medicine in one of my syringes.  While it was a comical picture — liquid squirting on the shower curtain, the mirror and the floor, instead of into my tummy — I know what my meds cost and I felt guilty right then. 

And then, I saw this picture and I was reminded of my wastefulness and felt even more guilt than before.

I was floored. Tearful. Nauseated. Grateful that I have insurance. Saddened for those who don’t. Furious at those in control. Eager to learn more; to be less ignorant.  Empowered to spread the word.

Read the story. Then thank the author. She’s trying, day and night, to educate and through that education, to change public policy for those of  us with M.S. (oh, and a few million other common folk around the country).

And then consider what $7,000 looks like in your world.