With odds like that, who needs assassins or doctors.

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That was close.  I had called in for insulin some time ago.  But they had to patch the request through.  To be fair, by the time they assigned me to a doc, I got at least the one last supply.  I didn't know for several days, because the doc hung up on me.  How much is in it, that I don't know.  I had asked for an increase in insulin, as I was right at the point of an increase but neither my syringes nor medicine volume currently received was enough to support an increase (by their instructions and my readings (which reminds me, I need to find my meter)).  Anyway, I am glad I decided to cut back.  I was going to cut it to 30 cc's, but that... well... that's been painful.  I am going with 35 cc's after a day or three of 30, hoping that will slake the harsh pain of the steep fast cut just a bit.  However, assuming medicine does show on time, I have just about exactly enough.  There might be a day, perhaps two, more in that last vial.  But no more.  How about that?  Thinking on my toes saved my ass, and more than likely people out there reading this thought I was just being a dumbshit.  Maybe I am, but I am a better one than many people are.  If I am being ripped up at a little less than 2/3rds dosage, a few days to a week of no medicine, if I had maintained the regular dosage, would have been absolutely brutal, and lethal to... you average dumbshits. 

Oh, yes.  I am a bit grumpy about things.  Then again, as Zerocare gets progressively fitted to your treatment, and you get one and only one doctor/system, and they can tell you to take your medicine, whatever that is, and there is no choice for you, you will begin to understand my plight.  Wait until they consider high blood pressure mental illness, or ignore all the signs of a treatable illness because it is too complicated or expensive to treat.  Or when a doctor just doesn't like you bible thumping morality and Christ devoted cretins, and mistreats you just for that.  I have dealt with each, right here in Utah, in the last few years, but throughout my illness I have dealt with these things over and over and over.  Overpaid Nazi goons, who have no interest in your health and no way to even be sued or otherwise hurt for malpractice unless it can be proven to be intentional.  A very difficult thing to prove.  Even then, they can't be sued.  Often they are just fired... and moved to another V.A.

Yeah, you are going to like Zerocare.  And, remember, a lot of doctors, quite often the good ones, are quitting.  They know that bureaucrats, who are over them, and will decide how and when they can treat, makes for terrible medicine.  The docs who are just in it as a business, or got through on quota, will stick it out.  Well, and the young ones who are into so much debt that at least some time at the profession is required.  There are some differences, the similarities seems stronger.  I guess time and deathrate will show.

Later.