I got a call from the billing people at my hospital today. I've been making payments on surgery from 2014 and had that down to about $300 before I had to go IP in August. That had a big co-pay and a few other charges. So now my payment plan is adjusted and is high enough that I'm going to have to re-think my budget to make it.

If/when I go again I'll have another big copay. And if they make me pay that in 12 months it will make my payments far beyond what I can manage, more than 10% of my income. I'm working with a group that helps when you are low-income but they mostly help you get medicaid. I have spend-down Medicaid and it will be used but I still incur a big cost first.

I have no idea what to do. I'll call the low-income people Monday and see if they have any suggestions but I'm not expecting much.

I shouldn't have waited for Rexulti. We should have just gone to clozaril and gone IP the week I saw my pdoc last when there wouldn't have been a co-pay. I just thought something would work out easily for once. Bad guess.