It's been another week and my Emsam patient assistance is no further along. They were supposed to call me yesterday but didn't so I called them today. They kept saying they hadn't received paperwork they most certainly have received and then refused to give any idea when this would be resolved. In fact the woman was kind of rude, although to be fair we had a poor phone connection and perhaps she was less rude if I could have heard her. I probably came across as rude too but I was aiming for desperate. All I need is for them to not like me and have even more reason to not approve me.

At this point I don't think I'll be approved. If I can continue spacing the patches out 3 days (yes, I know this is bad and my pdoc will yell at me) I have a few weeks but at any time I'll need to use them daily again. After that I don't know. I need to talk to my pdoc to have a plan in place but she's off this week. I'm also really worried about her which doesn't help. She's been off work a lot and that's not typical for her; nor is not getting back to me about something this important. She's a cancer survivor and I'm becoming worried.

I just want to get to my appointment with her and have her help work things out but there won't be an appointment or there will be and it will be telehealth. Last month I asked several times if w.e could do that and she never answered, also atypical. I finally cancelled my appointment when she was out of the office the last day to decide (this was when there were only maybe 10 cases of COVID in my state but all were in the county where I see her).

And of course to make it all more frustrating I called my other patient assistance program for my inhaler and they had approved my application but couldn't fill my script without something from my doctor that they'd never actually requested from my doctor (according to the dr who I believe) and it has to be done by Friday or they'll cancel my order for the month.

So patient assistance which is usually so easy is stressing me out.