Seeing as how my last post here seems to have been way back in June and it's now July 11th, I suppose what this aspect means to me is that this poor blog is being totally neglected as there are so many more time-consuming things that are going on. My daily engagement book (hysterical laughter) is full of cryptic notes - Sun square Neptune, squeaked in on time with credit card payment -Mercury trine Chiron, find out Nicola is staying in Spain - but there doesn't seem to have been time to settle in at the computer and write up one day's aspect. Today though, with the aspect, Chiron R square the Ascendant exact tomorrow and today's manifestation, are (is?) too good even for a frazzled person not to write up, pardon my syntax.
Since March or so 2002, when I was finally *allowed* by my ex-employer's insurance company to go to a psychiatrist not of its choosing, I've been taking 300 mg. daily of Wellbutrin XL, a time release antidepressant. At first, the cost of this was covered by the insurance company, and then by the $3,000 allowance from the 9/11 Mental Health Victims' Fund (I think that's what it was called).
When that ran out, I intended to call GlaxoSmithKline and ask if they made out-of-date medication available to those who couldn't afford the real thing, but was told in time by the psychiatrist I see that there's a program called Bridges to Access by which GSK make medication available to those whom Dame Edna calls paupers at no charge. Since then, having enrolled in the program with the help of Dr. M, I call every three months and request a refill of my 300 mg. Wellbutrin XL, which is promptly mailed to me.
Today, with about 14 pills left, I called for my refill and was told by a very nice lady at the other end of the phone that GSK has relinquished all rights to Wellbutrin XL to a company called Biovail and can no longer provide that specific medication through Bridges to Access. She told me a letter saying just that had gone out to all patients and doctors concerned at the beginning of June, and was surprised that I hadn't received it. She gave me a phone number for Biovail and suggested I call, and also suggested I visit my doctor to see what he or she had to say. I didn't tell her I was in New Mexico and my doctor was in New York, thanked her very much for all her helpful information, and determined to make an entry here before the day was out. Sometimes one could wish astrology were not quite so literal.
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