For the past year, I have been suffering from a skin condition called Linear IGA.  It’s painful, itchy and when it spreads, it’s usually so bad that I can’t wear clothing.  I feel like I’m an Egyptian in biblical times, suffering from the boils plague.  There is a medicine that I used that works wonders.  The day after I take it, I can feel the difference.   I recently had to get a new health insurance plan so I needed a new prescription for this medicine.  You would think that it would be something simple like, the doctor writes a prescription, I take it to the pharmacy and eventually I pick it up and use it.  But not this medicine.  Because it’s an injection, and costs about $3000, it needs to be approved by my insurance.  But why?  why do they need to make me wait over a week, to find out if they approve a medication that will take away my suffering?  Don’t they know that every day that I don’t have this medication in my system, I just get worse?  I’ve been suffering this whole week, each day hoping, that tomorrow, somehow, I’ll get the medicine.  In the meantime, I don’t like to leave the house and doing the simplest things, like holding my baby, is uncomfortable.