This is where I get my medication and I’m seen by the doctor on a monthly basis. Every three months they do a blood test for diabetes. They have managed to get my diabetes under control.
I had worked since 1989 as a pharmacy technician. I’ve worked at almost all the area hospitals. But now I can’t find work, because they take one look at me and think, “Insurance nightmare.”
I live on 106th and Hampton, so it’s quite a hike to get here.
I’m married, my husband is self-employed. We’re scraping by. We had opened up our own business and that failed. I had even gone to school and I became a certified medical assistant, but I have not been able to find a job. Every place needs at least a year’s experience, which the school never told us. They took government money to train us knowing very well that we would not be able to get jobs.
Luckily, I have been one of those people who has not needed extensive medical care, but I know it’s coming. No one with my health history is ever 100% safe. But BOHC has been able to fulfill all my needs. I was having problems with my feet, and I was able to see a podiatrist. They’ve been able to do my basic lab work.
I don’t know what I would do if this place wasn’t here to give me my medication. I can honestly say that I’d probably be lying in an ICU unit somewhere because my body is failing me and there is nothing I can do. I was not a drinker, I was not a smoker, I did not do drugs. I was genetically unlucky. And there is nothing I can do about that except preventative care.
If they didn’t have this program, I wouldn’t be alive right now. Even with $4 a prescription, I still had to pay $150 to walk into a clinic to see a doctor who could write those prescriptions. I would still have to pay $500-600 every few months to get treatment.
I’m taking seven prescribed medications and five OTC drugs.
