{"id":80,"date":"2009-04-22T17:21:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T23:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydnieann.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2009-04-22T17:21:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T23:21:50","slug":"i-want-a-new-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"I want a new drug&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa!\u00a0 2 days in a row of posts, and 2 days in a row of song lyrics as a title.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a rock star.\u00a0 Maybe I should keep that up.\u00a0 It could be like my theme or something.\u00a0 Until I run out of lyrics.\u00a0 Or start posting only once every 2 months again.<\/p>\n<p>Today I got my first shipment of my new drug.\u00a0 After trying several less expensive and less painful meds for my rheumatoid arthritis, I started using Humira last year.\u00a0 It worked GREAT to start with, but has lost it&#8217;s effectiveness over time.\u00a0 The injections are also super painful.\u00a0 I&#8217;d started out using these automatic pens &#8211; just push a little button, hold it down, and you&#8217;re done!\u00a0 What they don&#8217;t mention is how much it freaking hurts!!\u00a0 So I switched to prefilled syringes &#8211; still painful, but nowhere near as bad, and I had actual control over it.\u00a0 So now, I&#8217;ll be starting on Enbrel.\u00a0 Pretty much the same process (hopefully less painful), but my insurance has changed their processes, and now I get it shipped straight to me instead of picking it up.\u00a0 The cool thing is that with my first shipment today, I got one of those cool sharps containers like you see at the doctor&#8217;s office.\u00a0 I feel like I&#8217;m a big bio-hazard now.\u00a0 But with a cool toy.\u00a0 Since it&#8217;s perishable, I&#8217;ll get lots of styrofoam coolers and reusable ice packs too.\u00a0 Neat, huh?!\u00a0 (Hey, I&#8217;m a &#8220;look on the bright side&#8221; kind of gal.\u00a0 Dorky, I know.)<\/p>\n<p>Off to silver-smithing class now!\u00a0 I might actually post about it tomorrow.\u00a0 Woooo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa!\u00a0 2 days in a row of posts, and 2 days in a row of song lyrics as a title.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a rock star.\u00a0 Maybe I should keep that up.\u00a0 It could be like my theme or something.\u00a0 Until I run out of lyrics.\u00a0 Or start posting only once every 2 months again. Today I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}