Posted on 02/10/2018 4:50:57 PM PST by Ennis85
Heather Holland, a second-grade teacher at Ikard Elementary School with the Weatherford Independent School District died over the weekend, the Weatherford Democrat reports. Holland got sick about a week ago and took medication, but delayed picking up the prescription due to the $116 copay, according to the newspaper.
By Friday night, Holland's condition worsened and she was taken to the hospital. Her husband Frank Holland told the Weatherford Democrat that she died Sunday morning.
"She loved helping people, helping the kids, and the kids loved her," Holland's husband told the Weatherford Democrat.
Charlotte LaGrone, a spokeswoman for Weatherford ISD, told news station CBS DFW that counselors are available at the school for the rest of the week to help students and school staff cope with the sudden loss. She added that custodians started deep cleaning the district's schools in December to keep students from getting sick, and that the specific campus where Holland was employed had received an additional cleaning on Friday, Feb. 2.
This year's flu season has been particularly deadly, with flu-related deaths being reported across the nation. Last month, five flu-related deaths were reported in the greater Houston area. The CDC reports the flu is widespread across America this year and possibly won't peak until March.
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Yep, this has to be just about the ugliest thread I’ve ever seen on FR...and that’s rally saying something.
prayers for the family.
I get migraines. Fairly frequently. About two times a year, I don’t catch them in time or if I am going through something very stressful, I will get locked into a viscous migraine/nausea cycle. Last week I had such an occasion, I literally was throwing up for 17 solid hours. I can’t take anything because even water just kills me.
This week I looked into getting a patch that could administer the medicine through the skin. $1200 for 4 patches.
Vitamin D3 would’ve probably saved this teacher. If you get the flu take 20k or 25k IU every day for 3,4 days. Buy it at WalMart about $6 for 240 gel caps of 5,000 IU.
She is in Texas. Teachers here don't really have the greatest insurance. That being said, a $116 co-pay should not have prevented her from getting her prescription filled. As others pointed out, she surely had credit cards, friends, family, etc.
>> but delayed picking up the prescription due to the $116
Blame the Democrat Thug Party. Deductibles are now 4x to 10x what they used to be, and copay doesn’t start until the deductible is met.
Was she paying out-of-pocket for her health insurance too?
CrapCare is costing me $17k/year in premiums, and add to that the insane deductibles. CrapCare doesn’t start paying until my aggregate cost reaches $31k/year which amounts to a $2600/monthly premium. Basically, I’m paying for catastrophic coverage at an excessive rate.
A few years ago When the H-1 N-1 flu virus made its rounds some Freeper suggested to take NAC or N-acetyl cysteine. I have been taking it ever since with a ratio of about 3/4 tsp of NAC along with 1-1/2 tsp of calcium ascorbate (buffered C) I have not had any problems with flu since, besides I am up in years. You may also want to read up on NAC as it is not only effective against the flu virus but amongst a host of other things as well you don’t want to deal with. It is too bad that not more people know about the benefits of NAC which is fairly inexpensive in bulk and probably could have saved a few lifes.
N-Acetyl Cysteine cleaves disulfide bonds by converting them to two sulfhydryl groups. This action results in the breakup of mucoproteins in lung mucus, reducing their chain lengths and thinning the mucus, improving conditions such as bronchitis and flu. Double-blind research has found that N-Acetyl Cysteine supplements improved symptoms and prevented recurrences in people with chronic bronchitis. N-Acetyl Cysteine at a dosage of 1,200 mg per day helps to prevent Influenza infection, reduces the symptoms of existing Influenza infection and reduces the duration of Influenza infections.
When taking N-acetyl cysteine it is recommended that two to three times as much vitamin C be taken at the same time. Failure to do so may result in more harm than good from taking this product because of the prolonged presence of the oxidized form of L-Cysteine. The vitamin C also helps keep the glutathione that is produced from the Cysteine in its reduced form so that it can continue acting as an antioxidant.
Possibly. It could also be that she spent her spare money caring for her borderline retarded, keyboard warrior of a relative who is incapable of caring for himself. I guess we really don't know.
Who doesn’t believe their life is worth $116.00? This woman worked so I don’t think it was as much about affordability than about priorities. Also a pharmacy will do a partial prescription. Why didn’t this woman tell her doctor the cost was too high. I think he could have either written one for a different med or changed the quantity.
There is also no guarantee that she would not have died anyway. That is horrible to acknowledge but this is a nasty flu that is hitting otherwise healthy populations very hard. I am sorry for her loved ones.
My condolences for your loss.
I got prescribed Tamiflu and paid $15 at Publix.
It may not have made any difference if she took the medicine anyway.
When I was a lowly paid state employee I had to time a lot of small stuff with paydays.
Sometimes that included medicine.
Just going to give my last weeks experience. I have light asthma. Last week I knew something bad was hitting. Friday I took off. Sunday I had to work. Nobody else was available. Monday I texted my awesome DR asking for OTC decongestant advice. Tuesday I saw my DR and he said I was a day away from bronchitis+pneumonia. He said those two plus asthma = death in a lot of otherwise healthy people.
Don’t screw around with breathing stuff.
Actually, I've heard the co-pay for Tamflu is pretty high.
But it does. The theory is that the healthier immune system of young adults kicks into overdrive and starts attacking even healthy systems.
I know people that pay right at $300 per month for cable TV. I am not talking about rich people. That’s almost $4000 per year to watch freakin’ TV.
That said, I don’t know the teacher’s situation. I would find it difficult to believe they couldn’t come up with $116. She may have felt she was getting better without the medication. I get prescriptions filled and never take them if I don’t absolutely need them.
That is rough. So sad to lose a child.
She may have been past that time slot anyways, by the time she went to the dr.
I certainly wouldn't be running to the dr immediately if I came down with something.
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