Hi everybody, :hello:
Hope can get some direction with this, 'cause right now just running into roadblocks :zacepi:
My wife and I arrived from Russia in October and so far the only employment we have found is filling out endless and repetitive employment applications. My wife has been epileptic since she was 8, has 1-4 seizures a day for 3-4 days every 2nd/3rd month, and has run out of her medication. She has gradually reduced to 200 mg Carbomazapine and 2 pills of bellataminal (belladonna/phenobarbital, not available locally--like a very low-dosage dilantin). We do have sufficient bellataminal to last until her parents ship more from Russia, but she has currently been without carbomazapine for over 2 weeks and it's beginning to show. It will be at least 2 more weeks until we get the care package from her parents.
The problem is that we underestimated the difficulty of employment back here. And what we had set aside to carry us until we were employed is approaching nothing... In Russia, we were much in demand (both taught ESL for major corporations like BP and Novonordisk, and I worked as an editor for a couple of newspapers and some commercial interests); now I honestly hope Pizza Hut will call... the doctors i have run across since getting back, (for all there feigned humanistic virtues), go far toward explaining the medical crisis we find ourselves in... they all know she is not supposed to ever be abruptly without her medication as it is life-threatening, they also are informed of our momentary financial weakness and they all either demand insurance or extended (and expensive) testing before handing her a prescription for something she can prove (in Russian) she has been given for years... Free clinics and state aid are totally out of the question also, in that it is a condition for her eventual citizenship, that she is not entitled to such support..... brrrrr.... and even the questionable and ridiculously-priced Canadian/Mexican onlines require 3-week (or never) shipment.... anyway, open to ideas....:giveup:
Nat and Randy
Hope can get some direction with this, 'cause right now just running into roadblocks :zacepi:
My wife and I arrived from Russia in October and so far the only employment we have found is filling out endless and repetitive employment applications. My wife has been epileptic since she was 8, has 1-4 seizures a day for 3-4 days every 2nd/3rd month, and has run out of her medication. She has gradually reduced to 200 mg Carbomazapine and 2 pills of bellataminal (belladonna/phenobarbital, not available locally--like a very low-dosage dilantin). We do have sufficient bellataminal to last until her parents ship more from Russia, but she has currently been without carbomazapine for over 2 weeks and it's beginning to show. It will be at least 2 more weeks until we get the care package from her parents.
The problem is that we underestimated the difficulty of employment back here. And what we had set aside to carry us until we were employed is approaching nothing... In Russia, we were much in demand (both taught ESL for major corporations like BP and Novonordisk, and I worked as an editor for a couple of newspapers and some commercial interests); now I honestly hope Pizza Hut will call... the doctors i have run across since getting back, (for all there feigned humanistic virtues), go far toward explaining the medical crisis we find ourselves in... they all know she is not supposed to ever be abruptly without her medication as it is life-threatening, they also are informed of our momentary financial weakness and they all either demand insurance or extended (and expensive) testing before handing her a prescription for something she can prove (in Russian) she has been given for years... Free clinics and state aid are totally out of the question also, in that it is a condition for her eventual citizenship, that she is not entitled to such support..... brrrrr.... and even the questionable and ridiculously-priced Canadian/Mexican onlines require 3-week (or never) shipment.... anyway, open to ideas....:giveup:
Nat and Randy
