March 23, 2025

we wanted never / to dream again,

Small victory: after six weeks, CVS Caremark has deigned to allow me to fill the prescription written by my neurologist for the medication that keeps my migraines on the right side of the manageable / debilitating boundary.

Reality check: I have fancy insurance coverage through my very large employer and the ability to take paid time off for sick days and accessing healthcare and I live in a city with excellent headache specialists who are willing to advocate on my behalf and I still could not get my prescription medication for more than a month.

Whatever many of us are dealing with right now, people with less power and fewer resources are having a much harder time.

I remind myself that privilege is relative; I remind myself that risk is a continuum; I remind myself to do what I can while I can.

Attribution

 oh how sweet the
censers of victory and freedom
were going to be.
and we wanted never to
dream again,
awake or asleep,
if we could not change the signature
of the world.
— from History Lesson/1960s by Carolyn Marie Rodgers