Keppra

According to TennCare, Tonya Duford is days away from having no health insurance and no ability to pay for her anti-seizure drug called Keppra, with an out-of-pocket cost of one-thousand dollars a month.

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Both Depakote and Keppra were drugs that the federal Food and Drug Administration FDA had approved for epilepsy, but they had off-label usage for headaches.

Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

The only way I could tell that the Keppra was draining into my veins was by watching the drip in the small air chamber at the top of the tubing.

Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

Nurse Joan then attached the Keppra to my IV and released the roller clamp on the thirty-inch piece of tubing to start the treatment.

Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

The bag contained Keppra, an anticonvulsant that sometimes alleviates headaches.

Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

I told her to thank them for me, and then I sat down with my Keppra cocktail kit to start the second treatment.

Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

Nurse Joan then attached the Keppra to my IV and released the roller clamp on the thirty-inch piece of tubing to start the treatment.

Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

I wished I could have gotten my health insurance company to pay for mint–chocolate-chip ice cream, which worked far better than a Keppra cocktail.

Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

After the Keppra treatment, I sat in the dark examination room opposite the doctor, watching as he typed on his laptop to prescribe another IV treatment, this time a three-day course of Depakote.

Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

“Odd that you were given Keppra and Depakote instead of the more common abortives,” he murmured.

Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011