ACTH....financial crisis

So, we get the script for ACTH....didn't think much about it. The nurses called it into our pharmacy (we needed the headstart as it is not kept on pharmacy shelves) so that it would be ready for our pick up upon discharge. We leave the hospital and head there. Kevin walks back out to the car with two tiny bottles and says...here it is...liquid gold. At that time (fall 2006) ACTH was at the bargain price of $1600.00 per vial so our cost was just over $3000.00. We put it on our MasterCard. In fact, MasterCard called us the next day...asking if it was really us who put that charge on it. They felt sorry for us. (not sorry enough to write it off though). Thank God I have a great set of in-laws who loaned us the cash so that we wouldn't have high interest. However, with the cost now I highly doubt they could've done that. So, we get the meds and head home with our injection supplies. We meet the home health nurse...Nancy. She was fabulous (even called Walgreens and yelled b/c they sent us home with 30 Unit syringes....he needed 40 Units so we had to stick him twice) morons! So, another trip to town to pick up bigger syringes. She is nice and gives him the first injection...she said I could learn next time. Again...fabulous woman.