Judy Fontenot
September 6th, 2007
I’ve had arthritis for 16 years. You know, in the winter, you go out one day to help cut firewood, and then you are stuck in the house for two days because you just can’t move because it just freezes your joints and freezes your body. I lost my husband in 2000, and it turned out I lost all my insurance and all my medicines, my prescriptions. It was hard. I was mad at the world. And I moved to Oklahoma, actually on September 11 of 2001, and I couldn’t have the surgeries or the medicines I needed. I could not afford it. And I also developed carpal tunnel syndrome, and some days it brings you really down because you can’t even pick the babies up. Then I got on the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, and I was so happy, when I got my medicines, I thought I could go dancing again. Well, I can’t really do that, but it helps a lot. It has helped me do some things with my grandkids. It has really, really helped, and I don’t know what I would do without my medicines. I take 11 different medicines every day, and they let me live the kind of normal life that I want.
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