A close relative needed cortisone to manage an eye infection post eye surgery. The insurance stopped paying for the cortisone drops after a while, the only thin

A close relative needed cortisone to manage an eye infection post eye surgery. The insurance stopped paying for the cortisone drops after a while, the only thing they would pay for were injections. The procedure consisted of a large syringe that was used to inject a literal pellet that would float around in the eye and slowly give off cortisone over multiple weeks. My relative said they could sometimes see the pellet float through their eye as it intercepted light on its way to the optical nerve. It manifested as a circular shadow in their field of vision. They called it their "satellite". The thing that struck me the most, is that a human eye seems to be pretty puncture tolerant before it starts to leak. Also, the insurance's decision is hard to understand: The injections cost $2k compared to a couple hundred for the eye drops. And once the pellet is in, you can't get it out to reduce the dosage.