Running Since the Pigs and Poppies

How could someone with a disease that requires constant medication survive in a post-apocalyptic America, destroyed by an all-encompassing civil war?

Running Since The Pigs and Poppies is a first-person speculative fiction narrative that takes a look at how difficult it would be to survive a post-apocalyptic (or even a normal) civil war if you have a disease that requires constant medication. It is based on speculations between my father-in-law and myself about how difficult surviving something like this would be for either of us. My father-in-law has his bones growing in the wrong place and requires constant painkillers and I am a type one Diabetic that would die horribly in a week tops without insulin, so neither of our chances look great in even a Syria type situation, let alone something more akin to Mad Max.