Crawling out of the ooze.
Feb 11, 2007 I'm starting to get over one of the worst sicknesses I've had in a long time. Last week I started to feel like crap, but it came on kind of slowly, and everyone around here has had a cough and a runny nose, so I just figured it was a normal cold.
By about Wednesday, though, I could tell that something was wrong. My lungs hurt, and I couldn't do anything but sleep, and I wasn't even doing the sleeping thing well. Late on Wednesday night I woke up in tears because I was so miserable, and hot, and hurting, and nothing I did made me feel any better.
I don't have health insurance out here (there's some weird thing that since I have a child support case in another state, it disqualifies me for health care out here or something weird and stupid...) so I didn't want to go to the doctor. Bryan insisted, though, and so we finally went.
Marissa had a mild (but persistent) cough, so I wanted to be on the safe side and have her seen, too. Just in case. She was diagnosed with tonsilitis, and got the usual dose of amoxycillin (yum) and cough syrup.
I, however, was diagnosed with bronchitis, and had to have a steroid shot in my hip. I'm not lying when I say that 3 days later it still hurts. I also had to have 3 prescriptions filled. The out-of-pocket cost for the prescriptions alone was $94, so I'm really not looking forward to the bill from the hospital.
I am, however, starting to feel a little more human. The moral of the story? Don't move to some crazy ass state where they won't give you health insurance because you wear pants and comb your hair, and then get all 57 different kinds of sick because it's winter and you're from a state that doesn't have seasons or illnesses.
Bleh.
Reader Comments (9)
I hope you start feeling better soon! Sounds really nasty.
Ok, I admit I giggled a little because of his choice of words... but I promise when I stopped giggling I was worried. ;)
I have a care package en route. ^_^
:^)
can I make any more smilies in my post?
:D