Trailer Park Queer

July 21, 2008

Sinus/Ear Infection – and no insurance

Filed under: Rants, Thoughts — Tags: , , , — trailerparkqueer @ 7:26 pm

I went to the doctor today. I’ve been putting it off for almost two weeks, hoping I just had a cold. I went to one of the few places in town, besides urgent care, that will take new patients without insurance. My wife went with me. I make her sit in the room because I’m so nervous about doctors since the diagnostic process for pseudotumor cerebri started back in November. Every time I feel slightly sluggish, I’m more than slightly convinced I’m dying. The nurse today said, “it feels like that when you have a sinus infection.”

That’s part of why there haven’t been new posts in the last day and a half or so. I’ve been feeling quite generally icky. But, now I have an arsenal of Levaquin (thank goodness for free samples sometimes, though I have issues with the way pharmaceutical companies push drugs on doctors), a new humidifier, and something called Rondec DM, which I think is theraflu on steroids. (more…)

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