Health- known all too well
Yesterday was better than today, maybe today will be better than tomorrow...
I have had to go back to strictly monitoring my fluid intake again because unless I am measuring how much I drink in a day I forget to drink at all! I am a lovely pasty grey shade today, thanks to anemia and dehydration and my entire lower jaw is swollen and tender thanks to that darn infection.
Yeah, yeah, I know I should be going to the ER... I know I keep putting it off, but that is what happens when you used to go so often that the intake nurse no longer had you write down your name in the check in sheet but just nodded at you. You just do NOT want to go back there because the Doctors and Nurses give you funny looks and roll their eyes the moment they see your name on the board. Oh... it's "her" again!
Even the clerk at the check-in for outpatient testing knew me by face and would ask how my dog was doing.
Of course, all of this was when I had insurance, and now without insurance I cannot go to the same hospital (they might have rolled their eyes, but I had them broken in and knew that they were fully aware of my list of allergies and health conditions) which means the 180 mile round trip drive to a huge inner city University Hospital where (unlike my old hospital's 3 separate 2 inch binders) they have less than ten pages of medical history on me.
You try explaining to a Doctor that yes you are in severe pain (you live with it daily) at an 8 out of 10 but no you cannot have any narcotic pain killers unless they zonk you with enough benedryl to stun a hyperactive elephant! (I am highly allergic) They get so fixated on that that they completely brush off the reason I walked in the door and ignore things like obvious infection, dehydration and anemia (even when their tests show it) then they send me on my way with some pills that I cannot take and tell me to come back if I am not better in 48 hours... as if! Don't even get me started on trying to get them to understand that there are other medications to treat nausea than IV Zofran! (Once again, allergic)
Yes, today is a rant (and because I am stubborn, I will admit it).
(Maybe I should have put "cranky" next to my mood?)
Were you in the ER with me on Fri?? I swear, it was much the same, especially since I had been in there at 1 am too, for the same reason. Once admitted, for the pain, nausea and vomiting, the GI I was stuck with not only didn't get my history right (apparently I smoked a lot, but quit), he discontinued the Morphine because I am highly sensitive to Vicodin (projectile even with max doses of anti-emetics). Never bothered to ask if I wanted something else, just stopped ALL pain meds. It wasn't until that evening that I got even Tylenol and Motrin for the pain. Some people are just clueless.
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