I am getting used to the new stuff, it just makes me really tired right now. Yeah I know, like I needed anything else making me tired. I think these doctors know what they are doing to me and are laughing about it behind my back.

Becky got a car to replace her little yellow focus. We got it home and she started having buyers remorse. I tried to reassure her that not only is that normal, but if you didn’t have remorse it probably is a good sign that you should have. It’s a good car, and it was in our price range, meaning that the insurance money covered most of it and all we had to pay was the taxes.

I’m going to bed now, see ya!

The latest bout has found me having a pretty horrid allergic reaction to something, what we may never know, but something. I have been covered head to toe in hives for 3 days now, looks like it will be a few more before they go away. I have had worse reactions, my penicillin allergy comes to mind, but this one is lasting longer and is way itchier.

My first trip to the doctor Tuesday yielded me the advice to stop taking one of my medications that might be causing the problem. Nothing to take for the itching, no advice either. I went back for the follow up visit Wednesday and dealt with some more poking and prodding. This time when I left at least they gave me a steroid to take and a pill to take care of the itching.

Now I sit and wait. Will it go away? Will it get worse? Only time will tell.

Side-note: On that first visit, after the doctor saw me, she brought in a NP to see my hives. I felt like I was someones show and tell toy. On my second visit a new doctor saw me, when she was done she, you guessed it, brought in another doctor to confer with. Of course this doctor had a sense of humor at least. He popped in the door and said he was there to make a rash decision.

It started out as an innocent cold, I should have known better.

8/20/10 I notice some congestion and get the sniffles.

8/22/10 It shifts into high gear, don’t want to get out of bed.

8/23 – 8/26/10 Becky tells me I should go to the doctor.

8/26/10 I give in and go to immediate care. They tell me it’s viral and give me cough syrup and a prescription for antibiotics that I am only to fill if a fever sets in.

8/29/10 Fever!

8/31/ – 9/1/10 I start to feel better!

9/1/10 Late evening. Spend the entire night coughing unable to sleep.

9/2/10 Go to ER get an x-ray, two breathing treatments, prednisone + a script for more, a new inhaler, and a shot in the nether region that hurt like heck and still does a bit.

9/3/10 Lying awake for the second night in a row but hopped up on Albuterol this time. Realize I have not updated my blog in a while. Posted this long drawn out account just for filler on my site!

My health insurance expired at the beginning of this month, now all I have is the Medicaid with a huge spend down that makes it practically useless. I have tried to get other health insurance but that isn’t working out. No one wants to cover me. No real surprise there. I wonder if this means I will be fined under Obamacare?

Anyway, without the insurance I can’t afford my medications, even with the disability payments. Between meds and constant doctor visits I go through a lot of money each month, money that I can not afford. I am still unsure of what to do about this, it has been weighing on my mind since Saturday. I imagine something will come up, God seems to provide just in time, usually when I realize I need to stop worrying about it.

Also, it bares repeating, Pop Tarts are highly flammable. Don’t ask how I know, I just do and we will leave it at that.

I have been spending time getting everything ready for my big adventure on Friday. I am trying to keep myself occupied so I don’t psych myself out anymore than I already am.

Had to go to the doctor today because my bronchitis is not totally gone yet, this is not a good thing since I cannot have it when I go to surgery. The doc gave me the antibiotic that they usually perscribe for pneumonia. She said this should work and have me where I need to be by Friday. When I went to get the perscription filled they cashier asked me for 123 dollars! I about had to be carried out of the store. It’s all good though, they just accidentaly ran it through on an old insurance number, took a few hours but it got straightened out and I got my money back. They actually gave it to me for free and didn’t charge the co-pay to make up for the trouble.

I am supposed to be posting more about Christmases past, but I haven’t got it in me today, hopefully tommorrow I can get it up here.

I have some things I want to blog about but I am holding back because some of it might just turn some people away. It’s not bad bad stuff, just my thoughts on things happening in this country right now. I seriously wish that ALL the politicians, media, and pundits would pull their collective heads out of their butts and realize that they are not doing the U.S. any favors right now. To be honest, I think the thing that is truly screwing this country up is what is supposed to be protecting it.

That is all I will say for now, lets see how many hate emails I get because of that and I will go from there. I am now going to go enjoy a codeine induced sleep!

I have been absent for a few days now with good reason. First, Becky was on vacation all week, it was great to spend some time with here, we don’t get to do a lot of that when she is working. We saw the movie Four Christmases on Wednesday, very funny movie, although Vaughn’s character seemed a little effeminate. So then Thursday Anna got sick and had to go to the doctor, of course you know that whenever someone in this house gets sick I am not far behind! I started out with the same symptoms Anna had, but mine went south pretty quick. Desiree got sick Friday and had to come home early from school. Poor Becky ended up with a house full of sick people over the weekend. I need to make that up to her somehow!

On a completely different note I have a proposal for all medical practitioners. From now on when you tell someone they need surgery, you can’t tell them until you can schedule it within two days. Giving me all this time to think about it is not doing much for my nerves. All I do is sit around and worry about “what ifs” and it is taking a toll on me. If I make it to the 26th without having a heart attack from fear I will be glad when it is all over and I can get some semblance of a life back.

Well, I guess that is all I really have right now. I need to go worry myself into a tizzy again by reading about surgery mishaps!

Oh well, short post!

1. if a doctor wants to stick a hose down your nose, pass on it.
2. if a doctor tells you that you won’t feel said hose being inserted, DO NOT believe them.
3. when the doctor tells you that taking that tube out is not bothersome at all again DO NOT believe them.
4. you would be surprised at the things that come out of your body along with that tube!

So are you convinced? Well try out my sore sinuses for a bit and I imagine you will be.

Alright, done whining, carry on!

I am going to be off work for the next three weeks, which means I am going to be tightening my belt a bit. I will survive, but it is going to be a pain!

I like my new doctor, at least she listened to what I was saying, which is more than I can say for the last gastro I had.