I came down with bronchitis a few days ago. I saw my lung doctor yesterday and he gave me an antibiotic. I’m using my rescue inhaler 4 times a day. My chest sounds like a locomotive train is chugging through. I sound horrible. Every breath is a chore. This happens once a year. Ready to get over this and put it behind me. My lungs are messed up. I caught a nasty infectious fungal disease of the lungs in Arizona 7 years ago. Now I come down with every chest cold that comes within a whiff of me. (Puffs inhaler again.)
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Pnuemonia in 2014 and no med ins left me sounding like an aquarium. You ain’t kidding when you say every breathe is a chore.
I found myself in a hot shower about every half hour to breathe.
I’ve done the pneumonia thing about 5 or 6 times since 2006. Twice I was hospitalized. The constant breathing treatments, hot showers, and respiratory therapists pounding on my back to break the crap up were tiring but oh so essential. If there’s one place in the world where you get no rest, it’s a hospital. Anyone who has been in one can attest. Meds, all the things I just mentioned, lab work, doctors and nurses, ugh, I’m tired just thinking about it. I think I can avoid the hospital this time around. Doc gave me a Z-Pak.
I was just in a hospital for 8 days, but not because of me, it was my mom, and somehow, with no health insurance (me) not her, and being certified psych patient, her for the first time without my father (died) to care for her, somehow, I’ve been ushered to the top rung of caretaker, with no assistance nor experience in sight.
Zero to 80 in 3.5 seconds…unreal.
Never stayed inpatient for anything physical before, just 25 times psych in 11 years.
Big difference.
A whole new game that opened my eyes (and mouth) too much.
With my pnuemonia and no insurance, it took 5 days waiting for an appt, 1.5 hours in the waiting room, 2.5 hours waiting in the dr’s room only for it to take 1minute to tell me to go to an emergency room.
I refused. Why spend 9 thousand at the emergency room, when all they were going to do was the same thing-write a perscription for antibiotics, same as the $45 clinic I was in- right?
Right.
She insisted, stating I could die…blah…blah…blah…
but couldn’t deny it, so she insisted I get labs done…($296)
No diference labs or no labs…right? only for (their) records -right?
Right.
That was my first, and last experience without health insurance.
Just hope I don’t linger as long.
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