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by Ileia » Thu Jan 22, 2015 8:20 pm
Been awfully sick since Sunday - fever, swollen sore throat, coughing, congestion, migraine, the whole works. So I went to the doctor today and was there for two hours while they poked and prodded me. They did a physical exam, took about a dozen vials of blood, did quite a number of tests, lung function tests, EKG, etc and asked me the same questions several times.
It was a little overwhelming because I had 5 doctors in the room with me at the same time at one point, doing tests and whatnot. I was a little out-of-it anyway, but the gist of it was several infections, one was sinus, one was a thyroid infection (Not 100% on this, she said it really fast with the name of what was wrong and what she was prescribing while another doctor was giving me a shot). Something also was causing my blood pressure to spike dangerously high so they gave me some blood pressure meds and I have to come back for the bloodwork results to really see what's up.
That being said. Why is this in the happy thread? Because I have health insurance now and I was making it rain with my $15 copay. Normally, I'd just tough it out and be a big girl until it blew over, but I'm really glad that I'm now in a position where I don't have to.