Sick of Being Sick

Well the flu bug has bit me this time. I have been sick since Monday. There isn't a place on my body that doesn't hurt. Even the hair on my legs hurt. I worked on Monday and got up Tuesday and felt like I was dying. Went to the Dr. and got some meds. Ten pills cost me $50.00!! And that was with a drug card. I had to wait for 3 1/2 hours to see the dr. He said he had seen over 70 people that day. All with the flu or a virus similar to the flu. What do people without insurance do about being sick? Most people don't qualify for government help unless you have 5 kids by 5 different daddys. Anyway I feel a little better now. We had a little bit of freezing rain and sleet in North Alabama this morning. You would have thought that we were having a major winter storm. Wrecks everywhere because people wouldn't slow down or just stay off the bridges. And then they pre-empted The Young and The Restless for weather up-dates. Now get real people. After lunch everything melted off. No need to rearrange the tv shows. And just when I was waiting to see if Lauren would shoot Phyllis or Sheila. They look just alike since...........well you can tell I have been sick this week. But I will watch it tonight on the soap opera network. Really hated to see where Anna Nicole Smith died. I got tired of seeing her or hearing about her but she really died to soon. She was a very pretty girl who had a very dramatic life. Maybe she brought part of it on herself but she still had most of her life ahead of her.

SLOWLY FALLING APART

I went back to the dr today. My leg (the one with the lump in it) kept me awake most of the nite. That darn lump has grown about three times the size it was when I found it. At least the dr didn't laugh at me today. He couldn't believe that the other dr ( or so called dr) didn't give me something besides muscle relaxers. He thinks that I have some kind of infection in my leg. So he gave me some STRONG antibiotics that cost $5.00 per pill! And that is with a drug card. I got to take these for 10 days. If I don't see an improvement I have to go back. Then he said I would need a sonogram and he would probably send me to a surgeon for a biopsy. I hope and pray that it goes away. I sure don't need it to be anything else. They checked my white cell count and said it was fine. So they are pretty sure it is not cancer or anything like that. But they think it is awful big to be a lymph node. We will just have to wait and see. My kid got an I-Pod for Christmas. These things don't only prevent the user from hearing they hurt the hearing of anyone that is around them, too. I hope my daughter gets a good education because she will never make a living as a singer. TRUST ME!

NERVOUS NOT PANIC

I had a pretty good scare tonite. About 1 1/2 weeks ago I noticed a lump in my upper thigh. Right next to my groin. It has bothered me since then. It hurts more as I work or walk around each day. Today my leg started going numb, my arm started hurting, then I got a headache. The headache lasted a very short time and then me face started tingling. Weird huh? I wondered what it was that was causing this. The first time it happened in the grocery store. Then it happened a little later when I got home. My kid wanted me to go get checked out so off we went to the emergency room. All I could think of was "Am I having a stroke?" Well we signed in and took a seat. If I was having a stroke I would have died while I waited. Then I get the nurse with an attitude from hell. Anything I said was met with a very sarcastic remark. I seen Britt look at me and I knew what she was thinking. She was waiting on me to go off on this guy. But I behaved. It's Christmas. Seen the Doc. He is mashing on my leg and telling me to lift it and twist it. He says it is tendenitis. How do you get that in your thigh? It ain't like I have been in the sex olympics lately or anything like that. Anyway he doesn't know where all the tingling in my are and head is from. They kept asking me about stress and my home life. NO I DID NOT HAVE A PANIC ATTACK!! I told them that several times. It wasn't panic. It was just plain weird. Why is my body tingling in places it never has before? I was ask questions about my home life or was the grocery store crowded? Yea it is Christmas but no panic attack. Sent me home after a pill and a perscription for some ease medicine. Guess I will live for now. But if any more strange tingling starts up it is off to the next hospital in line in Decatur. We will see if they think just because it is the holidays you have to be having a panic attack if something ain't feeling right.

CHRISTMAS FLU

Well the bug has landed. The flu bug that is. My kid came down sick Wednesday. In a matter of hours she went from being her regular little smart ass self to being a major smart ass. She got pretty sick pretty quick. Her throat swelled up and boy was she ill! Don't forget the fever.
Then we had a 2 hour fight over taking a pill. She has taken pills since she was about 3 with no problem but she was afraid it would make her throat hurt. Needless to say I told her she could either take the pill or I would shove it up her ................ well she took the pill. Now one of my sisters has it pretty bad. Vicki went by her house and she passed out and was choking. Good thing Vic was there. I would hate to think of what might have happened. We may have to postpone Christmas a few days until everyone is better. We have done it before. No big deal. Not to the grown ups anyway. I would rather wait a few days than start our own epidemic. We have a pretty big family. In between in-laws, outlaws, grand kids and the assorted others we drag up there is usually at least 28-30 there. Don't know if we chance it. Maybe it will move on to the next unsuspecting victim. Be careful out there.