simply_blah

First off, I-640 is backed up for no apparent reason. I call the Doctor's office and let them know that I'll be late because I have to withdraw money. I do that and I notice that everyone is getting gas so I sneak in and get some before it jumps for some bullshit reason I'm sure.

Then I go back to the Doctor's office and they call me up and say, "Okay Charly. It's going to be $245." And then I go "WTF?" The Nurse-Practitioner said that they were going to test my resistance to sugar, do a blood panel and then test my thyroid. It's a good thing that I got $200 out of my savings instead of just the $100 like I was planning.

So we go back and she draws blood and then she has me drink this glucose drink. OMG! It was like drinking orange triaminic. It was like sugar water that was thoroughly saturated and then more sugar was somehow added to it. It burned going down in the end.

I'm there two hours because my blood is taken in intervals. Ugh. It's not really a pleasant test because I got sick to my stomach while waiting. I felt gross.

At the end of the testing, I'm told to make an appointment. OH GET THIS! It's going to cost me another $60 to get the results of this test back. The reason? They have to talk to me about it. I don't foresee me being there for more than thirty minutes and it's going to cost that much to just get my results?

I'm going to be so frakked if everything comes back negative. It's not in my head.

I'm going to the doctor's office now. Yay.

So tomorrow at 8:30 am I go into this little walk in clinic, will have four vials of blood drawn, will spend $150, and then will wait for the results. It will check my blood sugar levels and check on my thyroid.

I have to fast for this but it's not to bad. I just can't eat or drink anything after 11pm. Food? Okay. Drinking? It's going to be hard considering that I'm coughing a lot.

I can appreciate the need to check my sugar levels. My grandfather is a mild diabetic. I am overweight and I know that I should cut it. I should eat better. I know this.

However, the more I think about it, the more that I'm put off that this nurse thinks that all of my problems are related to sugar. I can give the benefit of the doubt (especially where my ankles and swelling are concerned) but she seemed so dismissive of everything that I said. I don't know if she just looked at me, saw that I was fat, and when I told her how I felt, she said "OH SUGAR!" I don't know if this is just laziness on her part or what.

When I mentioned that I got sick after drinking four sips of a pina colada, not once but twice, she told me that they have a lot of sugar in them. Excuse me. I had around four sips in less than a few minutes time. You're going to tell me that sugar set in that rapidly when I drank an entire toffee nut frappuccino from Starbucks without getting sick and then a small chocolate/butterfinger blizzard another day without any symptoms.

So you're honestly going to tell me that those have less sugar than four sips of a drink? I really don't think so. I really don't think so when someone else, in my Kitchens and Bath class, said that they also were on medication for their thyroid. I asked if she ever had any problems with drinking with alcohol in it and she said yes. She described exactly what I went through except she managed to get through her entire glass.

I have nine out of sixteen of symptoms.

If this test doesn't pull anything I don't know what I'll do. I'll have a copy of it but it's not like I can afford to do anything else with it. They don't discuss results over the phone and if I have to pay for a visit to get the results, well I'm fucked.

My student loans are being delayed because EdAmerica doesn't have the money and they have to get a line of credit from the government. I haven't yet found a job and my mother doesn't have the money either (not that I would ask).

Meh.

I was given a ten day supply of antibiotics and a five day supply of steroids to use if the swelling doesn't go down by Sunday. It's either dental or it's allergies. I asked about a possible thyroid problem and she said maybe but it was probably a sugar problem. Meh. I go in for a few blood tests next Friday. :(

It's too bad antibiotics won't work on Con*Crud.

It's a shower for me and then I'm off to the walk-in medical clinic. Since Tuesday, a tooth has been hurting a little bit and yesterday I could feel a bit of swelling. Today? The swelling is noticeable and I'm having difficulties opening my mouth all the way. It might be an abscess.

I can't afford to go a dentist. I can barely afford the walk-in clinic and if they do any tests that's going to have to be put on a payment plan.

If my mother wasn't pushing me, I think I'd be putting it off, again.