An explanation of my behaviour recently

[yamahonkawazuki]

ive been under alot of stress within the last few weeks. lemme explain. Three weeks ago, a problem with my lung ( right one) also caused my kidneys to shut down. i was talking to the porcelain goddess alot, but didnt think nothing was up cause i wasnt peeing. ANYHOO, me and my ignorant ass was going to try and go to work ( this was on a wednesday evening) well i didnt make it to work. my dad was like "DUDE if i have to, i will come over to your home, beat your ass, and take you to hospital myself" well, when head started spinning i was like k, fine ( at that point my kidneys were non funcional since 11pm the night before. i figure hell ill be out in a few hours, theyre like f%$king hell no youre stayin for a bit. i was too weak to move. or to give a damn at that point. i was in ICU for almost a week. ( WITHOUT insurance of any kind) cept for meds. heh more iv's than i could count etc. all good fun  . anyhoo, had several xrays, and one more before i left. the following monday. doctor scary was like i want you to promise me something, im like sure ( i jus wanted to go home), " your xray was quite suspicious", im like k?!?, " i want you to schedule a followup. im like what for? , she was like well, it is one of tqwo things. either cncer or a rther svere pneumonia. im like great. lovely. " will you do this", im like sure np, wel i find out my local health department, has no xray machine. but a neighboring county does. i got that covered., but am stressed. because if it is not pneumonia, ive been doing alot of praying and soul searching, i doubt i will fight it. and the symptoms are returning. kidneys hurting again, coughing etc  . anyhoo in closing, every thread which gave me an opportunity to vent no my countries healthcare system, and or lack of insurance ive done so ( vented) so i nt trying to offend anyone. just trying to let off some steam. besides i liek "jousting" with our resident liberals, and occasionally our conservatives. but the liberals put up a good fight . anyhoo on to postwhoring and building up my gs fr the rally, and stuff.

[Teek]

Well holy crap, Yama! I'm so sorry, you have been through the wringer!

I had a kidney thing and no insurance, and a voice in my head (guardian angel?) said you are so sick, if you go home you'll die, go straight to a hospital (I was going home from work, felt like there was a jackhammer in my head, nauseous, loopy, couldn't focus), so went to a private ER near my house that would not take me w/ no money, and they sent me to an urgent care, they said I was too sick for them to touch me, and to go back to the ER, cause they could handle it if I crashed, so I get back in my truck and my head is spinning and I drive back to the ER, and they check me (gave them a credit card for $300 plus) and I have NO MONEY & NO Insurance, so they didn't admit me but the dr. said I should be in ICU with iv antibiotics, so he sends me another 10 miles away at 1 am to an all night drug store to get Cipro and something else, said to take immediately then go to bed and stay there for 3 days! Another day I would have been in septic shock.

So I say rant all the f you want, our health care system sucks.

I hope you are on antibiotics??? Kidneys take some time to heal, but they can take a lot of abuse, are you peeing okay, output wise? Are you drinking fluids? Not just beer?    If nothing is coming out get yer ass back into the hospital ASAP! They'll possibly write a lot of it off if you have no money or insurance.

It's probably pnemonia, some @$$hole dr. said the same thing to my mom (you're a smoker, it's lung cancer), she had all sorts of spots on her lungs, and was in the hospital for 6 days, she couldn't breathethey never found cancer nor what put her in the hospital, but she had been on some new drug and had gained weight and couldn't breathe, she was in congestive heart failure and they got 19 pounds of fluid out of her with iv diuretics, and she probably had a virus in her heart, because she had "vegetation" on a valve. All the lung spots went away and the valve cleared up too. They never figured out what was wrong, and had specialists up the wazoo consulting...

Try to stay in a good place, it's okay to be at peace with an outcome, but please don't give up before you know what you might be fighting! Staying upbeat is much better for your immune system!

Post back and let us know what the story is., and remember, this forum and your GS NEED you! 

[yamahonkawazuki]

lol CIPRO damned things are not cheap, i had to get generics nothing since. ive yet to go back for followup xray, dread and whatnot and i have to ahem temporarily change my address, so i can get an xray and not have to apy er prices

[scottpA_GS]

I wish you the best Yama 

And Teek.. That was a great post, great advise "Try to stay in a good place, it's okay to be at peace with an outcome, but please don't give up before you know what you might be fighting! Staying upbeat is much better for your immune system!"

Stay strong 

[trumpetguy]

Yama,

I'm sorry to hear of your medical problems.  Take care of yourself.  Your health is the most important thing and should be your first priority.

In your honor, I'm going to vote for a candidate who supports universal health care.  Getting well is hard enough without trying to figure out how you'll pay for all this!  A friend of mine with no insurance had a heart attack last October and had to be mediflighted to a hospital, where she was in ICU for several days.  She and her husband own a convenience store and they'll probably end up declaring bankruptcy and losing the store over her medical bills.

[Teek]

Yama, don't wait to go back, just GO, even pneumonia is serious and if it's bacterial you need antibiotics for it if it's showing on x-rays like that, and if it's viral you need medical support. They'll tell you if you can just go home and take it easy or not, if you can be treated as an out patient they'll do that. Also for your kidneys if you have pain, you may need another course of antibiotics. X-rays and antibiotics don't cost that much that it's worth risking your life over, both conditions can take you out if not treated, and they can be treated pretty easily most of the time.
Bills can be paid $20. a month as long as you make a payment every month they can't do much about that! ERs HAVE to treat you if you go to a public hospital, whether you have money or not, that's why the healthcare system is busted, from treating so many illegals with no money; in the Southwest they've bankrupted and closed a lot of hospitals by coming across the border to have their kids. It takes medical care away from legal citizens. (I feel sorry for them but it upsets me that people I know can't get care because of it. I don't want to start a debate with anyone, go look it up, it's a real problem).

But really, we'd rather have you here posting than post a memorium to you! 

[GeeP]

Oh shaZam! Yama!   

Are you in the clear now? 

Get your ass in the hospital if something comes up or I'LL come down there and drag you in.   

[frankieG]

i am sorry to hear about this....i know exactly how you feel

[spc]

Yama, there are many ways to get your healthcare taken care of, but priority one is staying in good spirits and making it through.  Technically, no urgent care or emergency care facility can deny you necessary treatment regardless of whether they are public or private and if pushed will always provide the care, though if the case is less than an immediate life threatening emergency private hospitals can reroute you to a public facility.  The fines imposed upon them for refusing necessary care are much steeper than most medical bills, so it's in their best interest to give you the care.  Find the name of a good PI lawyer in the area, you don't even have to call him just have the number and name to throw around if they give you shaZam!.  Generally, the definition of 'necessary' from a legal standpoint is liberal enough to cover preventative medicine when there is reasonable suspicion to believe there could be a problem.
Check into the indigent care program at your local hospital, many hospitals will write off care for people meeting certain standards.

Dammit, yama, take care of yourself or I'm gonna come up there and drag you into the hospital by towing you behind my Duc.

[yamahonkawazuki]

heh id support universal healthcare if teh congrees, could manage its money better. ( waste and whatnot). but right now, NO ONE there could or would be qualified to manage a Mcdonalds. tehyd be fired in 2 minutes

[trumpetguy]

heh id support universal healthcare if teh congrees, could manage its money better. ( waste and whatnot). but right now, NO ONE there could or would be qualified to manage a Mcdonalds. tehyd be fired in 2 minutes

I've had dealings with Rottweilers that were more pleasant than trying to get an insurance company to pay a $%^&# claim that should have been payed immediately.  I'd happily take a single-payer system (even run by the government) over one that values profit over service.

[spc]

heh, I still have a court date suing my own insurance company over my hit and run.  Legally it's an open and shut case, but they're insistent on giving me more money (Policy limits go out the window when you go to court generally)

[yamahonkawazuki]

heh im still talking to mr vicdin :/ takes care of aches, had a vlid scrip so im not too concerned. eventually ill take care of xray, just have to establish a knox county residence. ( not hard at all. ex gf said i cn use her addy)

[Teek]

heh im still talking to mr vicdin :/ takes care of aches, had a vlid scrip so im not too concerned. eventually ill take care of xray, just have to establish a knox county residence. ( not hard at all. ex gf said i cn use her addy)

Terry, get the tow rope ready, wouldja??!   

[frankieG]

if you need to talk pm me and i will give you my home phone number.  i have gone through what you are going through.  the people here on gstwin have been awesome.  they have become my support system and like family to me.  they are all great, very understanding and will bend over backwards to help you.  except terry i hate him 

[Toogoofy317]

I too well know what you are going through as well. Don't know if you remember but I pretty much spent the whole month of February in the hospital. I fought the government for three years to get disability. I was turned down while getting evaluated for a heart transplant. They said I was educated and could talk on a phone so I wasn't disabled! I had a six month stretch w/o any insurance and a visit of three weeks in the hospital with a week of that in ICU 150,000 I'm 27 and will be in debt the rest of my life. I was told hospital bills really don't hurt you but at my job I had to go through a four hour interview about my finances. I've not hear anything back and am afraid I will lose a good part-time job because of it. With the disability I only get 900 a month 100 comes out for medicare and rent is 700 leaves me 100 to pay my utilities. Forget insurance for car and bike and the bike payment!

If you ever want to talk to blow off some steam PM and I'll send my cell number. Also, this might help. You live in Tennessee right?

http://www.tennessee.gov/tenncare/mem-categories.html#Medicallyneedy

Hope this helps!

Mary S.

[frankieG]

thank god i am covered under veterans affairs...my chemo and meds were 6000 a month for almost a year.  that did not include tests or doctors appointments.  America need universal health care.

[yamahonkawazuki]

I too well know what you are going through as well. Don't know if you remember but I pretty much spent the whole month of February in the hospital. I fought the government for three years to get disability. I was turned down while getting evaluated for a heart transplant. They said I was educated and could talk on a phone so I wasn't disabled! I had a six month stretch w/o any insurance and a visit of three weeks in the hospital with a week of that in ICU 150,000 I'm 27 and will be in debt the rest of my life. I was told hospital bills really don't hurt you but at my job I had to go through a four hour interview about my finances. I've not hear anything back and am afraid I will lose a good part-time job because of it. With the disability I only get 900 a month 100 comes out for medicare and rent is 700 leaves me 100 to pay my utilities. Forget insurance for car and bike and the bike payment!

If you ever want to talk to blow off some steam PM and I'll send my cell number. Also, this might help. You live in Tennessee right?

http://www.tennessee.gov/tenncare/mem-categories.html#Medicallyneedy

Hope this helps!

Mary S.

heh i tried tenncare. im not n disability, not female with kids nota minority i basically dont qualify. 

[yamahonkawazuki]

meh i got ym first of 3 bills today. $65 for xrays. i wonder if i can go see them again. if ican, ( will call tomorrow) ill try to get in around 3 weeks/month from today. not much else i can do

[yamahonkawazuki]

if you need to talk pm me and i will give you my home phone number.  i have gone through what you are going through.  the people here on gstwin have been awesome.  they have become my support system and like family to me.  they are all great, very understanding and will bend over backwards to help you.  except terry i hate him 

well whadaya expect, them duc riders are kinda ghey