It's been a while

So it's been 3 months since my last post. For a daily blog. I'm doing great (lol). You would think I as super busy and had no time to write down my thoughts, so not the case.

In my last post I was explaining how much pain I had been in from my endometriosis. My pain spells usually last anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks. Unfortunately I have been in constant pain since May. I have had days where the pain has not been as bad, but I am in horrible pain most of the time.

Thank God for my general doctor who tries to help manage the pain, as the ER refuses to treat chronic pain patients in our state any longer. I will put a link below the regarding the Pill Mill Bill. The only reason I would go to the ER is if the pain would get out of control, but now that is not even an option. Also not having any insurance has been a problem. My regular GYN discharged me as a patient because I was unable to pay a $127 bill. Good thing is that my general doctor has a program for people who don't have insurance and I get 100% coverage when I see her. I am now seeing a new GYN and they are wanting to do another surgery but even with patient assistance it is going to cost $400, so that is being put on hold.

There has been a lot happen since April 5 this year and I plan to share that even if I am the only that reads it.But I am not going to share all in one post.

Most recently Daddy was in the hospital for 5 days with kidney failure and a severe infection. He was just released yesterday with a PICC line in.This is so that he can go the doctor everyday to have IV antibiotics. So far they have him off work until next Tuesday and that could change.

He had not been feeling well for about a week, but it got worse starting last Monday. I took him to the doc and she started a few new meds and took him off work. Starting Tuesday he was completely out it. Slurred speech, dizzy, stumbling when he was walking, and very argumentative, and a lot of confusion. I called the doctor back and she thought he could either be having a stroke or medication reaction and to take him to the ER right away. His blood pressure was 77/35 and continued to drop. After lots of testing they realized that his kidney function is extremely elevated and was in failure. He does have an infection in his body that they are giving him 4 or 5 different antibiotics for. After 2 bags of fluids in the ER he seemed to be a lot more aware of where he was and what was going on. He doesn't really remember Tuesday or Wednesday of last week. He sees the infectious disease md on Wednesday and his regular md on Friday and continues with daily IV antibiotics.

Until next time...

Link to Pill Mill Bill http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20120813/NEWS0103/308130009/Pill-mill-bill-affecting-legitimate-patients-doctors-say?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE