Moms Can't Get Sick

I am so behind with everthing since getting sick this past month.  I have to get caught up on balancing the budget, paying bills, doing paperwork and filing, and so much more.  I forgot that our auto insurance is due tomorrow and I haven't paid that yet either.  Mom gets sick and it all goes to heck, lol. 

I should get another auto insurance quote while I am thinking about it too. We've been with the same auto insurance company for 15-20 years now. I wonder if there are less expensive options out there. I guess I'll just add one more thing to my "to do" list.

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Medical Alert: Always Ask for Medical Record Copies

I found out after asking for copies of my hospital labs from my hospital stay a couple weeks ago that the CT scan also showed gallstones and diverticulosis.  Neither of the hospital doctors said a word about it.  I'm glad I went back to the hospital and requested copies! 

Now I'll use my scanning software to scan them all in and send them to my family doctor so I can talk to him about what needs to be done next. I've already called them and told them about it so they're expecting more information that they also didn't get from the hospital doctors. 

That's just crazy!!

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Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) can be a very serious infection and if you suspect you have it, you need to get to the doctor ASAP.  I was hospitalized with this a couple weeks ago.  It was caused by an overgrowth of regular bacteria found in my body (not an STD which the doctors assumed until the cultures came back proving otherwise).  The antibiotics they gave me in the hospital were not fun but the morphine they gave me for pain gave me a couple hours of bliss.  Ha ha. 

I was released from the hospital after my fever and pain level went down.  Boy was I ripe!  When you can smell yourself, you REALLY need a shower.  The acne was bad too.  When I looked in the mirror for the first time on my 3rd day (day I was released), the zits were horrendous.  How disgusting.  I didn't have chin acne but the nose acne made me look 14 instead of 38. How embarrassing. I wonder how long I had whiteheads around my nose and didn't know it! 

I am on the mend now.  I am not back to 100%.  The pain still comes and goes and I am still on antibiotics.  It will take me longer to get better because I can't take my medication during the day because they make me really sleepy and I have a little one to take care of.  When I take them at bedtime though, boy do they give me a hard night's rest (and leave me real groggy in the morning).

The long-term prognosis is unknown right now.  I may have scarred my reproductive organs up enough to be infertile.  I just don't know the extent of damage yet until more tests are done.

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Middle School Field Trips Far Away

My daughter's 7th grade trip this year was to Chicago - a few states away from us.  We couldn't afford to send her and didn't think it was a good idea that she went anyway (due to problems we've had with one of her teachers) so she missed it.  We have been looking at pictures her friends took while in Chicago.  They should get hired for brochure printing for tourists with these pictures. It looks like it was a fun trip, not necessarily educational but fun.  I'm not sorry we didn't spend $400 to send her on this trip at all. 

She's asking to go on the 8th grade trip already for next year which is to Washington D.C.  Oh lordy help me.  At least that would be educational but spend money to send her to Obama's house?  Hmm...lol.

We never did field trips like this in junior high.  Boy how things change.

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