Tecumseh!
So, the good news is, I went to the doc, and while I was there, he gave me prescriptions for my various anti-kitty meds, so I won’t be hacking up a lung this holiday season.
The not-so-good news is that my throat pain is a viral issue that will just have to go away on its own. My excellent doctor made a half-dozen suggestions (salt-water, tea and honey, vitamins, etc), and I had to tell him I’m already doing all of those things.
It was almost worth getting lost in Tecumseh in order to chat with him for an hour. How many people have a doctor who really cares about your whole health, and isn’t just trying to shove you through the door?
So, could be a day, could be a week, can’t really say. Since I’m not really “sick” and could have probably slogged through this at work, I’m slightly annoyed that it comes during my time off, but, eh, them’s the breaks.
The other not-so-good news, for me, is that those 3 scrips came out to 95 bucks. I can tell you, I will be carefully regulating their use, because I just can’t afford to do that every month.
Not very many actually. The girl just had her yearly “Check to see if I have full blown diabetes yet” check. Where he argued with her for about 30 minutes that she really should be exercising everyday, and that her working 14 hours a day walking up and down steps, driving to see kids houses and such “doesn’t count as exercise.” He’s also refusing to give her a referral to an endochronologist. So, you’re very very lucky my friend.
Heh, not lucky, determined.
For what it’s worth, my doctor’s got quite a belly, and refers to me as a healthy specimen, so I think he’s pretty reasonable about weight.
So, I finally found some really good doctors, right, these neurologists. (I don’t know why there’s a pair of them, but I’m not complaining, right.) And they’re good! They listen to me, laugh at my jokes, make their own, say I’m pretty damn healthy EXCEPT for these pesky migraines, yeah? And that’s just what you really want to hear, honestly. But THEN. But then they prescribe to me- just to rule it out as a good medicine for me, because I haven’t been responsive to others in that family before- injectable Imitrex. Imitrex in an epi-pen. Sweet, yes? NO! $180 for the “starter kit” with two doses! $80 per 2-dose refill thereafter! Same with my allergist. “Hm, this problem could be easily resolved with daily Prilosec, so I shall write you a prescription and give you only vague info about other methods to control it!” $130 for a month’s supply! Great doctors, man, but damn. Drug prices, yeah, those’ll fuck you.
Seriously. My guy, at least, is aces with alternatives.
How on earth can one get lost in Tecumseh?
When google maps tells you there is a road that does not exist, and that sends you down a road where there’s just … nothing, except a daycare center.
We looked up the road on yahoo, and it, too, said there was a road where there just … wasn’t.
Yeah, okay, that sounds like Tecumseh.