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This week just keeps getting better and better
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| 12/9/2005 |
On last week's episode, both kids were sick and Janene was getting sick too. It's only gotten better from there.
On Monday Janene went to the doctor with a red and swollen eye and was diagnosed with conjunctivitis and given eye drops. By Wednesday it was only getting worse, even though we should have been seeing a lot of improvement by that point because of the drops, so her doctor refered her to an opthalmologist. He gave her different eyedrops which do, finally, seem to be working.
In the meantime a screwup with our insurance meant that we had to scramble to find a way to get money to pay full price for these prescriptions, and argue with just about every doctor and pharmacist as to how they ought to accept our copay or at least not refuse to see us.
As her eye got better her cold / sinus infection got worse, and she went to the doctor for that on Thursday (prompting yet another set of arguments about insurance and payment and more full-price prescriptions). The doctor said that her heart was racing and instructed her to check the rate at home, and if it didn't drop below 100 by the evening to go to the E.R.
So we spent Thursday evening until midnight in the E.R. while they pumped her full of fluids and, among other things, did a CAT scan to make sure she didn't have a Pulmonary Embolism (which apparently are rather nasty things). Fortunately she didn't and they concluded that the elevated heart rate was due to a combination of stress, dehydration and fever - by the time we left the hospital it had dropped into the 80s.
It's a good thing the E.R. doesn't actually check your insurance card for validity when they admit you! Hopefully by the time they actually bill it the insurance will be reinstated again. At least, it BETTER be...
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