Modern Medicine

Should I have this looked at? It's really itchy. And it scares paying dates....

And my prescription for hypertension meds (Lipi-something) - BP over 230 systolic; not good - runs out. Call the pharmacy to see if we can get a refill. No. The ER doc that wrote it for the one month will not rewrite.

Hmmm. I furiously reread the massive amounts of paper generated by this whole circumstance and find that it says I am under some sort of coverage at Marshall Hospital, Placerville, until May 23. This is a "Go" from my angle, and so I do.

Steven and Michael drive me over there and deposit me (Friday at 2 pm or so) and I enter the arena yet again, only this time, I have a much more attentive doc - a woman and someone that does not talk over or down - and I get more thorough checks for thyroid and who-know-what. Feeling somewhat comfy with her, other issues are addressed, like the Thing growing from the roof of my mouth. "Nothing to be concerned with." OK.

She writes a new scrip for drugs that might actually do something. And, she writes it with three refills as part of the scrip. Brilliant.

Did I mention the near $600 bill for the 15 minute diatribe from Dr, WHO? Fucking amazing.

All seems that much more, uh, more. We await. The BP is still over 200 systolic even on a good day. Is this stress related? Oh, couldn't be.

KaBoom.

We await the May 12 trip to Beantown and beyond. Poverty sucks, adn I am getting a dose.

That's a drug joke. A dose! Funny! Not Really.