Well I feel blessed I think. ;-)

I went to doctors today. It was suppose to be a low income clinic. It turned
out it wasn’t. But they did give me a break. I had to do it, because I am
not doing good at all. I am in bad shape.

He is running lab work on me for CBC, Comp Metabolic, Lipid Panel, TSH, and
a Urinary Analysis.

Then I still have to pay for all the meds.Oh ouch, $195.16.  He prescribed
more Atrovent and Albuterol for the nebulizer. Larger amounts than the other
doctor did when I saw him on 3/23. He only gave me 25 vials of each and
expected me to do it 4 times a day which would have been a 6 day supply.
This will be then a 24 day supply if I have to do it that many times. He is
also giving me 7 days of Diflucin for the yeastie beasties I have had for a
long time now. He is putting me on life time predisone for the COPD and
Asthma and the Addisons I will start this week with 20 mg, for a week, then
10 mg a day from there on out. A doctor that is finally going to address the
adrenal issues for a change. He also is giving me the Ativan back for the
anxiety.

I might have to go on a bp med. It was 160/120 today. But when I saw the
other dr on 3/23 it was only 136/89. So I have a feeling it was just up that
high today because of all the stress lately and not feeling good. I was
feeling so sick when I went in there.

They have a plan that if you pay $345 a year, you can go in to see the
doctor whenever you want, and only pay $30 a visit. Also you get a 40
percent  discount on lab work and 20 percent discount on xrays and
medications. So If I can save up the money, I think that will be a good
deal.

He told me the elbow problem was fms. I am wondering about that one though,
because fms doesn’t make the area around the elbow swell. So that one is
still questionable.

Oh he said he believes this is asthma and not bronchitis. He doesn’t think I
have a sinus infection either. So that is why he is putting me on long term
pred, to try to keep the asthma and copd under control.

He said yes, my mouth, in the cheek area is all swollen up, but he is not
sure what it is. AT least he was honest. ;-)

He also said the milky white stuff I am getting out of my eyes when I am
sleeping is from allergy and could be an infection. He said the infection is
ok as long as I don’t have auto immune stuff going on like Lupus, RA, those
kind of things. So he is not treating it. The jury is still out on that one.
I don’t know what to think about that one. I thought that the milky white
stuff was from a yeast infection but didn’t know if you could get it in the
eyes.

I have yeast in the mouth, arm pits, under the headed south group and
another area too, so I figured the eyes might have joined in.

I also have a callus on foot that has a plantars wart growing there too. So
no wonder at times that bone along the foot hurts.

I did forget to ask him about the muscle spasms. Now can I forget that. Dah.

He spent about 2 hours with me.

They just opened this week and I was the second patient that had come in so
far.

I have too much going on at one time to cover it all even in two hours. ;-)

But at least I got some of it covered.

I am suppose to go back in about a month, two weeks if I am not feeling
better. I asked him because of the money if we could stretch it to a month
and he said yeah. That is when we will go over the blood tests and such. I
also thinks he wants to watch my bp and if it didn’t go down, then I am sure
he will make me go on the bp meds.

Whoa did this get long, sorry, I didn’t mean for it to get this long.

Just wanted to let you all know how it was going.