We're doing the doctor bit today--twice. First the Neurology guy, then later today the regular HCP office. They have Faux News on the TV and you know how much I hate that crap.
I didn't sleep worth a damn last night so I'm probably going to be grouchy.
Update: Made it into the examine room at 9:20 for a 9:00 appointment. Not too awful bad. 
Update II: I've now been in this examining room longer than I was in the waiting room. Time 9:50 PM
Update III: The news is all bad. This may have to wait until I get home. Carnac sees surgery in my future.
Update IV: Better Late than never. There's one thing about being stuck in a doctor's office for hours. It's hell on your IPhone battery while you try to keep yourself occupied. That examining room that you see. I ended up sitting there waiting until almost noon, for some stuff they could have finished up with by no later than nine thirty.
So why write about my medical stuff? Health care in this country has reached an abysmal state, and it shows in our ranking, somewhere around 38th in the world I think. Rather piss poor, and now I know why. Funny how some politicians (and you know which ones) continue to talk about the US health care being the best in the world when it's not even close. And if you're unlucky to have insurance as tens of millions of people in this country are, you're basically just shit out of luck. I know. I've been in that situation before, for a good percentage of my life.
If you've been following this caper along in my other posts, you pretty much know how piecemeal HMO coverage is by now. You have to wait for approval on just about every little procedure. And that's about where I stand right now with the one big caveat: After six months of shuffling around from specialist to specialist, I now know what my main problems is even if I don't fully understand it.
It has to do with the vertebrate in my neck are compressing against the nerves in my spinal cord. Quite a bit actually, as the Doctor Genius showed me on my MRI pictures that I had taken about a week ago, which if they had taken them months ago it would have saved me a lot of trouble. What it amounts to is that they have to fix it, because if they don't I could end up paralyzed or worse. Or so they say.
But before any of that happens my regular HCP has to do my surgical preliminaries: blood samples and all that crap. But, because I've had a persistent case of laryngitis off and on, I have to go to another specialist for that before they can begin getting me ready for surgery. You know, just to make sure it isn't cancer causing my voice to come and go like a yo-yo. Take my word for it though, it isn't cancer. I've had this laryngitis problem before. For about two or three years as a matter of fact and it was a lot worse than it is now. But they have to do what they have to do.
The worse part of this is going to be wearing a neck brace. But even that has to be approved. Hope it takes a long time. The bad part: I have to wear even before surgery which tells me that what my doctor says is true. Even those I have spoken to have never had to wear the brace before the operation. Still, some are advising me not to have it. I wish I knew more. I was too stunned when he told me to ask about more specific details.
Anyway, I'm still going to write about this and we'll see how it develops. Hopefully I can get back to working on more pleasant blog stuff.
Sorry about the time it took me to update this post. Not like anybody's going to read it anyway. I laid down in the bed and looked for something on Netflix to watch but I fell asleep making a selection. That's how tired I was. Oh well, watching Scarecrow and Mrs. King on Amazon as I write this. Better than nothing, but kind of hokey. I didn't remember the show being this hokey. All four season are available for free with Amazon Prime though and it isn't on Netflix. I only mention that show so that I can stick an Amazon ad on here..lol. Catch you later.
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