CAN YOU RELATE TO ANY OF THIS ?

Would you believe I have had a terrible cough going on 5 weeks……it maybe 6 but who’s counting!

AT first I thought I had COVID.

 As I was at TWO showers in one weekend……..baby and bridal!

However, I took TWO at home tests and they came out NEGATIVE.

So I continued on for a bit and THE ITALIAN got it too!

 

SO we both started taking the famous ROBITUSSIN cough syrup, but I could not sleep at night without coughing all night!

One early morning I got up and went to bed with BANSKY!

He grunted a few times and I fell asleep!Our sofa is too short for me!

BANKSY was warm and happy I was there.I was happy to be beside him too.

I started taking the equivalent to NYQUIL which THE ITALIAN found at CVS……….

It worked WONDERS I SLEPT LIKE A BABY, but would wake up in the morning feeling a bit DRUNK………

I was hesitant to take these drugs with my ANTI-SEIZURE meds…….yes, I am on TWO different types for the FAMOUS EPISODES I have been having for years……

SIX YEARS but who is COUNTING!

Maybe that was it the combo of the meds………..?.

 My cough was bad and I could barely chat on the telephone without coughing.

Which by the way is my FAVORITE form of communication these days.

We still have our HOUSE PHONE which my number ONE SON still uses!

OKAY, so I have given you my situation in a NUTSHELL.

 HERE WE GO…..MY COURSE OF ACTION!

I called the ADVISE NURSE THREE TIMES……….first time a doctor was to call me back.

I carried the cell phone around until 10 pm that night.

NO CALL.

 

( NO BALL PLAYING. POOR US. MOM does not feel well!)

Called again a few days later as I was getting worse………

MEANWHILE ,I NEEDED TO DRIVE 40 minutes due EAST to get TESTED for COVID.

Got a nurse who took all the stats from me and you can tell they are READING OFF A COMPUTER!

She gave me a prescription!

This was 7 am…….by 7:30 am I was at the Pharmacy!

Do you know they do not open until 8:45 am!

What pharmacy in a hospital opens that late?

AND GUESS WHAT?

NO PHARMACY HAS IT IN STOCK in ALL of Northern California!

DUE TO SUPPLY SHORTAGES!

Now, I would think this has been going on for at least a week maybe MORE and THE ADVISE NURSES WOULD HAVE A LIST OF THESE DRUGS!

 Maybe that is TOO MUCH COMMON SENSE iN TODAYS WORLD!

LET ME TAKE OVER AND I WILL STRAIGHTEN EVERY ONE OUT!

 Meanwhile, no one at the front information desk to help these people who have PRE-OP appointments and need LAB work done.

Most are elderly with oxygen tanks!!

 I DIRECTED TRAFFIC at this point and walked a gentleman to the LAB.

I somehow knew all the destinations as I have had procedures done in ALL OF THEM!

 NO drugs picked up from trip in the early morning hours!

 NOTHING!

Swearing all the way home I WAS.

Next ADVISED NURSE I CALL a few days later……..I cannot recall what happened there, but I did write my MD at some point and THREE days later he answered my email!He gave me a cough syrup with CODINE as that is what I asked for…….Now mind you this doctor has never seen me in person and I have just a FEW THINGS GOING ON IN THIS 61 year old body!

THEY NEVER READ THE HISTORY OF THE PATIENT; I HAVE LEARNED THE HARD WAY!

I HAVE TO TELL THEM GO LOOK AND SEE!

 MY HISTORY BELOW.

1. HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT

2. MAC

3. FOCAL SEIZURES better known as EPILEPSY

  THE NEWEST DIAGNOSIS in 2021!

 

I wrote back an email saying can he give me another prescription as the one he gave me lasted 4 days…………. and I’m still NOT BETTER.He answered we should meet in person in an email and that is when his assistant called me to tell me NO APPOINTMENTS until MID- JULY! Nor another prescription was written.I hung up…….

GUESS WHAT ?

I WAS PISSED!

It went on and on like this, which made me write my LUNG DOCTOR who I like a lot. He had his assistant call me the same day I wrote the email only to get me in at the end of the month.That day was JUNE 12th…….and I go in on June 29th.

Meanwhile, somehow I stumbled upon a telephone visit with another doctor which I was able to do on a SUNDAY!

She rang at 9:15 am took all my info and gave me a prescription for antibiotics.

For 4 days.

I think they are working!

I have one more day of pills………..and then we will see if I need to go through all this rigamarole again.

NOPE did not work…….STILL COUGHING and shooting out white mucus A LOT!

NOW I AM REALLY WORRIED AND THINK IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE MAC!

 THE LUNGS have been COMPROMISED in some way.

 This DOCTOR sent me for a chest x-ray and a finger x-ray which I will not get into today!

  CLEAR ~  CLEAR ~ CLEAR THOSE LUNGS OF MINE STILL SCARRING, BUT NOTHING TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT with this cough.

  PHEW!

CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK!

More time goes by and no prescription renewals…….

Don’t ask me WHY I think the doctor was NOT answering my emails because, so I hear they are so SWAMPED.I once again found on the website with a little bit of work and PATIENCE the DOCTOR to call for a phone appointment!This doctor rang me at 8:30 am.

“HOW CAN I HELP YOU” was the opening statement.

 YOU think he had looked at my background?

  NOPE!

 So, I give him the run down.

 He prescribes an inhaler like my Son had for his ASTHMA years ago.

 His closing STATEMENT was “GOOD-LUCK”.

  THANK GOD MY ITALIAN AND I COULD LAUGH ABOUT THAT………..

 I should have EMAILED the LUNG DOCTOR from the GET GO, but I think of him being so busy with the COVID patients in ICU.

I did not want to bother him with MY LADY WINDERMERE.

(YES, that is another name for MAC!)

DON’T YOU LOVE THAT NAME for ME!!

I AM ON THE MEND AS I WRITE THIS AND ITS A GOOD THING I CAN LAUGH ABOUT IT NOW!

 HOWEVER, WHEN YOU ARE IN THE MOMENT IT IS SCARY AND SO FRIGHTENING WHEN IT GOES ON AND ON……

OF COURSE THE ITALIAN WAS OVER IT IN 3 DAYS!

   BE WELL!

I CAN TELL YOU FROM EXPERIENCE HEALTH IS EVERYTHING!

XXX

YES!

THIS IS WHO YOU THINK IT IS………..SLEEPING AWAY on NONNA’s LAP!

 I am going to let HER name me, but for now we will use THE ITALIAN word for GRANNY!