I was in the ER yesterday afternoon and noticed something really interesting. A lot of the nurse’s aides were wearing what looked like MP3 players. It’s bothersome to me because shouldn’t they be paying attention to patient care or something? I mean, the nurses seemed pretty busy and aren’t their aides supposed to be helping ease their loads?
At any rate, my health issues haven’t quite gone away yet. I’ve hit one more bump in my road. My infection was getting better but I developed a bad case of pleurisy. I’ve had that before, but this was a little more severe possibly because I’m already fighting some crap and my stress really hasn’t been lessened much in the last few days (I’m not really going to go into detail about what’s happened, but it’s pretty depressing). I thought I was developing pneumonia because I was having some serious difficulty breathing. But I was lucky. Pleurisy usually clears up on its own eventually. I just have to take a little more pain medication to deal with it and to keep the swelling down.
I’m starting to get really worried about losing my health insurance. I don’t even know what I’ll do about health care if, for some reason, I’m thrust into the masses of the uninsured. We don’t have any free clinics around here and my doctors don’t take patients without insurance. This last incident just made it all the worse.
Keep your fingers crossed for me.
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I’m Not Crazy
I am always looking for a great sale – especially if I can find it online. I’m a huge proponent of online shopping and a lot of times shopping at smaller sites. That, I think, is one of the best ways to support American small businesses (with a certain big box store moving into town a lot of small businesses closed their doors).
I mention this because my family, God love them, refuse to hear me when I about this kind of thing. I get coupons in the mail for stores, but only for buying online. I can find really great prices for things that are available here at a much higher price. But my family has decided that I’m slightly insane.
I don’t see what’s so insane in getting up to 75% off of an item because I’m buying it online. Sure I have to wait to get it in my hands, but that’s fine with me. And most places offer deals that include free shipping, so that isn’t an issue (and the price of gas kind of negates that argument, in my opinion). I’ll be getting packages from online retailers without the hassle of fighting the crowds and getting up at 3am on Black Friday. Why is that crazy? I think it’s a little crazy to go through the hassle when there are better ways to spend your time. But that’s just me.
Anyway, isn’t shopping online a lot like catalog shopping? I remember when I was young my grandparents would get the Sears catalog and other catalogs and they’d buy from them. I remember going through and picking out Christmas presents from them. That- to me- is basically the same thing as shopping online and no one thinks buying stuff from a big name retail catalog is crazy. Well, no one in my family.
Ha! We’ll see who gets to enjoy the day after Thanksgiving. Because I won’t be fighting the early birds who would just as soon rip your arm off as to allow you to get away with that fabulous sweater.
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