So tonight I spent four hours in the hospital waiting room waiting to see a Doctor. Normally I would have seen my primary care Doctor but it just so happens they moved without notifying me last week. So I finally get in there and tell him I think I have strep throat ( my son has it so i know how i caught it ). I also told him I’ve gotten absolutely no sleep lately due to the fact I’m up all night coughing. Everything hurts at night because of the coughing. It was even making me throw up.
So he listens to my lungs, etc. Takes a strep culture. The nurse comes in with my prescriptions. It’s for an inhaler and antibiotics. I ask her if she could please ask the doctor to prescribe me some cough medicine. I get this lame coughing bronchitis every year. And every year I get codeine cough medicine because it’s the only thing that works. She tells me just to buy over the counter stuff. Like I haven’t been taking Niquil for a week already?
The same thing happens with my back problems. I’m alergic to NSAIDS so I can;t take 800 MG ibuprophen. They’ve tried every other non narcotic pain killer. It doesn’t work. they refuse to prescribe vicodin or percacets because of my age. They assume that because you’re young and you want something that WORKS that you’re a “drug seeker”.
Seriously if I were a junkie I wouldn’t sit in a hospital for 4 hours waiting for codeine cough medicine. I’d borrow 5-10$ from someone and go buy a fucking bag of heroin. 
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December 23rd, 2008
Hospitals have ALWAYS freaked me out. Being OCD even little things about them. For example you know how all the sheets are white? And they use the white sheets to cover dead bodys? Well everytime I’ve tried to sleep in a hospital all I can think is “how many dead bodies were covered with this sheet…” or “i wonder how many people died in this bed/room..” It’s creepy. So reading things like this article I just read just makes me even MORE freaked out.
10 things your hospital won’t tell you
“Infections and the chain of command
“You may leave sicker than when you came in.”
A week after Leandra Wiese had surgery to remove a benign tumor, the high school senior felt well enough to host a sleepover. But later that weekend she was vomiting and running a fever. Thinking it was the flu, her parents took her back to the hospital. Wiese never came home. It wasn’t the flu but a deadly surgical infection.
About 2 million people a year contract hospital-related infections, and about 90,000 die, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The recent increase in antibiotic-resistant bugs and the mounting cost of health care — to which infections add about $4.5 billion annually — have mobilized the medical community to implement processes designed to decrease infections. These include using clippers rather than a razor to shave surgical sites and administering antibiotics before surgery but stopping them soon after to prevent drug resistance.
For all of modern medicine’s advances, the best way to minimize infection risk is low-tech: Make sure any hospital staffers who touch you have washed their hands. Tubes and catheters are also a source of bugs, and patients should ask daily if they are necessary.” more
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August 28th, 2008