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My lungs hurt.
Something awful has been happening to my respiratory system over the past few weeks. For a while, I thought the extra coughing and sneezing was due to increased allergies from living with a cat for the first time in five years. Then I developed this weird cough in the mornings that would mostly go away after a couple hours; some people suggested that I might be developing asthma. A few days ago, I found myself with an inexplicable sore throat. Today I woke up hacking up a lung and with a voice that sounds like I'm talking from inside a tunnel.
Have I mentioned the obscene craziness that is going to be the next week? I absolutely cannot be sick right now. No. Uh uh. NOT ALLOWED.
Anyway, I don't know what to do. I have insurance, but it's out of state and I don't know how that works, plus god knows how long it'll take to be seen by someone. Also, I have no idea where to begin looking for a doctor in this city. Oh yeah, and just about every penny I own is about to be fed into a security deposit on an apartment, and even with insurance a doctor's visit and related medications would take a chunk out of that money.
I still have some decongestant left over from the last time I got sick, so I guess I could try taking that for a while and see what happens, but... gah. I so do not have time for this.
Something awful has been happening to my respiratory system over the past few weeks. For a while, I thought the extra coughing and sneezing was due to increased allergies from living with a cat for the first time in five years. Then I developed this weird cough in the mornings that would mostly go away after a couple hours; some people suggested that I might be developing asthma. A few days ago, I found myself with an inexplicable sore throat. Today I woke up hacking up a lung and with a voice that sounds like I'm talking from inside a tunnel.
Have I mentioned the obscene craziness that is going to be the next week? I absolutely cannot be sick right now. No. Uh uh. NOT ALLOWED.
Anyway, I don't know what to do. I have insurance, but it's out of state and I don't know how that works, plus god knows how long it'll take to be seen by someone. Also, I have no idea where to begin looking for a doctor in this city. Oh yeah, and just about every penny I own is about to be fed into a security deposit on an apartment, and even with insurance a doctor's visit and related medications would take a chunk out of that money.
I still have some decongestant left over from the last time I got sick, so I guess I could try taking that for a while and see what happens, but... gah. I so do not have time for this.
