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| Fri, 03-03-2006 - 11:05am |
Hi everyone. I'm substituting today and I feel so sick. I have been putting off going to the chiropractor because I have no health insurance, which leaves me paying 40 dollars per visit. However, my back and neck give me lots of problems, and today when I got up I knew it was a "bad neck day". A bad neck day consists of me being in intense pain in my neck and being very stiff, and then it escalates into a migraine. Often the migraine cannot be stopped because it is triggered by the problem in my neck. I use excedrine migraine to keep it under control and I also have the IMITREX injector shot should I need to use it, but if I use it it's my last shot and costs a ton to get refilled with no health insurance.
So here I sit, with a migraine and a stiff neck, trying not to throw up during class. I had my head in my hands and one of the students asked me if I was crying. I feel like it, but no, just trying not to chuck. Problem is, I don't know what to do...I'm stuck here until 3pm unless I get so desperate that I go the office and ask them if someone can cover the class I'm subbing in. I hope the situation doesn't get that dire. If it comes down to me either throwing up in class or doing that, then I guess I'll have to go to the office. I'm not so concerned about making it through the school day though as I am for tonight. I work at a resort as a waitress and I am scheduled to work at 4:30. Here are my options...pray and hope that my headache calmes down, or go ahead and use my injection and then have to pay an arm and a leg to get it refilled, or get through the school day and call off for my job tonight and go home and rest. I need the money but haven't called off in a year, however the job I work at makes it hard to call off. Calling off means you give everyone else a hard night, because there is nobody to cover for you. Not only that but nobody ever believes you are actually sick.
Please help. I can't think. What should I do? If I'm going to call off I have to do it before noon. It seems like the headache is starting to subside but I can't be sure.
Agh!

(((hugs)))
I don't know...use the shot, try to get through the rest of the day, and use the pay to replace the shot?
Or, go home and don't worry about the missed income b/c you will still have your shot?
I have the same kind of job...no one to cover if I need to be out/everyone thinks you're lying if you call in. It $ucks!
BK
I would call in sick as it sounds like you are in pain. While debt reduction is important, your health is just as important. Let them think what they want, you truly are sick and not lying. Also, do you have a state health insurance where you live? The one we have here in Washington is called Basic Health, we used it for years. What you pay per month is based on your income, however, you can't be above a certain income to qualify. This was a life saver for us since neither one of us had health insurance through our employers, and DH had to to have a surgery. Please take care of yourself.
studentforlife
OMG you sound just like me (except I'm not sick RIGHT now!) I get the same way you do, I think mine is triggered from sitting hunched over at a desk all day long. I do try to do stretches & etc for my shoulders & back & try to get those muscles to relax. I too take imitrex tablets, I thought I hit pay dirt when I picked up a refill this week for $10, new prescription card & a $10 coupon for imitrex on line & the prescription that used to cost me $69 will now only cost me $20 or $10 if I have a coupon. Imitrex is a miracle drug for me however I too ration it out because it is so costly. But once the nausea starts its horrible. I went to the ER last summer for a migraine, I couldn't get it under control, that visit was $450 for a shot of imitrex & a shot for the nausea.
As someone else posted I have one of those deals you heat up in the microwave & put on your shoulders & that helps me relax my neck. I also take hot baths & lay on ice packs when I have a full blown headache, sometimes confusing the headache with hot & cold can make it calm down.
I so hope you feel better & sorry I wrote a book, but sometimes I'm amazed when there is someone out there that feels like I do.
Take care!
cindylee