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Greetings, all!

It's true. I got the flu.

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Whatcha gonna do?

I suppose write a poem or two...

Before I get into that I would like to take a few moments to kinda brag about how pleasant our doctor visit was this weekend.

Let's begin...

After about a week of Hive account@chrisroberts being sick, Friday morning, I too, was hit by a ton of bricks. On top of that, something had changed in Chris and instead of feeling better his symptoms changed and he was feeling a bit worse. By 6pm or so Friday evening neither of us were doing particularly great and being an hour away from the nearest city started to plan our next steps.

Insurance?

It may or may not be a surprise, but because of our past income bracket (pre-cryptocurrency) we were one of the too poor, but not quite poor enough that would have had to choose to pay for insurance over shelter and food because of Obamacare. That guy is so awesome. 🙄 In any case, we've been sans insurance for... ever.

We had been planning to get insurance, but honestly just hadn't been sick with anything in SO LONG it wasn't in the forefront of our minds.... until this last week.

Weekend Clinics

With no regular doctor to make an appointment with and the fear that Chris was getting worse, we needed to find a place that would see us. We had heard VERY good things about a clinic that would take walk-ins, but upon investigation, we found it only takes walk-ins from existing patients and it was almost 2 hours away . There was no way we, both being weak and sick, should/could drive that far, through mountain passes safely.

The search continued

I found a Vally Wide Health Clinic only an hour away that was open to LITERALLY anyone 7 days a week. What?! That's exactly what we needed. Not only that, but the website explained that AFTER your appointment you would be assisted in finding insurance or signing up for Medicare/Medicaid. We needed that too!

It was settled, we'd go to 'Mosa in the morning first thing and hope for some answers and maybe some meds.

The journey

We made it to the Clinic by 9 am and only had one person in front of us. Angel helped us sign in. No joke. A dude named Angel who was just about the sweetest, most caring person ever.😍

The nurse was also SUPER nice and very informative, yet laid back. We even laughed about Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which we had watched the night before. Side note: That movie is WEIRD. 😳

The doctor was just about the most helpful person so far.

It was like each new person we came into contact with was MORE friendly than the last. The doc was generally impressed with how good our vitals were, aside from both having the flu (and Chris having a bacterial infection). We were also able to get Chris a new albuterol inhaler and nebulizer refill. Those things are really good to have around in case of emergency.

He even gave Chris a note to prove to the INSANE people he works with that he was/is really sick. Jerks. 😒 Oh! And the doc got him out of jury duty ... this time. To be fair, I'm pretty sure he was kinda excited about serving, it's just bad timing.

Last stop, the pharmacy

Again! Super nice folks! Just as we were suggested to do, we ask about any possible discounts for any of the meds we were getting, as we currently do not have insurance. Winner! We were able to save a good chunk off everything.

Equipped with antibiotics, extra strong cough and sleeping meds and asthma assistance we were on our way back home.

Of course, we stopped at Arby's. Of course. 😎

Now, we are both home Steeming. Luckily, no matter how gross we are YOU can't catch it. Just one of the perks of Steemit. 😍