Adding insult to injury- being sick also breaks the bank:
Week 1
- Doctor visit: $25 co-pay
- antibiotics: $15
- DayQuil: $5
- 2 bags Halls: $5
- Two days home sick from work, several sleepless nights
subtotal: $50
Week two
- Doctor visit: $25 co-pay
- inhaler: $37.61
- ear drops: $11.49
- three half work days, more sleepless nights
- Urgent Care: $25 co-pay
- Three and a half hours in UC
- Nebulizer: $70
- medication for the nebulizer: $15
- Cough syrup with Codeine: $10.99
- round two antibiotics: $40
- unable to help Jeff with the Patio construction
subtotal: $235.09
Total monetary cost: $285.09 (so far- dear God this better fix me…)
- three and a half days off work
- about 7 sleepless nights
- three and a half hours in the Urgent Care
- unable to help with patio construction
Final diagnosis: Bronchitis and an empty wallet. The Wife® is CRABBY.
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Someone else may or may not be crabby.
I was obviously referring to the cat.
At least it doesn't literally break the bank anymore…
Ahh Competency.
Let's all remember the several years where I was coughing… some of the time.
I refused to go to the doctor to tell them, "I've been coughing. Not now, but sometimes."
2 doctor visits, 3 types if pills, a chest x-ray, an MRI, a breathing test, some sleepless nights (for Jeff), and lots of really uninformative and often upsetting phone calls with the doctors office, I have allergies and asthma. Which costs about $2 every day to keep under control.