Have you ever had to pay a hospital or doctor’s bill? If so, you may have been dumbfounded by how bloody much it cost. This is understandable.

Have you ever heard a worker in the healthcare field bitch about HMOs? If so, you may have been dumbfounded by how bloody cheap they are. [...]

Yesterday, for the first time in years, I experienced the following new smells:

Orchid (the first flower I’ve smelled!)
Rosemary
Cigarette Smoke
Bird seed
Donuts and more generally the ambient smell of Dunkin Donuts

Bummer on that [...]

I have been going CRAZY since last Thursday. For the last two Thursdays, I’ve been going to see my ENT for post-operation visits. He rips a bunch of nasty crud out of my nose, talks to me about it, and then sends me on my way feeling a LOT better and breathing a lot [...]

This is a big deal. It’s the first time I’ve sneezed since the sinus surgery. All the packing is out, and I’m not allowed to sniffle or blow my nose. There are clots all over the place in my sinuses, and if I upset one of them, I could hemmorhage and bleed all [...]

I was discharged from the hospital today around 9am. The surgery went well, and my otolaryngologist/surgeon removed all my polyps and found one sinus packed with fluid. He was completely successful at removing everything, and spoke with Kia afterwards. She was so good to me through the whole thing.

So I’m home and happy [...]

So I went to the Otolaryngologyst, Dr Dougherty, and he says that I still need the surgery, because the antibiotics alone won’t do it. I was in a fair amount of doubt, because my PCP had told me, essentially, that if the polyps go away, they’re as gone as if they were never there. [...]

It’s just after 10. I have an appointment with Dr. Dougherty at 11. I’m going to talk to him about the virtues of Antibiotics vs. Surgery.

When I took the 10 doses of Levaquin, I got one sample and a prescription for 9 more. The 9 pills cost me a $40 copay, with a [...]

I went to see my primary care physician today for a pre-op checkup. That is to say they’re checking me out to make sure I’m healthy enough for my surgery on Monday, April 6.

For the life of me, I couldn’t tell you what the surgery is called, but the surgeon (also my otolaryngologist, or ear/nose/throat [...]

Last Monday, I came down with a really nasty cough. It was affecting me at work, but I got some food before class, and felt better. I didn’t get through even half of class before I felt awful again, and had called Kia for a ride home (we were down to one car at [...]