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9 years ago
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Thank goodness for auto complete. Well, after a whole day of clinic hopping I got a Tetanus Shot and some antibiotics with a suggestion to use some tylenol.
Taking some motrin instead because it works better for me than tylenol.
**WARNING TALK ABOUT INJURIES AND BLOOD**
Here is what happened. Erica kitty has had some twitchy moments that I thought was food allergies but seems to be something else. I left my door open so she couldd sleep in the warmest room. She curled to met sometime in the night and had a twitch attack. When she did I moved instinctively and my hand got in the way. She bit down full force, and after some screams of pain I got up and headed straight to the bathroom. I keep a travel and full sized medical kit in there. Not going to lie, there was a lot of blood. (by the way, if you have a moderate to severe wound on your hands, keep them above your heart if you can. This will slow the bleeding a little without constricting blood flow for normal biology) After some washing, getting cat hair out of the wounds I cleaned it off with alcohol, applied some ointment and let it air dry.
I was upset with erica kitty but I was more scared about how numb my finger was. Mind you, this is my dominant hand and the through of loosing fine motor skill scared me. So, I sat down and looked up some general info on animal bites, took some pain relievers and nodded off for a couple of hours surprisingly. When I woke up the bleeding stopped and clotted enough for me to take a closer look. ITs ugly and I decided that I needed to go to the doctor.
*medical stuff and traveling though town*
Going through this so maybe if you are in similar situation(hopefully not) you can shave a couple hours off your "urgent" medical treatment.
First thing, I have an emergency care credit card. This is suppose to be used for office visits, ER visits, pharmacy and even pets. This card is useless at any major urgent care in southeast Texas.
So I have 100 dollars, and insurance to use. First Choice Emergency Room is considered an ER visit and my insurance covers almost nothing. I was told that the Urgent care up the street could help me.
Immediate Medical Care has a base fee of 250 dollars to see them. They recommended me to CVS Pharmacy Shop. At the CVS you can use insurance and its treated as an office visit. For my situation they could give me a Tetanus shot but because od my diabetes I could not get antibiotics. A Policy thing.
So they recommended me to a RediClinic in the HEB. HEB is a grocery store in Texas and a couple other states. In there is a RediClinic and they also take most insurance and treat it like an Office Visit. The wait was super long but I got some good service with a prescription for antibiotics doe a 50 dollar co pay.
Conclusion
If I have a non urgent medical issue over the weekend, with less than 250 dollars, and can wait till daylight business hours. I will go to the Rediclinic in HEB for slow but complete service. I would also recommend taking first aid courses which are usually offered by your local fire department or part of city services. Good to know how to set a broken leg or dress a wound properly.
You know what else, I hold no ill will to all the people I talked to. They are doing their jobs, its the policies in place that cause the frustration.
One last thing, if you are diabetic and have wounds on you fingers and toes, keep a close eye on them AND don;t use an Epsom Salt warm water bath to soak in. It may agitate your diabetes and make the situation worst. Read the label before using.
All for now, meds then some sleep. Kitty sleeps in the clean laundry in the living room tonight.
Taking some motrin instead because it works better for me than tylenol.
**WARNING TALK ABOUT INJURIES AND BLOOD**
Here is what happened. Erica kitty has had some twitchy moments that I thought was food allergies but seems to be something else. I left my door open so she couldd sleep in the warmest room. She curled to met sometime in the night and had a twitch attack. When she did I moved instinctively and my hand got in the way. She bit down full force, and after some screams of pain I got up and headed straight to the bathroom. I keep a travel and full sized medical kit in there. Not going to lie, there was a lot of blood. (by the way, if you have a moderate to severe wound on your hands, keep them above your heart if you can. This will slow the bleeding a little without constricting blood flow for normal biology) After some washing, getting cat hair out of the wounds I cleaned it off with alcohol, applied some ointment and let it air dry.
I was upset with erica kitty but I was more scared about how numb my finger was. Mind you, this is my dominant hand and the through of loosing fine motor skill scared me. So, I sat down and looked up some general info on animal bites, took some pain relievers and nodded off for a couple of hours surprisingly. When I woke up the bleeding stopped and clotted enough for me to take a closer look. ITs ugly and I decided that I needed to go to the doctor.
*medical stuff and traveling though town*
Going through this so maybe if you are in similar situation(hopefully not) you can shave a couple hours off your "urgent" medical treatment.
First thing, I have an emergency care credit card. This is suppose to be used for office visits, ER visits, pharmacy and even pets. This card is useless at any major urgent care in southeast Texas.
So I have 100 dollars, and insurance to use. First Choice Emergency Room is considered an ER visit and my insurance covers almost nothing. I was told that the Urgent care up the street could help me.
Immediate Medical Care has a base fee of 250 dollars to see them. They recommended me to CVS Pharmacy Shop. At the CVS you can use insurance and its treated as an office visit. For my situation they could give me a Tetanus shot but because od my diabetes I could not get antibiotics. A Policy thing.
So they recommended me to a RediClinic in the HEB. HEB is a grocery store in Texas and a couple other states. In there is a RediClinic and they also take most insurance and treat it like an Office Visit. The wait was super long but I got some good service with a prescription for antibiotics doe a 50 dollar co pay.
Conclusion
If I have a non urgent medical issue over the weekend, with less than 250 dollars, and can wait till daylight business hours. I will go to the Rediclinic in HEB for slow but complete service. I would also recommend taking first aid courses which are usually offered by your local fire department or part of city services. Good to know how to set a broken leg or dress a wound properly.
You know what else, I hold no ill will to all the people I talked to. They are doing their jobs, its the policies in place that cause the frustration.
One last thing, if you are diabetic and have wounds on you fingers and toes, keep a close eye on them AND don;t use an Epsom Salt warm water bath to soak in. It may agitate your diabetes and make the situation worst. Read the label before using.
All for now, meds then some sleep. Kitty sleeps in the clean laundry in the living room tonight.
I hope you will be okay sir.
Things are getting better too.
Also it sucks that your medical care situation was rather f**ked up, but I guess that's America for you. If I needed to get stitches I might have to wait a little while but at least I can go to a Urgent Care clinic or the hospital for free (the latter being if its night time because urgent care is mostly for minior things during the day) Though you'll still have to pay for antibiotics or any other prescriptions the doctors give you >_>
As for the medical side. I think if its small the RediClinic works if its something bigger, I need a stash of cash for it. Hope it doesn't happen.
Keep us posted on the digit lad.
As it stands, do you have at least some feeling back at this moment?