* Are you nauseated?
* Do you have a headache?
* Have you still been not sleeping?
Yes. Yes. And yes!
Uh-oh, she writes. I don't want to freak you out or anything, but that with the bad neck pains you're feeling, and the fact that you've been throwing up...it sounds like bacterial meningitis. I know you hate hearing these sorts of things, but maybe you should check in with a doctor?
Except I do hate hearing those sorts of things, and the very last thing I want to do is check in to see some doctor. Especially one who I know is going to take a cursory glance at me, tell me to drink more fluids, maybe write me a prescription, and essentially do the post-medical school version of shrugging his shoulders. I've been there before. I've had migraines since ever, and no matter of tests and cat scans ever produced a reason or solution. Recurring sinus infections? Yep. How about a lung infection that never cleared up fully, and blows up every couple of years? Yep, that too. Mystery rash that could be eczema, allergies, site of alien biological testing? Yep. Bumps on my shinbones that were a result of hairline fractures that my doctor didn't detect until I already had lumps up and down my left leg? Why, yes. My medical file is full of Mystery Illness notations, just ask my GI person.
Besides, I don't have insurance.
So I sweated it out. Figuratively and literally. And I'm sure scared the crap out of Meeps with my DTs and ralf-o-ganza. And in the end, you know what? It was just Mystery Illness anyways. I'm not dead, so it can't be meningitis. Yes, I still have the pain in my shoulder, and a tiny, hard little lump in my neck, and my nails have started to peel. But come July, I'll be back on the insurance bandwagon, and then I can ignore these with a free conscience.
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