Uninsured and sick

When this was happening, I was uninsured. I wanted to be so I could follow up with a doctor after the ER visits, but couldn’t afford the premiums.

In 2016, I was at work, and as the afternoon progressed, I increasing felt worse. I felt off the whole day, but by the time I walked out the door of work to go home, I had a had time sitting up to drive myself home.

Every month when my period was about to arrive (and even during)I felt horrible, and not in the normal way. I thought how I felt WAS normal, but didn’t realize that I wasn’t suppose to feel THAT bad. On this particular day, I thought it was my “normal” in the morning, but but the time I got home, I knew it far worse than normal. I called my mom, and she came over to take me to the hospital. After hours spent in the emergency room, and a couple tests later, the doctor came back and gave me a diagnose that didn't sit quite right with me: diverticulitis, pneumonia, and ovarian cysts that were infected. I was given meds some aftercare and sent on my way. The cysts seemed liked the only part of the diagnosis that seemed at least accurate. I let it go again, and hoped to muddle through a bit longer this time.

The next year, I went to the ER again, with the same issue. I told the doctor I had been diagnosed with ovarian cysts. This doctor did some tests, including an ultrasound, which the last doctor didn’t…