An Adventure in Our Health System Today

This is part two of what has happened to me since last weekend.

Click here for part one.

I will note that part 1 provoked this email from my brother, always the practical man:

Gary
Hope you are feeling better today and don't have anymore moments of paralysis. Sounds like a dangerous build-up of man juice. I think the celibacy of the web logger is doing bad things to you. Fix this.

In answer to the question posed at the end of part one. What is the diagnosis of the condition that provoked the odd painful headaches and minutes of a non-responding right side?
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How many answered: thanks to our current system of health-care we don’t know yet?

No tests have been run because I had the choice of thousands of dollars in bills or waiting a week until the County can put me on their system.

Doctors say probably a transient blockage but the real cause is level-2 hypertension being left untreated, improper diet, lack of exercise, and stress.

A private doctor has given me the emergency low-cost reduce high-blood-pressure plan while we wait to see when the County will decide I am qualified for aid.

The emergency plan:

A strict version of a low-carb diet with six small meals a day.
Aspirin
2 blood pressure medicines
A cholesterol drug
2 senior+ multi-vitamins, minerals a day
The drugs for the sinus infection/virus/cold are an antibiotic, aspirin, and anti-histamine.
I have added two 33% magnesium pills, for my problem stones, which I forgot to tell him about.
Lots of water.
No stress, nothing that comes close to breaking a sweat.

I will make an exception for all you hordes of blogger groupies who agree with my brother.

I will post more details of this emergancy hypertension reduction plan soon.