Wow. I had a bad day. I was hurting and for a while there I did not think I was going to live. As an American who has worked since the day I turned 16, and currently works full-time without health insurance of any kind, my wife and I got to spend a good chunk of the day attempting to make health vs. money decisions. Talk about attempting to hedge your bets.

May you and your loved ones never have to go through a decision tree like that. 😦

Should we go to urgent care? That’s $175 minimum. And what will they really do for me? Anything?

The emergency room? I was once there for about 20 minutes and came out owing $1,200. I saw a doctor for a grand total of two minutes and received a shot of something called dilaudid. Sure that stuff was great, I was instantly as high as a kite and didn’t have a care in the world. I was a giggly idiot within 15 minutes as my wife drove me home. But $1,200 for that? Wow. I’m in the wrong line of work.

I’m starting to wonder if I need a CAT scan of my head. I hear that those can cost $10,000.

In the end my wife basically left today’s decision up to me and, always the happy gambler, I decided to roll the dice and hope they didn’t come up snake eyes. Looks like I won this round. Something is still whack but I’m feeling better although not 100% my normal lucid self. It was a pretty painful and scary day.

To celebrate the fact that I’m still alive I just made myself a new YouTube video and would like to roll it out for you all now. Please enjoy this rousing rendition of Type O Negative’s “Life Is Killing Me.”

Oh, here’s a little quote from the back of the jewel case, too:

“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which he has inflicted on men, he would kill himself.”
– Alexander Dumas (1802 – 1870)

* Bummer. The video was blocked. I can’t even have that bit of fun. Apparently they still allow this one but it contains a promo mid-way through the song.