Why Would I Fake This Stupid Fucking Sandwich Thing?
So I’ve gotten two messages now calling me a liar and a fraud for going to the ER over plastic in a sandwich I got from Safeway. Why anyone would want to stir the pot like that is beyond me, but more than that… why is it something I would fake?
Going to the hospital in the US isn’t exactly cheap. I waited through more than 10 hours of gut wrenching pain before I went because I didn’t even want to think about the hospital costs. I am lucky enough to have health insurance and even still, I didn’t want to go to the ER because of how much medical procedures cost in America… even the small ones.
Today I just got a CT Scan and I was lucky enough to not have any perforation from the plastic in my food, and I feel incredibly blessed to have dodged that bullet. But it’s not something you’d “fake” or do fraudulently. I’m not in a financial position where I can just up and go to the ER any time I want so why would I fake it? Am I that desperate for attention that I’m going to drop potentially thousands of dollars on medical procedures?
But if you need to know about today and what happened, I went into the ER, had to drink a ton of barium, which is one of the worst things on the planet. From there I went into the CT Scan room where I was loaded full of dye in my IV (Which I posted a picture of), and that was a horrible feeling, which I may have had an allergic reaction to. The IV makes you feel flush all over, red hot and really weird. Starts in the face and moves down the body and instantly you feel as though you’ve gone to the bathroom right there. It’s one of the most awkward feelings ever because even with the warning of “you’ll feel like you’ll have to go to the bathroom,” I didn’t know if I had or not. Your body completely betrays reality and I had to actually say when they asked if I was ok “I think I may have had an accident” to which the woman who set up the IV said “nope, trust me, you’re fine, it’s just the dye in the IV.”
Sure enough I hadn’t, but it was still weird to feel that I had just let go right there and then not. I really disliked the feeling, a lot. The allergic reaction I had to the dye made my face and scalp itch quite a lot. I was told that I should bring that up if I ever need a CT scan again. Hopefully I won’t though.
So now I’m in bed, it’s late. My sleep schedule is completely off and I’m wondering what someone would get out of calling me a liar. Why would that be something they’d want to say… and if so what is the motive? Why would I go through all that, the pain and the suffering and the medical costs in order to lie? I don’t get it. I’m not getting anything out of this at all…
