This has been a hard couple of months for health! First I dislocated my shoulder in January -- oww! -- and ended up at urgent care, the ortho's office, and physical therapy once a week. With $25-$40 co-pays on these visits, plus a $1000 deductible threshold I have to meet to get insurance to pay for anything, this has been a spendy experience.
Then, about 3 weeks ago, I started having dizzy spells. Again, ended up in urgent care and at the doctors' office. More prescriptions. And it's a really awful feeling, like I can't trust my body to know what's going on around me and respond the way I'm used to it doing. No bike rides possible. Not much walking, either, though I do it anyway and just sit down and rest when I start to feel faint.
I'm really hoping that the antibiotic I started taking yesterday resolves it, because I have a lot that I want to do in the next few months, and vertigo is not conducive with getting all that done. Fingers crossed!
The good part is that I have the money to pay these medical bills, and I have insurance, and I'm not totally debilitated, so that's what I'm trying to focus on. I also have a wonderful husband who has been doing all the cooking and who is really understanding when I have rough days. I am super lucky in all that, and looking forward to getting back to normal ASAP.
Mrs. MM, your strep experience reminds me of one winter when I got strep like 5 times. I finally realized that the guy I was dating at the time was a symptomless carrier of strep, and kept infecting me. Is it possible that Mr MM or Lil MM are carriers? If so you might be able to stop getting strep all the time if they get treated.