State of the health

[dancing_moon]

I've got cough suryp with drugs in them =D But they only make me dizzy and scatterbrained

Also, I'm not actually coughing (this is VERY weird. I always cough), I just have a bit of hard time breathing (this may sound very scary to someone without asthma. please don't worry - I have learned to gauge very well when breathing troubles are an annoyance and when the go over into 'Ohshit, potentially dangerous' territory)

I also had a good experience at the hospital, recently. Had to go to the ER since I, um, got a bit worried over the whole chest pains and pressure on lungs and shortness of breath without any deep coughing to cause it...

Walk in, pay 300 SEK (~47 USD)*, wait about an hour, get a pretty thorough exam, wait another couple of hours for the tests to come back, get a quick talk with a doctor and then he sends me to the apothecary. There, the electronic prescription is waiting and I pay another 300-ish SEK for my drugs. One of which is an inhaler and the other a bigass bottle of yucky cough suryp.

And. That's it. I gotta go back to a doctor soonish, probably, and I'll make an appointment then which ought to be in the same price range

...really, when I read the angst people in some other countries have about visiting the doctor, I am quite grateful for our taxes. Not that my free university education wouldn't be enough to feel grateful for all on its own.

* with the possibility of paying by invoice according to a little sign

Comments

[marshtide]

Yeah. And I've now been to the doctor enough times this year that I don't have to pay anything at all for visits.

[dancing_moon]

I visit the doctor very rarely, but every time I've been in touch with them, they've helped me out a lot without costing a murderous amount. Course it's different if one has less money, but I read a discussion about what it costs to take a bloody ambulance in the US and duuuude... The cost of it did not even enter my mind when my mother had an accident and needed to get to the hospital quickly. Don't even think we payed anything for it, since it goes over the limit at once