This blog was about my crazy life but these days my life is anything but crazy after being settled down happily married so it is time to move on to a new more relevant blog or more likely multiple mainstream blogs.
The first of these new blogs is a tribute to my love of the ocean where I'll be posting my snorkeling adventures: South Florida Beach Snorkeling
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South Florida Beach Snorkeling
After watching the movie Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead we decided to start juicing every day.
First thing we did was to find a much cheaper source of fruits and vegetables than the local supermarket. Oddly this turned out to be a little Spanish owned farmers market that I've been passing by for years on the way to the gym called Lucky Farmer's Market that has great prices and is very friendly even to us non Spanish speaking folks.
Unlike the movie we are both still eating regular food too but after only a few weeks both of us are feeling way more full of energy and our friends have been telling us that we have a glow about us.
Juicing is messy though. So we have been making juice in batches and, while we have been drinking homemade juice every day, we have only been actually making the juice every other day.
At first we were making juice mostly out of fruit but have been adding more vegetables each batch and now some batches are almost all vegetables as we are learning what tastes good.
Plus having a fridge full of fresh fruit and vegetables has caused both of us to eat way more fresh fruit each although the vegetables are mostly being juiced.
Hopefully all this added nutrition will help me recover from the medical nightmare that I've been though over the past year. Speaking of which I'm contacting some lawyers this week to see if I have a case of medical malpractice.
It was my partner's 30th birthday last week. She had been planning a week long celebration for it for over a month. Oddly none of our plans involved being at a hospital while I was in intensive care recovering from a blood clots in my leg.
Last Wednesday I finally agreed to another ultrasound on my leg after my foot started turning blue and the pain got so bad that I couldn't take it anymore.
The results were so serious that I was immediately sent to the emergency room at Westside Regional Medical Hospital which was about the last place that I wanted to be sent as this is the hospital that my original surgery was preformed at which was also the reason that I had to go there and not the county hospital which is where I would have preferred to have gone.
Two surgeries later I'm back home recovering from blocked arteries in my leg and on three different blood thinners. I would actually be on four but my insurance won't pay for one of them and I just can't afford to pay for it out of pocket.
The surgeon gave me hell for waiting so long to seek treatment but with Westside Regional Medical Hospital's constant harassment over my copay, they have since turned my over to a collection agency and it has already affected my credit score resulting in me losing a much needed line of credit, the last thing I wanted to do was to turn to them for further medical treatment.
What it comes down to is Westside Regional Hospital's constant threats, that started as soon as I got home, is what kept me from seeking further treatment. Seems the surgeon wrote off my copay as did a few other places but Westside Regional Hospital seems more interested in their bottom line than a patient's well being.
It isn't like I'm someone that doesn't always pay what is owed but being slammed with an unexpected 10k copay without warning left me with no way to pay what I owed and as a result I didn't get the follow-up care that I needed, my credit has been ruined and I may never fully recover from the damage that I've suffered as a result.
I can only imagine what Westside Regional Hospital is going to slam me with this time after spending another four days in their money hungry hell hole.
Going to start calling around for a lawyer tomorrow. Not really something that I want to do but I don't really have a lot of options left at this point.
I just hope that I never have to set foot in Westside Regional Hospital again.
It's been a rough month or so. My leg has just been painful hell and seems to have gotten even worse.
I wish I knew what the problem actually is other than to say it hurts like hell but all the doctors seem to be willing to do is order expensive test after expensive test that are only partially covered or not covered at all by my insurance while offering no treatment.
Still having a very hard time walking but with help from friends been doing a little kayaking and last Friday a friend took us out on his boat for a day of snorkeling.
By leaving it in a Tupperware container full of rice and dry desiccant overnight it seems to have returned to full working status.
Very happy that it doesn't need to be sent in for repairs. Going to be a lot more careful about having wet hands when changing its batteries and memory card.
