My breathing is impaired, shallow. I can assume there’s some amount of fluid in my lungs causing this, or maybe constriction in the bronchioles, I dunno, but my breathing is a bit impaired. Last night, my fingertips weren’t as pink as they usually are. Not the purple / blue of cyanosis, but I don’t love it. They say go to the hospital, but there’s already like three thousand of debt on my health care credit card. Last time the interest popped on it, it added $992 to the balance. I cain’t even with that shit.
Besides, what is the hospital going to tell me? Last time I was tested for similar shit they came back with nothing. They ruled out covid, they found nothing on chest x-rays. Guess I’ll wait til the fingertips go blue before I hitch a ride to the ER again. They’re still not as pink as I’d prefer.
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When I was a kid there was an incident where I had shallow breathing. Someone identified it as asthma, but I didn’t otherwise have asthma, and we didn’t realize “just asthma” can be life threatening. Apparently I was turning blue, and ended up at the hospital.
Pointedly not giving medical advice, but I can say what they did at the hospital. They put me at the front of the urgent care queue and immediately put me on a nebulizer.