State of the health
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
Originally posted at Dreamwidth.
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
Originally posted at Dreamwidth.