Memories and Health Insurance

[halleyscomet]

For years I was convinced I had heart problems. My mother refused to let me talk to the doctor about my frequent chest pains because she was afraid of what it would do to the family's health insurance if I DID have heart problems

Comments

[theloriest]

Panic attacks are scary things. Particularly if you have no idea what is happening to you! Even with the meditative techniques I've learned over the years, I still have to take a daily dose of Ativan to control my anxiety.

[halleyscomet]

Of course thinking you're having a cardiac event only makes the panic attack WORSE.

[theloriest]

And having your own MOTHER not let you talk to a doctor?? That angers me beyond measure.

(Remember, my uncle died because their parents wouldn't take him to a doctor when he got pneunomia - so this is something that deeply angers me.)

[halleyscomet]

At the time she and I had the same doctor. I later ratted her out to her doctor for the untreated diabetes symptoms she wasn't telling him about.

[hammercock]

Well, at least your mother didn't confine her medical stupidity to her children. :-P