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Awesome. I'm going there at the end of March.
Oh shoot, you're the person who's been having trouble eating, aren't you. Man, I hope they're able to help you out. So sorry for your health issues.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Oh, buddy, best of luck!
Thanks!
You're gonna get SLAMMED!!!! They're gonna bite your toes put your dick in a curling iron! You'll leave with a cured appetite and they'll FUCKING DUNK ON YOU with a $600 Billion bill! Don't forget to take advantage of their financial assistance; the whole medical system may be financially and morally ruined, but there are some ways to navigate semi-relatively unscathed.
I'm guessing we're going to get through our $10,000 deductible at least.
I genuinely hope it goes well. I excited await hearing about your progress.
Thanks. I sure hope so too because we have no idea where to go next.
There's a pretty good prison in Terre Haute
I'm fairly certain a federal prison is not going to help me with my medical issues...
When the system can't milk you for any more wealth, your next destination is a poor person death camp.
If "the system" can't milk me for any more wealth they won't need to put me in prison because I'll starve to death.
Hence me going to the Mayo Clinic.
Are you going to pick up other ingredients at the Bread Clinic and Cheese Clinic or are you just focusing on condiments first?
It's all in the Supermarket Clinic.
You're planning on visiting the ER?
No, but it's the same hospital.
If you're curious why I'm going there, I wrote about it in Casual Conversation- https://lemmy.world/post/12194311
Long story short: I haven't been able to eat any solid food for over six months and no one knows why.
(Please no medical advice, I am begging you. The general you, not you specifically.)
Have you tried chewing it?
I know you're joking, but I am literally unable to.
Nothing is more frustrating than people giving unsolicited medical advice. I've IBD and I mentioned on a post about people buying cheap frozen food why some people do it. I explained that I literally can't do prep, cook and watch the stuff cooking due to the symptoms when having a flare up. Wouldn't you know I got the typical reply that I should learn to cook (I know how) and eat healthily and seek medical advice (I've a specialist nurse I can contact at any time and it's difficult to eat anything when in constant pain and I feel nauseous after eating) so I feel you dude with not wanting to hear it at all no matter how well meaning some people are.
And they really are well-meaning, I know that, but it's so tiring to say "yes, we've been over that. It's not that. I don't fit those symptoms." or whatever over and over.
I hope you find a solution for your IBD that helps you, I'm sure that's really awful.
Oh but armchair doctoring is so fun (for everyone else). It’s like Guess Who: House M.D. edition.
Believe me, I've noticed.
The Mayo Clinic specializes in a lot of niche stuff which means people often have to fly from all over the country to visit this specific hospital in Minnesota
I know. I count myself lucky live less than an hour away from it. My grandma has actually gotten flown in on mayo one before for an emergency (speaking of expensive bills).
My original comment was a joke because the top post was talking about the surgeon general going to one of their emergency rooms and op was talking about planning to go there by which they meant mayo clinic but it could also be read as them meaning the ER.
Like mayonnaise?
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Is mayo a solid food?
Idk about you but I tend to avoid the chunky solid parts of the mayonnaise.
Surely you've seen the movie Airplane!
He got more done than he said. He likely went in for syncope (since he's a doctor and that's one of the few things that might scare them) and they did an ECG and possibly something else (particularly if he requested it). That said, 5k is still ridiculous.