When Your Body Starts to Fail You

For the past several weeks I have had the urge to try running, but I know the risks to myself are very real if I I were
to even remotely do something like that. I wished that my hands would stop burning or my feet and legs would stop tingling, or my heart would not race so bad just from laying down. I listen to its rapid beating, oftentimes, it feels like it's skipping. I feel like a walking
book of diseases. Congestive Heart Failure, diabetes, anemia, high blood pressure, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, depression. I know that I am more than just a diagnostic code, but to the doctors that I see all I am is just billable hours. My former doctor won't even fill out my paperwork to keep my apartment unless he can charge my insurance for an office visit. Sad.

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Unknown said…
Unfortunantly all doctors see are dollar signs. I remember a time when doctors who see you for free if it was truly an emergencey or you just needed simple paperwork done. keep the faith my freind. God's on your side!

April
November 6, 2013 at 1:30 PM
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