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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Now I know why they call it "Hell Paso"

What a fun day. It's hard for more wrong to get squeezed into one day. I've been battling acid reflux for a few years now, a fairly bad case at that. Every so often I loose the ability to swallow, conveniently enough AFTER taking a bite of food. Today was one of those days. Like the times before I wait to see if it works itself out and then goto the bathroom to take care of it myself (I'll spare the messy details). I've been on Zantac (minimal results) and something called Acifex that they wanted me to take an hour before eating. Being in the Army though, I never know when my next meal is going to be, I just know there will be 3 in a day. So now they've got me on Prilosec OTC and Maalox but they want to do some sort of test to see if there is a virus living in my stomach acid causing this perpetual acid reflux (a.k.a. GERD). They couldn't do the test at the ER, I have to schedule it with my regular care provider, too bad no one in my unit seems to know who that is. Lucky me.

After the hospital I went to Autozone to pickup the parts I ordered yesterday, they had called to say they were in. When I got there it turns out they ordered some of the parts wrong and can't get the right ones until Friday. I told them to just refund the price of the wrong parts, no point in ordering the right ones at this point, I won't have my car on Friday anyway. It seems that both the Audi and the VW are destined to spend the weekend locked in the motor pool. So lets see if I've got this right, they are doing checks to make sure that I won't get into an accident with the vehicles I'm registered to drive yet they made the 1700 mile trip here almost without incident. How do they plan on my family getting out this weekend should there be a problem with one of the kids? I hope my NCO and Squad Leaders have 3 child seats in their vehicles because if we get stuck here and can't get out because one car doesn't have a working emergency brake and brights and the other needs an emergency brake, windshield, and reverse lights I'm going to be very difficult to deal with. Whatever happens come Tuesday I'm going to be plenty grumpy. Did I mention my acid reflux is stress triggered? Imagine how I feel right now. Sometimes I love the Army, others....

For now I'm going to end this rant. I'll post more later when my head clears a bit.

2 comments:

Mom Jones said...

Ouch, Jesse! I'm praying today that you can find out WHO your primary care provider is, that you make an appointment and are able to be seen right away, so that you can get some relief and feel better. Feeling badly for you! :(

Mom Jones said...

Has your head cleared yet? I hope your day went better today than yesterday . . . sending you love through the internet . . .