I'm about to ruin my meager credit rating for a medical emergency.

[lildreamer316]

I've been suffering from what I believe to be a very bad case of food poisoning since this past Wed. I hope this is ok; mods..please read.

I AM NOT LOOKING FOR MEDICAL ADVICE!!!!!

Tues evening I was bedridden because of severe menstrual cramps..I took something for that;but was exhausted and my husband, who was out and about, offered to get me a treat - fast food. I've been cleaning up my diet and don't usually eat fast food more than about once a month, if that. As a side note, I am usually a very healthy individual..I've been very lucky in my life. My only existing medical condition is hypoglycemia; which I keep a close eye on. It does not usually give me any big trouble unless I forget to eat for some reason.

Anyway; he brings home two roast beef and cheddar sandwiches and I eat them. He goes to work and I go to sleep.
I wake up early that morning when he gets home and feel a little strange. He cooks dinner and I can't eat it at all. I camp out on the couch and go back to sleep.
I wake up about four hours later and my body needs sugar; so I grab a small muffin. Go back to sleep.
Wake up shivering so hard my muscles in my legs will not stop clenching..I'm having a hypoglycemic attack (I ate the wrong kind of sugar and nothing else) on top of a fever chill.
Then it swings to a semi-high fever; so I take a pain reliever/fever reducer and my fever breaks; sweating-ly.
This repeats over the next two days (minus the hypoglycemic reaction; I managed to get some solid food down later). I am nauseous but my body never forces me to expel.
Finally, today I force my body to expel. The fever and chills stop; but now just water makes me nauseous. I'm not going to be able to rehydrate myself, get any sugar into my system or flush my system out this way.
Husband brings me anti-nausea syrup; so I'm in the process of using that now and going to see how it goes.
If I am not better by the time he gets home; I'm going to give up and go to the emergency room.

The point of all this is that we have *just* barely dragged ourselves out of a bad credit rating into a slightly good one (one that is on the upswing; for sure). We do not have:1)house payment 2)car payment 3)credit cards; but of course we are both independent contractors and have no health insurance..just medicaid for my little boy. I had a 401K my mother left me; but you all know what happened to that. So....


SINGLE PAYER RIGHT FUCKING NOW. PLEASE.