It is probably a ganglion cyst from my tennis elbow. I got the tennis elbow shortly after moving into my apartment, presumably from dragging my grocery cart.
So I call The middleman insurance company taking their cut of the Medicaid dollars in order to locate a physician I can get to. You see that is becoming a problem. Vibration mostly, my joints are aged beyond my years exponentially. So simple easy to take bumps in the road become painful compressions of my joints. I do better with trains obviously but those trips are still painful.
Pain something I know now I'll never escape. I can at least alleviate it at the beginning of each month through my OMMP medications but those are too expensive for me to actually avail myself of them at a level that would mute the impact of pain on me. You see the pain has caught up to me, it makes me grouchy beyond words. I have ZREO tolerance for bullshit. But it doesn't bother me, my life expectancy is nil so I do have the privilege of indulging in socially heeled criticisms. But I don't like not being able to control my anger, I worked hard to break out of a notorious family mold and not use anger as a tool. So I'm taking steps to avoid pain simply to not be angry.
But back to transportation. I can't do cars, buses, or trains without consequence. Neither can I walk more than three miles without causing my body injury as the impact with the ground is cumulative. But I can ride my bike, and do, at least five miles a day and at most fifteen, which considering my body is impressive. But those longer bike trips take a toll as well. As well as if I indulge in downhills without breaking on long grades as the bike becomes unruly, even my heavy cruiser. So I'm not completely bound.
So I call the carrier and ask for a local physician as I've tried to locate things like dentists through the Oregon Health Plan and although I live in a community with a dentist on every block I had to travel thirty miles to the next county to see one. So I was trying to find a doctor I can walk to.
I got transferred to my closest physician. I call that physician. They tell me they are not taking new patients.
So I call the insurance carrier back. And they transfer me to the next closest physician.
I call the next closest physician.
Can you guess what they said?
They are not accepting new patients from my carrier specifically.
So I call the insurance back again.
What do they tell me this time?
None in my county are accepting new patients. And that if I'm concerned about the large painful lump on my arm I should go to the ER.
Yep I was told by Care Oregon to go to the ER for what I see as a non-life threatening issue. Simply because they refuse to pay doctors enough to accept us as patients.
The operator did offer to check after the first to see if there were openings and I availed myself of her offer. But I'm not very hopeful they will suddenly accept patients at the bargain basement prices the insurance carrier will permit.
3:08 PM PT: Ha I knew I have to keep moving. Sorry Drewid pushing myself isn't to much for me. ;)
It is vital for EDS patients to stay as conditioned as possible at all times while avoiding injury which can be quite challenging
http://oreds.org/...
Well fudge, my battery light came on and now my iPad won't charge. I was hoping to make it to 29,999 comments but it looks like my last chance to interact is now going to quit working as well.
6:28 PM PT: A Kog told me off site that the ganglion for tennis elbow goes to the forearm. So it isn't that. But we don't know what that is, which is why having access to healthcare is kind of important.