America is Brutal
Hello there will not be an Overcompensating today because I have not slept in two days.
I have a minor yet diabolically painful medical problem which, while not life-threatening, hurts too bad to sleep, and I can't afford the procedure to get it taken care of. If it was a life-threatening deal I would be at the hospital real fast but this is the sort of thing you just have to power through unless you can afford the apparently frivilous luxury of having a doctor.
I have a minor yet diabolically painful medical problem which, while not life-threatening, hurts too bad to sleep, and I can't afford the procedure to get it taken care of. If it was a life-threatening deal I would be at the hospital real fast but this is the sort of thing you just have to power through unless you can afford the apparently frivilous luxury of having a doctor.
posted by jeffrey rowland at 4:28:00 PM
30 Comments:
I'd donate a few bucks towards your plight if you asked. I'm sure lots of other people would, too.
For sure, Jeff. Put up a Paypal link. At worst, you could buy yourself a small sportscar with the donations.
No no, I didn't mean it like that. That would feel like begging to me.
I'm just saying that it is kind of terrible in the USA that insurance is as expensive as it is if you as self-employed and you still gotta pay on top of that.
Everything will be okay in a couple of days.
That is lame. No suffering for the sake of suffering-- put up a Paypal link and get yourself healed up so we can read more comics.
could ythis be related to a certain arachnid that bit you?
This sucks. I will purchase a gobsmacked eagle t-shirt ASAP. I thought your paypal store was buggered but it was my PC not liking the paypal site for some reason, otherwise I'd own one already.
Sleep is good for not feeling pain - you should try to nod off, after 2 days it's going to happen sooner or later anyway.
If push comes to shove take one of those 10$ flights they have nowadays and come to europe, we'll pretend you are a gipsy and get you some delicious free medical care
i feel your pain in a finanical sense anyway... self-employment is oh, so liberating in oh, so many ways, isn't it? hope your back at it soon!
Jeff, do you have a KIDNEY STONE? If so, dude, I'm a member of that elite pain club and you have all of my sympathies. All of them. Minus a few I keep in reserve for lost puppies and Macaulay Culkin.
My mom said she used to know a doctor who would do procedures with a coathanger in a backalley. I'll get his number for you.
i was gonna say was it a kidney stone but someone beat me to it.
hope you feel better, dude.
Save your money for the Overcompensating flagship t-shirt. It will have a picture of a limousine with helicopter on it.
AAAUGGH
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Nothing in the world is worse than an illness that dorks up your sleep action. I see a penicillin heist in your future
Bah real cartoonists don't sleep they suck it up and draw! Go on now walk it off!
but seriously hope you get better soon.
Seriously, give us a figure. What are we talking here? Five grand?
find a college student
college students can get you awesome painkillers
like oxycontin
that's a great one
or if you're not into that kid stuff,
good old fashioned heroin.
you will feel nothing
Take a lesson from Max Payne. He will have his entire torso blown away, and walk it off.
Through an explosion.
In slow motion.
...I think the secret is to chew, by the bottle, thirty times your own body weight in generic pain killers.
There's this new avant-punk-post-hop-tronic band I listen to whenever I have trouble sleeping. You might want to check them out - they're called N.Y.Q.U.I.L.
my rage at not being able to give you a few bucks consumes my temporal lobe.
If that's the way you want it then I'll wait for your helicopter-limo shirt in eager anticipation of helping you out.
Been lovin you since W.I.G.U. (original gangsta, topato has a possee Portland OR chapter). You will come away from this stronger, and we will follow you into Valhalla!
I had a kidney stone once, and by about the second hour or so, if they had said to me "How about we just amputate the whole damned thing?" I suspect I have have agreed, just to end the pain.
Instead, they gave me demoral, which didn't make things hurt any less at all; it just rearranged my priorities to the point where "intense pain" became less significant to me than "counting my hands" or "trying to make only one sink appear in my field of vision."
inquire about a cash discount if/when you do go. Most of the time when you pay that day they will knock 50% off because it saves that much time billing.
I've been without insurance for almost 6 years now. 3 visits to the docs. If you know of a specialist, skip the general practice and go right to the specialist, that has saved me about $300 per visit.
I once had a brutal ear infection that prevented me from sleeping, so I went to one of those Urgent Care places and they gave me some eardrops and Vicadin. Man, that Vicadin stuff is great. I can't remember if it eased the pain or just made you not care about the pain. Or both.
Hmm, today I went to a clinic just to have my ears washed out. I could still hear and everything but I had a suspicion there was more wax than I wanted. It cost nothing, all I had to do was wait in line.
All you 'mericans should come up here, even the crazy right wing people, there are so many liberals up here we paid $250 million for some golf balls.
Come on, Jeff. Put that link up!
Do you know how much I pay for taxes to buy a t-shirt or a book from you? Almost the same price as the merchandise. It's much easier for me this way.
Jeff's a big man. He can handle it. If you wanna give someone money, donate to orphans or something.
I am no stranger to brutalizing agony; it makes a man tougher and gives him character.
I see a light ahead and it is either wellness or the sweet embrace of death, both of which would be welcome at the moment.
Ahhh poor Jeff I think oklahoma should retreat fromt he U.S. and become part of Canada untill your better.
I am really sorry that you're hurting. Your work is collectively the most awesome thing on the whole internet in my opinion, and has helped me when I was suffering more times than I can count. I wish I could return the favor. You are awesome.
it's the herps, isn't it?
it's diaphyseal dysplasia, isn't it, Rocky?
No, wait, it's epididymitis! I had that and when I went in for an exam (with very loose pants, because it HURTTT) my gay doctor stroked my tummy afterwards to make me feel better, rather patronizingly, I felt. Just saying.
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