Hoss 350
My GSP, Dutch
Hey guys, me again. I just got back to work after a month on disability and that means I just got back in front of a computer again to write in and let you all know how I’m doing, in case any of you are wondering.
First off, being a guy that has lived my entire life proud of the fact that I earn my keep and never took charity off of anyone, it hurt my pride awfully to go on disability. I am still trying to come to terms with that.
That said, I left because my immune system stopped working entirely after I last wrote in. Just a few hours after my last posting, I found myself with a case of pneumonia, an ear infection that hurt so bad I went temporarily blind (no kidding) from the pain bursts in my eyes, and two cases of conjunctivitis (AKA pink eye). I have been on every antibiotic known to man for the last month of so, and am finally coming out of all of the infections. I came back to work yesterday.
Since I am not currently ill, I felt like I could get back to working, but the problem has not gone away. My white count is still very high, and my resistance to infection is most likely still non-existent. I still have plaque psoriasis on 90% of my body, including areas I don’t want to discuss in public, if you catch my drift. As a result, I am getting about 4-6 hours of sleep a night, because the itching keeps me awake.
I have been getting progressively worse since last spring, but the insurance company still won’t give me the medicine that I need because it is very expensive. They wanted me to try a bunch of other medieval treatments first before they would give me the good stuff. Friday before last, I finally finished all of the trials, and the doc wrote me the prescription.
Now, a week and a half later, the insurance company tells me that it could be another 14 working days before they can approve the prescription, because they need to eview all of the trials that I went through to make sure I am eligible. This confuses me, since they paid for all the other drugs, and were in contact with my doc through all of the trials, so why do they now have to make sure that I did them? They KNOW I did!!!
Anyway, at the end of the month, I should be able to start the medicine that will suppress my immune system and get it back in line with where it should be, so that it will hopefully quit attacking me and start attacking the things making me sick.
Good news is that so far, no arthritis and no other problems with internal organs, so that means that it is still just psoriasis and not psoriatic arthritis or auto-immune assaults on my vitals.
I am hoping that by spring I will be back to my old, happy self and that this will all just be a bad memory. Possibly end up like my back problems did earlier this year. Something I’ll always have to keep in mind, always have to take care of, but not something that really bothers me and definitely something I can live with.
First off, being a guy that has lived my entire life proud of the fact that I earn my keep and never took charity off of anyone, it hurt my pride awfully to go on disability. I am still trying to come to terms with that.
That said, I left because my immune system stopped working entirely after I last wrote in. Just a few hours after my last posting, I found myself with a case of pneumonia, an ear infection that hurt so bad I went temporarily blind (no kidding) from the pain bursts in my eyes, and two cases of conjunctivitis (AKA pink eye). I have been on every antibiotic known to man for the last month of so, and am finally coming out of all of the infections. I came back to work yesterday.
Since I am not currently ill, I felt like I could get back to working, but the problem has not gone away. My white count is still very high, and my resistance to infection is most likely still non-existent. I still have plaque psoriasis on 90% of my body, including areas I don’t want to discuss in public, if you catch my drift. As a result, I am getting about 4-6 hours of sleep a night, because the itching keeps me awake.
I have been getting progressively worse since last spring, but the insurance company still won’t give me the medicine that I need because it is very expensive. They wanted me to try a bunch of other medieval treatments first before they would give me the good stuff. Friday before last, I finally finished all of the trials, and the doc wrote me the prescription.
Now, a week and a half later, the insurance company tells me that it could be another 14 working days before they can approve the prescription, because they need to eview all of the trials that I went through to make sure I am eligible. This confuses me, since they paid for all the other drugs, and were in contact with my doc through all of the trials, so why do they now have to make sure that I did them? They KNOW I did!!!
Anyway, at the end of the month, I should be able to start the medicine that will suppress my immune system and get it back in line with where it should be, so that it will hopefully quit attacking me and start attacking the things making me sick.
Good news is that so far, no arthritis and no other problems with internal organs, so that means that it is still just psoriasis and not psoriatic arthritis or auto-immune assaults on my vitals.
I am hoping that by spring I will be back to my old, happy self and that this will all just be a bad memory. Possibly end up like my back problems did earlier this year. Something I’ll always have to keep in mind, always have to take care of, but not something that really bothers me and definitely something I can live with.
