So forget that I haven't seen my Dr. since coming down with the flu. I know what he'll say so there's no reason to go spend money to hear it. And I won't take antibiotics for an infection that *might* develop as a result of the virus. It's still expensive, this bug.
I couldn't cook for four days so DH bought several meals. He also bought me a few meals, which all tasted like the same mushy cardboard, by the way. The cost? About $65.
We pillaged and plundered local cold/flu sections of stores twice to the tune of about $25.
I couldn't do laundry but needed it done by this morning so I could go to work if I felt up to it so we dropped it at the washateria last night and paid them to do it for us. I've done that one other time in my adult life, also when I was ill. The cost for that was (gasp!) $24.36! Outrageous! But it's nice to have it done.
But wait, there's more! Either a weird lower back ache is part of the bug or I pulled muscles coughing and if that doesn't right itself soon I'll see the chiropractor next door. That will cost $35.
So, my getting ill cost us about $115 and might cost more. Now DH has it. He's running about two days behind me in this and today is feeling very, very poorly. I'm going to work, though, and I hope I make it through the day. If I do and am not totally exhausted when I get off, I'll make him a nice dinner of something healthy...and frugal!
"Hidden costs" of illness
February 27th, 2008 at 02:18 pm
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I'm so glad for you that you have some savings so that you can absorb the extra expenses. I know you're not happy about the extra spending, but there are times when it just makes sense to do it, and this is one of those times.
Ooh ... and I almost forgot to add ... I'm super glad that you guys aren't smoking now! I'm no doctor, but I'd think the odds of it developing in to something like the pneumonia that Aleta mentioned, would be higher if you were smoking.
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Hope you are both better soon. Being on the doctor end of things, I've seen how bad this year's flu epidemic is.
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Cptackek and Steve, he did cook until he got sick, too. And the laundry was done when I first got sick and didn't need to be done again until Tuesday but by then we were both too sick to do it.
Normally, the other half does cook, clean, and do laundry if I get sick but this time it sideswiped him and hit him hard.
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