The Most Infuriating Thing About the American Healthcare System
This past Saturday on June 27th, I began to have pain stabbing me in my left breast. Now, I've had two kids naturally so I have fairly high pain tolerance, but this pain brought me in a doubled-over position, crying, and nauseated. I had never experienced pain like this before especially somewhere like my breast. I was talking to my mom who is an LPN and it was recommended that I go to my local hospital, which I was going to just write off the pain and ignore it because that's just how I am. I live with chronic pain in most of my body so I wasn't going to do anything but maybe lay down. However, the pain didn't stop, it turned into this horrific burning like my breast was on fire. I couldn't really breathe cause it hurt like nothing I'd ever felt. I decided it was best I go to the hospital since the pain wouldn't go away and it started with me just sitting down. Normally in this instance, I would've gone to my state's top hospital, but I live 40 min...