Getting sick is veeeery expensive for me

So in the final week of December, I woke up with a sore neck.

The remainder of that day and the following day, both of which included a bus ride to work, work and back home again, my body made sure to remind me constantly how much it hates me. Not to mention, that first day I got a full lesson on just how often one uses their neck and back, particularly when one is trying to get out of bed in order to make one's way to said workplace. Or simply put on a sweater in order to not be naked and such.

Okay I misspoke when I just called it a sore neck. It was more like a really sore upper and lower back, shoulders and every neck muscle I have seizing up and deciding it had enough of life for the moment.

It was not fun to say the least. But the real consequence of my suffering was my wallet. Because it killed any so called plan I had for the week that involved me trying my best to save money.

Getting sick or in this case, sore to the point of not being able to move, is really very expensive for me. Mostly because 95% of the time, I still end up in my desk chair, but I'm miserable being there and whatmore, had no energy prior to or during to really make an effort on bringing or making food to keep me alive.

So I buy takeout. And not the cheap kind either. I dine out on good stuff, all for the sake of convenience and limiting my overall suffering for me. Plus, delicious food while sick helps you get better than gross stuff, right?

And before you say well it's because I'm dumb enough to show up at work sick, this reality is not excluded when I'm at home because just the fact I'm sick makes me miserable basically anywhere I am at. Unless I'm the nauseated and throwing up kind of sick (which actually happened twice to me last year. Yeah, twice. Both times due to the flu. Aren't I lucky!), I generally end up buying takeout from home as well. Because I'm sad and need expensively priced comfort food.

But sometimes this doesn't stop at me being sick. Now we come to the chronic problems, namely my allergies and now the sore neck.

Now the allergies are an extremely severe problem. And they come with a $500 price tag give or take for medication every year, not including allergy shots, which are a luxury but an increasing necessary luxury for me. This is more than just a permanent sniffle problem however. I suffer from hives if I'm not careful. And not the usual kind of hives. We're talking four to six weeks of them constantly irritating both arms and legs until steroids become necessary in order to remove them. Those kind of amazing hives.

Baby elephant!

And it comes with the same above issues as me getting sick. I'm a miserable bundle of human flesh during said time incapable or unwilling to make efforts to save money.

As for the sore back a few weeks ago... it happens once every few months due to what I like to call "sleeping bad." Either way, this last time was severe enough that preventative measures have become necessary especially since it has appeared to have become chronic. Luckily, benefits do cover some of it. So I'm setting in motion the opportunity to see a massage therapist. While hoping it doesn't cost me more than I'm able to pay.

Yeah getting sick is expensive. Being sick is expensive. More so than preventing a means to keep from getting sick in some respects.