My · Life · As · Is

I found out yesterday that because my manager failed to tell me I could do the health insurance paperwork myself, that I do not qualify for health insurance until January now.  I was told specifically by her that I was to hand it to her, and she would do it.  Well, needless to say, I have been sick for over a month and a half.  Few people know the real truth behind my recent outbreak and why my skin is so ugly.  Well now comes the truth.  I went swimming in July, after which my skin began to itch uncontrollably.  I tried every kind of anti-itch remedy there is out there, and nothing worked.  Every night going to bed was ok, but then in the middle of the night I would wake up because of the irresistable and uncontronable urge to itch, and would stay awake for an hour and a half scratching.  After a while, some of the skin bled, and I am not saying this to gross you out.  It just shows how bad this thing, whatever I have, is.  I tried going swimming again a few weeks ago and the pool burns me now to try and get in.  Upon going to the bank the other day the teller said something to me that makes a lot of sense now.  Her daughter had gone swimming a while back in a different pool, and had the same symptoms I am having right now, to the t.  The diagnosis of her daughter:  VIRAL HEPATITUS!  This scares me because if it's what I have then I have had it over a month now.  NO, IT'S NOT CONTAGIOUS.  But I do fear that the infection may be getting worse as I have been sick for the past week and a half.  I cried last night and tried to hold myself together at work, and I have been crying today.  There isn't really a remedy to make me happy.  I can't afford the doctor's bills, and I was relying on getting my health insurance so I could afford the co-pay.  I filed a complaint with the district manager, and they are calling human resources.  Unfortunately there won't be an answer until monday as to whether they can do anything for me.  It just makes me hate my manager that much more.  Well, I am off now to find a tissue before work.