Ever Get Sick While on the Road???

I had pneumonia and fractured some ribs cause of the coughing. That was painful! Having a cold or flu in the truck sucks, but toothaches I personally think are worse!

 

One of the companies I was leased to had a requirement for a kit in the lease agreement.

 

I also keep a basic survival kit in my trunk.

It includes food (MREs), water, entrenching tool, water purification tablets, thermal blankets, hunting knife, hand crank am/fm/weather alert radio, induction flash light, candles... stuff like that.

 

Flu..toughed it out. Drive an hour...sleep two. Repeat as needed.

Toothache...found the nearest dentist. Paided out the ### for the work.

Food poisoning, passed out cold after emptying both ends violently. Thank God I was younger. It would have killed me at my age now. The highway patrol was nice enough to stop and see why I was parked on the side of the road, on a 2 lane, hanging out the jump seat window.

Other stuff..colds, cramps, stiff joints. Lots of aspirin and Pepcid.

 

New skin is nice, they still make it...i think its actually an improper spelling like Nu Skin... I used it a while back when i smashed a toenail off (dropped an old battery backup unit for a computer on my pinky toe!!!) and nothing would stop the dang bleeding....would just bleed through bandaids immediately.....soo much blood for such a small wound....

I've never had a wound get infected to the point that i had to go to a doctor about it. I think im doing something right. As far as bandaids, it depends a LOT on where the wound is...but as Roadmedic, you know about the alternatives like gauze, etc...

Normally i wouldve used bandaids, but i felt like i didnt need them after I crossed the border and the bleeding had stopped. It healed well though.

 

Yea, I get real bad migrane headaches. When they come on, it's real quick and the spots in my eyes are so bad I have to pull over. Once on a two lane highway it came on so fast and my vision went to almost nothing, I had to pull off the side and put the triangles up. Luckily there was a big enough shoulder for me to get a good 4' from the travel lane, but it was bad.

Another time I had to have my appendix taken out. It took me 8 hours to go from Terra Haute, In to Richmond In. I was just dyeing inside that truck. I couldn't go more then 30 miles without having to pull over and rest for another 1/2 hour. When I got to the Petro in Richmond I decided to go ahead and go to the hospital, because at this point I knew I was going to be late and at least needed a Doctors excuse as to why I was going to be late. The Doctors said my appendix needed to come out. To be honest I was pretty happy to hear that, because it justified me being late. I did end up leaving the next morning to finish the load to NJ and then dead headed home to take a couple days off. The thing that makes me mad is that my insurance didn't cover me because I was out of network. I specifically remember telling the insurance lady whom sold me the policy that I drove trucks and did tree work, therefore I needed to be covered if I got jacked up doing tree work and also since I drove trucks that I needed to know that I could walk into any hospital and be covered. When I got to the hospital they looked at my insurance card and took me in no problem. Had I of known that I wasn't covered, I would of been more then happy to pay the taxi driver to take me over to Dayton, or back to Indy where I was covered. You would think in today's world where we have computers they would of known up front that my insurance was not good at their hospital. I guess that's my fault for trusting the insurance lady, and not reading the policy very good. Oh well, the hospital did take good care of me, and I'll be done paying it off within the next 18 months, 4 years later after the surgery........

 

I have had food poising twice. Last time a few years ago. Time before about 25 years ago. Thought I was going to die both times. The road is no place to be when you are that sick. First time wendy's chili. One small container that produced 5 gallons of the stuff... The other was one of pilots chicken wraps or whatever they call them... In with the hot dogs and corn dogs...:smt078

 

ya dudes if you can get to a dentist for a bad tooth ,,witch is one sickness not to many talked about witch ius most common in winter,ask doc to prescibe ya octceycodone if thats how you spell it its a gernaric form of pergasset,dont use while driving ever just off time itsd legal if doc perscibes it ,it can make you abel to finish the long trip,,i worked for a sub out of ct running fed ex ground dubbles,to salt lake asnd at that time had not been to a dentist and it was a very cold winter,my face swelled up,the cold out side the tractor made me wana cry almost,,and trying to eat on the side of my mouth hurt too,i only had tylonall and it still hurt me bad ,by the tiume i got baack i had it pulled out--tooth acks are some off the worst --but on that trip on the way out me and skip my team driver stop in a nmewyork truck stop because skip insisted on washing the friggin truck--and we saw many statecops around a tractor in the lott and herd the drivers talking on the cb aparently this guy was in his tractor in the bunk and in a lott of pain and had a broken leg the cops had an ambulance in route to help him but he was refusing the help and wanted to continue on his way.even though he could not move now thats being sick on the road big time poor dude,cant even think about how much pain that [poor driver went through.i think other drivers call the cops to help him not himself .

 

I CAN REMBER IN 08 ,I WAS OUTA WORK IN THE OTR TRUCKS FIELD--THIS WAS RIGHT BEFOR THE FED--EX DUBBLES JOBS,IN CT--I WAS HOMELESS AT THAT POINT4 YEARS LIVING IN A FORD TURUS IN CEMATARYS--TILL THE COPS KICK YOU OUT EVERY NIGHT AT 400AM--THEN LIVING IN CONVERSION VANS--IN 24 HOURS WALMART PARKINGLOTTS--I WAS WORKING IN WEST NYACK NEWYORK--FOR MOUACDIE EXCAVATING LLC,THE OWNER LANCE WAS AN OLD TIME BIKER THAT SCREWED UP HIS BACK IN A BIKE CRASH A FEW YEARS BEFOR 08 AND WAS FRIGGIN COOL AS HELL BOSS TO WORK FOR--AND PAID REAL GOOD-I WAS AN HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,,LANCE Had mostly new equipment with air cond-because he was on a pain patch for his bad back and the hot weather in summer mad his patch drain more meds intop him so he needed it cool all the time,,and he busted his ### doing major laborer work with you when needed,,any ways i was digging a sewer line out in a building devlopment,,in a small excavator and i started to get a migraine head ack,,by 500 i left the job and drove to a local walmart and tryed to sleep it off with 2 tylonal ,,by 700 pm i was going nuts and wound up at a local hospital i was in an emergancy room bed seeing a DOCTOR BY LIKE 300AM THEY WERE PACKED,THEY GAVE ME SOME I V MEDS---BUT THE DOC SAID THERES SIDE EFFECS THAT IT MAKES YOU A LITEL SICK--WHAT HE DID NOT TELL ME WASS I HAD TO STAY THERE TO ALMOST 600AM FOR THEM TO MONTER MY HART BECAUSE PEOPLE GET HARDATACKS FROM THAt kina meds,i fell asleep they woke me up,at 545 am and said your good to go home now ,i left and went out to the parking lott and tryed to sleep off the sickness felt l;ike a real bad flew real bad i was sick boy,,rolling around in the back of the hot van in 90degree heat,i realized its fridAY AND I NEED TO GO TO WORK TO GET MY PAY CHECK--while homeless its a big ordeal your paycheck,so i called l;ance onm the 14mile drive over to tell him the reason iam running late and and cant work iam sick but need the check ,,i rember a real bad drive i was so sick,,got to lances yard he was there with his truck driver ozzy ,he said it was a slow day any ways and they were doing work around the yard --i kinda figoured he had waited for me befor leaving for that days jkob site,,i got the check,and lance understood why i was so sick his wife had had the same problum a few weeks befor and trhe same meds from the same hospital; he said jim your going to be sick like that for 5 to 6 more hours i will see ya on mondaY i fell asleep in the hot van by 830am in a parking lott got up got the check chashed at 900 am and sleep to 300in the affternoon,,and felt better,than thanks god for helping i preyed,,,,and i would publicly like to thank my former boss lance mouadice in west nyack newyork for all the help while i worked for you that year and thje references ther aFTER,,HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST BOSSES I EVER HAD,I BEEN DRIVING TRUCKS AND HEAVY EQUIPMERNT 20 YEARS---but the ressesion i call my great depression--i went broke in--forced me to get in to the otr world --and it was not easy with out otr experience--it took good references----and bad companys to start off at i had been in fl visting and old girl friend looking for work and running outa money mainly there to escape the winters in ct homeless in a van freezzing my but off to be in sunny clearwater fl in a walmart parking lott to get a job a priority transport in farmmington newyork,over the net affter 4 months of trying every day left fl,in the van,,with my 2001honda xr650-in the van with the blown top end sold it to a dealer inm ct affter trying 5 that did not want it for like 800bucks i payed3500 for 3 months befor i needed dough for the road the orientation went good in newyork i got my junker tractor and quit the last day of the orientation,,the company went broke 4 months latter,i wound up working a local construction job in springvally newyork for sum dirt bag construction company that went bust 3 times in ten years,tracks falling off the excavater because the bottoms shot,,leaks,no trecnch box,trucks that were so baD I CANT SAY OVER THE NET,,,ANY WAYS THAT WAS TILL I MEET LANCE AND A GOOD JOB FOPR 7 MONTHS TILL THE FED EX JOB FOR 2 MONTHS RUNNING CT TO SALT LAKE TEAMS ..THEN OUTA WORK FOR MONTHS TILL NATIONWIDE SOUTH EAST REGIONAL THAT WAS NO MONEY JUNK TRUCKS AND MORE BAD THAN I CAN SAY OVER THE NET//LOTTS OF BREAK DOWNS---I HAVE OFFERS NOW AT 2 BIG COMPANYS BUT THE TRUCKERS REPORTS SCARE ME --ANY WAYS ATLEAST I CAN LIVE IN A JUNKIE TRACTOR AGAIN BURNING THER FUEL--HJAVENT DECIDED IF I WANT CRAZY CO DRIVERS AGAIN FOR COMPANY OR THE JAIL CELL ON WHEELS BORDOM OF SOLO,,WHATA YOU DUDES OUT THERE THINK WITH MORE EXP SOLO OR TEAMS THAT I NEVER MEET THE OTHER DUDE BEFOR FED EXS DID NOT WORK OUT ALL 6 OFF THEM.

 

Wow....No wonder we see so many FedEx trucks crashed in the comedian strip.