Hank's full-body allergic reaction to sulfasalazine (2008)
story · status: told 2×, last update 2008 · last event: retold (2008-04-28)
In April 2008 Hank gets a rash over his whole body, first blamed on a virus from a Barack Obama rally; he then corrects it to an allergy to sulfasalazine that sent him to the ER, and John retells it as a story about his costly, uninsured care.
Told alongside: Hank: living with ulcerative colitis (2007)
About: Barack Obama, sulfasalazine
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-04-16 (said on 2008-04-17, implied) | told | Hank has a full-body rash, a side effect of a viral infection he probably caught at the Barack Obama rally, after five days of 103-degree fever. (hedged) | ITCHY MUSIC! 00:00:00 |
| 2008-04-24 | update | Hank corrects last week's (week of 14 April 2008) account: the illness was an allergic reaction to sulfasalazine, not a virus; a relapse after resuming it sent him to the ER for IV fluids and steroids. → refers to ITCHY MUSIC! | Pills Pills Pills 00:00:00 |
| 2008-04-28 | retold | John retells Hank's illness: his doctor gave him an unsafe cheaper drug to save money and he had to pay for the hospital himself, since insurers won't cover him. | Ranting and Giving Stuff Away 00:02:45 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2008-04-16 (said on 2008-04-17, implied) · ITCHY MUSIC! — Hank had a 103-degree fever for about five days; then his skin became blotchy and itchy. — 00:00:00
- 2008-04-24 · Pills Pills Pills — Hank says the illness he blamed on Barack Obama last week (week of 14 April 2008) was actually an allergy to sulfasalazine; his blood pressure fell to 80 over 40 and he needed IV rehydration. — 00:00:00
- 2008-04-24 · Pills Pills Pills — Hank's doctor had said last week's (week of 14 April 2008) sickness was probably a virus, though Hank suspected his new medication had caused an allergic reaction. — 00:00:00
- 2008-04-24 · Pills Pills Pills — Hank: Because the urgent-care doctor called it a virus, Hank went back on the cheap pills after returning from Texas; next morning he had a painful rash. — 00:00:44
- 2008-04-24 · Pills Pills Pills — Hank: That afternoon Hank had a high fever, a bad headache and blood pressure so low he couldn't stand; the next day he went to the ER. — 00:01:29
- 2008-04-24 · Pills Pills Pills — Hank: At the ER a first-year medical student struggled to place his IV; he got two liters of saline, then hydrocortisone and steroid pills and a prescription. — 00:01:53
- 2008-04-24 · Pills Pills Pills — Hank: This time the rash covers Hank's whole body except two parts, and sometimes his skin hurts badly. (playful) — 00:02:22
- 2008-04-24 · Pills Pills Pills — Hank is doing much better thanks to the ER doctors but wishes he hadn't had to go through it just because he can't get health insurance; he is back on the expensive drug. — 00:03:11
- 2008-04-28 · Ranting and Giving Stuff Away — John says Hank had to go to the hospital and pay for it himself because, to save money, his doctor had given him a drug John calls known to be unsafe. — 00:02:45