[Catholictothecore]

Ok, so I'm sick, and this is ridiculously bad timing.

I'm uninsured, so the only thing I can do stay in bed. I can't go to the clinic.
I'm in a play, and am missing the only rehearsal for certain scenes.
I've got a job interview that is the other reason that, even if I weren't sick, I would have to miss the rehearsal.

The director of the play is driving me crazy, accusing me, like I choose to get sick. I just don't know what to do, so please, do any of you have any suggestions?

[Marie-Therese]

I don't have much in the way of advice, but I will pray to St. Luke for you, since he was a doctor. :sign:

Hope you feel better soon!

[Mercy me]

CVS has Minutes clinics that I have heard are not too expensive. Maybe that might be an option.

[Catholictothecore]

thank you both. CVS is not an option, though. Thanks agian.

I'm on God's side. It'll work out. Really, the worst that can happen is that they kick me out of the play, and honestly, that might not be too bad of a thing.

[Ed Normile]

Catholictothecore, on 09 March 2010 - 08:41 PM, said:

thank you both. CVS is not an option, though. Thanks agian.

I'm on God's side. It'll work out. Really, the worst that can happen is that they kick me out of the play, and honestly, that might not be too bad of a thing.

Is this sickness a form of stagefright? If not go to an emergency ward and act like you are an illegal alien and they will treat you for free! Just joking, I hope you feel better soon and can do the play thing, then I will wish you to "break a leg" as the old adage goes.

ed

[Luigi]

Go to rehearsal sick - throw up on the director. S/He will stop hounding to rehearse when you're sick.

[CatherineM]

I often got sick before openings. I once had a director assign a stage hand to make sure I didn't go out a window in between acts. I often handled stage fright by just being drunk until I fell backwards into the orchestra pit.

[Rebecca2009]

How would the director like it if you got the rest of the cast sick too? You did them a favor staying home!
I pray your situation works out. Sorry for your stress.

[Saint Therese]

Poor folk here who are sick but can't afford a doctor go to the emergency room. They can't make you pay.

[Saint Therese]

Of course, I meant they can't make you pay at the time you see the doctor.

[Mark of the Cross]

Catholictothecore, on 10 March 2010 - 09:11 AM, said:

Ok, so I'm sick, and this is ridiculously bad timing.

I'm uninsured, so the only thing I can do stay in bed. I can't go to the clinic.
I'm in a play, and am missing the only rehearsal for certain scenes.
I've got a job interview that is the other reason that, even if I weren't sick, I would have to miss the rehearsal.

The director of the play is driving me crazy, accusing me, like I choose to get sick. I just don't know what to do, so please, do any of you have any suggestions?

Seems like you have a problem where the job, the play and your health will not fit together. You have to make a choice on which one to give up.

[Ed Normile]

Ed Normile, on 09 March 2010 - 11:21 PM, said:

Is this sickness a form of stagefright? If not go to an emergency ward and act like you are an illegal alien and they will treat you for free! Just joking, I hope you feel better soon and can do the play thing, then I will wish you to "break a leg" as the old adage goes.

ed

Catholictothecore, I hope I did not upset you or make you feel I am belittling you over your sickness. Let me explain this post just in case it was not one of my fans here who gave me the negative and I have indeed upset you. The reason I asked you about stagefright was that one of the things associated with it is vomiting a symptom associated with sickness. I remember many years ago watching a Johnny Carson show, he was interviewing some new stage actor in some popular play who explained how he almost talked himself out of appearing as he was sick to his stomach and vomiting from nerves. He added how he had read where a famous actor, a Barrymore, had to be pushed onto stage by his friend as he was so sick from stagefright. The part about "acting" like you are an illegal alien was to let you know that even if you can not afford treatment they have to treat you at an emergency ward of any hospital. Also I am sure you being involved in theatre realize that the wish to "break a leg" is an old thespian tradition which is actually a good luck wish. Again I hope you feel better soon!

ed

[Catholictothecore]

oh, ed, that's fine. It's not stagefright, though, I'm over that. It's just been the cold from hell.

[Mark of the Cross]

Catholictothecore, on 12 March 2010 - 08:43 AM, said:

oh, ed, that's fine. It's not stagefright, though, I'm over that. It's just been the cold from hell.

It must get around then, because I have it also. Coughed for two weeks and thought I was going to shake my few remaining neurons to death.